United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
2020-08-17
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) is committed to ensuring that connected vehicle technologies operate in a safe, secure, and privacy-protective manner. As connected vehicle applications exchange information among vehicles, roadway infrastructure, traffic management centers, and wireless mobile devices, a security system is needed to
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-08-16
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-08-14
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The Weekly Gasoline Product Supplied Report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Adminis
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The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) recognizes that cooperative automated driving systems will have a transformative impact on how the nation’s highways will operate in the future. One of the proposed near-term services is truck platooning. Truck platooning promises fuel savings to platooning trucks by enabling them to follow eac
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-08-09
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-08-07
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The Weekly Gasoline Product Supplied Report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Adminis
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2020-08-06
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This digest shares the latest information from a range of Federal and non-Federal sources, addressing transportation and its relationship to the human environment. Through this information exchange, FHWA hopes to foster dialogue at all levels and continue to further the state of the practice on these important topics in support of safety; infrastru
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2020-08-05
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Public Roads is the quarterly magazine of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Reading Public Roads is the easiest way to keep up-to-date on developments in federal highway policies, programs, and research and technology. More specifically, the magazine "covers" advances and innovations in highway/traffic research and technology, critical nat
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-08-02
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The Weekly Traffic Volume Report estimates the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for interstate highways and how the total travel measured by VMT compares with travel that occurred in the same week of the previous year. The VMT is further split into passenger vehicle and truck components. The information gives new insights into the effect on traffic by
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration. Office of Research, Development and Technology
2020-08-01
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Clear Signal for Action (CSA) is a safety process that seeks to change safety culture through the organizational hierarchy. It is a non-regulatory, proactive risk reduction method for improving safety and safety culture, which integrates safety leadership development (SLD), peer-to-peer feedback (PPF) and coaching, and continuous improvement (CI).
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This case study documents the institutional advances of the Ohio Department of Transportation’s (ODOT’s) data governance program. In 2020, ODOT is in the final year of the agency’s Data Governance Plan established in 2017; ODOT’s latest Data Governance Strategic Roadmap plans activities through 2025. While this effort began as an undertaking by the
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This report provides the results of the initial development of scaling laws for use in developing cost effective experimental measurements of a passenger rail car heat release rate (HRR) history as well as modeling approaches for predicting passenger rail car HRR. Scaling laws were successfully developed to predict the fire dynamics and material bu
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This strategic plan outlines the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Program’s strategic framework (i.e., goals, objectives, and strategies) for the allocation of FHWA resources. This framework is aligned with FHWA’s and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s other strategic plans.(1,2) Through internal and ex
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Speeding contributes to over a quarter of all road trauma and is a persistent driving behavior that brings harm both to the vehicle occupants as well as other more vulnerable road users. In 2018, speeding related crashes resulted in 9,378 deaths which is a staggering 26 percent of all crash fatalities. Agencies who want to address speeding are ofte
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This desk review presents a high-level summary of the current state of the practice of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in the United States. The use of UAS by State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) for surface transportation use cases is steadily increasing, but States continue to report challenges in developing and implementing fully-functioning
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2020-08-01
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In 2015, the City of San Diego adopted a Vision Zero approach to eliminate fatalities and serious injuries on City streets by 2025. This approach included the development and implementation of strategies in the areas of engineering, enforcement, and education. A key element of the City’s Vision Zero program was to use data to select projects with t
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Every Day Counts (EDC) is the Federal Highway Administration’s program to advance a culture of innovation in the transportation community in partnership with public and private stakeholders. Through this State-based effort, FHWA coordinates rapid deployment of proven strategies and technologies to shorten the project delivery process, enhance roadw
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Modern plasma-cutting equipment and techniques can produce high-quality holes more economically than drilling and punching. However, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) design and construction specifications do not permit the use of plasma-cut holes in primary bridge members due to a lack of experimental data
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This project, Investigating Key Automated-Vehicle Human Factors Safety Issues Related to Infrastructure, has three key objectives: (1) develop an increased understanding of AV human factors and safety issues related to roadway infrastructure through analysis and experimentation, (2) produce data and results to aid the design of infrastructure eleme
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Challenges in highway construction management and field operations include the lack of integrated information that can be obtained in real time, gaps between planned solutions and practical implementations, a lack of established quality assurance (QA) practices, and ineffective project communications. As design and construction workflows based on t
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