United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2020-12-10
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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. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2020-12-10
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) developed the innovative CARMASM Platform to encourage collaboration with the goal of improving transportation efficiency and safety. FHWA's interest in advancing Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) strategies with automated driving technology is focused on how infrastructure can move tr
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-12-06
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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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Sharing location-based information and positioning vehicles with respect to that information has been one of the fundamental challenges in intelligent transportation for over two decades. As Connected and Automated Vehicles (C/AVs) and related data-intensive transportation network management solutions start to emerge, this research project assesses
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-12-04
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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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Sharing location-based information and positioning vehicles with respect to that information has been one of the fundamental challenges in intelligent transportation for over two decades. As Connected and Automated Vehicles (C/AVs) and related data-intensive transportation network management solutions start to emerge, this research project assesses
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This Technical Brief introduces the FHWA Enhancing Durability of Asphalt Pavements Through Increased In-Place Density Demonstration Project and a series of Technical Briefs Associated with the outcomes of it. Specifically, key overall observations and related specification examples are presented in this Technical Brief.
This Technical Brief summarizes techniques used to improve longitudinal joint performance of asphalt pavements based on a cooperative FHWA and Asphalt Institute joint density effort and observations on the FHWA Enhancing Durability of Asphalt Pavements Through Increased In-Place Density Demonstration Project.
This report presents the independent evaluation results of pre-deployment activities for a user-based fee demonstration by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), which received fiscal year 2016 funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) Program. MnDOT is one of eight
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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
2020-12-01
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Traffic Volume Trends is a monthly report based on hourly traffic count data reported by the States. These data are collected at approximately 5,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide and are used to estimate the percent change in traffic for the current month compared with the same month in the previous year. Estimates are re-adjuste
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2020-12-01
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Safety Compass newsletter aims to increase highway safety awareness and to provide resources to the highway safety community to help save lives. The newsletter is published three times a year, and includes articles on safety-focused offerings from FHWA, other DOT modes; our State, Local, and Tribal partne
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United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
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2020-12-01
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Connected vehicle (CV) technology is expected to significantly improve transportation systems due to the mobility, safety, and environmental benefits gained from connectivity between different vehicles and with infrastructure. Connectivity to real-time traffic signal data is a key component of CV applications and is enabled by wireless communicatio
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For years State Department of Transportations (DOTs) have conducted pavement surface condition surveys to use in the management of their pavement assets. These surveys involve a significant investment of time, money, and manpower. Understanding the level of reliability of the pavement condition data used in Pavement Management is important. Repeata
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This report presents the detailed concept of operations (ConOps) in support of the CARMA PlatformSM sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Operations Research and Development. The high-level ConOps focuses on four transportation systems management and operations use cases–basic travel, traffic-incident management, road-weather
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2020-12-01
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The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a quarterly basis and characterizes the most recent traffic congestion and reliability trends at the national and city level. Each quarterly UCR compares data from the most recent three months to the same three months in the previous year.
This report explores the relationships between transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) strategies and cooperative driving automation (CDA). It presents a high-level concept of operations (ConOps) in support of the CARMA PlatformSM sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration Office of Operations Research and Development. Developi
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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2020-12-01
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Solutions for integrating innovative overlay procedures into practices that can improve performance, lessen traffic impacts, and reduce the cost of pavement ownership. Approximately half of all infrastructure dollars are invested in pavements, and more than half of that investment is in overlays. By enhancing overlay performance, State and local hi
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This Technical Brief summarizes contractor and agency changes made leading to increased density on projects associated with the FHWA Enhancing Durability of Asphalt Pavements Through Increased In-Place Density Demonstration Project.
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