This fact sheet describes how three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis was used to aid design of the flume entry and flow accelerator sections that feed water flow into a 10-ft-wide channel for the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) partnered with eleven pilot project teams to assess and deploy resilience solutions. This case study is part of a series that summarizes the pilot projects and highlights transportation system resilience efforts at other agencies across the country. For more information, visit https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/envir
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The 2021 National Inventory of Specialty Lanes and Highways provides an inventory of 10 classes of specialty lanes and highways that complement general-purpose highways. These facilities provide time-savings or safer separation of travel for qualifying vehicles. The inventory covers all 50 States and Puerto Rico. Researchers and practitioners shoul
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2021-01-01
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The Colorado Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP), which is identified as the Strategic Transportation Safety Plan (STSP) in Colorado, details the state's vision of having zero deaths and serious injuries so all people using any transportation mode arrive at their destination safety. The number of fatalities in Colorado have increased in 2020 (622)
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Preconstruction, Construction, and Pavements
2021-01-01
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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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2021-01-01
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During the 2021 state fiscal year, TxDOT let to contract over $275M of Highway Safety Improvement Program projects and an additional $430M safety projects with Road to Zero funds. This past fiscal year was a historic year in terms of amount of funds dedicated strictly to stand alone safety construction projects. However, it deserves noting that the
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Preconstruction, Construction, and Pavements
2021-01-01
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-01-01
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The data in these State by State Abstracts contain State-submitted data to FHWA on: motor fuel use, driver licensing, vehicle registration, State and local financing, land area, population, and vehicle miles of travel.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-01-01
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The data in these State by State Abstracts contain State-submitted data to FHWA on: motor fuel use, driver licensing, vehicle registration, State and local financing, land area, population, and vehicle miles of travel.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2021-01-01
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The Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) continues the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) as a core Federal-aid program to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads, including non-State-owned public roads. HSIP requires a data-driven, strategic approach to improving highw
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-01-01
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The data in these State by State Abstracts contain State-submitted data to FHWA on: motor fuel use, driver licensing, vehicle registration, State and local financing, land area, population, and vehicle miles of travel.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2021-01-01
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A walkway is any type of defined space or pathway for use by a person traveling by foot or using a wheelchair. These may be pedestrian walkways, shared use paths, sidewalks, or roadway shoulders.
HFST is a safety countermeasure intended to restore and maintain pavement friction in wet and dry conditions to reduce crashes and is especially effective where there is a history of wet-pavement crashes. While investigating lane departure crashes (RwD), the South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) found RwD crashes were five times more li
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2021-01-01
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This Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 annual report to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) describes the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT)'s strategic use of Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) funding of the District’s Highway Safety Improvement Programs (HSIP) for FY 2021. The FAST Act requires the development
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The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) found unconventional ways to raise money to offset transportation budget shortfalls, one of which was, in 2014, to enter into a naming rights agreement with State Farm Insurance. Under this agreement State Farm advertises on ODOT vans that patrol highways to assist motorists. This program will raise as m
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2021-01-01
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The Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 annual report submitted to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) describes the Virginia Department of Transportation’s (VDOT) strategic use of Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act funding of the Commonwealth's Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) for the period July 2020 to June 2021. The FAST Act co
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The focus of this resource is on improving the driver’s visibility of trail users at roadway crossings. The document presents a systemic approach to reviewing existing crossings or planning for improved at-grade trail crossings with engineering countermeasures, such as enhanced signs and traffic controls. This resource discusses ways to make crossi
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2021-01-01
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The overall purpose of this program is to achieve a significant reduction in fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads through the implementation of highway safety improvement projects. Infrastructure improvement projects are selected and justified by proven data-driven approaches. All highway safety improvement projects should be chosen
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In 2008 the Hillsboro City Council established a Transportation Utility Fee (TUF)—a monthly fee charged to property owners to support citywide investments in pavement condition and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The city collects TUF fees from all residential, business, government agency, school, and nonprofit property owners through regular ci
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The Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center’s (TFHRC’s) J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory provided the technical assistance to several State DOTs to model these drainage structures using their partnership with Argonne National Laboratory’s (ANL’s) Transportation Research and Analysis Computing Center (TRACC).
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