The Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2020, allows States and territories to repurpose certain funds originally earmarked for specific projects more than 10 years ago. This memorandum provides the implementing guidance for this provision.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-05-17
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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
2020-05-15
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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
2020-05-14
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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 Operations
2020-05-14
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The Weather-Responsive Management Strategies (WRMS) initiative under the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Every Day Counts – Round 5 (EDC-5) program promotes the use of road weather data from mobile and connected vehicle (CV) technologies to support traffic and maintenance management strategies during inclement weather. The goal is to improve
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-05-13
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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 City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, adopted a new Pedestrian Plan in 2019 to support connectivity, public health, livability, and pedestrian safety. The Plan included an innovative approach to evaluating pedestrian crash risk through a combination of crash typing, network analysis, and estimating pedestrian exposure.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-05-10
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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
2020-05-06
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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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 Watch for Me NC program is a two-pronged safety initiative that seeks to reduce pedestrian and bicycle crashes through safety messaging and high-visibility traffic enforcement. The program began as a pilot in 2012 with four local agencies and grew to partner with 39 in 2019. A recent program evaluation demonstrated pedestrian crash reductions f
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-05-03
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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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One of the first Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil—Integrated Bridge System (GRS-IBS) projects to be instrumented and evaluated under the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Every Day Counts program was a replacement bridge along County Road 47 over Trout Brook in the town of Stockholm within St. Lawrence County, NY. This GRS-IBS is aligned on a 3
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In Louisiana and many other states in the U.S., pre-boring procedures are routine practice for large displacement piles driven through hard/stiff cohesive soils. At present, the analysis and design of pre-bored piles rely primarily on local experiences, since the effects of pre-boring on the driving force as well as on the setup and long-term shaft
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Alternative intersections and interchanges brought major benefits to the United States during the 2008–2018 time period. Given the positive impacts, it stands to reason that similar breakthroughs might be possible at freeway merge and diverge locations. This report describes the outcomes of a project that examined this possibility. The primary tool
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As practices mature, agencies are taking initiatives to apply the asset management approach to an increasing number of assets. This case study summarizes from the 2019 asset management plans how U.S. transportation departments are expanding efforts beyond pavements and bridges. The 2019 plans include examples of managing culverts, intelligent trans
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2020-05-01
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This TechNote serves as an introduction to spectroscopy, including explaining the science behind spectroscopic test methods. Details for developing a purchase specification for a spectrometer are also included.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2020-05-01
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Innovator, published by the FHWA Center for Accelerating Innovation, advances implementation of innovative technologies and processes in the highway industry. Its audience is transportation professionals in highway agencies, trade and research groups, academia and the private sector, and the driving public.
This report captures the activities of the third Senior Executive Transportation and Public Safety Summit held in Washington DC on November 14 and 15, 2019. At this summit, 120 national leaders among transportation, law enforcement, towing and recovery, fire, emergency medical service (EMS), public works, and traffic incident management (TIM)-relat
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2020-05-01
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FHWA has constructed a national vehicle miles traveled (VMT) forecasting model where future VMT growth rates can be estimated for three major economic scenarios - normal, pessimistic, and optimistic growth. The normal growth scenario represents the most Likely economic outlook reflects IHS' assessment of most probable future trends in U.S. populati
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This is one of seven case studies of practices in the 2019 transportation asset management plans (TAMPs). This case study highlights practices State departments of transportation (DOTs) deployed to communicate and engage internal and external stakeholders. These communication practices increased coordination within the DOTs and with important exter
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