State and local departments of transportation (DOT) continue to invest heavily in the installation of traffic cameras and distribution of live traffic camera video feeds. State and local DOTs, law enforcement, and transit providers across the country have deployed almost half a million cameras to support transportation and public safety. The video
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The Federal Highway Administration's Road Weather Management Program (RWMP) assesses its progress toward meeting programmatic objectives through established performance measures. Assessments have been completed and documented in 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2017, and this update is the next iteration of this periodic review. This report provides a concise
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Cybersecurity is a growing concern worldwide. Over the past several years, much focus has been placed on critical infrastructure providers and their ability to implement cybersecurity in order to continue providing critical services. Traffic Management Centers (TMCs) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) infrastructure leverage modern commun
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This report summarizes proceedings of an Automated Vehicle (AV) modeling peer exchange sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and hosted by the Maricopa Association of Governments in Phoenix, AZ, on June 27, 2019. The purpose of the peer exchange was to discuss the potential impacts of emerging technologies, such as AVs, on the long
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2019-09-01
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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.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2019-09-01
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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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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 Research, Development, and Technology
2019-09-01
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FHWA R&T Now
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Federal Highway Administration's FHWA R&T Now is a newsletter containing information and updates about research, technology, and development from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The newsletter is an electronic newsletter and is updated approximately every other month.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2019-09-01
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Public Roads
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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 Operations
2019-09-01
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Urban Congestion Report (UCR)
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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.
A turbo roundabout has the same general operating characteristics as modern roundabouts but utilizes notably different geometrics to address conflicts associated with common crash types in multilane roundabouts. International experience suggests turbo roundabouts are adaptable to the U.S. context, providing an effective roundabout solution for high
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Preconstruction, Construction, and Pavements
2019-08-29
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This Technical Brief provides an overview of how to determine the cyclic fatigue index parameter using the Asphalt Mixture Performance Tester. It also presents index threshold values for use in asphalt mixture design and construction.
Given the varying stages of Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) adoption and advancement, the Federal Highway Administration identified the need for case studies to provide examples of common challenges and best practices for transportation agencies to learn from each other. This is one of 12 case studies developed to support or
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Given the varying stages of Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) adoption and advancement, the Federal Highway Administration identified the need for case studies to provide examples of common challenges and best practices for transportation agencies to learn from each other. This is one of 12 case studies developed to support or
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2019-08-22
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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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This document describes the approach to be taken by the TTI Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment (CVPD) Evaluation Team for eliciting feedback and lessons learned pertaining to the benefits and challenges of the CVPD Program structure and process from CVPD Program stakeholders. For the purposes of this document, a stakeholder is defined as a person a
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This report summarizes the analysis plans that the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, in its role as the independent evaluator, will use to assess the program structure and process of the Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program. This document summarizes the plans for: Assessing whether a performance-management focus of pilot deployments was ben
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The Standards Planning for Multimodal and Accessible Travel services task will provide an assessment of standardization needs to support multimodal and accessible travel options by conducting a study to review standardization needs, assessing impacts on ITS and related standards that currently exist or are under development, and developing a roadma
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