United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2019-10-01
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On a monthly basis, each State is required to report to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the amount of gallons taxed by that state. This data is analyzed and compiled by FHWA staff. The data on the amount of on-highway fuel use for each State is then used to attribute federal revenue to each State. Yearly, the FHWA, Office of Policy, prov
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This primer provides an overview of the concept of travel time reliability, including why we should care about reliability and how to define and measure it. The primer also describes the cost of an unreliable system to businesses, the traveling public, and local governments and how lack of reliability can impair safety and security. Lastly, practic
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2019-10-01
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While these safety messages and tips are integral to improving overall railroad safety, hinged pedestrian gate skirts are physical structures that can help further improve pedestrian safety at rail crossings. A hinged pedestrian gate skirt is a secondary horizontal bar that hangs under an existing pedestrian gate. This treatment deters pedestrians
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2019-10-01
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The Railway-Highway Crossings (Section 130) Program provides funds for the elimination of hazards at railway-highway crossings. The Section 130 Program has been correlated with a significant decrease in fatalities at railway-highway grade crossings. Since the Program's inception in 1987 through 2014, for which most recent data is available, fatalit
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Prestressed concrete is frequently used worldwide in infrastructure construction and offers considerable advantages over conventional reinforced concrete. Road and railway bridges built with prestressed concrete are often post-tensioned and bonded by grouting. Although this construction method has generally performed well, a number of known problem
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The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter is intended to provide transportation professionals with real-world examples of ways that multimodal transportation investments promote economic revitalization, provide access to jobs, and achieve safer communities through support of accelerated project deliv
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2019-10-01
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is publishing this list of State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) who are required to establish targets and report progress for the performance measures related to the Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ). There are three measure
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Shields River Road provides access to over 113,000 acres of the Custer-Gallatin National Forest within the Crazy Mountains. The roadway parallels the Shields River which begins in the Crazy Mountains and flows 62 miles to the confluence of the Yellowstone River east of Livingston. Shields River Road offers scenic views of mountain peaks, rivers, an
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted a second roadway data capabilities assessment of each State’s collection, analysis, management, and use of roadway safety data. This final report provides an overview of findings based upon the assessment of fifty States plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2019-09-19
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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 report presents the best practices in Intelligent Transportation Systems Cybersecurity, particularly in the planning and conducting a Penetration Test. The report details the methodology of scoping a test; including the objectives, requirements, success criteria, test type, management, and test readiness. The report is completed with a templat
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This report proposes a redundancy factor to provide improved bridge system reliability using conventional component-based limit-state design. The redundancy factor is based on a system reliability assessment, and it provides a missing link between bridge component reliability and bridge system reliability. It is intended to provide more uniform bri
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) GIS in Transportation program sponsored a peer exchange to bring together practitioners of Geographic Information System (GIS) applications to discuss and learn about how State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are leveraging GIS in their emergency managem
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Roosevelt Drive provides access to over 73,000 acres of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest and approximately 40,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands, primarily in the Highland Mountains south of Butte. The corridor also serves numerous private residences and is highly used by permitted commercial timber, mining, and livestock gr
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2019-09-05
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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 report summarizes work performed under contract #DTFH6117C0001 toward the development of PedPal, a prototype mobile (smartphone) app designed to assist pedestrians with disabilities when crossing the street at signalized intersections. PedPal interacts directly with the traffic signal system controlling the intersection to communicate both cro
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2019-09-01
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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 handbook presents a methodology that will aid highway asset owners and maintenance personnel with determining what assets, beyond pavements and bridges, are most important to support their agencies' missions and goals. The methodology prioritizes asset classes and identifies data related to those assets that best support a performance-based ap
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The Boston Central Artery/Tunnel Project, also known as the “Big Dig,” replaced the Interstate 93 viaduct in downtown Boston with a higher-capacity tunnel. On the surface, the project included a 1.5-mile-long park that is flanked by boulevards. The tunnel was created in response to traffic congestion and an inner city revitalization plan that sough
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