United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-06-01
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In the past, the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) used a more traditional approach to transportation safety – placing responsibility for traffic safety on individuals and focusing on improving human behavior, controlling speeding through education and enforcement, and reacting based on crash history. However, like most States, fatal and
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This document summarizes the highway infrastructure resilience framework and practices for PostEvent Damage Inspection (PDI) and Post-Event Engineering Investigation (PEI) developed under the FHWA Task Order “Framework for Infrastructure Resilience and Post-Hazard Response.” The document describes the framework components: pillars, lenses, dimensio
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This TechBrief summarizes important findings from the report, which was prepared for the Flooded Pavement Assessment project funded through Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Project No. DTFH61-13-C00022. The report addresses the load-carrying capacity of pavements affected by flooding to provide decisionmakers with quantitative tools to rationa
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This TechBrief provides an overview of the redesign of the Pavement Testing Facility (PTF) that has been in operation since 1986. The PTF was originally developed to generate accelerated pavement testing performance data related to design, rehabilitation, and the effect of increased loads, and to support the long-term research efforts of the Strate
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This tech brief highlights the research conducted by the Office of Safety Research and Development. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the appropriateness and applicability of infrared thermal imaging sensors for collecting vulnerable road user count data—under variable conditions—that can provide information for measuring exposure to cra
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Infrastructure Research and Development
2024-06-01
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The research efforts presented in this TechBrief were designed to advance the deployment of FHWA’s performance testing and evaluation of asphalt pavements. These efforts can be categorized as follows: • Development of a thermal cracking model. • Development of Sapp (apparent damage capacity) and the Rutting Strain Index (RSI) as the cracking and ru
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This report documents research to advance mechanistic models, performance analysis and evaluation, and design methodologies to aid agency efforts to understand asphalt pavement performance. The research team developed FlexMAT™ version 2.1 and FlexPAVE™ version 2.0 as the material-level and pavement-level analysis tools, respectively. FlexPAVE 2.0 i
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Safety is the very foundation of every transportation agency’s mission and enables the safe and efficient movement of road users across the country. While all transportation agencies (from State departments of transportation, to local, regional, and Tribal governments, to transit agencies) strive to guarantee safety for both their users and workers
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2024-06-01
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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.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-06-01
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2024-06-01
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National Travel Time Dashboard: Interstate Highways
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The Monthly Urban Congestion Report (UCR) provides a state-level overview of traffic congestion and reliability trends on Interstate highways. Published every month, the report compares data from the most recent month with the same month in the previous year. It uses travel time data from the Federal Highway Administration’s National Performance Ma
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-05-30
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The 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 Administration
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-05-22
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The 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 Administration
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-05-16
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is pleased to offer three training courses on integrating Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) into planning, project development, and ongoing TSMO programs. The three web-based training courses are being offered through NHI. Courses 1 and 2 use a self-paced format, and Course 3 is real-t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-05-15
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The 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 Administration
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Complete Streets are a set of transportation policies, planning approaches, design practices, and operational strategies focused on improving safety, accessibility, and mobility for all road users regardless of their age, ability, and mode of transportation. The purpose of this report is to summarize Complete Streets evaluation best practices using
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Complete streets are a set of transportation policies, planning approaches, design practices, and operational strategies focused on improving safety, accessibility, and mobility for all road users regardless of their age, ability, and mode of transportation. The purpose of this report is to summarize the Complete Streets modeling capabilities and g
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-05-08
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The 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 Administration
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This report describes how investment in transportation infrastructure can generate economic costs or benefits that may not be captured in the conventional measures used for economic evaluation of proposed investments, and thus need to be measured separately and incorporated into such evaluations. It explains why and how such "wider economic impacts
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This summary report presents results from a study that established a relationship between truckload spectra and bridge service life at the national, regional, and State levels. Weigh-in-motion data and bridge inspection data were obtained nationwide from the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) and Long-Term Bridge Performance Programs (LTBP), res
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