The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) is among the few State departments of transportation (DOTs) that have committed to establishing a statewide unmanned aerial systems (UAS) program. Although ALDOT’s UAS program is advanced, the agency continues to seek effective practices for using this versatile technology to improve workflows. ALDOT
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2019-03-01
|
FHWA R&T Now
|
PDF
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 Safety
2019-03-01
|
PDF
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
...
Every Day Counts (EDC) is the Federal Highway Administration’s program to advance a culture of innovation in the transportation community in partnership with public and private stakeholders. Through this State-based effort, FHWA coordinates rapid deployment of proven strategies and technologies to shorten the project delivery process, enhance roadw
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2019-03-01
|
PDF
The Pedestrian and Bike Forum newsletter provides information to FHWA stakeholders on reducing the number of pedestrian- and bicycle-related highway fatalities and serious injuries. Topics include updates on FHWA programs, spotlights on State and local noteworthy practices, initiatives with partner organizations, and upcoming events. It is publishe
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2019-03-01
|
PDF
The Hillsborough Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) developed the Vision Zero Action Plan to incorporate safety planning into its operations. The MPO took a multidisciplinary approach to safety improvements.
Throughput during peak-period traffic at signalized intersections with high left-turn demand commonly creates a bottleneck. Two intersection configurations designed to increase the capacity at locations without adding lanes are the dynamic reversible left-turn (DRLT) lane at diamond interchanges and contraflow left-turn (CLT) lane at signalized int
...
The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) recently renewed its focus on e-Construction activities by dedicating several staff to assessing construction management solutions, mobile device/application use in the field, and other notable e-Construction practices. VDOT’s first attempt to deploy e-Construction involved custom development of an e
...
The movement of superheavy loads (SHLs) has become more common over the years, since it is a vital necessity for many important industries, such as chemical, oil, electrical, and defense. SHL hauling units are much larger in size and weight compared to standard trucks. SHL vehicles' gross vehicle weights may be in excess of a few million pounds, so
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2019-03-01
|
PDF
In 2012, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) launched the National Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Responder Training Program. The TIM training program was developed by responders for responders and promotes consistent training of all responders to achieve the following three objectives. Responder safety, Safe, quick clearance, and Prompt,
...
The objectives of this study were to identify and quantify the effects of environmental factors and pavement design on pavement performance in the absence of heavy loads; establish what the environmental effects are and develop recommendations for mitigating these effects through effective designs, materials selection, and construction; estimate th
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2019-03-01
|
PDF
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) used a series of interactive web-based applications known as Story Maps to support a robust public involvement program.
This report highlights the experiences, successes, challenges, and lessons learned of two national peer communities (the city of Lone Tree, Colorado and the city of Rancho Cordova, California) and two local peer communities (the city of Bellevue, Washington and the city of Shoreline, Washington) in urbanizing their communities around new light rail
...
This Public-Private Partnership Procurement Guide (Guidebook) has been developed in coordination with the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Build America Bureau, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to provide advanced guidance on procedures, issues, and considerations involved in public-
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2019-03-01
|
Public Roads
|
PDF
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
...
2019-03-01
|
National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
|
PDF
The purpose of this brief is to explore how children (ages 5–17) travel to school in the United States. The National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) obtains data on children’s usual travel to school in support of policies and plans to encourage more children to walk and bike to school as well as to help local planners make those trips safer.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2019-03-01
|
PDF
The East-West Gateway (EWG) Council of Governments (COG) has set performance targets to reduce the number of non-motorized fatalities and serious injuries and actively works to meet the targets.
Congestion pricing works by shifting some rush hour highway travel to other transportation modes or off-peak periods and by encouraging solo drivers to carpool or forgo making a trip altogether. By removing a fraction (even as small as 5 percent) of the vehicles from a congested roadway, pricing enables the traffic to flow much more efficiently, al
...
Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving a Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS)/National Transportation Library (NTL)
Web-based service.
Thank you for visiting.
You are about to access a non-government link outside of
the U.S. Department of Transportation's National
Transportation Library.
Please note: While links to Web sites outside of DOT are
offered for your convenience, when you exit DOT Web sites,
Federal privacy policy and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act (accessibility requirements) no longer apply. In
addition, DOT does not attest to the accuracy, relevance,
timeliness or completeness of information provided by linked
sites. Linking to a Web site does not constitute an
endorsement by DOT of the sponsors of the site or the
products presented on the site. For more information, please
view DOT's Web site linking policy.
To get back to the page you were previously viewing, click
your Cancel button.