United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-05-01
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Traffic Management Systems (TMSs) should have the ability to quickly share information on detected incidents, the response to incidents, and coordination with the appropriate agencies, emergency service providers, and stakeholders. Incident-related information may also need to be shared with various offices within an agency or the public. TMS staff
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-05-01
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Traffic management systems (TMSs) operated by State departments of transportation (DOTs) are faced with challenges in monitoring, collecting, or sharing information with travelers in advance of their reaching en route destinations where travel decisions may be influenced by traffic information. The prevalence of mobile devices connected to third-pa
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This report highlights challenges, opportunities, lessons learned, practices, and issues agencies may consider in the process of updating or developing a concept of operations (ConOps) and the associated requirements for a current traffic management system (TMS) or the next generation of an agency’s TMS. It addresses how the ConOps and requirements
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-05-01
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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
2024-05-01
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This fact sheet focuses on traveler direct text messaging applications. Readers will understand how direct text messaging allows operators to do the following: Identify incidents more quickly; Verify incident details and location; Share incident information to facilitate incident response.Readers will also be able to identify the range of considera
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety and Operations Research and Development
2024-05-01
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This fact sheet highlights the efforts of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) efforts to enhance interoperable connectivity, which seek to build on existing open-source software applications for communication among all parts of a connected deployment, including vehicles, infrastructure, pedestrians, cyclists, and emergency services.
This report explores the range of issues that agencies face in evaluating staffing needs to plan, implement, operate, and maintain traffic management systems (TMSs), with an emphasis on staffing needs at the traffic management center (TMC). As TMSs grow more complex and agencies migrate to their next generations, advanced technologies and new opera
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This technical report provides an assessment of State automated permitting systems for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Automated permitting systems allow for the issuance of permits for oversize and overweight vehicle loads 24 hours per day, 7 days a week.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-05-01
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Traffic Volume Trends is a monthly report based on hourly traffic count data reported by the States. These data are collected at approximately 5,000 continuous traffic counting locations nationwide and are used to estimate the percent change in traffic for the current month compared with the same month in the previous year. Estimates are re-adjuste
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-05-01
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North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) began piloting e- Ticketing in areas throughout the state beginning in 2018. The agency’s first attempts identified some minor issues that it needed to address, including unexpected or heightened costs, cellular coverage issues, and set up and training. After these initial experiences, NDDOT conclud
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-05-01
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In 2020, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) began preliminary piloted use of e-Ticketing on construction projects with hot mix asphalt (HMA). Caltrans limited use to partial segments of 12 projects from May 2021 until November 2022, when Caltrans had our first peer exchange with other State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) a
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-05-01
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This report is required by Section 13006(d) of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) (enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117-58, Nov. 15, 2021)), which directed the Secretary of Transportation to produce a report on Advanced Digital Construction Management System (ADCMS) technologies. It discusses advanced technologies
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The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is an early adopter of e-Ticketing. KYTC conducted its first pilots on five asphalt resurfacing projects in the summer of 2018, and completed 41 e-Ticketing projects between 2018 and 2022. KYTC used a special note and bid item to include a fleet management solution for e-Ticketing for these projects. In re
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
2024-05-01
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The Transportation Pooled Fund (TPF-5) (385) study established a research consortium that provides participating agencies with guidelines on collecting data with Traffic Speed Deflection Devices (TSDDs), including how to apply and interpret the data and integrate it into pavement management system (PMS) decision making processes. The lack of availa
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This report presents the independent evaluation results of Washington State Transportation Commission’s (WSTC) road usage charge (RUC) pilot. The pilot received fiscal year (FY) 2016 and 2017 funding under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) program. The FY 2016 and FY 2017 fund
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This report provides initial thoughts on how the strut-and-tie method (STM) can be used with ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) disturbed regions, such as those near supports and the points of application of concentrated loads at strength and extreme limit states. A brief background on STM and plastic design methodology is provided for context.
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Travel time reliability has direct economic impacts on the decisions of logistics firms and delivery vehicles, and the service levels ultimately experienced by shippers, firms, and consumers. Underlying all measures of travel time reliability is the variability of travel times experienced along individual links, by various modes, at junctions and i
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Section 6020 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act established the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) Program to provide grants to States or groups of States to demonstrate user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user-fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. In
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