In a variety of forums, procurement has surfaced as an important and challenging topic that agencies must address in deploying Connected Vehicle (CV) projects. Due to the emerging nature of this field, most state and local transportation agencies have had limited experience with procuring CV systems. Given the current state of the marketplace for C
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The purpose of this Memorandum is to provide clarification to State Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) on reporting 1st performance period targets as well as explain FHWA's approach to determine significant progress towards achieving State DOT targets for the non-Interstate National Highway System (NHS
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This report summarizes a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) peer exchange that was held on September 25-26, 2018 at the Maryland Department of Transportation headquarters in Hanover, Maryland. The purpose of the peer exchange was to bring together practitioners to discuss issues related to and approaches for accommodating renewable energy techno
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2018-09-20
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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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The Weather-Savvy Roads effort deploys two distinct road weather management solutions that allow State and local agencies to proactively manage the surface transportation system ahead of and during adverse weather events: Pathfinder and Integrating Mobile Observations (IMO). IMO promotes the collection of mobile weather, road, and vehicle data from
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2018-09-06
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-09-01
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Center for Innovative Finance Support (CIFS), part of the Office of Innovative Program Delivery (OIPD), provides guidance and technical assistance to the States and FHWA Division Offices for the administration of the Grant Anticipation Revenue Vehicle (GARVEE) Program. This guidance document, updated in 201
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This manual is intended to provide a technical resource for engineers responsible for the selection and design of drilled shaft foundations for transportation structures. It is used as the reference manual for use with the National Highway Institute (NHI) training course No. 132014 on the subject, as well as the 10th in the series of FHWA Geotechni
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Shared mobility services provide users with short-term access to transportation on an as-needed basis rather than through ownership. While ride-sourcing services are recent entrants to the industry, they have come to dominate what is thought of as shared mobility in the United States, often drowning out other shared alternatives. In Europe, the con
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PedPal is 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 crossing intent (eliminating the need to seek out and push a pedestrian call button) and person
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In 2017, the Federal Highway Administration sponsored a project to identify three to five infrastructure-based motorcycle-crash countermeasures to consider for future research. To develop a list of prioritized infrastructure-based motorcycle-crash countermeasures, a workshop titled Identifying Infrastructure-Based Motorcycle-Crash Countermeasures w
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This document is a technical summary of the Federal Highway Administration report "Safety Evaluation of Protected Left-Turn Phasing and Leading Pedestrian Intervals on Pedestrian Safety" (FHWA-HRT-18-044).
Bridge inspectors today are fortunate to have access to emerging technologies that can help gauge the internal condition of a bridge. For example, some tools use sound waves that travel inside a bridge; others use infrared thermography to detect temperature changes inside a structure. But inspectors and civil engineers acknowledge that these techno
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This Technical Brief provides an overview of the work completed under Task 10 of the cooperative agreement entitled “Advancing Steel and Concrete Bridge Technology to Improve Infrastructure Performance Program”. The objective of the research performed under Task 10 was to determine how National Bridge Inventory (NBI) condition ratings could best be
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2018-09-01
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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. Office of Highway Policy Information
2018-09-01
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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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2018-09-01
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National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
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Working from home is on the rise largely due to advances in information and communication technology (e.g., faster Internet speed, online meeting software, and remotely accessed and/or cloud-based servers). According to the American Community Survey, the proportion of people who reported “working from home last week” increased from 4.3% in 2009 to
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This publication is a primer designed to provide information to transportation planners and decision-makers about how transportation system investments affect site selection decisions of businesses and private land developers. It includes information obtained from experts in the site selection field as well as case studies of site selection process
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The guidelines proposed by the NCHRP Report 350 pertaining to the safety of roadway hardware devices necessitated the evaluation of those devices. This study deals with the strength evaluation of precast concrete bridge railing that is a part of the roadway hardware devices. Though many articles, reports, and publications were found regarding the t
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