United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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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
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2018-09-01
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FHWA R&T Now
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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
2018-09-01
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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
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Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) bimonthly newsletter highlighting current best practices in stewardship and environmental review from around the country.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2018-09-01
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Public Roads
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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
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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States responsible for maintaining significant road-miles on rural facilities often face a difficult challenge in both collecting adequate data to conduct traditional safety analysis and identifying areas in need of safety treatments. Even agencies that do have extensive data on rural road safety conditions face challenges due to the relatively low
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently published Low-cost Treatments for Horizontal Curve Safety 2016, which offers guidance concerning the safety effects of various countermeasures intended to mitigate roadway departure crashes along horizontal curves.1 One sign application with potential safety improvements along horizontal curves on
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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Intersection Control Evaluation (ICE) is a data-driven, performance-based framework and approach used to objectively screen alternatives and identify an optimal geometric and control solution for an intersection. A growing number of transportation agencies are developing and adopting ICE policies. Although there are differences among these ICE poli
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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At-grade rail-highway crossings that are blocked by slow-moving or stopped trains increase risks to public safety at both rural and urban locations. For example, emergency responders may be prevented from reaching individuals facing life-threatening health crises, pedestrians or children may attempt to cut through idling trains to complete their cr
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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A 19-mile rail corridor in Southwest Missouri has one of the highest incident rates in the State and has been a top safety priority for Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) and BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) for nearly two decades. This rural corridor with 29 at-grade crossings experienced 62 incidents since 1975, including 14 fatalities and
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This project focused on identifying intersection infrastructure treatments that produced a quantifiable improvement in motorcycle safety. The project team conducted a motorcycle crash analysis focusing on identifying characteristics that directly influence or are overrepresented in motorcycle crashes at intersections. Next, the team conducted a lit
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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Generally, reduced left-turn conflict intersections are geometric designs that lessen the number or severity of potential vehicle-to-vehicle conflicts associated with left-turn movements. Two of these highly effective intersection designs are included in this FHWA Proven Safety Countermeasure—the restricted crossing U-turn (RCUT) and the median U-t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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What are the low-cost treatments included in this proven safety countermeasure? They include: Pavement markings; Signing; Visibility and sight distance improvements. These low-cost strategies increase driver awareness and recognition of intersections and potential conflicts. Below are examples of the basic improvement package.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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In California, rail-highway safety is a partnership between the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), and Caltrans, the State transportation agency that receives Federal-aid funds, including Section 130 Railway-Highway Crossings Program funding. CPUC prioritizes and selects safety improvement projects under the Section 130 Program by using
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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The FHWA has identified and is promoting widespread use of a set of 20 Proven Safety Countermeasures that can offer significant, measurable impacts as part of any agency’s data-driven, systemic approach to improving safety. These strategies are designed to enhance safety on all kinds of roads—from rural to urban, from high-volume freeways to less t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-09-01
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The Federal Highway Administration has published a new resource, Transportation Safety Planning and the Zero Deaths Vision: A Guide for Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Local Communities, which provides references to key information for metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and local communities to understand and use the safety planning
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is investigating how emerging connected-vehicle (CV) and automated-vehicle (AV) technologies can address roadway-departure (RwD) crashes. The objective of this project was to develop a framework for FHWA regarding how the infrastructure components need to change to accommodate CV and AV technologies to help
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2018-09-01
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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.
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