As the world’s second-most widely used material behind water, concrete is a core ingredient of American infrastructure, including its use to build roads and bridges on the National Highway System. Concrete, due to its long service life, has a low environmental cost; however, its major component, ordinary portland cement (OPC), in its manufacturing
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This report summarizes the activities performed, products developed, and accomplishments under this task order as part of the above-referenced contract. The goal of this task order is to conduct technology transfer, delivery, and implementation of best practices for jointed concrete pavements. Activities such as those conducted under this task orde
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To inform the development of an implementation guide, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted four regional peer exchanges in Spring 2018 on nature-based solutions that improve coastal highway resilience. This peer exchange summary provides a synthesis of the key examples of nature-based solutions and recommendations for successful plan
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An increasing number of regional and local transportation agencies across the country are adopting transportation safety plans with a vision to eliminate traffic fatalities. This document provides references to key information for metropolitan planning organizations and local communities to understand the safety planning process and develop their o
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This report provides the current state of congestion and reliability in 52 of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. It also highlights relevant successful operational strategies and performance management approaches implemented by state and local transportation agencies. The report concludes with a brief discussion of the new travel
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Culverts, conduits that facilitate passage of water beneath roadways and other structures, represent important components of infrastructure systems, helping to drain, direct or divert surface water and prevent the disruption of roadways. Their efficient inspection and maintenance is thus critical to safe operation of Indiana’s transportation infras
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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Both States are using the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) to target pedestrian safety projects. TDOT will use at least 10 percent of its HSIP funding to counter an increasing number of serious and fatal crashes involving pedestrians. CTDOT has taken a more programmatic approach, but has easily surpassed a 10-percent threshold in recent ye
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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Rectangular Rapid-Flashing Beacons (RRFBs) is one of MaineDOT’s most common pedestrian countermeasures. In addition to installing RRFBs through their typical project development process, the Department has reached out to communities to become partners in the installation and maintenance of the RRFB. MaineDOT created a single procurement-only contra
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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The 2017 Complete Streets Design Guide is a concise but thorough reference guide for designing streets to meet multimodal and community needs. The guide includes the Complete Streets toolbox that draws on best practices from a variety of national design standards and guidelines, emphasizes the role of context and flexibility during the design proce
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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This policy creates a comprehensive and connected transportation network for Louisiana and aims to balance access, mobility, and safety needs of motorists, transit users, bicyclists, pedestrians of all ages and abilities, and users of wheelchairs and mobility aids. DOTD will implement effective pedestrian countermeasures to improve safety.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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This plan, which has evolved and matured with the advancement of safety planning techniques, is a multi-agency, comprehensive, data-driven approach to reduce fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. The plan highlights VDOT’s commitment to improving the safety of pedestrian crossings at uncontrolled locations.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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ADOT’s 2017 Pedestrian Safety Action Plan (PSAP) is a strategic action plan with clear objectives focusing resources on reducing the greatest number of possible severe injury and fatal pedestrian-motor vehicle crashes on the Arizona State Highway System (SHS).
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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This manual facilitates the development of a highway system consistent with the needs of the multimodal traveling public and provides detailed guidance on target speeds and the installation of marked crosswalks at uncontrolled intersections and mid-block locations.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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The purpose of this plan is to establish a vision for bicycling and walking as modes of transportation in Alabama. The graphic below summarizes key strategies, as found in the plan, for improving safety at pedestrian crossings.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-08-01
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When contemplating an approach to understand the myriad of complex and interwoven factors and circumstances involved in speeding-related issues, practitioners sometimes ask "Where do I even start?" and "Which data are the most trustworthy?" State crash reports use a variety of categories to describe speeding-related crashes: "exceeded speed limit,"
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To justify investments towards improved traffic operations, engineers and policymakers need accurate and scientific methods of congestion measurement. However, conventional methods are limited and/or outdated. Peak hour analyses fail to account for changing conditions throughout the year. Reliability modeling in the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), w
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The Wyoming Department of Transportation’s (WYDOT) Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Deployment Program is intended to develop a suite of applications that utilize vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication technology to reduce the impact of adverse weather on truck travel in the I-80 corridor. These applications support
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2018-07-26
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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. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
2018-07-26
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Each year, rural roadways experience a greater number of fatal crashes than urban roadways. In 2015, there were more than 6.2 million traffic crashes in the United States, in which 35,092 people were killed. Of this staggering number, rural fatalities accounted for 49 percent— despite estimates that only 19 percent of the U.S. population live in ru
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The purpose of this analysis, modeling, and simulation (AMS) plan is to provide a well-defined and unambiguous set of steps to be followed for modeling, simulating, and evaluating the mobility and environmental impacts of the pilot deployment as outlined in the refined evaluation plan for New York City, created in Task 2 of this project. The plan d
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