Today’s transportation challenges are complex and rapidly evolving–from deploying vehicle automation technology to combating distracted driving. To address them, the Federal Highway Administration’s Resource Center turns to more than 100 experts across 10 teams to deploy new technologies and innovations. The center’s work helps to keep roads safer,
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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). Departments of Transportation (DOTs) face challenges sending and receiving
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The intent of this case study is to illustrate a successful Pathfinder process from the State of Colorado for organizations interested in implementing Pathfinder.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2018-10-18
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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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This project developed a conceptual framework for an analysis, modeling, and simulation system for evaluating the impacts of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies on transportation facilities at the strategic and operational levels, providing the basis for future development of CAV-enabled evaluation tools. The objective of this projec
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The Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) requirement for restrictive medians on most multilane roads provides a foundation for installing pedestrian refuge islands at uncontrolled crossing locations.
The All Roads Transportation Safety (ARTS) Program is the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) two-pronged data-driven approach to identify locations most appropriate for countermeasure implementation, including improvements at uncontrolled pedestrian crossings.
The City of Boulder merged research and user-friendly tools to create guidelines that provide recommendations for pedestrian countermeasures at controlled and uncontrolled crossing locations.
The Lexington Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) created a pedestrian facility database to establish baseline conditions, identify deficiencies, and inform long range plans. From 2003 through 2007, the MPO successfully mapped and recorded pedestrian facilities over 85 square miles of Fayette County's urbanized areas.
The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) guidance uses roadway characteristics and pedestrian data to uniformly recommend pedestrian countermeasures at signalized and unsignalized crossing locations. NCDOT adopted the "North Carolina Pedestrian Crossing Guidance" in 2015 to guide crash countermeasures across the State's 14 divisions.
The purpose of this guidance is to assist the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) staff in implementing the regulations contained in 23 CFR Part 420, Subpart B Research, Development, and Technology (RD&T) Transfer Program Management. This guidance is an update to outdated guidance issued by FHWA dated November 3, 1994, Guidelines for Implementing
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As part of its ongoing Toward Zero Deaths statewide safety campaign, the State of Michigan is focusing on reducing the number of pedestrian crashes and enhancing pedestrian safety. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) sought a low-cost, effective option for improving crossings for pedestrians and increasing driver yielding. MDOT install
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Community members can provide valuable insights into pedestrian safety on their streets, adding support to local projects such as the King Street Road Diet in Alexandria, Virginia. The City of Alexandria's Complete Streets policy requires that city maintenance and capital projects improve the transportation network for all users, so when a 1.8 mile
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The Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization identified East Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa, Florida as a high crash and high use corridor for pedestrians. The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 7 installed Pedestrian Hybrid Beacons (PHBs) along the corridor to control traffic at midblock crossings and unsignalized int
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Near-miss incidents in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania raised awareness of pedestrian safety at mid-block crossings in the heart of the Capitol. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) studied key corridors and implemented a series of improvements, such as raised crosswalks, to increase pedestrian visibility and reduce vehicle speeds.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2018-10-04
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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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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).
The objective of the study was to evaluate the safety effects of two countermeasures with respect to vehicle–pedestrian crashes—the provision of protected or protected/permissive left-turn phasing and the provision of leading pedestrian intervals (LPIs)—using a before–after empirical Bayesian methodology. The study used data from North American cit
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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 the standard trucks. SHL gross vehicle weights may be in excess of a few million pounds, so they
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This evaluation assesses the outcomes of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) investment in precast concrete pavement (PCP). The evaluation team determined the benefits and costs of individual PCP projects and, where possible, extrapolated findings from the data based on overall themes. Additionally, the evaluation team determined the outc
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