United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-09-01
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Memoranda & Guidance: Guidance
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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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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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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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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2018-09-01
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This document is a technical summary of the Federal Highway Administration report "Feasibility of Mapping and Marking Underground Utilities by State Transportation Departments" (FHWA-HRT-16-019).
This evaluation of the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Responder Training Program focuses on three areas: the dissemination of TIM trainings and concept across the country, responder and agency adoption of SHRP2 TIM concepts, and improvements in key TIM performance metrics. From 2012 to 2015, SHRP
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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation's (PennDOT) automated traffic signal performance measure (ATSPM) program is statewide in scale. PennDOT has implemented ATSPMs where high-resolution controllers and field communications are available.
Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) bimonthly newsletter highlighting current best practices in stewardship and environmental review from around the country.
As steel bridges age, accumulating stress from traffic can cause structural fatigue, weakening of solid components such as girders, and degrading of connections that hold bridge elements together. In 2016, 16 percent of the 178,923 steel bridges in the United States were considered in poor condition, according to the Federal Highway Administration
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Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPM) are a cost-effective way for agencies to measure and display signalized intersection performance. ATSPM enables UDOT to proactively manage traffic signal timing and quickly identify maintenance issues that affect traffic flow. UDOT's ATSPM program benefited from its partnership with Purdue Unive
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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 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 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 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 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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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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In March 2013, the States of Florida, Minnesota, Oregon, and Pennsylvania were selected as lead adopters of the second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) product Managing Risk in Rapid Renewal Projects (R09). This report evaluates those States’ progress in disseminating R09 concepts to staff, adopting R09 concepts into State procedures, and
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2018-08-23
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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. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2018-08-09
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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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