United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Real Estate Services
2018-01-01
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This guide is intended to serve as a basic reference for local public agencies and others who receive Federal–aid highway funds for projects involving the acquisition of real property. Typically, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) provides funds to State governments who carry out highway projects. These funds are used to support activities r
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2018-01-01
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Innovator, published by the FHWA Center for Accelerating Innovation, advances implementation of innovative technologies and processes in the highway industry. Its audience is transportation professionals in highway agencies, trade and research groups, academia and the private sector, and the driving public.
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
2018-01-01
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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
2018-01-01
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The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) comprises three components: planning, implementation, and evaluation. While planning and implementing projects is critical to addressing opportunities for safety improvement, evaluation is critical to understanding project and program effectiveness. Employing more consistent and reliable evaluation meth
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2018-01-01
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This report is a summary of the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Local Roads Safety Policy Peer Exchange held in Lee’s Summit, Missouri on November 16-17, 2016 sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety. Participants from Federal, State, and local agencies from Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas,
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-01-01
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Transportation utility fees are financing mechanisms that treat the transportation system like a utility. Residents and businesses are charged fees based on their use of the transportation system rather than charged taxes based on the value of the property that they occupy. Transportation utility fees are not subject to voter approval and are based
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-01-01
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Transit-oriented development (TOD) is compact, mixed-use development near transit facilities that provides highquality walking environments. It usually includes new residential development, office space, and other service amenities that are within a half-mile of public transportation and easily commutable by other means, such as walking and biking.
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-01-01
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Transportation reinvestment zones (TRZs) are designated areas located around transportation projects created to encourage development and capture property tax increments to help fund the improvements. TRZs can be used to capture both present and future economic growth created as a result of the transportation improvements, and they may be used in c
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All States use the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Online Reporting Tool (ORT) to submit their annual HSIP and Railway-Highway Crossings Program (RHCP) reports. The HSIP ORT is a central repository for State HSIP reports that provides an electronic record of submission, supports the annual HSIP and RHCP reporting requirements, and promote
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-01-01
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Asset recycling is a value capture mechanism by which public entities derive revenue to invest in new transportation infrastructure by leasing existing toll highway facilities to private sector investors. Given that existing toll facilities have a proven revenue-generation history, investing in asset recycling projects is attractive to private inve
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-01-01
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Business improvement districts (BIDs) are privately directed and publicly sanctioned organizations that supplement public services within geographically defined boundaries by generating multiyear revenue through a compulsory assessment on local property owners and/or businesses.1 BIDs are managed by public or nonprofit boards, predominantly with lo
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-01-01
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Development Impact Fees are one-time charges levied by local governments on new development. They are charged to developers to help municipalities recover growth-related infrastructure and public service costs. They differ from other forms of value capture including special assessments and negotiated exactions, in that impact fees can be used to pa
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Innovative Program Delivery
2018-01-01
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Sales tax districts levy an incremental sales tax on goods sold within a designated area that derives benefit from a transportation improvement. The resulting revenue is used to support the development of the infrastructure improvement. Sales tax districts may be established at the municipal or county level, but they are more commonly implemented i
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The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter is intended to provide transportation professionals with real-world examples of ways that multimodal transportation investments promote economic revitalization, provide access to jobs, and achieve safer communities through support of accelerated project deliv
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The Development of Crash Modification Factors program studied the safety performance of various stop-controlled intersections for the Evaluation of Low-Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study. This study evaluated the safety effectiveness of multiple low-cost treatments at stop-controlled intersections. Improvements included basic signing and pa
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2018-01-01
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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 natio
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2018-01-01
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This study was conducted as part of the Federal Highway Administration’s Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program. The LTBP Program is a long-term research effort, authorized by the U.S. Congress under SAFETEA-LU—the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users—to collect high-quality bridge data from a re
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2018-01-01
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This study was conducted as part of the Federal Highway Administration’s Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program. The LTBP Program is a long-term research effort, authorized by the U.S. Congress under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users legislation, to collect high-quality data from a represe
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