United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2017-09-01
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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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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2017-09-01
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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.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2017-09-01
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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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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
2017-09-01
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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 Highway Policy Information
2017-09-01
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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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Pavement surface properties play critical roles in maintaining proper interaction between tire and pavement, and necessary drainage runoff for both pavement and safety management. Currently, data collection and analysis of pavement surface properties, such as texture and profiling, have primarily relied on single line of measurements using multiple
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Native plants are a foundation of ecological function, affecting soil conservation, wildlife habitat, plant communities, invasive species, and water quality. Establishing locally-adapted, self-sustaining plant communities can also support transportation goals for safety and efficiency. Past obstacles to establishing native plant communities on road
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2017-09-01
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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.
This Notice is to advise of the redistribution of FY 2017 obligation limitation to the States pursuant to section 120(c) of the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act, 2017, title I of division K, Public Law (Pub. L.) 115-31. The obligation limitation redistributed in this Notice expires on September 30, 2017.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2017-08-24
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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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The GIS in Transportation team publishes quarterly newsletters to share information about significant geospatial transportation news, events, and applications. Each issue highlights a specific transportation agency's application of GIS or geospatial data and technology.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2017-08-14
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Memoranda & Guidance: Guidance
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This guidance is for use by recipients of Federal financial assistance in the preparation of project management plans for certain projects as required by section 106(h) of title 23, United States Code. This guidance applies only to the development of these project management plans. Major projects must comply with all applicable Federal requirements
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2017-08-10
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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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Deep foundations typically support dead and live loads through a combination of positive skin friction acting along the sides of the pile and end-bearing at the toe of the pile; however, during seismic events, negative skin friction (or downdrag) can potentially develop. Downdrag occurs because of increases in effective stress caused by pore pressu
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Shared mobility—the shared use of a motor vehicle, bicycle, or other low-speed transportation mode that allows users to obtain short-term access to transportation on an as-needed basis—has the potential to help address some transportation equity challenges. In an effort to categorize the myriad of transportation equity barriers facing transportatio
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This evaluation of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) Program addresses three key questions: 1) What is the breadth and depth of NHTS usage? 2) What impact does the NHTS Program have on policy, project, or regulatory decision making? 3) How responsive is the NHTS Program to its user community? Although it is difficult to trace the specific
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2017-08-01
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Roadside design improvement at curves is a strategy encompassing several treatments that target the high-risk roadside environment along the outside of horizontal curves. These treatments prevent roadway departure fatalities by giving vehicles the opportunity to recover safely and by reducing crash severity. Roadside design improvements can be impl
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2017-08-01
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Reduced left-turn conflict intersections are geometric designs that alter how left-turn movements occur in order to simplify decisions and minimize the potential for related crashes. Two highly effective designs that rely on U-turns to complete certain left-turn movements are known as the restricted crossing U-turn (RCUT) and the median U-turn (MUT
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Since 2014, US and Dutch counterparts have been collaborating on the topic of infrastructure resilience under a bilateral agreement between the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Rijkwaterstaat (RWS), the Netherlands' Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment. During the first two years, each side learned about each other's tools and approa
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