2024-03-20
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Chapter 3 focuses on continuing federal efforts towards highway safety including conferences and campaigns. It also discusses the emerging safety features in major car brands at the time. Eisenhower's views on federal and state relationships in reference to highway safety are discussed.
2024-03-20
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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This chapter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety details a BPR report to Congress. It included the history of national highway safety conferences, discussion of the need for a driver records clearance center and an interdepartmental highway safety board. It also emphasized safety factors including human factors,
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2024-03-20
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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President Harry S. Truman, who had been a road builder as a young man and an avid motorist his whole life, had also been concerned about the growing traffic safety problem-and with good reason. Chapter 1 of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety discusses rising highway fatality rates following World War II and Presid
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-03-18
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On a monthly basis, each State is required to report to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the amount of gallons taxed by that state. This data is analyzed and compiled by FHWA staff. The data on the amount of on-highway fuel use for each State is then used to attribute federal revenue to each State. Yearly, the FHWA, Office of Policy, prov
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This project develops a methodology and tools for a risk-based multi-threat decision-support tool for long-term bridge asset management (BAM), with a particular focus on chronic aging-induced condition deterioration, and more abrupt and extreme seismic hazard impact. Specifically, a stochastic bridge condition deterioration and seismic damage simul
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-03-13
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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On November 15, 2021, the President signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Public Law 117-58, also known as the "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law") (BIL) into law. Section 11126 of BIL amended the Territorial Highway Program (THP), codified at 23 U.S.C. 165(c). The attached Territorial Highway Program (THP) Implementation Guidance p
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On November 15, 2021, the President signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Public Law 117-58, also known as the "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law" (BIL)) into law. Section 11126 of BIL amended the Puerto Rico Highway Program (PRHP), codified at 23 U.S.C. 165(b). The attached PRHP Implementation Guidance provides information on fundi
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-03-06
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-03-01
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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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A previous study involving a wind tunnel investigation of a stay cable found that rotating the cable along its longitudinal axis changed its wind-induced response, revealing that the slight eccentricity of the cross-sectional shape was influencing the response. The study speculates that surface deformation could have caused nonsymmetrical separatio
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-03-01
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FHWA's Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-03-01
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) is the premier center for infrastructure, operations, and safety highway research that advances innovations to benefit the traveling public. The facility houses 15 state-of-the-art laboratories that address some of the Nation’s most pressing transportation i
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The purpose of this Guide is to help Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) data users determine traffic parameters suitable for their analyses and identify LTPP tables containing such parameters. This Guide describes available tools and specific procedures for extracting these parameters from the LTPP database and provides practical examples with s
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This manual discusses the physical processes of the hydrologic cycle that are important to highway engineers. These processes include the approaches, methods, and assumptions applied in design and analysis of highway drainage structures. Hydrologic methods of primary interest are frequency analysis for analyzing rainfall and flow data; empirical me
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