The purpose of this guide is to assist agencies in developing and implementing a safety action plan to improve conditions for bicycling and walking. The plan lays out a vision for improving safety, examining existing conditions, and using a data-driven approach to match safety programs and improvements with demonstrated safety concerns. This guide
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Research and Development
2017-08-01
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety Research and Development (R&D) helps reduce highway crashes and related fatalities and injuries by developing and implementing safety innovations through a program of nationally coordinated research and technology development. Selections from this broad research portfolio are highlighted be
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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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This Tech Brief presents an overview of best practices for the design and construction of bases and subbases for concrete pavements and its effects on performance.
The primary objective of this project is to develop multiple simulation testbeds and transportation models to evaluate the impacts of Connected Vehicle Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) and Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) strategies. This report summarizes the evaluations conducted on the San Diego Testbed.
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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Representing more than 1.4 million jobs and nearly $130 billion in regional domestic product, freight-related industries make up a significant portion of Washington State's economy.1 Within the transportation sector, several opportunities exist to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including converting from traditional to alternative fuels, diesel re
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2017-08-01
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A local road safety plan (LRSP) provides a framework for identifying, analyzing, and prioritizing roadway safety improvements on local roads. The LRSP development process and content are tailored to local issues and needs. The process results in a prioritized list of issues, risks, actions, and improvements that can be used to reduce fatalities and
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The focus of the Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control – Small-Scale Test Project is to develop and implement CACC functionality as an extension of conventional ACC technology leveraging DSRC communications between vehicles and with the infrastructure. This report covers activities performed during Phase 1 of the research plan in which a reference AC
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This report describes the development, evaluation and refinement of three Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) safety applications using Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC)-based over-the-air messages between the infrastructure and vehicles. The safety applications selected for development were a Red Light Violation Warning application, Curve Spe
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2017-07-27
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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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Source: Provided by ITS DataHub (its.dot.gov/data) through the National Transportation Library.This zip file contains POSTDATA.ATT (.ATT); Print to File (.PRN); Portable Document Format (.PDF); and document (.DOCX) files of data to support FHWA-JPO-16-385, Analysis, modeling, and simulation (AMS) testbed development and evaluation to support dynami
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Source: Provided by ITS DataHub (its.dot.gov/data) through the National Transportation Library.The datasets in this zip file are in support of FHWA-JPO-16-379, Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) Testbed Development and Evaluation to Support Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) and Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) Programs - c
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Source: Provided by ITS DataHub (its.dot.gov/data) through the National Transportation Library.The datasets in this zip file are in support of Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) report FHWA-JPO-16-385, "Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation (AMS) Testbed Development and Evaluation to Support Dynamic Mobility Applications
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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
2017-07-17
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The purpose of this memorandum is to announce the availability of the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) carbon monoxide (CO) categorical hot-spot finding updated with MOVES2014a. The original finding was completed on February 12, 2014, following provisions in the transportation conformity rule at 40 CFR 93.123(a)(3) for urban highway projec
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Source: Provided by ITS DataHub (its.dot.gov/data) through the National Transportation Library.The primary objective of this project is to develop multiple simulation testbeds/transportation models to evaluate the impacts of Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) and the Active Transportation and Demand Management (ATDM) strategies. Specifically, the
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