This Fact Sheet is intended to aid States in considering and implementing various strategies to meet the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) goal of expediting project delivery by promoting efficiency in the Highway Traffic Noise analysis process. This fact sheet identifies ways to: - Streamline the requirements and procedural processes of the
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Every Day Counts (EDC) is a Federal Highway Administration program to advance a culture of innovation in the transportation community in partnership with public and private stakeholders. Through this State-based effort, FHWA coordinates rapid deployment of proven strategies and technologies to shorten the project delivery process, enhance roadway s
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The Synthesis of Countermeasure Cost User Guide supplements the previously published Synthesis of Countermeasure Service Life and Crash Severity Costs available on the CMF Clearinghouse website. This user guide includes the most up-to-date countermeasure cost information found nationwide and is intended to be used for project prioritization and est
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Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) have experienced significant growth since their initial inception in the 1990s. Technologies have continued to evolve at a rapid pace, enabling the integration of advanced solutions for traveler information purposes. As a result of the rapid evolution of technologies and tools available, the Federal High
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This report highlights the discussions that took place during the “State Department of Transportation Tribal Liaison” Roundtable and Panel Discussion held on October 3, 2016 in Anaheim, California. Participants discussed how their State DOTs consult with tribes in the transportation planning process, opportunities and issues that arise with funding
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This document provides guidance and direction to FHWA Division Bridge Engineers in performing NBIP compliance reviews of State and Federal agency bridge safety inspection programs. It contains the 23 metrics assessed for compliance reviews under the National Bridge Inspection Standards (NBIS) at 23 CFR Part 650, Subpart C. This document supersedes
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2017-05-01
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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. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2017-05-01
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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.
Effective utility coordination in projects delivered using alternative contracting methods (ACM) has one common theme: utility issues must be considered as early in the project development process as possible to permit the project delivery team as many options for resolving utility conflicts as practical. In the words of one author, “detection of u
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2017-05-01
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FHWA has constructed a national vehicle miles traveled (VMT) forecasting model where future VMT growth rates can be estimated for three major economic scenarios - normal, pessimistic, and optimistic growth. The normal growth scenario represents the most Likely economic outlook reflects IHS' assessment of most probable future trends in U.S. populati
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This report summarizes noteworthy practices and key recommendations shared during a scenario planning workshop, hosted by the Mid-America Regional Council, on January 31-February 1, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored this event as part of its Scenario Planning Program and in connection with the Trans
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The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program definition of connected vehicles includes both 5.9 Gigahertz (GHz) Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) and non-DSRC technologies as means of facilitating communication for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications. Non-DSRC technologies (e.g. Radio Frequenc
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The document describes the overall process for evaluating Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) Roadside Units (RSU) against USDOT RSU Specification 4.1 in preparation for field evaluation. The Test Cases contained in this document only evaluate basic RSU functionality. The results of this evaluation are intended to provide guidance to the ven
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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. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2017-04-20
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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
2017-04-06
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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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This report summarizes the major themes discussed during a peer exchange on resilience in transportation planning and project development that the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 5 jointly organized and convened April 3–4, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The objective of the meeting was to fost
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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 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. The results of this study project can be used by transportation agencies to identify and priori
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