The Small Town and Rural Multimodal Networks report is a resource and idea book intended to help small towns and rural communities support safe, accessible, comfortable, and active travel for people of all ages and abilities. It provides a bridge between existing guidance on bicycle and pedestrian design and rural practice, encourages innovation in
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The Roadway Data Improvement Program provides States with a means to assess the quality of their roadway inventory information. From 2013 to 2016 a technical assistance team visited 13 State and Federal entities. They noted findings of current practices and developed recommendations to improve data collection, technical standards, data analysis too
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The Roadway Data Extraction Technical Assistance Program (RDETAP) assists state and local agencies with the expansion and enhancement of roadway data inventories with regard to the Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) and other roadway data elements. The RDETAP developed a management information system called the Roadway Data Extraction (RDE)
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The Roadway Data Extraction Technical Assistance Program (RDETAP) assists state and local agencies with the expansion and enhancement of roadway data inventories with regard to the Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) and other roadway data elements.The RDETAP developed a management information system called the Roadway Data Extraction (RDE)
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
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Every day, children and their parents walk or ride their bicycles to school. However, busy roads can mean the difference between being able to walk or ride a bike to school or needing to ride in a car. Children face unique limitations when crossing roads. Because of their small body size and developing minds, they often have difficulty detecting an
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
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A Crash Modification Factor (CMF) is a numerical value that shows the expected change in crashes after implementing a countermeasure. It provides a quantitative estimate to replace anecdotal estimates of the safety effect of the countermeasure in benefit/cost analyses or project funding requests.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
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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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Public-Private Partnership (P3s) concessions are an integrated service delivery approach where a public transportation agency enters a contractual agreement with a private sector entity to deliver a service and/or facility for a specific period. Under the P3 approach, the private sector entity is singly responsible for the design, construction, fin
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P3s concessions are an integrated service delivery approach where a public transportation agency enters a contractual agreement with a private sector entity to deliver a service and/or facility for a specific period. Under the P3 approach, the private sector entity is singly responsible for the design, construction, finance, operations, maintenance
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This discussion paper was developed for transportation professionals who may be involved in a Public-Private Partnership (P3) concession project. P3 concessions are an integrated service delivery approach where a public transportation agency enters a contractual agreement with a private sector entity to deliver a service and/or facility for a speci
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This Guidebook has been developed cooperatively by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Build America Bureau and the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) for transportation professionals who may be involved in a Public-Private Partnership (P3) project. The Guidebook is part of a P3 Toolkit consisting of tools and guidance documents to assist
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Connected vehicles (CVs) and automated vehicles (AVs) are two rapidly emerging technologies with the potential to transform our communities and transportation system on a larger scale than anything we have seen since the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway system. These technologies have justifiably led to high expectations for increased sa
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Increasingly, tolling has become an integral part of transportation infrastructure as cities and States respond to urban mobility challenges and face decreased funding for transportation projects. Toll revenues are often essential to pay the capital cost of the toll facility, as well as its operations and maintenance. Expanded use of tolling has al
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
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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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The purpose of this project was to demonstrate the capture of pavement marking retro-reflectivity measurement data—regardless of various environmental, marking and road condition issues—to allow transportation agencies to make timely and appropriate decisions in managing their pavement marking assets. The MRU described in this proposal addresses ea
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Soil nail walls are internally stabilized earth-retaining structures. Soil nail walls use a top-down construction with in situ reinforcement to support temporary or permanent excavations. In certain conditions, soil nailing is a viable alternative to other ground anchor systems, considering technical feasibility, cost, and construction duration. Al
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Congestion pricing works by shifting some rush hour highway travel to other transportation modes or to off-peak periods. By removing a fraction (even as small as 5 percent) of the vehicles from a congested roadway, pricing enables the system to flow much more efficiently, allowing more vehicles to move through the same physical space.1Although driv
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The U.S. Department of Transportation Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Initiative aims to advance the state of the practice in transportation corridor operations to manage congestion. Through the deployment of ICM at the two selected Demonstration Sites (Dallas, Texas and San Diego, California), this initiative thoroughly investigated and docum
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To help with Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) deployments, a V2I Message Lexicon was developed that explains the relationships and concepts for V2I messages and identifies the ITS standards where they may be found. This lexicon document provides a brief history and background for connected vehicle (CV) and infrastructure-focused standards that relat
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The purpose of this state-of-the-practice review was to lay both technical and institutional foundation for all aspects of the development of the Virtual Data Access Framework. The review focused on current data sharing and integration practices among State and local agencies, example data environments, technical integration formats, and business r
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