United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2017-03-01
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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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The Richmond, Virginia Pedestrian and Bicycle Network Improvement Study provides a detailed set of infrastructure improvement recommendations to enhance bicycle and pedestrian access to and from seven future Bus Rapid Transit stations along a 7.6-mile corridor in Richmond, Virginia.
This report highlights emerging tools, techniques, and resources for gathering qualitative public and stakeholder input to inform the planning process, improve project outcomes, and contribute to streamlining project delivery.
The need to accurately characterize the structural condition of existing pavements has increased with the recent development, release, and ongoing implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). A number of different material inputs are required in the procedure, and it is important to adequately characterize and define t
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On March 29, 2017, the Baltimore Regional Transportation Board (BRTB)—the metropolitan planning organization for the Baltimore region—hosted the Baltimore Downtown/Regional Freight Delivery Symposium. The Symposium was held with assistance and sponsorship from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and the Federal Highway Administration's
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This case study highlights two noteworthy practices at the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) regarding short-duration traffic count validation procedures and an automated annual average daily traffic (AADT) estimation process. SEMCOG maintains a centralized traffic count database and receives traffic counts from the local agencies
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The need to accurately characterize the structural condition of existing pavements has increased with the recent development, release, and ongoing implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). A number of different material inputs are required in the procedure, and it is important to adequately characterize and define t
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The objective of this report is to provide recommendation for the cost-effective design and construction of post-grouted drilled shafts (PGDS) in appropriate transportation applications. The work included review of available technical literature; consultation with those currently involved with post-grouting, collection, and interpretation of result
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2017-03-01
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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.
The need to accurately characterize the structural condition of existing pavements has increased with the recent development, release, and ongoing implementation of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). A number of different material inputs are required in the procedure, and it is important to adequately characterize and define t
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This report describes the efforts undertaken to review the status of falling weight deflectometer (FWD) equipment, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, including dynamic backcalculation, as they relate to the models and procedures incorporated in the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide. The work conducted in this project resulted
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2017-03-01
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This pamphlet describes a project where the New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT), New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) collaborated with local, State, and industry partners to create an all-interstate route to JFK for trucks pulling longer trailers.
This paper investigates the trends of longitudinal and transverse cracking in jointed concrete pavements based on Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Program Strategic Study of Structural Factors for Rigid Pavements (SPS-2) data. The impacts of slab properties, base type, traffic volume, and environmental factors on the occurrence and extent of l
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This report presents findings from the Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) traveler behavior surveys, a set of panel surveys of US-75 corridor users, conducted before and after the deployment of ICM. The purpose of the surveys was to measure the impacts of the ICM initiative on travelers’ use of real-time information, their travel behavior in the
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2017-03-01
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This pamphlet describes the implementation of a multi-faceted program to improve management of the District of Columbia’s more than 500 curbside loading zones.
This document describes the Draft System Architecture and Design for the Transit Bus Stop Pedestrian Warning (TSPW)application including the design for the pedestrian detection system and DSRC radio to be deployed at transit stops and includesdetails on the Enhanced Transit Safety Retrofit Package platform upon which the TSPW application will run o
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This Product Brief introduces the reader to the Long-Term Pavement Performance Bind (LTPPBind) Online Web-based tool for selecting asphalt binder performance grades (PGs).(1) It explains what the tool is, who can benefit from its use, what its main features are, and how and where potential users can find more information.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2017-02-23
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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. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
2017-02-16
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Our researchers at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center are dedicated scientists and engineers. They are experts in more than 100 trans-portation-related fields including: CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING PAVEMENT ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY SAFETY MATHEMATICS COMPUTATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MODELING AND SIMULATION INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HYDRAUL
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2017-02-09
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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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