Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) bimonthly newsletter highlighting current best practices in stewardship and environmental review from around the country.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2016-11-01
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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.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2016-11-01
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It is a commonly held perception that it takes an average of 13 years to deliver a major highway project (from planning through completion). However, several opportunities exist in the current project delivery process where innovative approaches will improve project delivery times. Consequently, in the summer of 2010, Federal Highway Administrator
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This report highlights key outcomes identified at the “I-10 Corridor Coalition” Peer Exchange held on June 2, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. This eventwas sponsored by the Transportation Planning Capacity Building (TPCB) Peer Program, which is jointly funded by the Federal HighwayAdministration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
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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State and local Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are interested in providing effective traffic management and operations strategies to mitigate the roadway mobility and safety problems due to adverse weather. Weather Responsive Traffic Management (WRTM) strategies such as variable speed limits, vehicle restrictions, signal timing, and traffic a
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Intersection conflict warning systems (ICWSs) are used to warn drivers on the through road of the presence of traffic at stop-controlled cross streets and to warn drivers at stop-controlled approaches of the presence of traffic on the through lanes. ICWSs have been shown to reduce crashes at rural two-way stop-controlled intersections; however, the
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-11-01
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Improving roadway safety continues to be at the forefront of all stages of project development, including planning, alternatives analysis, design, construction, and operations. Advanced analysis methods and tools have been developed to help practitioners improve safety. One tool available now to estimate a project’s substantive safety is the Intera
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-11-01
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The Roadway Data Improvement Program (RDIP) is designed to help transportation agencies improve the quality of their roadway data to better support safety and other transportation improvement initiatives. The RDIP, a component of FHWA’s Roadway Safety Data Program (RSDP), focuses on the processes and practices used by agencies for collecting, manag
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2016-11-01
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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. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-11-01
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The first step in any problem-solving process is identifying and understanding the problem to solve; systemic safety analysis is no different. The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Systemic Safety Project Selection Tool1 describes the systemic safety analysis process beginning with Identifying Focus Crash Types and Risk Factors. This first st
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-11-01
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Network screening is a crucial step in the safety management process that identifies locations for potential safety investment according to their potential for future crashes. The potential for future crashes can be either directly based on the spot-specific crash history or on other factors that have potential to contribute to crashes, such as roa
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-11-01
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Have you ever known of a road segment that warranted improvement but lacked the requisite crash history to acquire funding for needed countermeasures? By using the systemic safety approach, agencies can identify, estimate, and plan for current and future safety concerns without relying on location-specific crash data. This approach allows managers
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-11-01
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A Crash Modification Factor (CMF) estimates a safety countermeasure’s ability to reduce crashes and crash severity. Transportation professionals frequently use CMF values to identify countermeasures with the greatest safety benefit for a particular crash type or location. Practitioners can use the following process to identify a CMF for each prospe
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This is an Informational Guide for State, Tribal, and local safety data integration. This Informational Guide provides guidance to States, Tribes, and local agencies on the steps and effective methods of safety data integration. This Informational Guide documents practices within a nine-step process for data integration. Detailed descriptions of th
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The Wyoming Department of Transportation’s (WYDOT) Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Deployment Program is intended to develop a suite of applications that utilize vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication technology to reduce the impact of adverse weather on truck travel in the I-80 corridor. These applications support
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Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) have experienced significant growth since its initial inception in the 1990s.Technologies have continued to evolve at a rapid pace, enabling the integration of advanced solutions for travelerinformation purposes.As a result of the rapid evolution of technologies and tools available, the Federal Highway A
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on October 24, 2016, published its final rule on required state-approved asset management plans and processes. Asset management is a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2016-10-20
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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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