2024-03-20
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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This chapter of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Federal Role in Highway Safety details a BPR report to Congress. It included the history of national highway safety conferences, discussion of the need for a driver records clearance center and an interdepartmental highway safety board. It also emphasized safety factors including human factors,
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2024-03-20
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Chapter 3 focuses on continuing federal efforts towards highway safety including conferences and campaigns. It also discusses the emerging safety features in major car brands at the time. Eisenhower's views on federal and state relationships in reference to highway safety are discussed.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-03-18
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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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This project develops a methodology and tools for a risk-based multi-threat decision-support tool for long-term bridge asset management (BAM), with a particular focus on chronic aging-induced condition deterioration, and more abrupt and extreme seismic hazard impact. Specifically, a stochastic bridge condition deterioration and seismic damage simul
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-03-13
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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On November 15, 2021, the President signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Public Law 117-58, also known as the "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law") (BIL) into law. Section 11126 of BIL amended the Territorial Highway Program (THP), codified at 23 U.S.C. 165(c). The attached Territorial Highway Program (THP) Implementation Guidance p
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On November 15, 2021, the President signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Public Law 117-58, also known as the "Bipartisan Infrastructure Law" (BIL)) into law. Section 11126 of BIL amended the Puerto Rico Highway Program (PRHP), codified at 23 U.S.C. 165(b). The attached PRHP Implementation Guidance provides information on fundi
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2024-03-06
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Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
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The Gasoline Product Supplied report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Administration
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The purpose of this document is to provide information to bridge owners on previous experience in conducting nondestructive testing (NDT) for a highway bridge constructed with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials M 270/M 244 (ASTM A514/517) 100 kilopounds per square inch steel.(1–4) These types of high-strength steel h
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Safety analysis primarily focuses on identifying and quantifying the influences of contributing factors to traffic collisions and the consequences of these factors. A practice of relying on observed data only allows relative comparisons between analysis methods and may not lead to determining how well the methods mimic the true underlying crash-gen
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Partially automated truck platooning is an emerging technology that allows heavy trucks to follow each other at close distances via automated speed control and direct wireless communications between vehicle systems. This technology, known as cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), allows vehicles to detect and respond rapidly to changes in the
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Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology has been driving multi-billion-dollar investments for over a decade now. While no agreement exists on the exact timeframe and capabilities of these systems, the transportation industry agrees that CAV adoption will eventually occur. Infrastructure owners and operators (IOOs) are making decisions now
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2024-03-01
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Urban Congestion Report (UCR)
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The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a quarterly basis and characterizes the most recent traffic congestion and reliability trends at the national and city level. Each quarterly UCR compares data from the most recent three months to the same three months in the previous year.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-03-01
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Welcome to the Transportation Pooled Fund (TPF) Program Quarterly Update. This update shares the latest information on the TPF Program including highlights, resources, announcements, open solicitations, and active studies. The TPF Program enables public and private entities to combine resources and subject matter expertise to address transportation
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This manual discusses the physical processes of the hydrologic cycle that are important to highway engineers. These processes include the approaches, methods, and assumptions applied in design and analysis of highway drainage structures. Hydrologic methods of primary interest are frequency analysis for analyzing rainfall and flow data; empirical me
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2024-03-01
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In May 2021, the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) together with the FHWA North Dakota (FHWA-ND) Division Office extended an invitation to the Mobile Asphalt Technology Center (MATC) to conduct a field site visit to an ongoing asphalt paving project. The MATC visit was focused on providing assistance on testing and evaluating some o
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2024-03-01
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Public Roads
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Innovative Density Profiling of Asphalt Pavement - Interchange Configurations: Planning-Level Analysis Tool Identifies Expected Safety Performance - Alternative Uses of the Right-of-Way - The New George Washington Memorial Parkway Byway - Speed Safety Cameras.
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