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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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2016-04-07
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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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Volpe conducted the Naturalistic study of truck following behavior to gain a better understanding of how trucks follow other vehicles in the real world, with the ultimate goal of supporting the Federal Highway Administration in the development of automated truck platooning applications. Using two naturalistic heavy truck data sets collected from pr
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Bridge Information Modeling Standardization is a multi-volume Report that analyzes options for standardized approaches for modeling bridges across their lifecycle. The goal of the Report is to identify and evaluate candidate open standards that can be used to document all aspects of bridges to identify viable standards that can be used by bridge ow
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This primer provides an introduction and background to shared mobility; discusses the government’s role; reviews success stories; examines challenges, lessons learned, and proposed solutions; and concludes with guiding principles for public agencies. The primer provides an overview of current practices in this emerging field, and it also looks towa
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This primer provides an overview of current practices in this emerging field and looks toward the future in the evolution and development of smartphone applications for the transportation sector. The primer provides an introduction and overview smartphone applications (known as "apps"); discusses the background, evolution, and development of smartp
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This Tech Brief summarizes guidance to the pavement community on sustainability considerations for asphalt pavement systems, as presented in greater detail in the recently published Towards Sustainable Pavement Systems: A Reference Document (FHWA 2015b). Sustainability considerations throughout the entire pavement life cycle are examined (from mate
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This Tech Brief summarizes guidance to the pavement community on sustainability considerations for concrete pavement systems, as presented in greater detail in the recently published Towards Sustainable Pavement Systems: A Reference Document (FHWA 2015). Sustainability considerations throughout the entire pavement life cycle are examined (from mate
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This tech brief looks at the elements needed to implement an effective quality assurance (QA) program for concrete paving operations. The benefit of a good QA program far outweighs the costs for both the agency and contractors.
This report highlights key themes identified at the “Planes, Trains, & Semis: Keeping a Dynamic Economy on the Move: Greater Charlotte Regional Freight Mobility Plan” Peer Exchange held on November 13, 2015 in Charlotte, North Carolina. This event was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration’s Regional Models of Cooperation program of its Ev
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This document details the process that the Volpe Center intended to follow in evaluating the impacts of the Integrated Dynamic Transit Operations (IDTO) prototype demonstration in Columbus, Ohio and Central Florida. The document also includes the addendum to the original plan, which reflects the changes that occurred based on the changes to the dem
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Improving the ability of traditionally underserved communities to travel safely and conveniently via walking or wheeling is essential to achieving a sustainable, equitable transportation system that can provide options in how people access jobs, schools, health care services, faith entities, social gatherings, and other destinations. Numerous studi
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The State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and local transportation agencies have been conducting traffic monitoring activities in conjunction with the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Traffic Monitoring Guide for over 30 years. Part of their role includes collecting quality data for a vast arr
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This Concept of Operations (ConOps) describes the characteristics of the Dynamic Interrogative Data Capture (DIDC) algorithms and associated software.The objective of the DIDC algorithms and software is to optimize the capture and transmission of vehicle-based data under a range of dynamically configurable messaging strategies. The DIDC software is
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-04-01
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The FAST Act continues the statewide and nonmetropolitan planning process, which establishes a cooperative, continuous, and comprehensive framework for making transportation investment decisions throughout the State. Oversight of this process is a joint responsibility of the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-04-01
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The FAST Act includes a number of provisions that modify Federal requirements related to highoccupancy vehicle (HOV) facilities and the tolling of highways.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2016-04-01
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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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2016-04-01
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As the Hispanic population grows, it is important to better understand their mobility needs. The 2009 NHTS examines the issue from several angles as illustrated in Table 1. Based on average daily trips, Hispanics have both the highest person trips and vehicle trips per household than any other group. From a person miles traveled per household stand
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