The United States (U.S.) and Japan have similar transportation challenges, and share a common belief that cooperative systems can deliver significant societal benefits for road users, especially in terms of safer, more energy-efficient, and environmentally friendly surface transportation. The two regions recognize that coordinated research can redu
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This report summarizes noteworthy practices and key recommendations shared during a scenario planning workshop, hosted by the Greater Buffalo-Niagara Regional Transportation Council, on April 19-20, 2016, in Buffalo, New York. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored this event as part of its Scenario Planning Program and in connection w
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2016-04-01
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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
2016-04-01
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FHWA will assess State safety performance target achievement to determine whether States have met or made significant progress toward meeting their performance targets, per 23 U.S.C. 148(i). At least 4 out of the 5 safety performance targets must be either met or the actual outcome for the target is better than baseline performance to make signific
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-04-01
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This training is intended to help you identify the seven types of suspected serious injuries for the crash report in accordance with the MMUCC, 4th Edition guidelines.
This guidebook addresses how scenario planning can be used to support and advance the practice of performance-based planning and programming (PBPP). Scenario planning can use metrics, models, data sets, and tools to estimate and evaluate scenarios based on their ability to maximize system performance and support achievement of goals and performance
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The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter is intended to provide transportation professionals with real-world examples of ways that multimodal transportation investments promote economic revitalization, provide access to jobs, and achieve safer communities through support of accelerated project deliv
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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 ITS program, which provides for the research, development, and operational testing of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) aimed at solving congestion and safety problems, improving operating efficiencies in transit and commercial vehicles, and reducing the environmental impact of growing travel demand. Guided by the
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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 MAP-21’s overall performance management approach, within which States invest resources in projects that collectively will make progress toward national goals. Note: All of the Department’s performance management rulemakings will comply with the performance management provisions of the FAST Act.
This Concept of Operations (ConOps) document describes the operational characteristics of a Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Rail Crossing Violation Warning (RCVW) safety application. The development of this document was completed with an advisory team of United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) and Transport Canada representatives, as
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On December 4, 2015, the President signed into law the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114-94). Section 1303 of the FAST Act amended the Section 4(f) statute (at 23 U.S.C. § 138(e) and 49 U.S.C. § 303(g)) to exempt from Section 4(f) review common post-1945 concrete or steel bridges or culverts (as described in 77 Fed. Re
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2016-03-24
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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
2016-03-15
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23 U.S.C 150, requires States to establish safety performance targets, and 23 U.S.C 134 requires Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to also establish safety targets within 180 days of the State’s target. The Safety Performance Measures (PM) regulation under 23 CFR 490.209 allows MPOs, in setting targets, to either agree to plan and program
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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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BACKGROUND The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) is a core Federal-aid program. This program is codified at 23 U.S.C. 148 with implementing regulations at 23 CFR Part 924. To obligate HSIP funds, among other requirements, a State shall have in effect a State highway safety improvement program under which the State develops, implements, and
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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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On December 4, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is issuing this updated guidance to reflect FAST Act changes related to State safety data systems under the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP). This guidance clarifies (1) State safety
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The principal objective of this project, “Connected Vehicle Impacts on Transportation Planning,” is to comprehensively assess how connected vehicles should be considered across the range of transportation planning processes and products developed by states, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), and local agencies throughout the country. The p
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