United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2016-03-01
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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.
This document is a technical summary of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) report, Pavement Structural Evaluation at the Network Level (FHWA-HRT-15-074). It addresses the use of traffic speed deflection devices for the structural evaluation of pavements at the network level. Highlights from three major efforts—gathering information to identi
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Exploratory Advanced Research Program
2016-03-01
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This project is the first demonstration of an affordable, accessible remote camera system that continuously streams data through structured Web systems that State agencies can use to study wildlife movement around transportation corridors. At present, remote wildlife camera systems (known as camera traps) are typically checked manually by transport
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This report summarizes noteworthy practices shared during a scenario planning workshop, hosted by the Gulf Regional Planning Commission, on March 15-16, 2016, in Biloxi, Mississippi. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored this event as part of its Scenario Planning Program and in connection with the Transportation Planning Capacity Bui
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-03-01
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A common misconception is that reducing the number of through lanes by installing a Road Diet will cause traffic to become more congested. However, when applied correctly in the right locations, Road Diets can maintain a roadway’s effective capacity. Several scenarios provided below bust this myth.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2016-03-01
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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
2016-03-01
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A Road Diet repositions pavement lines in order to improve safety for all users and add space for other travel modes. Narrowing lanes (Figure 1) or removing a lane (Figure 2) opens up space for other uses, including: Center two-way left-turn lanes (TWLTL), Alternate modes of transportation (e.g., bicycle lanes, transit lanes, and bus turnouts), On-
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-03-01
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Road Diets are an innovative roadway reconfiguration that improves safety, increases livability, and can advance the area’s economic growth. Even after hundreds of successfully implemented Road Diets across the country, many misconceptions still arise. This flyer debunks some of the most common Road Diet myths.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-03-01
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The FAST Act continued the CMAQ program to provide a flexible funding source to State and local governments for transportation projects and programs to help meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. Funding is available to reduce congestion and improve air quality for areas that do not meet the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone, ca
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Exploratory Advanced Research Program
2016-03-01
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Identification of published literature between 1995 and 2013, focusing on determining the quantity and quality of visual information needed under both driving modes (i.e., human and autonomous) to navigate the road safely, especially as it pertains to two-lane, curved, rural roads at night.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2016-03-01
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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.
On December 4, 2015, the President signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act into law (Pub. L. No. 114-94), which reauthorizes Federal surface transportation programs for five fiscal years (FYs 2016-2020). Among the FAST Act provisions which support goods movement and the U.S. economy is a new formula program for freight project
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This report describes the work conducted in Task 10 of the V2I Safety Applications Development Project. The work was performed by the University ofMichigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) under contract to the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partners LLC (CAMP) Vehicle to Infrastructure(V2I) Consortium. Participating companies in the V2I Consorti
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2016-02-25
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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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The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act) implementation will be similar to MAP-21 implementation in terms of applying the policy regarding treatment of carryover funds for continued, consolidated, and discontinued programs. The attached table summarizes the treatment of carryover funding for many pre-FAST Act programs.
Professional development and training are essential to the incorporation of connected/automated vehicles (C/AV) into thetransportation planning process. In order to guarantee a successful deployment, transportation planning agencies and theirstakeholders must understand these technologies well enough to support both planning and operations function
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) organized 40 States to participate in the FHWA Evaluation of LowCost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study (ELCSI-PFS) as part of its strategic highway safety plan support effort. The goal of the ELCSI-PFS research is to identify new safety strategies that effectively reduce crashes and promote them for nat
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This report synthesizes the current service limit state (SLS) design and analyses of engineered fills for bridge support used as shallow foundations. The SLS for settlement and deformations of bridge supports are summarized. Extensive literature reviews were conducted to synthesize the effects of various parameters on the SLS of engineered fills. T
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This document describes the Concept of Operations (ConOps) for the Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority (THEA)Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Deployment. This ConOps describes the current state of operations, establishes the reasons forchange, and defines operations for the future in terms of functions/features and supporting operations. This docum
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Exploratory Advanced Research Program
2016-02-01
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Using a combination of sensors and vehicle-to-vehicle communication, cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) takes cruise control to the next level, enabling vehicles to adjust their speed to the preceding vehicle in their lane. The CACC system can also respond more quickly to speed changes by the preceding vehicle and other vehicles farther ahe
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