The FHWA Travel Monitoring Analysis System (TMAS) volume data were utilized from 418 sites/years in the United States where data were available for all 24 hours of every day of the year. These sites collectively represented a wide range of AADT volumes, 9 functional classes, 35 states, and years 2000 through 2012. The TMAS hourly data were converte
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act continues the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) Program, which provides Federal credit assistance to eligible surface transportation projects, including highway, transit, intercity passenger rail, some types of freight rail, intermodal freight transfer facilities, and some modifications inside a port term
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act converts the long-standing Surface Transportation Program into the Surface Transportation Block Grant Program acknowledging that this program has the most flexible eligibilities among all Federal-aid highway programs and aligning the program’s name with how FHWA has historically administered it. [FAST Act § 1109(a)]. The STBG promotes
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act established the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives Program to provide grants to States or groups of States to demonstrate user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. The objectives of the program are: to test the design, accept
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act eliminates the MAP-21 Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) and replaces it with a set-aside of Surface Transportation Block Grant (STBG) program funding for transportation alternatives (TA). These set-aside funds include all projects and activities that were previously eligible under TAP, encompassing a variety of smaller-scale tr
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act continues the Technology and Innovation Deployment Program, funding efforts to accelerate the implementation and delivery of new innovations and technologies that result from highway research and development to benefit all aspects of highway transportation.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act continues the Tribal Transportation Program (TTP), which provides access to basic community services to enhance the quality of life in Indian country.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2016-02-01
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-02-01
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This information brief is a continuation of the FHWA Office of Operations Transportation Systems Management and Operations Benefit-Cost Analysis technical briefing series. Earlier briefs were published in 2012 and are available online at: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/plan4ops/resources/brochures.htm.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-02-01
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This information brief is a continuation of the FHWA Office of Operations Transportation Systems Management and Operations Benefit-Cost Analysis technical briefing series. Earlier briefs were published in 2012 and are available online at: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/plan4ops/resources/brochures.htm.
To explore how State DOTs are developing programs around transportation performance management (TPM), particularly as they prepare for requirements introduced by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) legislation, FHWA and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Volpe National Transportation Systems Center interviewed four S
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The purpose of this tech brief is to describe common supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), highlight their benefits and drawbacks when used in concrete for highway applications, and discuss recent trends that may affect the use of SCMs during the foreseeable future.
This case study highlights LiDAR technology as a surveying tool to support current transportation agency business applications and the true value of combining 3D survey data from multiple sources, such as traditional surveying equipment (i.e., robotic total stations, Global Navigation Satellite Systems or GNSS, photogrammetry, and LiDAR sensors) by
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Part-time shoulder use is the conversion of shoulders to travel lanes during some hours of day as a congestion relief strategy. This strategy is also known as temporary shoulder use or hard shoulder running, and is typically implemented on freeways. Part-time shoulder use is a transportation system management and operations (TSM&O) strategy that us
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On January 20-21, 2016, the U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee for Transportation Planning (JWC), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT) sponsored a workshop on Border Infrastructure Finance. The workshop was hosted at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District
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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. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-02-01
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The objective of this case study is to illustrate how Iowa has successfully used GIS to implement a snowplow project that provides real-time weather/road information and creates a database of consistent information.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-02-01
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Undivided roadways often experience a large number of crashes–especially between high-speed through traffic, left-turning vehicles, and other road users. One treatment for addressing this safety concern is a Road Diet, which typically involves removing or narrowing motor vehicle lanes and utilizing the space for other uses, including but not limite
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