United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act established the Advanced Transportation and Congestion Management Technologies Deployment Program to make competitive grants for the development of model deployment sites for large scale installation and operation of advanced transportation technologies to improve safety, efficiency, system performance, and infrastructure return on inv
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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The FAST Act builds on the authorities and requirements in SAFETEA-LU, MAP-21 and efforts under FHWA’s Every Day Counts in an effort to accelerate the environmental review process for surface transportation projects by institutionalizing best practices and expediting complex infrastructure projects without undermining critical environmental laws or
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Policy & Governmental Affairs
2016-02-01
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As under MAP-21, the FAST Act authorizes a single amount for each year for all the apportioned highway programs combined. That amount is apportioned among the States, and then each State’s apportionment is divided among the individual apportioned programs.
A long term (10 year) research roadmap is proposed to guide the development and potential deployment of Eco-Approach and Departure (Eco A/D) functionality at signalized intersections, with a focus on commercialization of initial system concepts in 5+ years. A review of Eco-Signal relevant research yielded a comprehensive set of key technical issues
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2016-01-28
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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. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2016-01-14
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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
2016-01-14
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This case study focuses on technology applications called Intelligent Work Zone (IWZ) systems that are deployed by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT). The IWZ deployments focus on expanding current traffic management and incident response technologies, and providing queue detection systems on freeways and divided highways.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-01-14
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This case study focuses on technology applications for work zone data collection by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT). Technology applications involve deployment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) for dynamic management of work zone traffic impacts to improve motorist and worker safety and mitigate work zone-related congesti
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The purpose of this memorandum is to share information regarding the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)/FHWA Joint Implementation Agreement for the AASHTO Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH). Recently, the agreement was successfully balloted by AASHTO's Standing Committee on Highways and approved by
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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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Through a combination of forward-thinking leadership, partnership with law enforcement, and technological advances, crash data in Michigan today is exchanged, accessed, and analyzed in hours and days rather than months or years. Local agencies in Michigan now have easy access to crash, roadway, and traffic data through an application called Roadsof
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United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
2016-01-01
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Connected vehicles are a next-generation technology in vehicles and in infrastructurethat will make travel safer, cleaner, and more efficient. The advanced wirelesstechnology enables vehicles to share and communicate information with each otherand their surroundings in real time, which will help to reduce crashes, congestion,and greenhouse gas emis
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This report is an independent assessment of three prototype Freight Advanced Traveler Information System (FRATIS) tests at Los Angeles,Dallas/Fort Worth, and South Florida. The FRATIS technologies deployed at one or two drayage companies in each test area included drayage truckfleet scheduling optimization, real-time information exchange with tradi
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This document serves as the Final Report specific to the Integrated Dynamic Transit Operations (IDTO) Prototype Development and Deployment Project, hereafter referred to as IDTO Prototype Deployment or IDTO PD project. This project was performed under contract to the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems (I
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United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
2016-01-01
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Connected vehicles communicate wirelessly with other vehicles and our roads,sharing important safety and mobility information and generating new data abouthow, when, and where vehicles travel. The unprecedented level of data generatedwill be the basis for a multitude of innovative applications that can help preventcrashes and save lives, improve mo
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FHWA’s Road Weather Management Program partnered with WYDOT to develop a new software application to improve the way maintenance personnel report road and weather conditions to their statewide Transportation Management Center (TMC), recommend variable speed limit (VSL) changes, and report a number of different traffic incidents including crashes an
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FHWA’s Road Weather Management Program partneredwith the South Dakota DOT to develop and implement aWeather Responsive Traffic Management (WRTM)strategy that involves mobile data collection and travelerinformation dissemination during weather events.
FHWA’s Road Weather Management Program partneredwith MDOT to develop a weather responsive travelerinformation system called Wx-TINFO. The system, shownbelow, integrates multiple weather data sources into oneprogram, enabling Transportation Operation Center(TOC) staff to provide near real-time weather-relatedadvisories and alerts for travelers, ther
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