United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2016-12-15
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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). Human Environment Digest: December 15, 2016. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55216
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty. Human Environment Digest: December 15, 2016. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55216.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty Human Environment Digest: December 15, 2016. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty, 2016, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/55216.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-12-12
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The National Park Service’s parkways epitomize the harmonious integration of highway engineering and landscape design.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration (2016). The National Parkways. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76597
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. The National Parkways. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76597.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration The National Parkways. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2016, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76597.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-12-12
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In 1976, FHWA published The Trailblazers, containing employee recollections of early work in the National Parks and National Forests. Following are excerpts.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration (2016). Working the Parks Recollections of the Early Days. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76598
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Working the Parks Recollections of the Early Days. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76598.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration Working the Parks Recollections of the Early Days. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2016, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76598.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-12-12
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On April 8, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, his wife Eleanor, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes, NPS Director Horace M Albright, and other officials took a road trip that brought them to Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. Invited to ride with President Roosevelt in his seven-passenger open touring car for this leg of the trip, Albright
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration (2016). FDR On Skyline Drive. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76596
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. FDR On Skyline Drive. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76596.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration FDR On Skyline Drive. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration, 2016, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/76596.
This report reviews and highlights key content and outcomes identified at the Mid-South Megaregion Workshop held on December 8, 2016 in Memphis Tennessee. Sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Planning, Environment, & Realty (HEP), the event examined shared regional issues of concern among transportation decision makers
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Davis, J., & Regan, T. (2016). FHWA mid-south megaregion workshop : Memphis, Tennessee; December 8th, 2016 (Report No. DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-17-14;FHWA-HEP-17-045). United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/34225
Davis, Jesse and Terry Regan. FHWA mid-south megaregion workshop : Memphis, Tennessee; December 8th, 2016. Report no. DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-17-14;FHWA-HEP-17-045. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/34225.
Davis, Jesse, and Terry Regan FHWA mid-south megaregion workshop : Memphis, Tennessee; December 8th, 2016. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, 2016, Report no. DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-17-14;FHWA-HEP-17-045, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/34225.
The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) has implemented an enterprise data governance approach for managing data collection, storage, distribution, and use throughout the organization. The Illinois Traffic Records Coordinating Committee (ITRCC) works to advance IDOT safety analysis activities, which includes identifying severe crash locati
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Hall, J. P. (2016). Roadway Safety Data Governance in Illinois: Roadway Safety Data and Analysis Case Study (Report No. FHWA-SA-16-108). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42844
Hall, James P.. Roadway Safety Data Governance in Illinois: Roadway Safety Data and Analysis Case Study. Report no. FHWA-SA-16-108. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42844.
Hall, James P. Roadway Safety Data Governance in Illinois: Roadway Safety Data and Analysis Case Study. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-16-108, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42844.
The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) led the effort to develop ALSAFE, a spreadsheet-based safety tool that can be used for short and long-range transportation safety planning. ALDOT developed ALSAFE to serve as a safety planning tool for Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs). The short-range planning process allows MPOs to develop
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Albee, M. (2016). Alabama’s Safety Planning Tools For MPOs: Roadway Safety Data And Analysis Case Study (Report No. FHWA-SA-17-015). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42849
Albee, Matt. Alabama’s Safety Planning Tools For MPOs: Roadway Safety Data And Analysis Case Study. Report no. FHWA-SA-17-015. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42849.
Albee, Matt Alabama’s Safety Planning Tools For MPOs: Roadway Safety Data And Analysis Case Study. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-17-015, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42849.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-12-01
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A Road Diet is generally described as removing or narrowing vehicle lanes from a roadway and reallocating the extra space for other uses or travel modes, such as parking, sidewalks, bicycle lanes, transit use, turn lanes, medians, or pedestrian refuge islands. Road Diets are a highly effective and relatively inexpensive safety countermeasure that h
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety (2016). Road Diet: Systemically Identifying Candidate Road Diet Locations (Report No. FHWA-SA-17-018). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50486
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. Road Diet: Systemically Identifying Candidate Road Diet Locations. Report no. FHWA-SA-17-018. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50486.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Road Diet: Systemically Identifying Candidate Road Diet Locations. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-17-018, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50486.
The production use of precast concrete pavement (PCP) has come a long way over the last 15 years. The technology is gaining wider acceptance in the U.S. for rapid repair and rehabilitation of concrete pavements as well as for heavily trafficked asphalt concrete pavements and intersections. Several U.S. highway agencies have implemented the PCP tech
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Tayabji, S. D. (2016). FHWA Project R05 IAP Funded Project Case Study: New Britain Bus Pads Precast Concrete Pavement Demonstration Project (Report No. FHWA-HIF-17-015). United States. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38478
Tayabji, Shiraz D.. FHWA Project R05 IAP Funded Project Case Study: New Britain Bus Pads Precast Concrete Pavement Demonstration Project. Report no. FHWA-HIF-17-015. United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38478.
Tayabji, Shiraz D. FHWA Project R05 IAP Funded Project Case Study: New Britain Bus Pads Precast Concrete Pavement Demonstration Project. United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2016, Report no. FHWA-HIF-17-015, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/38478.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management, Pavements and Construction
2016-12-01
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Congress established the Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Pavement Technologies (AID-PT) program in 2012 under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). In 2015, Congress continued the program in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, with funding available through fiscal year 2020. The program’s p
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management, Pavements and Construction (2016). Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Pavement Technologies: Annual Report (Report No. FHWA-HIF-16-031). United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management, Pavements, and Construction. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42718
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management, Pavements and Construction. Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Pavement Technologies: Annual Report. Report no. FHWA-HIF-16-031. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management, Pavements, and Construction, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42718.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management, Pavements and Construction Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Pavement Technologies: Annual Report. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Asset Management, Pavements, and Construction, 2016, Report no. FHWA-HIF-16-031, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42718.
This report focuses on a review of issues related to nighttime visibility and assessment of how the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety’s three safety program areas—roadway departure safety, intersection safety, and pedestrian and bicycle safety—address concerns for nighttime visibility, as well as a review of fatality data and a
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Terry, T. N., Brimley, B. K., Gibbons, R. B., & Carlson, P. J. (2016). Roadway Visibility Research Needs Assessment (Report No. FHWA-SA-17-031). United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Research and Development. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42850
Terry, Travis N., Bradford K. Brimley, Ronald B. Gibbons, and Paul J. Carlson. Roadway Visibility Research Needs Assessment. Report no. FHWA-SA-17-031. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Research and Development, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42850.
Terry, Travis N., et al. Roadway Visibility Research Needs Assessment. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Research and Development, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-17-031, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/42850.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-12-01
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A typical Road Diet converts two-way, four-lane roads to two travel-lanes with a center two-way left-turn lane (TWLTL). Although studies have shown that this conversion can reduce motor-vehicle crashes by 19 to 47 percent,1 emergency response personnel sometimes express concern that reducing the number of through lanes could increase emergency resp
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety (2016). Road Diet: Road Diets and Emergency Response: Friends, Not Foes (Report No. FHWA-SA-17-020). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50488
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. Road Diet: Road Diets and Emergency Response: Friends, Not Foes. Report no. FHWA-SA-17-020. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50488.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Road Diet: Road Diets and Emergency Response: Friends, Not Foes. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-17-020, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50488.
Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) have experienced significant growth since their initial inception in the 1990s. Technologies have continued to evolve at a rapid pace, enabling the integration of advanced solutions for traveler information purposes. As a result of the rapid evolution of technologies and tools available, the Federal High
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Waisley, M., Boyapati, R. K., Toth, C., Brydia, R., & Miller, B. (2016). A next generation advanced traveler information precursor system (ATIS 2.0 precursor system) system requirements (Report No. FHWA-JPO-17-590). United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32413
Waisley, Michael, Rama Krishna Boyapati, Chris Toth, Robert Brydia, and Bryan Miller. A next generation advanced traveler information precursor system (ATIS 2.0 precursor system) system requirements. Report no. FHWA-JPO-17-590. United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32413.
Waisley, Michael, et al. A next generation advanced traveler information precursor system (ATIS 2.0 precursor system) system requirements. United States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, 2016, Report no. FHWA-JPO-17-590, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32413.
This report summarizes the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)’s one-year Bicycle-Pedestrian Count Technology Pilot Project. The purpose ofthe pilot project was to increase the organizational and technical capacity of Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to establish and operateeffective bicycle and pedestrian count programs, and to provide
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Baas, J., Galton, R., & Biton, A. (2016). FHWA bicycle-pedestrian count technology pilot project : summary report (Report No. DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-17-02;FHWA-HEP-17-012). United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12416
Baas, Jessica, Rachel Galton, and Anna Biton. FHWA bicycle-pedestrian count technology pilot project : summary report. Report no. DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-17-02;FHWA-HEP-17-012. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12416.
Baas, Jessica, et al. FHWA bicycle-pedestrian count technology pilot project : summary report. United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, 2016, Report no. DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-17-02;FHWA-HEP-17-012, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12416.
This summary report focuses on some of the key findings that resulted from the investigation of the deck of the bridge selected for participation in the Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program pilot study located in New Jersey (“New Jersey pilot bridge”). Constructed and opened to traffic in 1969, the bridge has a multigirder steel superstructu
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Rodriguez-Otero, Y. (2016). FHWA LTBP Pilot Study Summary: Findings From the New Jersey Bridge Deck (Report No. FHWA-HRT-16-070;HRDI-50/12-16). United States. Federal Highway Administration. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39578
Rodriguez-Otero, Yamyra. FHWA LTBP Pilot Study Summary: Findings From the New Jersey Bridge Deck. Report no. FHWA-HRT-16-070;HRDI-50/12-16. United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39578.
Rodriguez-Otero, Yamyra FHWA LTBP Pilot Study Summary: Findings From the New Jersey Bridge Deck. United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2016, Report no. FHWA-HRT-16-070;HRDI-50/12-16, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/39578.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-12-01
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A Road Diet repositions pavement markings to better meet the needs of all road users. A classic Road Diet converts a four-lane undivided roadway to a three-lane roadway, but there are many other reconfigurations being used by States and locals. For example, a Road Diet could convert the roadway space from five to three lanes, two to three lanes, or
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety (2016). Road Diet: Road Diet FAQ (Report No. FHWA-SA-17-021). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50489
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. Road Diet: Road Diet FAQ. Report no. FHWA-SA-17-021. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50489.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Road Diet: Road Diet FAQ. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-17-021, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50489.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2016-12-01
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Safety Compass newsletter aims to increase highway safety awareness and to provide resources to the highway safety community to help save lives. The newsletter is published three times a year, and includes articles on safety-focused offerings from FHWA, other DOT modes; our State, Local, and Tribal partne
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety (2016). Safety Compass Newsletter - Winter 2017: Volume 11 Issue 1. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/44189
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. Safety Compass Newsletter - Winter 2017: Volume 11 Issue 1. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/44189.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Safety Compass Newsletter - Winter 2017: Volume 11 Issue 1. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/44189.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
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Every day, children and their parents walk or ride their bicycles to school. However, busy roads can mean the difference between being able to walk or ride a bike to school or needing to ride in a car. Children face unique limitations when crossing roads. Because of their small body size and developing minds, they often have difficulty detecting an
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety (2016). Road Diet: Building Safer Routes to School (Report No. FHWA-SA-17-026). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50492
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. Road Diet: Building Safer Routes to School. Report no. FHWA-SA-17-026. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50492.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety Road Diet: Building Safer Routes to School. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-17-026, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50492.
Congestion pricing works by shifting some rush hour highway travel to other transportation modes or to off-peak periods. By removing a fraction (even as small as 5 percent) of the vehicles from a congested roadway, pricing enables the system to flow much more efficiently, allowing more vehicles to move through the same physical space.1Although driv
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Supporting Files
Federal Highway Administration (U.S.) (2016). Report on the Value Pricing Pilot Program Through April 2016. Federal Highway Administration (U.S.). https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/53667
Federal Highway Administration (U.S.). Report on the Value Pricing Pilot Program Through April 2016. Federal Highway Administration (U.S.), 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/53667.
Federal Highway Administration (U.S.) Report on the Value Pricing Pilot Program Through April 2016. Federal Highway Administration (U.S.), 2016, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/53667.
The Roadway Data Extraction Technical Assistance Program (RDETAP) assists state and local agencies with the expansion and enhancement of roadway data inventories with regard to the Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) and other roadway data elements. The RDETAP developed a management information system called the Roadway Data Extraction (RDE)
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Kraus, E., Le, J., & Sharma, S. (2016). Roadway Data Extraction Tool Implementation and Programming Guide (Report No. FHWA-SA-17-028). United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/49560
Kraus, Edgar, Jerry Le, and Sushant Sharma. Roadway Data Extraction Tool Implementation and Programming Guide. Report no. FHWA-SA-17-028. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/49560.
Kraus, Edgar, et al. Roadway Data Extraction Tool Implementation and Programming Guide. United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety, 2016, Report no. FHWA-SA-17-028, ROSA P. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/49560.
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