United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2016-01-01
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Integration of NEPA and permitting processes enables concurrent, synchronized environmental and permitting reviews that save time and cost for the agencies involved.
The Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program is the world’s largest pavement performance monitoring study, collecting data at 2,514 in-service highway test sections throughout the United States and Canada. The primary goal is to understand how and why pavements perform as they do so that State and local highway agencies can make informed decis
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The U.S. has built one of the world’s greatest transportation systems. With more than 600,000 bridges and 8.5 million lane miles, the system is large, complex, and aging.U.S. transportation agencies are challenged to make the system more efficient using existing infrastructure and funding resources, while improving travel times and safety.The goal
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This report summarizes noteworthy practices and key recommendations shared during a scenario planning workshop, hosted by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council, on July 14-15, 2015, in New York, New York. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sponsored this event as part of its Scenario Planning Program and in connection with the Tra
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The Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program is a long-term research effort to collect scientific performance data from a representative sample of bridges in the United States. Data will be collected for in-service bridges using a variety of techniques. These data will be supplemented with legacy data from design plans, design and construction s
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The purpose of this state-of-the-practice review is to identify the current use of data by metropolitan planning organizations to perform planning for operations activities. This information will be used to develop the virtual data access framework and to help establish requirements for the data that should be accessible by planning agencies via th
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Connected vehicles have the potential to transform the way Americans travel byallowing cars, buses, trucks, trains, traffic signals, smart phones, and other devices tocommunicate through a safe, interoperable wireless network. A connected vehiclesystem benefits all travelers, including pedestrians.Several intelligent transportation systems (ITS) st
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2016-01-01
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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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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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FHWA created the Low-Cost Treatments for Horizontal Curve Safety in 2006 (McGee and Hanscom, 2006). There have been many advances in highway safety since that initial 2006 guide. The purpose of this publication is to serve as an update to the 2006 Low-Cost Treatments for Horizontal Curve Safety. The primary audience for this publication is local tr
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-01-01
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The NDE Web Manual is an interactive Web resource that provides concise information about common NDE technologies and assessment tools. NDE can be used to locate, identify, and measure flaws, deterioration, or damage in bridge components that generally cannot be seen during visual inspection. While several independent product Web sites and generic
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2016-01-01
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Each year, hundreds of people visit TFHRC and participate in scheduled group tours of our laboratories. Whether you visit us in person or via the Internet, you will see FHWA’s commitment to an exciting, vital research and service program that is innovative and indispensable to America’s growing transportation needs.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), the Road Bureau of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan, and the European Union’s European Commission Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (DG CONNECT) have a long history of sharing information on ITS (Intelligent Transporta
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To better understand the different ways in which communities are improving their pedestrian and bicycle networks, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Division Offices gathered and compiled examples of pedestrian and bicycle network improvement projects initiated by state departments of transportation (DOTs), metropolitan planning organizations (M
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The LTPP program was initiated in 1987 to satisfy a wide range of pavement information needs. Over the years, the program has accumulated a vast repository of research quality data, extensive documentation, and related tools, which compose LTPP’s comprehensive IMS. The LTPP IMS is comprised of two major components, the Pavement Performance Database
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2015-12-17
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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
2015-12-03
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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 Eco-Logical approach offers an ecosystem-based framework for integrated infrastructure and natural resource planning, project development, and delivery. The 2014/2015 Implementing Eco-Logical Program Annual Report provides updates on the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Eco-Logical Program, in particular the Implementing Eco-Logical init
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The goal of this document is to make licensing requirements transparent and best practices accessible to anyorganization, public or private, seeking to deploy “Connected Vehicle” Dedicated Short Range Communications(DSRC) Roadside Units (RSU) and services that support vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) applications.
Deflection data have been measured at periodic intervals with a falling weight deflectometer on all rigid, flexible, semirigid, and rehabilitated pavement test sections included in the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program. A common use of deflection data is to backcalculate in-place layered elastic modulus values. The Federal Highway Admin
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