United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2015-11-05
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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
2015-11-02
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This pamphlet showcases different bank stabilization solutions, including riprap, stream barbs, stream groins, roughened rock toe, log crib wall, and engineered log jam with Dolosse.
This report captures the production process and programs and steps used to produce the finance tables and charts published in the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Highway Statistics Series publication site made available to Congress and the public. Specific to States income and revenue, this report characterizes the automated online system
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Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Road Weather Management Program (RWMP) strives to promote thedevelopment and implementation of cutting-edge techniques for maintaining safety, mobility, and productivity of roadwaysduring adverse weather conditions. The FHWA RWMP partnered with the South Dakota DOT to develop and implement aWeather Responsive
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This document serves as a user’s manual for the Traffic Incident Management Benefit-Cost Tool (TIM-BC) Version 2.0, which is used to assist State and local engineers and decisionmakers with evaluating and comparing a variety of traffic incident management programs. The document describes how to use the tool by providing detailed instructions and sc
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Federal transportation regulations and law direct State and local transportation agencies to account for economic development plans in transportation planning processes. While Federal law is not prescriptive about how State and local agencies account for economic development, there exists a need for better understanding of how highway projects can
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations Research and Development
2015-11-01
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The research team at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) developed a Web-based Traffic Incident Management Benefit-Cost (TIM-BC) tool with standardized methodology that can be universally employed in benefit-cost ratio estimation for different TIM programs. The TIM-BC tool can estimate travel delay, fuel consumption, emissions, and seco
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Implementing safety countermeasures on rural horizontal curves to address speeding can improve the safety performance for those locations. State safety and traffic engineers are faced with making decisions on what type of technology to use and which sites to use the technology on in a fiscally constrained environment. The research conducted for thi
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Implementing safety countermeasures on rural horizontal curves to address speeding can improve the safety performance for those locations. State safety and traffic engineers are faced with making decisions on what type of technology to use and which sites to use the technology on in a fiscally constrained environment. The research conducted for thi
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2015-11-01
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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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This report examines the feasibility and reasonableness factors in the FHWA noise regulation (23 CFR 772) as implemented in the individual state highway agency noise policies. The first part of the report studies these factors: • Feasibility: noise reduction and quantity of impacted receptors achieving that reduction • Reasonableness: benefited noi
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The use of both jointed PCP and post-tensioned PCP systems has advanced during the last decade due to a combination of work sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), projects constructed by highway agencies, and innovations by the highway agencies and the construction industry. One area of innovation relates to improvements in the bed
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This guidebook provides State departments of transportation (DOT) and metropolitan planning organization (MPO) planners with a framework for navigating the fundamentals and advanced methods of safety data collection and analysis. It also demonstrates how the results of that analysis can be applied to the performance-based transportation planning pr
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This synthesis report summarizes noteworthy practices and lessons learned from pertinent local road safety meetings and reports. Material is drawn from the Local Roads Safety Peer Exchanges held by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in 2012 and 2013, follow-up virtual peer exchanges conducted in 2014 and 2015, and two reports prepared from 2
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Traffic Signal Management Plan – Guidance Document is intended to provide planning guidance for professionals involved in the management, maintenance, design, and operations of traffic signal systems.
This guide provides information and resources to help transportation management, operations, and maintenance staff incorporate climate change into their planning and ongoing activities. It is intended for practitioners involved in the day-to-day management, operations, and maintenance of surface transportation systems at State and local agencies. T
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The ability of transportation agencies' to effectively manage, operate, and maintain a safe, reliable transportation system is being threatened by a changing climate. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, and long-term climatological trends are slowly but inexorably changing how transportation systems
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The ability of transportation agencies' to effectively manage, operate, and maintain a safe, reliable transportation system is being threatened by a changing climate. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, and long-term climatological trends are slowly but inexorably changing how transportation systems
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2015-11-01
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Federal Highway Administration's FHWA R&T Now is a newsletter containing information and updates about research, technology, and development from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. The newsletter is an electronic newsletter and is updated approximately every other month.
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