United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2015-11-01
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FHWA R&T Now
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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.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2015-11-01
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Innovator, published by the FHWA Center for Accelerating Innovation, advances implementation of innovative technologies and processes in the highway industry. Its audience is transportation professionals in highway agencies, trade and research groups, academia and the private sector, and the driving public.
Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) bimonthly newsletter highlighting current best practices in stewardship and environmental review from around the country.
Collecting water quality data on streams located near highways can be challenging in remote and difficult-to-reach locations. Obtaining and transporting water samples is time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes dangerous. Another key challenge is that transportation agencies can miss the release of toxins and pollutants that occur in a short time p
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How does hydration affect the performance of concrete, including its setting, strength, and durability? Can advanced hydration models be developed that will allow practitioners to input the composition of cement, supplementary cementitious materials, and admixtures, combined with temperature, and receive guidance on a pavement’s expected performanc
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The overall goal of the Information as a Source of Distraction project was to further the scientific basis for decisions about the types of information that can be displayed within the right-of-way without adversely affecting drivers’ attention to their primary task—safe driving. There were two focus areas: electronic changeable message highway sig
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This report is part of the Human Factors for Connected Vehicles (HFCV) research program, whose goal is to minimize driver workload by eliminating connected vehicle (CV) device-related distractions. The research described in this document is part of an effort to develop initial design guidance for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) safety messages prov
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2015-11-01
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2015-11-01
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This case study demonstrates how UDOT excels in leveraging technology for safety data management and linking safety data to planning, performance measures, and target processes.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2015-11-01
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The purpose of this case study is to summarize how the MDOT incorporates a data governance structure into their standard business operations and how it has helped them to improve their safety data systems and processes.
This document, the Bridge Inspector’s Reference Manual (BIRM), is a comprehensive manual on programs, procedures, and techniques for inspecting and evaluating a variety of in-service highway bridges. It is intended to replace the BITM 90 which was first published in 1991 to assist in training highway personnel for the new discipline of bridge safet
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2015-10-28
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This case study focuses on technology applications for the Callahan Tunnel Rehabilitation Project deployed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Technology applications involve deployment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) for dynamic management of work zone traffic impacts to improve motorist and worker safety and m
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2015-10-22
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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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This document describes the Concept of Operations (ConOps) for the Unified Implementation of the Reference Architecture, located in Southeast Michigan, which supports connected vehicle research and development. This ConOps describes the current state of operations, establishes the reasons for change, and defines these operations in terms of the maj
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2015-10-19
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One of the major challenges transportation agencies face when trying to address intersection safety is not having a sufficient intersection inventory that provides location, operations, or geometrics of the intersections. In 2010, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released the Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE), which is a recommend
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2015-10-08
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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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Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Road Weather Management Program (RWMP) strives to promote the development and implementation of cutting-edge techniques for maintaining safety, mobility, and productivity of roadways during adverse weather conditions. A particular Weather Responsive Traffic Management (WRTM) strategy developed and described i
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2015-10-01
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Pulling together the Nation’s transportation agencies was not a new idea, but it took a determined President and a supportive Congress to make it happen in 1966.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) commissioned this report to explore and document the benefits stemming from the incorporation of Planning and Environmental Linkage (PEL) strategies into State, regional, and local planning and project development processes. This report includes five case studies from across the country that detail five dif
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