United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research and Development
2015-03-01
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In support of the evaluation of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) program, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Operations Research and Development (R&D) oversees the prototype deployment and impacts assessment of the Multimodal Intelligent Traffic Signal Systems (MMITSS). MMITSS is a
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The Federal Highway Administration's HIgh PERformance PAVing (HIPERPAV®) software program has been upgraded to include the following new features in its latest version, HIPERPAV III®, version 3.3:The coarse aggregate input now includes an option for use of blast furnace slag aggregate.The user has the ability to download forecasted weather data fro
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The research conducted for this gap analysis determined that there is no one-size-fits-all TIM program. As a result the recommendations contained within this document should be tailored towards the needs of the area in which the TIM program will be implemented. Not only should the needs of that area be considered but the capabilities and available
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2015-03-01
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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 Research, Development, and Technology
2015-03-01
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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.
This report documents the results of the second round of EDC, which involved implementing 13 innovative technologies and practices during 2013 and 2014.
Every Day Counts is the Federal Highway Administration’s initiative to advance a culture of innovation in the transportation community in partnership with stakeholders in the public and private sectors. Through this collaborative, state-based effort, FHWA coordinates rapid deployment of proven, market-ready strategies and technologies to shorten th
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Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) bimonthly newsletter highlighting current best practices in stewardship and environmental review from around the country.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2015-03-01
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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.
The dynamic load response (DLR) Study Team reinterpreted 4,290 Ohio Specific Pavement Studies (SPS)-1 (asphalt concrete pavements) raw traces and 9,240 Ohio SPS-2 (portland cement concrete pavements) raw traces, correcting the data issues identified by Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) data analysis/operations feedback reports and the technical
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Real-time assessment of road surface conditions can be used to provide valuable safety information to travelers when roads are slippery (e.g.,contaminated roads, heavy rain, black ice, etc.). Identification of these hazardous surface conditions using onboard vehicle sensors will warn drivers toproceed with caution on compromised road sections, thus
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The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) hosted a peer exchange March 4 and 5, 2015, in Carson City,NV, with support from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety. In addition to FHWA andNDOT staff, representatives from the following agencies attended the event:• Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT)• Utah Department o
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) hosted a Crash Modification Factor (CMF) Stakeholder Meeting to provide a forum for CMF stakeholders to communicate ongoing efforts and identify opportunities for future collaboration. CMF stakeholders represent two primary groups: the CMF user community (transportation agencies and practitioners) and the C
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A central issue in making simulators useful for highway and traffic engineers concerns how well driver behavior in the simulator corresponds to driver behavior in the real world. Simulator fidelity plays a central role in matching behavior in the simulator to behavior on the road. Simulator fidelity often refers to the features and appearance of th
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The purpose of this TechBrief is to summarize a comprehensive investigation of current construction QA practices from both SHA and LPA perspectives undertaken in 2012 and to present recommendations from this analysis. The review included a content analysis of current SHA and LPA QA procedures, a national SHA/LPA survey of construction QA practices,
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2015-03-01
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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
2015-03-01
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A Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) is a statewide-coordinated safety plan that provides a comprehensive framework for reducing highway fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads. An SHSP is developed in a cooperative process with State, Federal, local, Tribal, and other public- and private-sector safety stakeholders. It is a data-drive
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2015-03-01
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Strategic Highway Safety Plans (SHSP) are a true success story. Since these plans were first required by legislation in 2005, traffic fatalities have dramatically declined. In fact, over the past 10 years there has been a reduction of nearly 25 percent in the number of fatalities on our Nation’s roadways.1 One of the key reasons SHSPs succeed is ef
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2015-03-01
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Urban Congestion Report (UCR)
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The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a quarterly basis and characterizes the most recent traffic congestion and reliability trends at the national and city level. Each quarterly UCR compares data from the most recent three months to the same three months in the previous year.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Western Federal Lands Highway Division
2015-03-01
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This book was developed to be used as a tool for Western Federal Lands Highway Division staff, our partnering agencies, and the contractors we work with. The Construction Paynote Examples book gives examples of how a contractor should submit a request for payment (paynote), and what documentation is required to support their request. Section 109 Me
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