United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2012-07-01
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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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The Long-Term Plan for Concrete Pavement Research and Technology (CP Road Map) is a holistic strategic plan forconcrete pavement research and technology transfer. The CP Road Map is a living plan that includes 12 distinct butintegrated research tracks leading to specific products and processes. The resulting improvements will help the concretepavem
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This document is intended to serve as guidelines for State highway agencies (SHAs) to survey and track transportation infrastructure affected by alkali-silica reactivity (ASR). The focus of the guidelines is to assist engineers, inspectors, and users in tracking and surveying ASR-induced expansion and cracking in bridges, pavements, and tunnels. Th
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The purpose of this effort was to conduct a border-wide assessment of the use of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies and operational concepts at and near land border crossings between the U.S. and Mexico. The work focused on tolling, traffic management and operations, and safety. The specific objectives of this project were to res
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Dynamic Mobility Applications Analytical Needs Assessment was a one-year project (July 2011 to July 2012) to develop a strategy for assessing the potential impact of twenty-eight applications for improved mobility across national transportation systems. The purpose was to outline a modeling approach for each application that can be implemented that
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This report is a policy analysis and set of recommendations regarding open data policies and policies for new, transformative data environments that are being developed as part of the Connected Vehicle research program. It is presented in three sections:• The first section examines the opportunities and issues associated with implementing an open d
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This TechBrief describes comparisons of field observations of the operations of an unsignalized restricted crossing U-turn (RCUT) intersection in Maryland with a roughly comparable conventional stop-controlled intersection on the same corridor. It also summarizes the results of several crash analysis approaches for intersections converted from conv
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The following report investigates the experiences of transportation agencies in the deployment of Internet-based mapping portals based on GIS. It presents background information, a series of case studies, and a summary of conclusions given the experiences of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Interactive Mapping Program; New York State DOT's Ove
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This report provides a summary and overview of the Public Workshop entitled, “Enabling a Secure Environment for Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Transactions”, presented by USDOT. The workshop took place on April 19-20, 2012 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, D.C. and was intended to bring together various public and private stake
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The tremendous growth in the amount of available weather and road condition information—including devicesthat gather weather information, models and forecasting tools for predicting weather conditions, and electronicdevices used by travelers—has led the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to develop effective and specificguidelines for communicat
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The objective of this study was to develop an approach for incorporating techniques to interpret and evaluate deflectiondata for network-level pavement management system (PMS) applications. The first part of this research focused onidentifying and evaluating existing techniques, seeking out those that were simple, reliable, and easy to incorporate
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The tremendous growth in the amount of available weather and road condition information—including devicesthat gather weather information, models and forecasting tools for predicting weather conditions, and electronicdevices used by travelers—has led the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to develop effective and specificguidelines for communicat
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It has been observed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Real Estate Services (HEPR) that there has been an emerging national trend for increasingly difficult and time consuming right-of-way (ROW) access agreements and acquisitions of smaller parcels from railroads. The frequent complaint is that railroads are slow to process req
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and state and local transportation agencies areworking hard to deliver projects more quickly and efficiently, and for less cost. Many statedepartments of transportation (DOT) and local transportation planning organizations havedeveloped innovative programs to help them achieve these goals. Several of these
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This report presents the Tolling Data Test Plan for the national evaluation of the Los Angeles (LA) Congestion Reduction Demonstration (Metro ExpressLanes) under the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Congestion Reduction Demonstration (CRD) Program. The Los Angeles CRD projects focus on reducing traffic congestion by employing s
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This Transportation Study Report reviewed the surrounding transportation network at the Felsenthal and Overflow National Wildlife Refuges and provides short-, medium-, and long-range recommendations for the improvements to the existing transportation system. The study included development of a public involvement plan, inventory of existing conditio
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The South Arkansas National Wildlife Refuges Complex consists of three National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) in southern Arkansas. The two Refuges studied in this report are the Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge and the Overflow National Wildlife Refuge. The Felsenthal and Overflow NWRs contain approximately 65,000 and 14,000 acres, respectively, of ma
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Transportation provides critical links and resources in connecting people with nature on all Service lands, specifically, at national wildlife refuges and national fish hatcheries. To this end, the Service seeks to optimize transportation funding decisions and leverage its transportation dollars wisely. For consistency with other long range transpo
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