United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Corporate Research, Technology, and Innovation Management
2012-03-01
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Focus (ISSN 1060-6637), which is published monthly by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), covers the implementation of innovative technologies in all areas of infrastructure. Its primary mission is twofold: (1) to serve the providers of highway infrastructure with innovations and support to improve the qua
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2012-03-01
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The FHWA Office of Planning and the Federal Transit Authority’s (FTA) Office of Planning and Environment regularly publishes the Transportation Planning Update Newsletter which highlights important transportation planning activities occurring within both agencies and with our stakeholders and partners. The newsletter assists FHWA and FTA planning s
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In January 2012, Rhode Island kicked off its Strategic Highway Safety Plan(SHSP) update with a leadership committee meeting where key safetystakeholders presented an overview of Rhode Island’s accomplishments sinceinitial SHSP approval in 2007. Meeting participants also discussed the SHSPupdate process and approaches for tracking the Plan’s progres
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2012-03-01
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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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The FHWA has been leading a national effort to advance the Intelligent Compaction (IC) technology through a transportation pooled funded project, TPF-5(128), with twelve (12) States (DTFH61-07-C-00032) since 2008. Under this project, the Transtec Group has conducted seventeen (17) field IC demonstrations successfully to address material types that
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Through the USDOT Dynamic Mobility Applications (DMA) program, a number of high-priority mobility applications have been assessed and identified that can connect vehicles, travelers, and infrastructure in order to provide better information to travelers and increase individual mobility. This document concerns one such bundle of DMA applications, ca
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Currently, strategies are being examined with regard to their potential for mitigating the negativeimpacts of the surface transportation sector on the environment. The focus of this study is toevaluate an ITS (intelligent transportation systems)-based strategy that involves providing routeguidance to travelers. The objective of this route guidance
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2012-03-01
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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.
The GIS in Transportation team publishes quarterly newsletters to share information about significant geospatial transportation news, events, and applications. Each issue highlights a specific transportation agency's application of GIS or geospatial data and technology.
Connected Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) safety applications heavily rely on the BSM, which is one of the messages defined in the Society of Automotive standard J2735, Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) Message Set Dictionary, November 2009. The BSM is broadcast from vehicles over the 5.9 GHz DSRC band. Transmission range is on the order of 1,00
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This implementation guide is intended for use by adopters of integrated corridor management (ICM) approaches and strategies to address congestion and travel time reliability issues within specific travel corridors. It introduces the topic of ICM and identifies the type of information system, the integrated corridor management system (ICMS) that is
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This document contains recommendations for best practices related to the use of air-cooled blast furnace slag (ACBFS) as coarse aggregate in concrete pavements. It is primarily based on the results of a review of available literature regarding the production and use of ACBFS as coarse aggregate in concrete pavements, information provided through in
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This executive summary documents the analysis methodologies, tools, and performance measures used toanalyze Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) strategies; and presents high-level results for the successfulimplementation of ICM at three Stage 2 Pioneer Sites, including 1) the U.S. 75 corridor in Dallas, Texas; 2)the I-15 corridor in San Diego, Cal
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These Design Guidelines have been developed to promote a uniform understanding of the state of practice in designing Arch, Cable-Stayed and Suspension Bridges. The provisions have been developed and formatted to supplement the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications. The guidelines are, thus, presented in specifications-like language with supporti
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The prospect of global warming and increased climate variability has become a major policy issue during the last decade. Since transportation is a major—and growing—contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, transportation agencies will increasingly seek ways to address it by developing ways to mitigate GHG emissions. This will be especially ch
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2012-02-01
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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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In the 1950’s the Smith River Camp was one of the largest Pacific Northwest construction camps being used by the Bureau of Public Roads. It served as headquarters for several projects, housed survey, construction, and maintenance crews, and was often home to contractors as well.
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. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2012-02-01
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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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