The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) seeks to understand whether user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user fee structure can help maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund and whether they can be implemented nationally at some time in the future. This report presents independent evaluation results of the Eas
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This project developed a handbook and supporting materials for working with travel time data in the development of travel time reliability performance assessment and reporting. The intent of the handbook is twofold: to provide practitioners with the ability to understand the differences in reliability measures derived from the different data source
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2023-07-01
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Over the past decade, travel time reliability has emerged as a key concept for assessing and managing the performance of the transportation system. Simply put, travel time reliability describes how personal mobility changes from day-to-day for trips made at the same time. Savvy commuters understand that travel times for their work trips, which tend
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-07-01
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This document provides an overview of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Federal-aid Division State Planning and Research Subpart B (SPR-B) Program. State planning and research (SPR) funds establish a comprehensive framework for making transportation investment decisions and carrying out transportation research activities throughout a State.
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Bridges and Structures
2023-07-01
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Benefit-cost analysis for bridge preservation, rehabilitation, repair, and protection projects often requires a different approach than that used for other operational improvements. Other operational improvements typically do not affect the day-to-day experience of users of the facility. Rather, the improvements are aimed at reducing ongoing mainte
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-07-01
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This research plan details how walking, biking, and other sustainable modes of transportation are critical options in communities throughout the United States, particularly for economically disadvantaged communities. However, fatalities among pedestrians and bicyclists have been increasing even faster than the overall fatalities among all road user
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This research project explores and evaluates the effectiveness of different static late merge signing for use on arterials. The research team collected data through a laboratory and a field study. The laboratory study assessed the comprehension of the different sign alternatives and determined which sign series to evaluate in the field. The field s
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The purpose of this report is to provide an appreciation of the current practices, new methods, emerging technologies, and approaches to improve the active management and operation of a traffic management system (TMS). As agencies plan to implement or explore improving a TMS, they are facing a number of challenges, such as performance, costs for ex
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-07-01
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The sixth round of the Every Day Counts (EDC-6) initiative selected electronic ticketing (e-Ticketing) for rapid deployment among highway agencies to enhance work zone safety, improve quality, and realize cost savings through digitalization. Highway construction projects generate massive amounts of valuable data that historically were communicated
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2023-07-01
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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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2023-06-30
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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The parkway concept, intended for recreational driving, embodied many design concepts that would be integral to expressways, including wide right-of-way, control of access, elimination of grade crossings with other highways, and separated highway lanes that were blended into the contours of the land. Taking the parkway concept a step further, a New
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2023-06-30
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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In announcing an America the Beautiful initiative in January 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson (D) said: "I want to make sure that the America we see from these major highways is a beautiful America." The cornerstone of the initiative would be the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, which called for control of outdoor advertising, including removal
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The story of Elizabeth Peratrovich, a Native American woman from Alaska who championed the first anti-discrimination law passed in the United States. Peratrovich campaigned for this bill in response to Alaskan businesses discriminating against Native American patrons and the law was successfully passed in February 1945 in Alaska.
2023-06-30
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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For those motorists planning to travel the Pennsylvania Turnpike this week, have no fear-it is not abandoned. But there is a 13-mile stretch of the Turnpike, with three tunnels and a travel plaza, east of the Breezewood area, that was bypassed in 1968 and dubbed "The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike." To see what led up to the bypassing of this stre
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2023-06-30
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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One of the universal truths is that road construction is dependent on the materials at hand. At one time or another, almost every material common to an area has been tried by road builders. Roads of sand and clay are an example. Sand-clay road construction was one of the common methods of providing a stable road surface in the early 20th century. T
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2023-06-30
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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The term Second Battle of New Orleans has also been used to describe the controversy in the 1960's over the Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway (then I-310). In fact, Richard O. Baumbach, Jr., and William E. Borah described the expressway fight-in which they were active project opponents-in their book, The Second Battle of New Orleans: A History of t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-30
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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The U.S. numbering plan was developed in the mid-1920's by the Joint Board on Interstate Highways, which included representatives of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (now the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)) and the State highway agencies. The idea was to identify the main interstate roads of the era and give them a number and a distinctive si
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