In a coordinated effort with highway authorities and industry leaders, the Every Day Counts initiative serves as a catalyst to identify and promote cost effective innovations to bring about rapid change to increase safety of our nations highway system, decrease project delivery time, and protect our environment. The Safety EdgeSM concept is an exam
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With over 600,000 bridges across the United States averaging 42 years of age, annual Federal repair and rehabilitation costs for fiscal year 2010 were in the region of $7 billion.1 Following significant public sector investment developing nondestructive evaluation (NDE) and structural health monitoring (SHM) tools for objective condition assessment
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The 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) provides data to characterize daily personal travel patterns across the country. The survey includes demographic data on households, vehicles, people, and detailed information on daily travel by all modes of transportation. NHTS survey data is collected from a sample of households and expanded to pro
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2011-06-01
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This document is a technical summary of the Federal Highway Administration report, Impact of Design Features on Pavement Response and Performance in Rehabilitated Flexible and Rigid Pavements (FHWA-HRT-10-066). Rehabilitation and pavement preservation represent the majority of pavement construction activity in the United States. Preventive maintena
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2011-06-01
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This TechBrief presents a general comparison of performance for rehabilitation strategies for flexible and rigid pavement. The impact of overlay thickness, preparation prior to overlay, and mix type on performance was statistically evaluated using data from the Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) Specific Pavement Study (SPS)-5 and SPS-6 experime
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-06-01
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The Practitioner’s Primer introduces basic concepts to help practitioners and road safety professionals: Link safety planning processes to NEPA analysis; Identify and gain input from safety stakeholders during public outreach and scoping; Understand the value of using safety analysis techniques to identify and address substantive safety problems, a
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The Federal Highway Administration's Long-Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program issues a triannual newsletter to inform you about the progress and activities of the program. Brief updates on progress in important program activities are provided, including data collection, data releases, new products and publications, pooled fund studies, and dat
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Corporate Research, Technology, and Innovation Management
2011-06-01
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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. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-06-01
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The Pedestrian and Bike Forum newsletter provides information to FHWA stakeholders on reducing the number of pedestrian- and bicycle-related highway fatalities and serious injuries. Topics include updates on FHWA programs, spotlights on State and local noteworthy practices, initiatives with partner organizations, and upcoming events. It is publishe
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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. Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
2011-06-01
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2011-06-01
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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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Horizontal curves are a necessary component of the highway alignment; however, they tend to be associated with a disproportionate number of severe crashes. Warning signs are intended to improve curve safety by alerting the driver to a change in geometry that may not be apparent or expected. However, several research projects conducted in the last 2
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This report presents the test plan for collecting and analyzing the transit system data for the San Francisco UrbanPartnership Agreement (UPA) under the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) UPA Program.The San Francisco UPA projects focus on reducing congestion by employing strategies consisting ofcombinations of tolling, transit,
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This report presents the test plan for collecting and analyzing exogenous factors data for the San Francisco UrbanPartnership Agreement (UPA) under the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) UPA Program.The San Francisco UPA projects focus on reducing congestion by employing strategies consisting ofcombinations of tolling, transit, t
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Quality data are the foundation for making important decisions regarding the design, operation, and safety ofroadways. Using roadway and traffic data together with crash data can help agencies to make decisions that arefiscally responsible and to improve the safety of the roadways for all users. The Federal Highway Administration(FHWA) Office of Sa
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"Quality data are the foundation for making important decisions regarding the design, operation, and safety ofroadways. The Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) provides information on how safety data should beused. However, there are no details on specific data elements that State agencies should be collecting, maintaining,and using to suppor
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This report provides a comprehensive overview of weather-responsive traffic management practices. It focuses on what WRTMstrategies exist, where they have been used, the benefits realized, what improvements are needed, and how to implement andevaluate them as part of transportation operations. The report also contains concepts of operations and hig
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With funding and support from the USDOT RITA and direction from the FHWA Road Weather Management Program, NCAR is developing a VehicleData Translator (VDT) software system that incorporates vehicle-based measurements of the road and surrounding atmosphere with other weatherdata sources. This document describes version 3.0 of the VDT, including data
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On April 28 and 29, 2011, FHWA hosted two related peer exchanges in Indianapolis, Indiana. These peer exchanges consisted of two separate sessions with different audiences and adaptation planning themes. Both were titled “Minimizing the Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation Systems in the Midwest.” The peer exchanges provided an opportunity f
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