United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Corporate Research, Technology, and Innovation Management
2011-05-01
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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 Research, Development, and Technology
2011-05-01
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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.
Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) bimonthly newsletter highlighting current best practices in stewardship and environmental review from around the country.
This report provides a summary of a two-part peer exchange sponsored by the IowaDepartment of Transportation (Iowa DOT) and the Iowa Governor’s Traffic SafetyBureau (GTSB). Part one of the peer exchange offered a web conference designed tosolicit peer feedback on Iowa’s current Comprehensive Highway Safety Plan (CHSP);part two was a peer exchange w
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This report provides a summary of a peer exchange sponsored by the NewHampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) that focused on updatingNew Hampshire’s Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) and establishing aToward Zero Deaths (TZD) initiative in the State.NHDOT applied to the Roadway Safety Professional Capacity Building(RSPCB) Peer-to-Peer (P
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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The first roundabout in the State of Missouri, built about 10 years ago, was designed for a golf course community in the Kansas City area. Even in that context, trying to convince the local community that a roundabout would work was difficult. Many people confused modern roundabouts with European-style traffic circles, and assumed they were hard to
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In 2004, the Southeast (SE) Region of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) was planning to build four new roundabouts, and the SE region director requested that more than the typical amount of public outreach be undertaken for this effort. He knew that previous roundabout projects in other parts of the State had been met with resista
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In 1999, the intersection outside of a Green Bay, Wisconsin, metro area elementary and middle school complex located near a major highway had become a problem. As traffic volume on the adjacent highway grew, local officials became concerned about vehicle speed. The county sheriff got involved, and eventually the community decided to prohibit childr
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In 2003, when the Virginia legislature passed a resolution encouraging the consideration of roundabouts as an alternative to signalized intersections where feasible, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) quickly realized it needed to accelerate its efforts on implementing roundabouts into intersection safety policies across the State. Be
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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Small localities in Iowa, as in other states, do not necessarily have the resources to staff a full-time traffic engineer dedicated to analysis and design of intersection safety enhancement projects, including roundabouts. The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) created an innovative program—the Traffic Engineering Assistance Program (TEAP)—to
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In 1999, the City of Clearwater, Florida, opened its first roundabout on New Years’ Eve to much fanfare. The new roundabout replaced several signalized intersections and promised to alleviate congestion and improve pedestrian flow along a nineintersection loop corridor. However, during construction and after opening, the local media gave extensive
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In 2008, the City of Sioux Falls, South Dakota was nearing completion of construction of one of the first roundabouts in the State, near a newly constructed local university campus. The City recognized that helping local residents feel comfortable with the new intersection design and confident in navigating it would be important to a successful lau
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2011-05-01
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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
2011-05-01
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The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) faced resistance planning its first roundabouts in 1997 because the concept of "round" intersections was new and unknown to the general public. Aware of the compelling benefits that properly designed modern roundabout intersections offer compared with traditional intersections, the agency ho
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In the late 1990s, the City of Carmel, Indiana, began installing roundabouts within its jurisdiction, where they soon became a common type of intersection design. This change in intersection design policy stemmed from an influential roundabout champion—the City's mayor. Mayor Jim Brainard took office in 1996 and subsequently pushed for the installa
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In 1997, the City of Bend, Oregon proposed their first roundabout and then quickly put the project on hold, due to overwhelmingly negative responses from the public, who were concerned about safely navigating a roundabout. Two years later, when the City decided to propose another new roundabout, that 1997 experience led them to develop a strategy t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In 2007, Washington County, Minnesota, began the process of planning for the widening of a two-lane, all-way, stop-controlled intersection in a residential area to accommodate growth in volume. The County Public Works Department considered implementing a four- or six-lane signal-controlled intersection configuration, but the analysis showed that th
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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More fatal crashes occur at stop-controlled than signalized intersections. Two thirds of these crashes involve right-angle collisions. Recently, States have been using some infrastructure-based Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies in innovative ways to help reduce the potential for and severity of these crashes. One of these technol
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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Although Washington State has been constructing roundabouts in different localities across the state since the mid-1990s, there are still many communities without these types of intersections and citizens who are not familiar with what roundabouts are and how they are navigated. The City of Bellingham, in Whatcom County, WA, is an example of this t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-05-01
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In the 1980s, a regional transportation plan for Montpelier, Vermont, identified the intersection of Main and Spring Streets as deficient. The three-way "T" intersection lacked pedestrian facilities and created a confusing traffic pattern for the public due to a triangular central island and a commercial driveway. To complicate matters further, a m
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