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
2011-03-01
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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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2011-03-01
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Roadway departure crashes account for the majority of highway fatalities in the United States. A roadway departure crash is defined as a non-intersection crash which occurs after a vehicle crosses an edge line or a center line, or otherwise leaves the traveled way.
Continued growth in travel on congested urban freeway corridors exceeds the ability of agencies to provide sufficient solutions and alternatives based on traditional roadway expansion and improvement projects. Several countries are implementing managed motorway concepts to improve motorway capacity without acquiring more land and building large-sca
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John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
2011-03-01
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“Livability” is the idea that transportation, land use, housing, energy, and environmental considerations can be integrated to protect the environment, promote equitable development, and help to address the challenges of climate change. Geographic information systems (GIS) can support livability efforts by helping to convey complex transportation i
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John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
2011-02-01
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The purpose of this guidebook is to assist transportation agencies with carrying out a scenarioplanning process from start to finish. Transportation agencies can use the guidebook as a frameworkto develop a scenario planning approach tailored to their needs.The guidebook presents the six key phases that agencies are likely to encounter when impleme
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This report provides information on low cost infrastructure based ITS technologies that may be applied to stop-controlled intersections to improve safety. Crashes at stop-controlled intersections are substantially lower than crashes at signalized intersections; however, overall, more fatalities occur at stop-controlled intersections than occur at s
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2011-02-01
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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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Learning in Progress, NHI's quarterly newsletter, provides updates on new course launches, upcoming Web conference seminars, training programs and events, and NHI policy changes.
This report documents the lessons learned from damage caused in the May 12, 2008, M7.9 earthquake in Wenchuan County, China. The damage to the 14 observed bridges reminded the researchers of damage suffered during the 1971 San Fernando Earthquake in California. The bridges had few seismic details such as long seats, large shear keys, or tightly spa
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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. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2011-02-01
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PDF
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
2011-02-01
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Safety is the number one priority for the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and it's the agency's policy to provide safe and effective pedestrian accommodation wherever possible. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) encourages the use of specific proven pedestrian safety countermeasures that can help achieve local, State and National s
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This final report contains research findings on the characterization of the quality and value of road weather information resources used bymembers of the surface transportation community in their decision-making process. This report focuses on the results from the secondsurvey in a series of surveys designed to establish a baseline metric on the qu
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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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Through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) SafeTrip-21 initiative, the USDOT is testing a variety of technologies in a number of locations in California as well as along the I-95 corridor on the east coast. This document presents the evaluation findings, resulting primarily from in-person interviews the Evaluation Team conducted with i
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This report summarizes the results of a 2-day Peer Exchange on Pavement Management held in Madison, Wisconsin on August 24-25, 2010. The participating states include the following: Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Representatives from each of the DOTs and their FHWA Division counterpart attended the m
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