United States. Federal Highway Administration. Texas Division
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2009-02-01
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The following report summarizes a Peer Workshop on tools and effective practices for scenario planning in El Paso, Texas, organized jointly by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the El Paso Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO). On the first day of the two-day event, presenters from the FHWA provided participants with an overview of t
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2009-02-01
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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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This report documents the Minnesota Tribal Transportation Safety Summit held October 29-30, 2008, in Tower, Minnesota. The Summit brought together the full range of interested parties to begin communication and cooperation toward the ultimate goal of reducing crash-related injuries and deaths within Tribal communities. The Summit pursued that goal
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2009-02-01
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High-performance materials (HPM) are being applied to many areas of highway construction and maintenance. These materials range from engineered concrete and composite materials to specialty steels and recycled materials. Currently, most applications of these materials are in pavements and bridge superstructures. With the constant pressure on our st
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FHWA awarded three cooperative agreements to Las Vegas, NV; Miami-Dade, FL; and San Francisco, CA to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness of a combined pedestrian safety engineering and intelligent transportation systems (ITS)-based areawide countermeasures program for reducing pedestrian fatalities, injuries, conflicts, and other surrogate m
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2009-01-15
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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When the 1960s became “The Sixties” may be unclear, but for some, the mantra of the Sixties has been condensed to the phrase “peace, love, and understanding.” (The phrase is from a 1974 Nick Lowe song titled “(What’s So Funny ‘bout) Peace, Love and Understanding,” popularized by Elvis Costello and the Attractions.) By contrast, Life magazine referr
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Typical Applications are illustrative examples that show how to apply temporary traffic control principles and standards to various work zone situations, as in the case of short duration or mobile operations on the shoulder.
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.
Goal of TMC PFS: provide a forum to identify and address issues common among TMCs. Assemble TMC interests to: identify human-centered and operational issues centered and operational issues. Suggest approaches to addressing identified issues: initiate and monitor projects intended to address identified issues. Provide guidance and recommendations an
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This document is the final report for the evaluation of the USDOT-sponsored Surface Transportation Security and Reliability Information System Model Deployment, or iFlorida Model Deployment. This report discusses findings in the following areas: ITS deployment and operations; Maintaining a Network of Field Devices; Using Toll Tag Readers for Traffi
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The necessity of a multi-disciplinary approach – involving law enforcement, fire and rescue, transportation, towing and recovery, and others – has been well-recognized and integrated into incident management operations. This same multidisciplinary approach has not been as widely extended to the area of resource management. Under a multidisciplinary
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In 2004, the Federal Highway Administration published updated rules governing work zone safety and mobility; all highway construction and maintenance projects using federal-aid highway funds are required to develop transportation management plans (TMP) focusing on safety and the reduction of traffic mobility impacts through coordination. The projec
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Hazardous materials spills provide unique challenges to traffic incident clearance. When hazardous materials are present, not only do response personnel have to deal with typical traffic incident issues, they also must deal with potential chemical hazards, environmental impacts and added safety requirements. The mitigation and clean-up of hazardous
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Traffic incident management focuses on developing procedures, implementing policies, and deploying technologies to more quickly identify incidents, improve response times, and more effectively and efficiently manage the incident scene. Because so many entities are involved in response efforts, rapid and effective traffic incident management relies
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This document discusses various aspects of traffic control for incidents with the focus on the traffic control roles and responsibilities of the responders as well as the safety of the responders and the motoring public. It also recognizes that active traffic management is necessary to meet the fluctuating needs of the scene and to minimize clearan
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) organized 26 States to participate in the FHWA Low Cost Safety Improvements Pooled Fund Study as part of its strategic highway safety plan support effort. The purpose of the pooled fund study is to estimate the safety effectiveness for several of the unproven low-cost safety strategies identified in the Nat
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