The Federal Highway Administration training program has evolved through the years. In this second look at “getting hired,” retirees recall their training program experiences in Federal Lands, Federal Aid, and Headquarters offices and their views on trainees and the training program.
United States. Federal Highway Administration. Center for Accelerating Innovation
2008-10-01
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Innovator, published by the FHWA Center for Accelerating Innovation, advances implementation of innovative technologies and processes in the highway industry. Its audience is transportation professionals in highway agencies, trade and research groups, academia and the private sector, and the driving public.
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
2008-10-01
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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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As focus changes toward the asset management of our existing infrastructure, the value of maintaining and managing our embankment and cut slopes becomes more apparent. This 132081 course provides the essentials to slope maintenance and slide restoration for transportation field personnel with an asset management perspective. This course is not mean
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Safety
2008-10-01
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) provides and supports a wide range of data and safety analysis tools for State and local practitioners. These tools have been designed to assist practitioners understand safety problems on their roadways, link crashes to their roadway environments, and select and apply appropriate countermeasures. The tools
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Two experiments (simulator and test track) were conducted to validate the concept of a system designed to warn potential victims of a likely red-light violator. The warning system uses sensors to detect vehicles that are unlikely to stop at red traffic signals and uses signs and flashing lights to warn drivers who might collide with a violator. Sev
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Age-related declines in vision, cognition, and physical ability affect how older road users drive and use other transportation modes. The Federal Highway Administration, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and National Cooperative Highway Research Program sponsored a scanning study to assess infrastructure improvemen
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There are many reasons to be concerned with estimating the frequency and social costs of highway accidents, but most reasons are motivated by a desire to minimize these costs to the extent feasible. Competition for scarce resources is a practical necessity, and society seeks to apply those resources where they will do the most good. With highway cr
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United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
2008-09-30
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The objective of the Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance System for Violations (CICAS-V) Project is to develop and field-test a comprehensive system to reduce the number of crashes at intersections due to violations of traffic control devices (TCDs; i.e., traffic lights and stop signs). The CICAS-V system provides a salient and timely in-v
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The Traffic Incident Management Self-Assessment (TIM SA) provides a means for evaluating progress in achievement of individual TIM program components and overall TIM program success in three areas: Program and Institutional Issues; Operational Issues; and Communications and Technology Issues. Now in its sixth year, the TIM SA also has allowed the F
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The following guidelines are available to all roadside vegetation managers, landscape teams, maintenance departments, erosion control managers, and environmental services units for their information.
An independent review team examined the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) safety approach. This report presents the findings and recommendations of the review team. The aim of this review is to help FAA advance flight safety as effectively as possible in the wake of two aviation occurrences (1) Southwest Airlines' perceived lack of ove
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety has identified intersections as one of its safety focus areas. As part of the FHWA efforts to reduce intersection crashes and the related injuries and fatalities, two concepts have been identified: (1) rumble strips on outside shoulders and in a painted yellow median island on major road ap
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Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) provide a proven set of strategies for addressing the challenges of assuring safety and reducing congestion, while accommodating the growth in transit ridership and freight movement. This report presents information on the performance of deployed ITS under each of these goal areas, as well as information on
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This report describes the evaluation of a sampling of over- and undercrossing structures to identify major and minor access barriers for the physically handicapped. From this evaluation, it was determined that it is feasible to accommodate the physically handicapped on crossing structures. However further research on specific design problems (ramp
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John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
2008-09-01
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On July 22–23, 2008, the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Interstate and Border Planning and Office of Real Estate Services sponsored a 1.5– day peer exchange focusing on select state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) applications of geographic information systems (GIS) in the right-of-way (ROW) area. Purposes of the peer exchan
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This report documents the Arizona Tribal Transportation Safety Summit held May 14-15, 2008, in Casa Grande, Arizona. The ultimate goal of the Summit was to help reduce crash-related injuries and deaths within tribal communities. The Summit pursued that goal by identifying key tribal safety challenges and the resources (human, material, and financia
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Steel Versus GFRP Rebars? - Gearing Up for SafeTrip-21 - The Ongoing Evolution of FRP Bridges - Applying AQS in the Highway Industry - Using Supercomputers to Determine Bridge Loads.
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