United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2008-07-01
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This Highways of the Future—A Strategic Plan for Highway Infrastructure Research and Development was developed in response to a need expressed by the staff of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Infrastructure Research and Development (R&D) for a coordinated plan that provides direction for future infrastructure research and a frame
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he Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Highway Policy Information (OHPI) establishes travel monitoring policy and guidelines, facilitates the application of technology, and collects and analyzes highway-related data from throughout the United States. These data include information about highway financing, motor fuel use, driver’s licensing,
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This is a guide for transportation professionals on why and how to deploy winter Maintenance Decision Support Systems (MDSS). Adverse winter weather can cause traffic delays and crashes. Treating the effects of winter weather can also have impacts on the environment. Addressing the complexities of winter maintenance and operations requires transpor
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The objective of this study is to advance the practice and application of transportation planning among state, regional, and local transportation planning agencies to successfully meet growing concerns about the relationship between transportation and climate change. This report explores the possibilities for integrating climate change consideratio
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Accessing America's Treasures - Did You Help Lead the Safety Initiative Today? - CSD Avoids Delays on New Tolling Project - Applying "Fuzzy Concept" to Bridge Management - Gaining Traction in Roadway Safety.
2008-07-01
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National Household Travel Survey (NHTS)
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Many workers dream of working at home, to replace stressful commutes, save time and gas money, and help the environment. Because of electronic communication and increased acceptance in professional occupations, productive and seamless telecommuting is becoming a more feasible option for employers and workers. As a result, the number of workers who
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2008-07-01
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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.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2008-07-01
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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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The implementation of minimum levels of pavement marking retroreflectivity may lead some agencies to change the types of pavement marking materials used on roads and/or may result in a changed service life for the marking materials they currently used. To assess the economic impacts, researchers developed a spreadsheet-based analysis tool that calc
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This report presents three case studies that illustrate how geographic information systems (GIS) have been used to implement the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL) approach. The PEL approach provides information and tools to help agencies integrate consideration of environmental factors into transportati
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The Federal Highway Administration’s Road Weather Management Program is helping to reduce the adverse impacts of weather on the transportation system by assisting agencies in integrating weather information and technologies into their daily Transportation Management Center (TMC) operations. In order to achieve this goal the TMCs have to evaluate th
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This Final Report includes all of the findings and recommendations resulting from Battelle‘s static review, detailed interviews and onsite testing activity related to the ITS Standards deployed and currently in use for transportation management systems, specifically, traffic signal control, in Harris County, TX. The standards reviewed include the A
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This document presents the notes taken at the USDOT Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Transit Data Gaps for Rail Transit Systems Initial Planning Workshop. Different scenarios for handling increased demand on rail and bus transit systems are discussed. This document also discusses the gaps in data collection that exist in rail and bus transit an
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This report presents the results of Phase II of the national evaluation of the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority’s (CARTA’s) SmartBus Project. The Smartbus Project is a comprehensive transit ITS program for the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It involves deployment of a wide array of transit ITS technologies including: data warehou
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This report documents the Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Analysis Modeling and Simulation (AMS) tools and strategies used on a Test Corridor, presents results and lessons-learned, and documents the relative capability of AMS to support benefit-cost assessment for the successful implementation of ICM. The analysis took into account both recurr
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This report serves as a comprehensive guide to traffic signal timing and documents the tasks completed in association with its development. The focus of this document is on traffic signal control principles, practices, and procedures. It describes the relationship between traffic signal timing and transportation policy and addresses maintenance and
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This document provides the independent evaluation of the USDOT-sponsored Columbus Electronic Freight Management (CEFM) Operational Test, which occurred from late May 2007 until December 2007. The Evaluation report includes descriptions of the CEFM system and defines quantitative and qualitative benefits in the following four primary study areas: (1
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