Program Support - The group provides technical assistance and information sharing to States and other practitioners in the field of pavement management. Current activities include Demonstration Project 108a on Multiyear Prioritization, Demonstration Project 108b on Engineering Applications of Pavement Management Data, and updating the pavement mana
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-07
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The city of Seattle, known as the Emerald City, prides itself on its access to lush evergreen forests and a culture of outdoor recreation. Seattle Parks and Recreation (SPR) manages more than 120 miles of trails. Several other jurisdictions border Seattle city parks and share trail infrastructure. In 2018, Washington State passed legislation to reg
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-06
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The city of Portland, Oregon is the largest city in the State of Oregon with a population of around 650,000. Over seven percent of its population typically commutes by bicycle, significantly outperforming the national average of less than one percent. In 2016, the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) launched BIKETOWN, a docked bike sharing sys
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-06
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New York City (NYC) is changing how New Yorkers get their packages by managing the largest cargo bicycle program in the country. On average, major freight delivery services deliver over 1.5 million packages in the city. In 2017, that amounted to 365 million tons of cargo. The New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) projects that the am
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-06
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The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 led to significant changes in travel and mobility patterns across the United States. Public transportation providers imposed service cuts and many shared bikes and electric scooters (e-scooters) were temporarily removed from the streets in response to public health mandates. In Detroit, these
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-06
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The city of Philadelphia launched its bikeshare program, Indego, in 2015. Indego is a docked bikeshare system with 138 stations, 1,500 conventional bicycles, and almost 500 electric bicycles (e-bikes). The bicycles and stations are owned by the city of Philadelphia and manufactured by BCycle, LLC. The system is planned and managed by the city’s Off
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2023-06-02
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The Weekly Gasoline Product Supplied Report offers insight on weekly fluctuation of the gasoline product supply, which is an important part of any analysis of construction trends, materials and operating costs associated with highway repair and construction, and changes in traffic volume. These data come directly from the Energy Information Adminis
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Development of Crash Modification Factors (DCMF) Program was established in 2012 to address highway safety research needs for evaluating new and innovative safety strategies by developing reliable quantitative estimates of their effectiveness in reducing crashes (FHWA 2022). Forty-one State departments of
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Safety models traditionally focus on crash frequencies or rates and do not always reflect the underlying causes of the crashes. Even models that accurately estimate crash measures and consist of multiple causal factors may not explain all causal relationships. Yet understanding what causes crashes is crucial to developing countermeasures and ensuri
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The objective of this research was to design a simple low-cost guardrail terminal at Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) Test Level 2 (TL-2) (44 mi/h) that assumed use of a current generic MGS W-beam guardrail, which is the most widely used guardrail in the country. The terminal design was tested and evaluated according to the safety-perfor
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The practice of printing, collecting, maintaining, and retaining paper tickets is cumbersome, less safe, outdated, more expensive, less efficient, and less sustainable than paperless ticketing. The adoption of electronic construction (e-Construction) technologies in construction administration and delivery offers ways to overcome these inefficienci
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2023-06-01
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The Urban Congestion Report (UCR) is produced on a quarterly basis and characterizes the most recent traffic congestion and reliability trends at the national and city level. Each quarterly UCR compares data from the most recent three months to the same three months in the previous year.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
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The In-Situ Scour Testing Device (ISTD) is an advanced system designed by the hydraulics research team at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) to measure the erosion resistance of fine-grained, cohesive soils directly in the field. The system features an innovative erosion head that, when inserted into a standard drill casing, can di
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Committee discussion headed by General Lucius D. Clay on the topic of the Interstate Highway improvement program in relation to automobiles and continuing progress to ensure well maintained highways for citizens.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Overview about the costs generated to maintain the interstate program and issues presented by Former Senator William Proxmire critical to the financial component of the program itself.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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At the peak of the Interstate System's greatest decade, Interstate openings occurred all over the country. The following list was compiled from news clippings gathered by the Bureau of Public Roads for the second half of 1964. ederal Highway Administrator Rex Whitton, who believed that the new highways were the best counter to critics, participated
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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The increasing need for highway improvement prompted the General Motors (GM) Corporation to announce, on November 20, 1952, a Better Highway Award for the best essay on "How to plan and pay for the safe and adequate highways we need." Prize money totaled $194,000 for 161 awards, with the grand prize being $25,000. Anyone, including GM employees, co
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
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FHWA Highway History Website Articles
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Brief description of Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower “gran plan” for the interstate program and the roles that federal, state, and local government would play in their implementation and maintenance. This was part of a speech given by then Vice-President Richard Nixon at the Governor’s Conference in 1954.
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