2023-06-01
|
FHWA Highway History Website Articles
|
PDF
Meeting notes between Bertram Tallamy and General Bragdon on several issues regarding the interstate highway program such as labor employment. Economic commerce conditions were also discussed in relation to the progress of the Interstate Highway program.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
|
FHWA Highway History Website Articles
|
PDF
Memorandum on several topics related to the Interstate Highway Program such as cost, and further economic implications from the program itself. Factors such as congressional input, federal aid, are also discussed as well as discussion of an earlier report that is reviewed within this memorandum. Topics covered are considerations for stricter criter
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-06-01
|
FHWA Highway History Website Articles
|
PDF
Letter to General Bragdon in 1959 on the topic of the Interstate highway in regard to a broad overview of the reasons for an assessment and evaluation of it. Some topics include reviewing the policies and methods for in effect under the highway act, areas for improvement in coordination between federal highways and state planning agencies and recom
...
Eight States from the Northeastern U.S. gathered for a peer exchange and discussion on implementation activities to support Balanced Mix Design (BMD). The peer exchange was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The eight States met to assess the state-of-practice for the technology, tools, and techniques in designing, verifying, a
...
State departments of transportation (DOTs) have expressed concern about mergers and acquisitions (M&As) occurring within the industries that produce, supply, and install aggregates and other materials for transportation projects. In particular, State DOTs have suggested the possibility that these construction industry M&As impact price and competit
...
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
...
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
...
The Silt Fence: Keeping Sediment Where It Belongs; From Then to Now: History Along the Roadway; Resources for Understanding Challenges and Opportunities for Coastal Highway Projects; Forty Years of the Federal Lands Highway Program; Making Healthy Connections in Transportation.
Since 2016, over 2 percent of all fatal crashes in the United States every year happen in work zones. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System, 687 fatal crashes occurred in work zones in 2016. Commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) (i.e., large trucks and buses) were involved in 196 of these cr
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2023-06-01
|
PDF
This case study examines how officials have identified safety, mobility, and accessibility challenges for the three roadways in the Glenwood city center (MN 28 at Minnesota Avenue, MN 29 at Glacial Ridge Trail, and MN 104 at Franklin Street). Deficiencies included gaps in the network of bicycle lanes, absent or poorly visible crosswalks, inadequate
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2023-06-01
|
PDF
In 2018, officials identified safety and mobility deficiencies in the primary roadway serving the Keystone Heights commercial district, State Road 21 (SR 21). The city partnered with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to seek public input on proposed improvements to SR 21 and conducted community engagement in an open-house format. This
...
This report highlights findings from Phase Ⅱ of a project designed to develop precision statements for cyclic fatigue testing using an asphalt mixture performance tester (AMPT). These standards include American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) TP 107-22 and AASHTO TP 133-21, which apply to 100-mm-diameter and 38-mm
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2023-06-01
|
PDF
Officials identified several safety and mobility challenges on the three roadways that serve the village center of the city of La Quinta: Calle Tampico, Eisenhower Drive, and Calle Sinaloa (also known as 52nd Avenue or Avenue 52).
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2023-06-01
|
Urban Congestion Report (UCR)
|
PDF
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.
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
...
A traffic control treatment being used at pedestrian-crossing locations is the pedestrian- or school-crossing warning sign with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) embedded in the borders (called LED-Em in this report). The LED-Em treatment, which includes a pedestrian pushbutton, is pedestrian activated, so the LEDs flashes only when a pedestrian is pres
...
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
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2023-05-24
|
Special Issue - Weekly Motor Fuel Report
|
PDF
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
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-05-23
|
Memoranda & Guidance: Guidance
|
PDF
The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. No. 114-94) requires the FHWA Administrator to establish a National Highway Freight Network (NHFN) to strategically direct Federal resources and policies toward improved performance of the NHFN. This network is the focus of funding under the National Highway Freight Program (NHFP) and
...
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2023-05-18
|
PDF
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Weather-Responsive Management Strategies (WRMS) initiative promotes the use of road weather data from mobile and connected vehicle technologies to support traffic and maintenance management strategies during inclement weather. The goal is to improve safety and reliability, and reduce environmental impacts o
...
Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving a Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS)/National Transportation Library (NTL)
Web-based service.
Thank you for visiting.
You are about to access a non-government link outside of
the U.S. Department of Transportation's National
Transportation Library.
Please note: While links to Web sites outside of DOT are
offered for your convenience, when you exit DOT Web sites,
Federal privacy policy and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act (accessibility requirements) no longer apply. In
addition, DOT does not attest to the accuracy, relevance,
timeliness or completeness of information provided by linked
sites. Linking to a Web site does not constitute an
endorsement by DOT of the sponsors of the site or the
products presented on the site. For more information, please
view DOT's Web site linking policy.
To get back to the page you were previously viewing, click
your Cancel button.