This report presents the findings of a study on how performance-based planning and programming influences transportation planning and programming decisions at 52 State departments of transportation and 85 metropolitan planning organizations. Research was conducted throughout 2020 using online reviews of planning and programming documents, interview
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The Federal Highway Administration's Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program issues a quarterly newsletter to inform you about the progress and activities of the program. Brief updates on progress in important program activities are provided, including data collection, data releases, new products and publications, and data analysis.
The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act of 2015 established the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives (STSFA) Program to provide grants to States or groups of States to demonstrate user-based alternative revenue mechanisms that utilize a user-fee structure to maintain the long-term solvency of the Highway Trust Fund. In Federal
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Development of Crash Modification Factors (DCMF) program was established in 2012 to address highway-safety research needs for evaluating new and innovative safety strategies (e.g., improvements) by developing reliable quantitative estimates of their effectiveness in reducing crashes. Forty-one State dep
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2021-06-01
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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.
Public Roads is the quarterly magazine of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Reading Public Roads is the easiest way to keep up-to-date on developments in federal highway policies, programs, and research and technology. More specifically, the magazine "covers" advances and innovations in highway/traffic research and technology, critical nat
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Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure is an open standards–based collaborative work method for structuring, managing, and using data about transportation assets and networks throughout their lifecycles. It liberates data from siloed systems and makes it easier for automated processes to generate asset information and distribute it
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Highway Policy Information
2021-06-01
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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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One of the challenges in conducting freight transportation planning and policy analysis is the variation in the types of vehicles that are considered trucks and the manner in which distinctions are made between various types of trucks. The public sector has varying standards by which trucks are distinguished from other vehicle types and are further
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The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Safety Compass newsletter aims to increase highway safety awareness and to provide resources to the highway safety community to help save lives. The newsletter is published three times a year, and includes articles on safety-focused offerings from FHWA, other DOT modes; our State, Local, and Tribal partne
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As more bridge inspection programs incorporate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) as a tool to enhance the inspection process, fact-based information on optimum specifications for the sensors UAS can carry and other key operational considerations impacting UAS imagery will aid bridge owners and inspectors when considering the acquisition and operation o
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The Weather Responsive Management Strategies (WRMS) initiative under the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Every Day Counts – Round 5 (EDC-5) program promotes the use of road weather data from mobile and connected vehicle (CV) technologies to support traffic and maintenance management strategies during inclement weather. The goal is to improve
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In supporting State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) in using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is publishing this Case Study Report focusing on the use of data collection technologies by transportation agencies to collect and manage geospatial asset an
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2021-06-01
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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has satisfied the evaluation of contraflow operations requirement mandated by Section 1209 (b)(2)(B) of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act (PL 115-254) through a state of the practice review of the use of evacuation routes to effectively manage contraflow operations during evacuations. This document summarize
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Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication uses wireless technology to send and receive messages with surrounding vehicles. V2V communication increases highway safety through precollision warnings and provides convenience, such as information on traffic congestion. It is becoming standard in the automotive trade to install equipment on new vehicles tha
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The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) Fostering Multimodal Connectivity Newsletter is intended to provide transportation professionals with real-world examples of ways that multimodal transportation investments promote economic revitalization, provide access to jobs, and achieve safer communities through support of accelerated project deliv
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
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2021-06-01
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Weather-responsive management strategies (WRMS) help transportation agencies manage and operate their system in challenging road weather conditions. Anti-icing, plow routing, variable speed limits (VSL), and variable message signs (VMS) are examples of WRMS. Effective WRMS require sufficient information on traffic and weather conditions and develop
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