Bringing Global Innovations to United States Highways Through FHWA's Global Benchmarking Program

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of International Programs
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Benchmarks Highways International Relations Technological Innovations
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of International Programs
• Abstract:
  Since 1991, the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Global Benchmarking Program (GBP) has conducted studies that seek out the world's best highway innovations and bring them to the United States. The GBP has been instrumental in documenting and promoting transportation agency management practices such as performance measures, asset management, and risk management, which benefit travelers on the Nation’s highway system (see Figure 1). The GBP has influenced numerous advances such as self-propelled mobile transporters that lift entire bridges into place in hours, not months; warm-mix asphalt that lessens energy consumption, reduces the cost of paving, and produces less greenhouse gas emissions; and safety innovations, including crash-reducing roundabouts, pedestrian-protecting traffic-calming approaches, and proactive Road Safety Audits that reduce roadway deaths.
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/87541/dot_87541_DS1.pdf
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