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Guide for Identifying, Classifying, Evaluating, and Mitigating Truck Freight Bottlenecks

This Guidebook provides state-of-the-practice information to transportation professionals on identifying, classifying, evaluating, and mitigating truck bottlenecks. The bottleneck analysis described in this Guidebook is focused on utilizing truck probe data rather than traditio

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Guidelines on Work Zone Access and Egress

Design for Work Zones

Describes concerns associated with work zone access and egress. The document offers recommended practices and describes effective strategies and techniques that can be employed during the planning, design and construction phases to help mitigate concerns. The docum

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HAAS Alert in Maryland

Background

This project involved the installation or use of existing in-vehicle units for 200 Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) vehicles that could send real-time digital alerts to motorists over third-party platforms (e.g., Waze) as well as through

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Hurricane Florence Preparation & Response

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Hurricane Irma Evacuees Use of Florida 511

IN THIS CASE STUDY YOU WILL LEARN:

1. Florida’s 511 system is bilingual, providing information in English and Spanish via social media and their website.

2. Live camera feeds allowed hurricane evacuees to see road conditions on their planned routes.

3. The 511 system mes

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I-26 Integrated Corridor Management for Construction

North Carolina’s I-26 widening project stretches approximately 17 miles and included the demolition of five bridges along I-26 which were initially planned to require median crossovers with barrel separation for opposing traffic lasting two weeks per bridge.  This was not an acceptable solut

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I-270 Innovative Congestion Management (ICM) Ramp Metering

Background

I-270 is a critical 30-mile interstate from I-70 in Frederick, MD to I-495 in Washington, DC, carrying over 200,000 vehicles per day in some segments. I-270 has been plagued by recurring and non-recurring congestion and delays for many years. In 2016, Maryland Department of Transpor

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I-440 Active Congestion Management Leveraging Probe Data

IN THIS CASE STUDY YOU WILL LEARN: How major interstate projects can use Active Congestion Management systems to alleviate travel time delays. How government and inter-agency organizations can communicate successfully to transmit the correct data needed to make real-time decisions when deali
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I-440 Construction Incident Management Plan

IN THIS CASE STUDY YOU WILL LEARN: How many stakeholders developed an effective Incident Management Plan for the largest reconstruction project in the state. How the plan outlined the priority actions when on an incident scene. About the heavy marketing and enforcement campaign Tennessee D
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I-5 Variable Speed Limits and Lane Control, Washington State

The project covers a 7-mile long section of I-5 northbound in Seattle and was activated August 10, 2010.

15 overhead gantries, spaced approximately ½ mile apart through the 7-mile project area. Gantries display dynamic speed limits, lane closures, merge arrows, warning information and
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