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Webinar

Crash Responders Safety Week All States Planning (September 2026)

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Program hosted the CRSW All-States Planning Webinar on September 24, 2026. This webinar targeted communications and public information staff, and TIM program managers from every National, State, and local responder commun

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Webinar

Road Weather Spotlight Series - Winter Prep: Fleet Management and Calibration

The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Office of Operations in collaboration with NOCoE host a bimonthly webinar series on road weather management (RWM). These webinars, called the Road Weather Spotlight Series, align with the mission of the FHWA RWM Progr

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Webinar

Road Features for Automated Driving Systems Readiness Feasibility Assessment, Methods, and Tools

FHWA’s Connected Vehicles and Emerging Technology team presented on Phase One of Road Features for Automated Driving Systems Readiness Feasibility Assessment, Methods, and Tools. This webinar shared FHWA’s findings on: The feasible and non-feasible aspects of creating an ADS readiness method or
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Publications

Prototype Road Weather Performance Management (RW-PM) Tool and Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) Field Evaluation

FHWA’s Road Weather Management Program developed a Prototype Road Weather Management (RW-PM) Tool to help DOTs maximize the effectiveness of their maintenance resources and efficiently adjust deployments dynamically, as road conditions and traffic flow evolve during road weather events. Adverse r

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is a compilation of national standards for all traffic control devices. It is used by road managers to install and maintain the correct traffic control devices on all public streets, highways, bikeways, and private roads open to public travel.

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Road Weather Information System Environmental Sensor Station Siting Guidelines 2.0

This document is an updated version of the initial Guidelines, published in 2007 (FHWA-HOP-05-026). The majority of the document remains the same, with a few minor adjustments throughout the Guidelines. The one major change made was that of an updated data table, which now includes a standard set

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Research

Weather Delay Costs to Trucking

The purpose of this project was to estimate the impact of weather on U.S. roadway freight operations. It was already known that the freight sector of transportation could be greater than $600 billion of total gross domestic product, and 70 percent of that total value is moved by truck. Therefore,

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State-of-the Practice

Developments in Weather Responsive Traffic Management Strategies

This report contains an overview of weather-responsive traffic management practices. It details what these strategies are, where they have been used, what benefits have come from their use, what can be done to improve them, and how to evaluate them as transportation operations. This report also c

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Integration of Weather Information in Transportation Management Center Operations: Self-Evaluation and Planning Guide

In order to reduce the impact of weather on transportation systems, the Federal Highway Administration's Road Weather Management Program is assisting agencies in incorporating weather information and technologies into their Transportation Management Center (TMC) operations. This document is a sel

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