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Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 829: Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation assists executives and managers with developing and maintaining an agency’s capability to provide timely, high-quality, mission-cri

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AASHTO Near Term V2I Transition and Phasing Analysis

AASHTO Working Group meeting December 3, 2014, Beckmann Center, California
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Research

Policy and Planning Actions to Internalize Societal Impacts of Cv and Av Systems into Market Decisions

The objective of this research is to identify and describe policy and planning actions at the state, regional, and local levels that could help societal impacts (including impacts on transportation system owner/operators) of connected vehicle (CV) and automated vehicle (AV) technologies to be intern
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Safety Impacts of the Emerging Digital Display Technology for Outdoor Advertising Signs

This topic will review on-going human factor studies and guidelines with regard to highway agency DMS’s and CMS’s now in use on highways. The panel noted that the panel for this topic should include a representative from the outdoor advertising industry. The final report has been submitted and copi
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Update of the AASHTO Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities

The 1st Edition of the AASHTO Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities (AASHTO Pedestrian Guide) was published in 2004 and reflects the state of the practice in 2001 – 2002 when it was written. Being the first edition, this guide may need some content changes or additio
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Application of AASHTO LRFD Specifications to Design of Sound Barriers

The current design criteria for sound barriers are based on the AASHTO Standard “Guide Specifications for Design of Sound Barriers” dated 1989 and interims through 2002. The content of the AASHTO Guide Specifications for design of sound barriers is not consistent with the requirements of the AASHTO
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Price Indexing in Transportation Construction Contracts

When market prices of cement, steel, asphalt, fuel or other commodities used in transportation infrastructure construction are increasing, state departments of transportation (DOTs) will typically be faced with demands from their contractors that price indexing or cost escalation clauses be incorpor
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Challenges and Opportunities: A Strategic Plan for Equipment Management Research

The project identified the grand challenges that face the organizations that manage highway maintenance equipment and the research needed to address them . These challenges and research needs were identified based on input provided by professionals involved in the different aspects of equipment ma
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Analysis of New Highway Lighting Technologies

The objective of this research is to evaluate the potential and proper application of LED lighting technology and if applicable, other new roadway lighting technologies, to determine if and what additional research is required to properly establish guidance for these technologies. In the event the r
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Updated Research for Collision Damage and Repair of Prestessed Concrete Beams

Collision between over-height vehicles and bridges is an ever increasing problem nationwide. The bridge community is in need of current state of the art means and methods of evaluation and in-place repair of collision damaged precast/prestressed concrete beams. The NCHRP Report 280: Guidelines for E
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