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Guide to Effective Freeway Performance Measurement: Final Report and Guidebook

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 97: Guide to Effective Freeway Performance Measurement: Final Report and Guidebook examines the effective use of freeway performance measures in operating a freeway system and in meeting the information nee

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Freeway Operations; Regional Systems Management and Operations; Managed Lanes 2010

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2178 contains 19 papers that explore freeway incidents and secondary crashes; a heuristic ramp-metering coordination strategy; estimating freeway traffic density with loop detector and probe vehicle data; casc

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Freeway Operations; Regional Systems and Management; Managed Lanes: 2011

TRB’s Transportation Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2229 includes 12 papers that explore reliability benefits of ramp metering; quantification of nonrecurrent congestion delay caused by freeway accidents and analysis of causal factors; spatiotemporal patterns o

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Real-Time Traveler Information Systems

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 399: Real-Time Traveler Information Systems explores the needs and expectations of travelers, the current status of a variety of traveler information systems in the United States, available and emerging data sources, and busine

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Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 432: Recent Roadway Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations reviews and summarizes roadway geometric design literature completed and published from 2001 through early 2011, particularly research that i

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Recent Geometric Design Research for Improved Safety and Operations

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 502: Geometric Design Consistency on High-Speed Rural Two-Lane Roadways presents rules on geometric design consistency suitable for use in an expert system such as the Interactive Highway Safety Design Model (IHSDM). The rules can

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A Guide to Public Transportation Security Resources

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 59: A Guide to Public Transportation Security Resources provides a listing of available (or soon-to-be-available) security resources, which can be obtained from public transportation systems, organizations, associations, in

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Deterrence, Protection, and Preparation: The New Transportation Security Imperative

TRB Special Report 270: Deterrence, Protection, and Preparation: The New Transportation Security Imperative examines the role of science and technology in countering terrorism.  It presents advice on a strategic approach to transportation security that recognizes th

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Transportation Security; Emergency Response and Recovery

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2022 includes 11 papers that explore emergency resource allocation for critical transportation infrastructure protection, intelligent transportation system networks survivability, information shar

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