This white paper describes example best practices and reference material related to the identified implementation plan priority needs. The paper also suggests supportive national actions to improve TSM&O Business Processes – development of a program of webinars, guidelines, and lessons-l
This white paper describes example best practices and reference material regarding the implementation plan priority needs noted above. The paper also suggests supportive national actions to improve Systems and Technology including: compiling examples of best practices for the use of Statewide and
This white paper describes example best practices and reference material regarding the implementation plan priority needs noted above. The paper also suggests supportive national actions to improve TSM&O Performance Measurement including: developing standard definitions and procedures for pla
This white paper describes example best practices and reference material related to the identified implementation plan priority needs. The paper also suggests supportive national actions to improve TSM&O Culture; developing resources to support effective TSM&O business cases; clarifying t
This white paper describes example best practices and references material related to the identified implementation plan priority needs. The paper also suggests supportive national actions to improve TSM&O Organization and Staffing – development of a TSM&O organization and staffing ga
This white paper describes example best practices and reference material related to the identified implementation plan priority needs. The paper also suggests supportive national actions to improve TMCs Collaboration – development of a program of webinars, guidelines, and lessons-learned to
This paper is a deliverable on a technical support task for the FHWA Office of Operations. The objective of the task is to develop white papers on emerging and current topics of interest to the Office. Topics for white papers were primarily identified and prioritized based on internal listening s
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 115: Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Transit Agencies documents the current state of the practice in the use, policies, and impact of open data for improving transit planning, service quality, and treatment of customer inform
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2006 includes 13 papers that explore intermodal transfer facilities and transit capacity and quality of service, modernizing streetcar systems and trolley service, ridership on the Los Angeles Metro System Gre
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1978 contains 24 papers that explore different aspects of traffic signal systems and regional systems management. Specific topics addressed by papers in this issue of the TRR: Journal include detecting b
June 2015 NOCoE Newsletter
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2065 includes 8 papers that explores a new active traffic management approach for metropolitan freeways; an innovative approach to statewide sketch planning for traffic operations in Wisconsin; in
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
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 160: Paratransit Emergency Preparedness and Operations Handbook includes guidance, strategies, tools, and resources to help paratransit service providers plan and prepare for, respond to, and recover from a range of emergencies. The guidanc
Natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina test the robustness and resiliency of the transportation system and emphasize the need for information to constantly improve the nation’s ability to prepare for, prevent, respond to, and recover from natural disasters, security events, and other emergencie
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security, Volume 6: Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations supports development of a formal program for the improved management of traffic incidents, natural disasters,
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Web-Only Document 73: Emergency Transportation Operations: Resources Guide for NCHRP Report 525, Volume 6 is a resources guide on emergency transportation operations (ETO) containing bibliographical material tha
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 525: Surface Transportation Security and TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 86: Public Transportation Security series publications have jointly published Guidelines for Transportation Emergency Training Exerc
Weather Information for Road Managers
Article that explains various types of weather information that assists road managers.
This report contains 27 case studies of systems in 22 states that improve roadway operations under inclement weather conditions. Each case study has six sections including a general description of the system, system components, operational procedures, resulting transportation outcomes, implementa
The guide is intended to provide transit agency staff with an easy-to-use resource for improving pedestrian safety. The guide includes a variety of approaches to address common pedestrian safety issues that are likely to arise near transit stations, bus stops, and other places where transit (bus
On April 28, 2015, the Committee for the Review of the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Report on Connected Vehicle Initiative Communications Systems Deployment sent a letter to Anthony R. Foxx, Secretary of the USDOT. The committee, as directed by Congress, conducted an independent peer
With funding and support from the USDOT RITA and direction from the FHWA Road Weather Management Program, NCAR is developing a Vehicle Data Translator (VDT) software system that incorporates vehicle-based measurements of the road and surrounding atmosphere with other weather data sources. The p
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2424 consists of eight papers that address a new snapshot generation protocol for travel-time estimation in a connected vehicle environment, the safety impacts of intervehicle warning information systems for m
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2424 consists of eight papers that address a new snapshot generation protocol for travel-time estimation in a connected vehicle environment, the safety impacts of intervehicle warning information systems for m
