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Guidebook for Managing Compliance with Federal Regulations: An Integrated Approach

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 156: Guidebook for Managing Compliance with Federal Regulations: An Integrated Approach provides guidance on managing compliance with federal regulations pertaining to the operation and management of airports. Accompanying the guidebook

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TR News March-April 2016: Research Convergence for a Multimodal Future

A featured article in the March-April 2016 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 95th TRB Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2016. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Dr. Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transp

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SHRP2 Flyer

SHRP2 Flyer

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2014 Traffic Safety Fact Sheet: School-Transportation-Related Crashes

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that summarizes data on fatal school-transportation-related motor vehicle traffic crashes from 2005 to 2014.

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Summit White Papers: 1, 2, & 3

These White Papers were prepared for the NOCoE Workforce Development Summit on June 22-23, 2016.

Summit White Paper 1:

White Paper 1 is designed to provide general background and context regarding TSM&O as a program activity and TSM&O staf

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Navigating Multi-Agency NEPA Processes to Advance Multimodal Transportation Projects

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 827: Navigating Multi-Agency NEPA Processes to Advance Multimodal Transportation Projects analyzes approaches taken by state departments of transportation (DOTs), their local partners, and other project sponsors to satisfy Nationa

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NCHRP Impacts on Practice: Knowledge and Information - Critical DOT Assets

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Impacts on Practice explores how guidance from two NCHRP reports have been applied by state departments of transportation to manage resources and run as efficiently as possible. Guidance on knowledge management has helped state de

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Best Practices Outsourcing Winter Maintenance Services

This project was initiated and sponsored by VMS, Inc., a privately owned, maintenance systems company based in Richmond, VA, that provides snow removal and other maintenance services for the Virginia DOT, the City of Washington, DC, the Texas DOT, the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority and the Oklahoma

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Best Practices In Winter Maintenance Summary Report

The purpose of the Winter Maintenance Scanning Tour was to seek out and observe the progress that State and local highway agencies are making in advancing today’s technology in the area of winter roadway maintenance.  While this was the first domestic tour in the USA, it was tailored after t

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National Winter Maintenance Peer Exchange

The National Winter Maintenance Peer Exchange is held every two years. This website contains information about the 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 events as well as the progress of research needs in "Progress Scoreboard" (click here.)

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Winter Highway Maintenance Operations:Connecticut

This study addresses issues identified in legislation adopted by the Connecticut General Assembly that directed the Commissioner of Transportation to conduct an analysis of corrosive effects of chemical road treatments, determine the cost of corrosion created by road treatments, an

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Grand Challenges: A Research Plan for Winter Maintenance

This study was requested by AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) and specifically by the Standing Committee on Highways (SCOH) on behalf of Subcommittee on Maintenance. The members of the task group that guided this study are listed in the Acknowledgements.

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State DOTs Connecting Specialized Transportation Users and Rides Volume 1: Research Report

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 832: State DOTs Connecting Specialized Transportation Users and Rides, Volume 1: Research Report provides resources for agencies and organizations with practices for connecting specialized transportation users with the rides they

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TR News January–February 2016: Disruptions and Transformations: Findings from the States

The full edition of the January–February 2016 TR News is now available. This edition features the annual overview of trends and developments in policy and practice at state departments of transportation and other agencies—particularly research needs, research in progress, and applied researc

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TR News January–February 2016: Disruptions and Transformations: Findings from the States

The full edition of the January–February 2016 TR News is now available. This edition features the annual overview of trends and developments in policy and practice at state departments of transportation and other agencies—particularly research needs, research in progress, and applied researc

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Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report

 

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report, which summarizes a workshop hosted by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board on March 5, 2015 that explores the link between gov

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Public Transportation, Volume 3: Management, Performance, and Quality of Service

TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2541 consists of 8 papers addressing public transportation issues, including:

Rising Costs of Transit and Baumol’s Cost Disease Demand-Sensitive Candidate Route Generation Algorithm Dear Driver,
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2016 - 2017 NOCoE Business Plan

The National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) recently completed its first full year of activities under a comprehensive Technical Service Plan (TSP), from July 1st, 2015, to June 30th, 2016. This success was only made possible through strong partnerships between NOCoE and its founding org

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Transportation Systems Management and Operations Program Planning—Experiences from the SHRP2 Implementation Assistance Program

Strategic Transportation System Management & Operations (TSM&O) Program Plans and associated programming planning activities are proving effective in accelerating and focusing TSM&O programs within state and local transportation agencies. AASHTO has tentatively defined a framework for

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Travel Behavior, Volume 1

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2565, includes 12 papers that explore information related to travel behavior, including:

Incentivizing Modal Change: Exploring Effect of Multimodal Information and Ticketing Systems for Medium and Lo
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Planning and Preliminary Engineering Applications Guide to the Highway Capacity Manual

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 825: Planning and Preliminary Engineering Applications Guide to the Highway Capacity Manual will help planners apply the methodologies of the 6th Edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) to common

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Use of Narrow Lanes and Narrow Shoulders on Freeways: A Primer on Experiences, Current Practice and Implementation Consideration

This primer provides information to policy makers, transportation agency managers, designers and operators on the use of narrow lanes and narrow shoulders to improve capacity within an existing roadway footprint. Much of the information contained in the primer is presented in the broader context

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The Adoption of Transit Communications Interface Profiles in the Transit Industry

This report identifies the institutional and economic reasons that have impeded the adoption of TCIP standards into the public transit industry. Overall, there is a fundamental tradeoff to be made in the adoption of technology standards such as TCIP, a tradeoff between short-term benefits which a

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NOCoE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan

NOCoE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan

The National Operations Center of Excellence’s (NOCoE) identified workforce development as one of the focus areas that would provide value to the Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) community and hosted

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NOCOE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan Final

NOCOE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan 

The National Operations Center of Excellence’s (NOCoE) identified workforce development as one of the focus areas that would provide value to the Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) community and h

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Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Report 835: Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes. The report provides implementation guidance for transportation agencies interested in designing, implementing

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Traffic Signal Systems Volume 1 2016

 

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2557 consists of 11 papers that explore traffic signal systems, including:

Signal Timing for Diverging Diamond Interchanges: Fundamentals, Concepts, and Recommended Applications Hi
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AZ Tech Operations Implementation Plan

AZTech began as a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Model Deployment Initiative (MDI) for the Phoenix metropolitan area in 1996. As part of the MDI, AZTech’s mission was to provide a champion for the integration of intelligent transportation and 

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AZ Tech Action Plan FY 2016-2017

The AZTech Action Plan is a five-year operations planning document with a near-term focus to help AZTech advance the priority implementation strategies that were identified in the 2015 AZTech Operations Implementation Plan. The Action Plan is owned and driven by the AZTech members, and reflects t

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AZ Tech FY 2016 - FY 2017 Projects Aligned to the 2015 Implementation Plan Focus Areas

AZ Tech FY 2016 - FY 2017 Projects Aligned to the 2015 Implementation Plan Focus Areas

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Maintenance Services, Transportation Weather, and Winter Maintenance

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2551 consists of 16 papers that explore traffic and equipment maintenance, especially with regards to weather, including:

•Accuracy of Ice Melting Capacity Tests: Review of Melting Data for Sodium Ch

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Guide to Value Capture Financing for Public Transportation Projects

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Research Report 190: Guide to Value Capture Financing for Public Transportation Projects. Value capture is the public recovery of a portion of increased property and other value created as a re

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UDOT

As a Department, UDOT’s goal is to reduce overall impacts to the public while meeting transportation needs. As such, planning for and executing appropriate strategies to involve and communicate with the public at large and with individual stakeholders throughout the life cycle of transportation p

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NCHRP

NCHRP

This document contains the proposed Information Organization Framework (IOF)1 with the embedded list of categories to classify/filter various performance measurements from the most relevant and most recent literature2 . In addition, this final draft of the report describes the pro

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