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Analysis of Managed Lanes on Freeway Facilities

This report documents and presents the results of a study for evaluating the performance of Managed Lane (ML) facilities on freeways. A methodological framework is for analyzing freeway facilities with ML and General Purpose (GP) lanes operated in parallel. The framework acknow

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Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas: A Planning Guide

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 33: Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas: A Planning Guide outlines potential strategies and practical solutions for public and private stakeholders to improve freight movement system performance in diverse m

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FEMA and FHWA Emergency Relief Funds Reimbursements to State Departments of Transportation

 A comprehensive and systematic review of current practice, synthesizes the range of things DOTs can do, and in some cases are doing, to ease their response effort, secure appropriate reimbursements, and simplify cost identification. 

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Improving Safety Data Programs Through Data Governance and Data Business Planning

TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C196: Improving Safety Data Programs Through Data Governance and Data Business Planning summarizes the major themes of a peer exchange held on March 3-4, 2015, in Washington, D.C., which explored effective data governance and data business planning solutio

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Critical Incident Management and Clearance Practices for Rail Transit

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 114: Critical Incident Management and Clearance Practices for Rail Transit summarizes the current state of the practice regarding incident response and identifies strategies for post-incident evaluations.

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Freeway Operations; Regional Systems Management and Operations; Managed Lanes 2014

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2470 consists of 18 papers that explore a comprehensive framework for planning and assessment of traffic incident management programs; evaluation of hero-coordinated ramp metering installation; online scalable

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Guide to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on Transportation System Performance

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 806: Guide to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on Transportation System Performance provides guidance and a spreadsheet tool to help managers with applying data-driven techniques to project prioritization, program de

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Data Systems and Asset Management

TRB Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2460 consists of papers that address the value proposition for transportation projects; automated road travel surveys; development of alignment-based parametric data exchange schema for bridge geometry; pavement

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Transit 2014, Vol. 4

TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2418 consists of 15 articles that chronicles the jobs–housing balance of bus commuters in Beijing, China; an evaluation of presignals at oversaturated signalized intersections; transit signal priority wi

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