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A Framework for Improving Travel Time Reliability

Transportation systems management and operations (TSM&O) strategies can improve travel time reliability, which yields both safety and economic benefits and improves road-user experience. To date, only a few transportation agencies have TSM&O programs to address travel time reliability, bu

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A Guide for Implementing Bus On Shoulder (BOS) Systems

In many urban areas, traffic congestion commonly delays bus services and adversely affects schedule reliability. Bus priorities on streets and    highways have been successfully used for almost a half century. More recently, some communities have adopted policies and

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A Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response

A planning guide for use by all transit agencies with emphasis on small urban and rural transit agencies; human service transportation providers; and the state DOTs that provide oversight for grant recipients in both categories.
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A Guide to Agency-Wide Knowledge Management for State Departments of Transportation

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 813: A Guide to Agency-Wide Knowledge Management for State Departments of Transportation presents guidance for state transportation agencies on adopting an explicit knowledge management (KM) strategy and the ways that organization

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A Guide to Updating Highway Emergency Response Plans for Terrorist Attacks

Planning guidance for state departments of transportation that want to incorporate the Incident Command System. This report has been replaced by Report 525 Vol 16 "A Guide to Emergency Response Planning at State Transportation Agencies."
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A Guidebook for Standard Reporting and Evaluation Procedures for TSM&O Strategies

This guidebook provides step-by-step procedures for designing and conducting empirically based (i.e., observational) before-and-after studies for operations strategies. While the focus is on operational strategies, the same procedures may be applied to any highway congestion mitigation strategies

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A Lexicon for Conveying Travel Time Reliability Information

 

The SHRP2 L14 project has three objectives: 1) quantify the potential for improvements in the communication of travel reliability information to affect traveler choices such that positive impacts on system performance occur, 2) develop a lexicon for communicating travel time reli

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A Look at The Legal Environment For Driverless Vehicles

Driverless vehicles have been predicted, promised, and desired for decades. Finally, technologies necessary to realize these devices have become available. The question is no longer if, but when, driverless vehicles will become available to the public. When they do, driverless

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A Self-Study Course on Terrorism-Related Risk Management of Highway Infrastructure

This CD-based course provides the fundamentals of risk management suitable to a variety of state and Federal infrastructure risk managers. The course provides material specific to bridges and tunnels and contains sample exercises for the student.
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