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Responding to Threats: A Field Personnel Manual

Provides a draft template that contains basic security awareness training in a workbook format that can be redesigned as a phamplet, glove box brochure, or other user specific product.
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Response to Extreme Weather Impacts on Transportation Systems

A comprehensive and systematic review of current practice, this synthesis will support the preparation of better adaptation planning and will set the stage for a unified, accessible resource that can be used to support DOT planning, preparation and budgetary requests.
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Revised Chapter 8, Winter Operations and Salt, Sand and Chemical Management, of the Final Report on NCHRP 25-25(04)

NCHRP Project 25-25(04), Environmental Stewardship Practices, Procedures, and Policies for Highway Construction and Maintenance, was conducted to develop a compendium of practices for integrating environmental stewardship into construction, operations, and maintenance activities (see note below). T
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Rheological Characterization of Flow Table Reference Material

The objectives of this research are to (1) fully characterize the reference material used in (a) AASHTO M 152, “Flow Table for Use in Tests of Hydraulic Cement,” (b) AASHTO T 71, “Effect of Organic Impurities in Fine Aggregate on Strength of Mortar”; T 137 (ASTM C185), “Air content of Hydraulic Ceme
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Roadway Measurement System Evaluation

This report documents the evaluation of automated/mobile data-collection services to provide data on roadway features and characteristics considered important for safety analysis, especially analysis of data from the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS). To obtain these roadway data, SHRP 2 se

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Safety Impacts of the Emerging Digital Display Technology for Outdoor Advertising Signs

This topic will review on-going human factor studies and guidelines with regard to highway agency DMS’s and CMS’s now in use on highways. The panel noted that the panel for this topic should include a representative from the outdoor advertising industry. The final report has been submitted and copi
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Seismic Isolation Design Examples of Highway Bridges

The objective of this research was to develop the Third Edition of the AASHTO Guide Specifications for Isolation Design with examples.
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Sharing Information Between Public Safety and Transportation Agencies for Traffic Incident Management

Presents lessons learned about how public safety and transportation agencies share traffic incident information.
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Size and Weight Management Agency-Wide Benefits

Significant growth in domestic and international commerce, coupled with ever-increasing traffic congestion and delay on surface transportation networks, challenge industries’ ability to move freight economically without use of larger and heavier load movements This trend challenges limited enforceme
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Smart Growth and Urban Goods Movement

This report examines the interrelationships between smart growth applications and goods movement, specifically those relationship between land -use patterns and the transportation of goods in the urban environment. The results of the research can be used by decisionmakers to more accurately

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