The research project that produced this report focused on answering the following related questions:
How should highway reconstruction projects be set in space and time to minimize disruption to the traveling public, businesses, and adjacent communities? What is the traffic impact onThe General Motors’ Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York piqued the collective imaginations of Americans and the world. The exhibit promised that in a mere 25 years, the United States would have an automated highway system offering tremendous benefits in meetin
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Program(NCHRP) has released Strategies to advance Automated and Connected Vehicle: Briefing Document. It is intended for state, regional, and agency, and political decision makers who are framing public policy making for these transformational
TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-C12-RR-1: The Effect of Public-Private Partnerships and Non-Traditional Procurement Processes on Highway Planning, Environmental Review, and Collaborative Decision Making explores the different points in the overall project develo
This digest was prepared to answer the following questions: first, whether there is a definition of the term “first responder” in federal law, and second, if there is a definition in federal law, what is the definition’s effect on the distrib
TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 798: The Role of Planning in a 21st Century State Department of Transportation—Supporting Strategic Decisionmaking examines how the planning function in state departments of transportation can more effectively support strategic de
This report, commissioned by Congress, explores the capacity of transit systems serving the nation’s 38 largest urbanized areas (representing populations of >1 million) to accommodate the evacuation, egress, or ingress of people from or to critical locations in times of emergency. The research
The Louisiana Transportation Research Center has released a report that explains software designed to assist state departments of transportation in data preparation and management of pavement mechanistic empirical design input data.
