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Traffic Enforcement Strategies for Work Zones

This report presents guidance for the safe and effective deployment of traffic enforcement strategies in work zones on high-speed highways with speed limits greater than 45 mph. The report discusses planning, design, and operation of traffic enforcement strategies, and associated a

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Train-the-Trainer Pilot Courses for Incident Responders and Managers

The costs associated with traffic congestion are high and continue to rise. The 2012 Urban Mobility Report, published by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, cites the following facts:

The total financial cost of congestion in 2011 was $121 billion, up $1 billi
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Training of Traffic Incident Responders

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L12-RW-1: Training of Traffic Incident Responders presents the results of a project that developed a training program for traffic incident responders and managers.
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Training of Traffic Incident Responders

Improving Traffic Incident Scene Management, was designed to establish the foundation for and promote certification of responders to achieve the three objectives of the traffic incident management (TIM) national unified goal (NUG). The intent is to motivate responders from different stakeholder g

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Training Programs, Processes, Policies, and Practices

This synthesis of practice focuses on the program components required by a DOT to have a sound set of policies, processes, and procedures for planning, developing, implementing, funding, and evaluating state DOT training, development, and education programs. It does not focus on specific DOT trai

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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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Transportation Decision Making: Proof of Concept—Maryland

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L35B-RW-1: Value of Travel Time Reliability in Transportation Decision Making: Proof of Concept—Maryland addresses how an agency can include a value of travel time reliability in a benefit–cost analysis when making congestion

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Transportations Rule in Emergency Evacuation and Reentry

A comprehensive and systematic review of current practice for evacuation and repopulation, considering the use of modes for low-mobility individuals.
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TRB Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report

Since September 11, 2001, 145 security-, emergency management-, and infrastructure protection-related planning and implementation projects have been initiated through programs managed by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). One hundred eleven of these projects have been completed;

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TSM&O Research Coordination & Highlights of the 2016 TRB Annual

TSM&O Research Coordination & Highlights of the 2016 TRB Annual

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