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Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation

  • 2012
  • Communicating Reliability Information
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • Operator
  • Outreach & Marketing
  • Research
  • Senior Manager
  • State-of-the Practice
  • TCRP
  • Technology Tracker
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF

This report explores the use of social media among transit agencies and documents successful practices in the U.S. and Canada. Thirty-four of 39 transit agencies in large metro, small urban, and rural areas responded to a survey, and six of those participated in phone interviews to develop case e

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Best Practice

Using Highways During Operations for Events with Advance Notice

  • 2005-2009
  • Best Practice
  • Best Practice
  • Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Engineer
  • FHWA
  • Local government/MPO/RTPA cooperation
  • Media / PIO
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Planned Special Event Management
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Public safety agency collaboration
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Resilience
  • Transportation Management Centers
  • Transportation Management Centers (TMC / TOC)
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
FHWA report that explores transportation management and operations advancements that may be applied to improve evacuation planning and operations when advance notice is possible. This primer is intended as a tool to aid local and state planners in maximizing the use of the highway network in the dev
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Research

Vehicle to Infrastructure Deployment Guidance and Products

  • 2015
  • Advanced Communications
  • Automated Vehicles
  • Automated vehicles
  • Communications
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • FHWA
  • Integrated ITS Deployment
  • Planning
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Research
  • Vehicle Systems/Connected Vehicles
    • |PDF
This guidance is intended to assist Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) staff and transportation system owner/operators deploy Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) technology not only in terms of the Federal-aid Highway program requirements but also practices to help ensure interoperability and efficie
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Research

Vehicle-Based Technologies for Winter Maintenance: The State of the Practice

  • 2005-2009
  • Associate Engineer
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • NCHRP
  • Operator
  • Principal Engineer
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Technician
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
The NCHRP 20-07/Task 200 Project is complete. The final report titled "Vehicle-Based Technologies for Winter Maintenance: The State of the Practice".
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Research

Visualization of Geotechnical Data for Hazard Mitigation and Disaster Response

  • 2014
  • Business Processes/Policies and Procedures
  • Emergency Planning
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Emergency Transportation Operations for Disasters
  • Engineer
  • Infrastructure Protection
  • NCHRP
  • Planning for Operations
  • Recovery
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Resilience
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
    • |PDF
A comprehensive and systematic review of current practice, to identify and synthesize capabilities of installed instrumentation and remote sensing that can be used for real-time measurement, management and visualization of geotechnical data.
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Research

Weather Delay Costs to Trucking

  • 2012
  • Director / Program Manager
  • FHWA
  • Freight Data / Analysis
  • Freight Management
  • Freight Management Operations
  • Freight Technology and Operations
  • OST ITS JPO
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Road Weather Management
  • Senior Manager
    • |PDF

The purpose of this project was to estimate the impact of weather on U.S. roadway freight operations. It was already known that the freight sector of transportation could be greater than $600 billion of total gross domestic product, and 70 percent of that total value is moved by truck. Therefore,

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Best Practice

Weigh-in-Motion System Calibration

  • 2010
  • Associate Engineer
  • Best Practice
  • Best Practice
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Commercial vehicle size and weight
  • Curbside Management/Delivery
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Engineer
  • Freight Data / Analysis
  • Freight Infrastructure
  • Freight Management
  • Freight Management Operations
  • Freight Technology and Operations
  • Intercity and Charter Buses
  • Logistics
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • NCHRP
  • Operator
  • Principal Engineer
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Technician
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
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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Research

Work Plan for the Second Edition of the Highway Safety Manual

  • 2011
  • Associate Engineer
  • CEO / GM / Commissioner
  • Director / Program Manager
  • Employee Health and Safety
  • Engineer
  • Maintenance Staff
  • Manager / First Line Supervisor
  • Media / PIO
  • NCHRP
  • Operator
  • Principal Engineer
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Public
  • Public Safety Officer
  • Public safety agency collaboration
  • Research
  • Research
  • Research
  • Researcher/Academic
  • Roadway Safety Services / Roadway Safety Patrol
  • Senior Engineer
  • Senior Manager
  • Technician
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Traffic Incident Management
  • Training and Profesional Development
  • Transit Professional
  • Transportation Planner
    • |PDF
The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) is being developed through a series of NCHRP projects and with the guidance of the TRB and AASHTO Task Forces on the HSM. The draft of the first edition was completed in early 2009 and after the balloting process will become an AASHTO publication. The objective of thi
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