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Best Practices for Implementing Quality Control and Quality Assurance for Tunnel Inspection

The objective of this project is to develop guidelines for owners to use in selecting practices for tunnel inspection, operational safety and emergency response systems testing, and inventory procedures to improve the safety of highway tunnels.
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Blast-Resistant Highway Bridges: Designs and Detailing Guidelines

Provides design guidance for improving the structural performance and resistance to explosive effects of new and existing bridges.
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Bridge Infrastructure Preservation

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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Challenges and Opportunities: A Strategic Plan for Equipment Management Research

The project identified the grand challenges that face the organizations that manage highway maintenance equipment and the research needed to address them . These challenges and research needs were identified based on input provided by professionals involved in the different aspects of equipment ma
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Challenges to CV and AV Application in Truck Freight Operations

The freight industry is essential to the economic vitality of the United States. Trucks carry most of the tonnage and value of freight in the nation, and the American Trucking Associations (ATA) forecasts a 23.5% growth in truck freight tonnage by 2025. This projected growth will put tremendous stre
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Characterization Test Procedures for Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems Based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications

Characterization test procedures have been developed to quantify the performance of intersection collision avoidance (ICA) systems based on vehicle-to-vehicle communications. These systems warn the driver of an imminent crossing-path collision at a road junction, and apply automatic braking if the d
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Commercial Motor Vehicle Size Enforcement

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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Commercial Motor Vehicle Weight Enforcement

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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Conceptual Development of an AASHTO Guide to Systems Operations and Management

The objective of this project was to develop a scope and detailed table of contents for an AASHTO Guide to Systems Operations and Management based on input from operations professionals, knowledge of the industry, and familiarity with existing AASHTO guides.
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Congestion Pricing - A Primer: Effective Approaches to Streamlining Back Office Operations

While project managers for congestion pricing strategies and systems are focused on traffic management, technology, toll rates, and design, other critical issues related to operations, policy, and rapidly changing technology tend to arise. In this primer, these challenges are collectively referre

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