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Freeway Operations; Regional Systems Management and Operations; Managed Lanes 2014

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2470 consists of 18 papers that explore a comprehensive framework for planning and assessment of traffic incident management programs; evaluation of hero-coordinated ramp metering installation; online scalable

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Grand Challenges: A Research Plan for Winter Maintenance

In this project, the consultant identified the grand challenges that face highway winter maintenance operations and the research needed to address them based on the input provided by the participants of a workshop. These participants included members from the AASHTO Highway Subcommittee on Maintenan
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Guidance for Transportation Agencies on Managing Sensitive Information

Provides basic information about the two primary elements that should be the foundation for any transportation agency's sensitive information policy: how to identify sensitive information that must be protected and how to control access to that information responsibly.
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Guide for Emergency Transportation Operations

Guidance for state DOTs to coordinate activities with law enforcement, fire service, and emergency management.
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Guide to Benchmarking Operations Performance Measures

This study developed a guide with procedures for benchmarking performance measures for systems operations and management. A workshop was held on February 27-28, 2007 to refine the definitions for the performance measures and to begin identifying test cases.
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Guide to Contracting ITS Projects

This report provides guidance on the procurement of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), including variable message signs, traffic detectors, signal controllers, and a variety of other hardware and software that entails applications of advanced electronics and information management to regul

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Guide to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on Transportation System Performance

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 806: Guide to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on Transportation System Performance provides guidance and a spreadsheet tool to help managers with applying data-driven techniques to project prioritization, program de

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Guide to Effective Freeway Performance Measurement: Final Report and Guidebook

This document includes both a summary report and a detailed guidebook on effective freeway performance measurement focusing on congestion/mobility on freeways. Specific areas covered in the guidebook include the rationale for performance measures, context, definition and description of performance m
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Guide to Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability

The SHRP2 L02 project is being carried out to “develop system designs for programs to monitor travel time reliability and to prepare a guidebook that practitioners and others can use to design, build, operate, and maintain such systems.” The Guidebook is intended to help agency staff identify fun

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