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2014/2015 Implementing Eco-Logical Program Annual Report
Implementing Eco-Logical is one of the many solutions under the Second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) led by FHWA, American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, and Transportation Research Board. The Implementing Eco-Logical Program has made great strides over the past year in developing materials and offering resources that help agencies across the country implement the Eco-Logical approach. The 2014/2015 annual report provides an overview of the program’s activities for the reporting year, as well as findings and updates from Implementing Eco-Logical Implementation Assistance Program (IAP) recipients. |
Jun 2017 |
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2015 FHWA Vehicle to Infrastructure Deployment Guidance and Products
This draft guidance is intended to assist FHWA and transportation system operators in deploying V2I technology. It offers practices to help ensure interoperability with existing transportation systems as well as efficient transportation planning and operations management. |
Apr 2014 |
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2016 Freight Quick Facts Report
The objective of this report is to provide basic information that answers a wide range of freight-related questions, particularly about how the sector is rapidly evolving. For example, the economic recession of 2008 precipitated declines in freight modes used to move consumer goods, although several markets rebounded strongly. The changing energy landscape of the country—from increasing domestic production and declining coal consumption—will continue driving changes in freight demand into the future, particularly for railroads and pipelines. The evolving nature of globalization and trade is reshaping the geography of shipments, placing increased importance on border crossings and gateway infrastructure. These and many other changes to the structure of the economy are happening at the same time that the technology and best practices for moving freight are improving, leading to more efficient, responsive, and sustainable supply chains. |
Sep 2016 |
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A Right to the Road Understanding & Addressing Bicyclist Safety
The Governors’ Highway Safety Association has released a report that analyzes bicyclist fatal crash data resulting from a collision with a motor vehicle to identify changes in trend lines associated with who is being killed, when and where those crashes are more likely to occur, and why those crashes occur. |
Aug 2017 |
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AASHTO's Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities (4th edition)
Provides information on how to accommodate bicycle travel and operations in most riding environments. It is intended to present sound guidelines that result in facilities that meet the needs of bicyclists and other highway users. |
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Accessible Shared Streets: Notable Practices and Considerations for Accommodating Pedestrians with Vision Disabilities
This document addresses a specific type of shared street user--pedestrians with vision disabilities. It reviews notable practices and considerations for accommodating pedestrians with vision disabilities on shared streets. This document is not a comprehensive guide to shared street design and planning. For example, it does not discuss the history and theory of shared street design, drainage, parking, or other relevant issues except as they pertain to pedestrians with vision disabilities. It focuses on streets where pedestrians, bicyclists, and motor vehicles are intended to mix in the same space rather than streets that lack curbs but are not intended to encourage this mixing, such as curbless streets (see 2.2 Shared Streets vs. Curbless Streets). |
Oct 2017 |
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Advancement of Performance-Based Scenario Planning for Regional Planning and Decision-Making: A Synthesis Report
This report synthesizes key content and outcomes identified as the result of a two-day scenario planning convening held in January 2016; interviews with regional planning organizations held in December 2015; and subsequent research. This document explores how regional planning organizations utilize scenario planning in their work, what tools they are using, and how scenario planning can become more widespread by considering barriers to use and entry of current processes and tools. |
Jun 2017 |
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Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations: An Objectives-Driven, Performance-Based Approach - A Guidebook
This guidebook presents an approach for integrating management and operations strategies into the metropolitan transportation planning process that is designed to maximize the performance of the existing and planned transportation system. |
Feb 2010 |
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Advancing Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety: A Primer for Highway Safety Professionals
Communities across the country are encouraging walking and biking to meet safety, health, livability, equity, and mobility goals. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a new resource for introducing pedestrian and bicycle safety measures, "Advancing Pedestrian Safety: A Primer for Highway Safety Professionals." The Primer, developed as a reference for non-engineers, is intended for highway safety professionals, including State Highway Safety Officials, as well as their partners and grantees, as a reference for an integrated and comprehensive effort to improve pedestrian and bicycle safety and support broader transportation-related goals. |
Apr 2016 |
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An Analysis of the Operational Costs of Trucking: 2018 Update
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Oct 2018 |
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APA Paper: Preparing for Autonomous Vehicles
This paper summarizes the findings of a symposium and research on the implications of autonomous vehicles for cities and regions. It is intended for planners and local government officials involved in land-use planning, urban design, and transportation. Readers will learn about the need to plan for the potential benefits and negative impacts of autonomous vehicles and what steps they can take now to prepare their communities. |
Jan 2018 |
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Approaches to Presenting External Factors with Operations Performance Measures
External factors (e.g., fuel prices, economic conditions, employment levels) are those influences that affect transportation system performance but are typically outside the control of transportation agencies. |
Feb 2018 |
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Approaches to Presenting External Factors with Operations Performance Measures
External factors (e.g., fuel prices, economic conditions, employment levels) are those influences that affect transportation system performance but are typically outside the control of transportation agencies. Transportation agencies that wish to effectively manage system performance should understand the nature and extent of this influence of external factors on system performance. Understanding the nature and extent of external factors helps in several elements of performance management, particularly in communication and target setting. This project identified key external factors that can impact performance, and developed recommendations for including external factors in performance reporting. Based on a statistical analysis of available data, the following external factors were identified as being highly correlated with system performance: 1) traffic volume levels; 2) number of employed persons; 3) number of building permits; 4) rental vacancy rate; 5) fuel price index; and 6) economic conditions index. The report also includes recommendations for including external factors in performance reporting. The recommendations include communication and chart design techniques that highlight and reinforce the connection between system performance and external factors. For example, one should illustrate the system performance and external factors on the same time scale on a single chart, preferably with seasonal adjustments applied to better visualize overall trends. The intended message from the chart should be clearly spelled so that readers are not forced to interpret complex graphics. Colors should be chosen that are complementary and easily viewable, even by those with visual impairments. |
Feb 2018 |
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Asset Sustainability Index: A Proposed Measure for Long-Term Performance
This report examines the concept of asset sustainability metrics. Such metrics address the long-term performance of highway assets based upon expected expenditure levels. It examines how such metrics are used in Australia, Britain and the private sector. Additional quick reference guide also linked |
Jul 2012 |
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Benefits Estimation Framework for Automated Vehicle Operations
This report presents a framework for estimating the potential benefits and dis-benefits of technologies contributing to the automation of the Nation’s surface transportation system. Components of the framework include (1) Safety, (2) Vehicle mobility, (3) Energy/environment, (4) Accessibility, (5) Transportation system usage, (6) Land use, and (7) Economic analysis. |
Aug 2015 |
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Best Planning Practices: Metropolitan Transportation Plans
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Mar 2012 |
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Better Plans for Better Places: How the Sustainable Communities Initiative changed the way the country plans for a prosperous future
The Sustainable Communities Initiative (SCI) represents the most comprehensive federal support for community and regional planning in recent history. Never before has the federal government provided funding for planning that spans the environmental, social and economic challenges facing our communities. This investment enabled people and organizations in 143 places, representing nearly 40 percent of the US population, to work together--across jurisdictions, sectors, all manner of old divides--in broad and deep coalitions toward ambitious goals of vibrant, healthy, livable communities. These diverse places--urban and rural, regions and neighborhoods, thriving and more challenged--were supported by a team of experienced organizations using innovative techniques to build community capacity in myriad ways. Their results will have lasting impacts for the 145 million residents living in grantee communities and beyond. |
Jun 2015 |
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Bicycle and Pedestrian Program: Case Studies in Delivering Safe, Comfortable and Connected Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is committed to documenting and promoting connected pedestrian and bicycle networks in communities throughout the U.S. Networks are interconnected pedestrian and/or bicycle transportation facilities that allow people of all ages and abilities to safely and conveniently get where they want to go. This December 2015 report provides an overview of pedestrian and bicycle network principles and highlights examples from communities across the country. |
Dec 2015 |
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Bicycle and Pedestrian Transportation Planning Guidance
This document offers technical guidance on meeting the Federal requirements for consideration and appropriate inclusion of bicycle and pedestrian elements in Statewide and MPO transportation plans and TIPs. |
Sep 2017 |
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Case Studies in Realizing Co-Benefits of Multimodal Roadway Design and Gray and Green Infrastructure
This document highlights case studies of projects that contribute to safe and connected pedestrian and bicycle networks in States and communities throughout the U.S., while at the same time providing resiliency and green infrastructure benefits that promote resiliency and relieve burdens on stormwater systems. The case studies included in the report are organized in the following categories: (1) Mitigating Flood Risk, (2) Public-Private Partnerships, (3) Multimodal Network Connectivity, and (4) State and Locally Driven Projects. |
Mar 2018 |
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Center for Transportation Studies Report: Using GIS for Tribal Transportation Safety
Traffic safety is a significant transportation and health concern among tribal travelers. Among Native American populations, motor vehicle-related injuries are the leading cause of death for ages up to 5-34 years old. Over the last three decades, the number of fatal crashes on Indian reservations increased dramatically, while nationally they have declined. Moreover, several recent reviews have noted that potentially effective approaches have been hampered by a lack of timely data and robust tools to guide appropriate strategies in Tribal lands. This study investigated the potential of new advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to enhance the collection, availability and use of transportation safety related information. This investigation resulted in development of several promising GIS applications for tribal use, identified spatial analytic approaches to understanding tribal safety trends, and explored a framework for considering GIS implementation within the context and culture of Tribal independence and governance. |
Sep 2018 |
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City Form Lab Releases Guide for Bicycle and Pedestrian Trip Monitoring
The Harvard Graduate School of Design’s City Form Lab has released a guide to tools for modeling pedestrian and bicycle trips in cities with the computer modeling program Rhinoceros 3D. The Urban Network Analysis Toolbox provides designers, planners, and others with the necessary tools to measure and predict flows of non-motorized transportation in cities. |
Jan 2018 |
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City of Austin Studies Dockless Electric Scooters
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Nov 2018 |
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Community Connections Innovations Handbook
This publication is for States, MPOs, local and tribal governments, and other transportation practitioners includes a toolbox for advancing Community Connections considerations in the transportation planning, project development, and design processes. The toolbox describes existing analytical tools, public involvement strategies, planning and design techniques, and operational improvements that can be used to implement Community Connections. The Handbook includes 16 case studies highlighting projects in urban, suburban, and rural communities where Community Connections considerations have been successfully applied. |
Oct 2018 |
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Connected Vehicle Impacts on Transportation Planning Desk Reference
This desk reference is designed to help transportation professionals quickly understand and begin planning for the wide variety of impacts that C/AV technology is expected to have on transportation planning products and processes |
Jun 2016 |
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Connected Vehicle Impacts on Transportation Planning Primer
The primer illustrates how connected vehicles (CVs) may be considered across the range of transportation planning processes and products developed by states, metropolitan planning organizations, and local agencies |
Jun 2016 |
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Connected Vehicle Impacts on Transportation Planning: Analysis of the Need for New and Enhanced Analysis Tools, Techniques, and Data Briefing for Traffic Simulation Models
This report focuses on the research and activities that will need to take place in order to adapt existing transportation models to include C/AV. It includes a summary of existing data, tools, and products currently used; a gap analysis identifying the limitations of current models in C/AV analysis; and finally, a research plan to target the identified needs and gaps |
Mar 2016 |
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Connected Vehicle Impacts on Transportation Planning: Outreach to Planning Community
This report presents outreach memos on 11 case studies analyzing the impacts of C/AV on various transportation planning products. It provides a high-level account of the most significant or unique impacts of C/AV on particular planning products |
Jun 2016 |
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Cooperative Development of the Financial Plan
This guide is about integrating financial planning in the larger planning process |
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Costs for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Infrastructure Improvements
Costs for pedestrian and bicycle safety infrastructure often vary greatly from city to city and state to state. This document is a resource for researchers, engineers, planners, and the general public that provides meaningful estimates of infrastructure costs by collecting up-to-date cost information for pedestrian and bicycle treatments from states and cities across the country. |
Oct 2013 |
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Dangerous by Design 2019
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Jan 2019 |
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December Issue of FTA Transit Safety and Oversight Spotlight Newsletter
The December edition includes a summary of the first Safety Management Systems for State Safety Oversight Programs course; a new “Data Spotlight” feature, this month with a focus on rail transit fatality and injury data; a reminder about the Transit Advisory Committee for Safety (TRACS) meeting planned for early 2019; upcoming speaking events and webinars; available safety training; and more. |
Dec 2018 |
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Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Report 192: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride provides approaches to managing park-and-ride facilities, from developing the park-and-ride concept for a community to day-to-day management. Key themes include design, implementation, operations, and maintenance of these facilities. Supplementing the report is TCRP Web-Only Document 69: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Research Report and Transit Agency Case Studies. |
Aug 2017 |
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Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Research Report and Transit Agency Case Studies
TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Web-Only Document 69: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Research Report and Transit Agency Case Studies supplements TCRP Research Report 192: Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride. TCRP Web-Only Document 69 presents information gathered in the development of the guidebook, summarizes the technical research, and presents the in-depth park-and-ride case studies. |
Feb 2017 |
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Designing Road Diet Evaluations: Lessons Learned from San Jose’s Lincoln Avenue Road Diet
The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University has released a report that analyzes traffic impacts from the 2015 implementation of a pilot “road diet” in San Jose, California. This report compares data on traffic volumes and speeds from before and after the road diet was implemented. |
Jul 2017 |
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Developing a Regional Approach to Transportation Demand Management and Nonmotorized Transportation: Best Practice Case Studies
This report highlights four MPOs that are working with their transportation partners to embrace TDM and nonmotorized transportation in an ambitious, conscious, and holistic manner at both regional and local scales. |
Jun 2013 |
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Developing and Advancing Effective Public Involvement and Environmental Justice Strategies for Rural and Small Communities
The objective of this research was to help transportation planners, practitioners and other decision makers in rural areas and other smaller communities develop effective, locally appropriate, replicable strategies for public involvement in transportation planning and programming, especially to engage environmental justice communities in working with transportation planners to co-create strategies that will mitigate or avoid prospective environmental justice issues. Working initially with six competitively selected planning organizations in rural and urban areas of less than 200,000 population, the research found that effective practices for public involvement in transportation planning required as diverse a set of strategies in smaller metropolitan areas as in those with much larger populations, but smaller areas’ planning agencies have correspondingly smaller staffs, and must be selective in their use of various public involvement strategies. |
Sep 2016 |
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Development of Network-Based Measures and Computational Methods for Evaluating the Redundancy of Transportation Networks
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that describes two network-based measures for systematically characterizing the redundancy of transportation networks: travel alternative diversity and network spare capacity. The travel alternative diversity evaluates the existence of multiple modes and effective routes available for travelers. The network spare capacity quantifies the network-wide residual capacity with explicit consideration of traveler mode and route choice behavior as well as congestion effects. |
Jul 2017 |
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Discussion Guide for Automated and Connected Vehicles, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists
This report published by the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center discusses important challenges as automated vehicles begin to share the road with pedestrians and bicyclists. |
Aug 2017 |
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Effective Use of Citizen Advisory Committees for Transit Planning Operations
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 85: Effective Use of Citizen Advisory Committees for Transit Planning Operations examines the involvement of advisory committees in transit planning and operations by exploring the experiences from a few agencies in detail. |
Mar 2016 |
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Environmental Justice Considerations for Connected and Automated Vehicles
Developed by FHWA, this fact sheet provides information on the benefits and challenges associated with the deployment of C/AVs and considerations to help address potential negative impacts on populations vulnerable to cases of environmental injustice. |
Dec 2016 |
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Evaluation Study of the Bike Share Program in Fargo, North Dakota
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University (NDSU) has released a report that investigates the effectiveness of the Great Rides Bike Share program that was launched in 2015. The research examines user opinions on the bike share program, analyzes demand for the bike share program, studies the impact of the program on NDSU student travel behavior and shifts in mode shares, analyzes the livability benefits from the bike share program, and analyzes origin-destination trip data to understand the user trips patterns and needs. |
Jun 2017 |
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Fact Sheet: What is an RTPO
A Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) is an organization that identifies local transportation needs, conducts planning, assists local governments, and supports the statewide transportation planning process in non- metropolitan regions of a State. States are provided the opportunity to designate RTPOs as a method for formalizing the engagement of officials from areas with a population size less than 50,000 as they incorporate rural transportation needs in the statewide transportation planning process. This Fact Sheet will explain the essential elements of RTPOs and their functions. |
Apr 2017 |
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Fact Sheet: How do RTPOs Benefit States and Regions
The Federal transportation authorization, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP -21), created an opportunity for States to formally designate Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs) as a means of formalizing their process for including non-metropolitan areas in statewide transportation planning processes. This fact sheet discusses how the benefits of formalizing RTPOs will outweigh the efforts of designation. |
Apr 2017 |
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Fact Sheet: Integrating Shared Mobility Into Multimodal Transportation Planning
This factsheet is a reduced version of a longer document with the same title. The paper provides a framework for conceptualizing shared mobility as part of the regional transportation planning process, describes opportunities and challenges associated with shared mobility planning and examples of how metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), local governments, transit agencies, and others are integrating shared mobility into their work. |
Feb 2018 |
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Fact Sheet: RTPO Transportation Improvement Program Development
A Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) is required to develop a regional TIP (RTIP) for consideration by the State. The State must cooperate with RTPOs. For affected nonmetropolitan local officials, the State must consult to determine projects that may be of regional significance. This Fact Sheet illustrates examples of existing regional planning agencies that develop RTIPs and how projects from these plans have been incorporated into their STIPS. |
Apr 2017 |
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Fact Sheet: RTPO Work Program Development & Content
Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs) that are designated by States as permitted by 23 United States Code (USC) 135(m) must meet specific requirements. To coordinate transportation planning activities, a Work Program provides a framework for organizing the annual workload of staff and partner agencies and for documenting how available planning funds will be spent. Many existing regional planning organizations (RPOs) are supported by their State Department of Transportation (DOT) with FHWA State Planning and Research (SP&R) and FTA’s Section 5304 funds. In those instances, the projects will be included on the SP&R program. This fact sheet provides examples of where rural regional planning organizations demonstrate the work they are accomplishing. |
Apr 2017 |
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Fact Sheet: RTPO: A Statewide Approach to Transportation Planning that Works
Many States already have regional planning partnerships established in their non-metropolitan areas. These organizations vary in how they address organizational structure and planning responsibilities. This Fact Sheet illustrates successful practices observed in existing non-metropolitan planning organizations based on five areas of approach. |
Apr 2017 |
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Fact Sheet: RTPO: Public Involvement in Transportation Planning
State DOTs often find it difficult to get input from rural residents. RTPOs provide DOTs with a unique opportunity for more effective public participation and collaboration, since they are closer to their rural constituency. Some RPOs also provide public involvement services for their local agency members. This Fact Sheet illustrates effective public participation planning at three regional agencies. |
Apr 2017 |
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FHWA Climate Change Adaptation Guide for Transportation Systems Management
The ability of transportation agencies to effectively manage, operate and maintain a safe, reliable transportation system is being threatened by a changing climate. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, and long-term climatological trends are slowly but inexorably changing how transportation systems need to be planned, designed, operated, and maintained. A "new normal" is evolving and State departments of transportation (DOTs) are turning their focus toward building resilience. This guide provides information and resources to help transportation operations and maintenance staff incorporate climate change into their planning and ongoing activities. Adjustments to transportation system management and operations (TSMO) and maintenance programs—ranging from minor to major changes—can help to minimize the current and future risks to effective TSMO and maintenance. |
Nov 2015 |
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FHWA Guidance: Bicycle and Pedestrian Provisions of Federal Transportation Legislation
The purpose of this guidance is to describe Federal legislative and policy direction related to safety and accommodation for bicycling and walking. The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991 enacted significant changes to Federal transportation policy and programs that expanded consideration of and eligibility for bicycling and walking. The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) in 1998 and the Safe Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: a Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) in 2005 continued these provisions. The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) of 2012 enacted some program changes but continued broad consideration and eligibility for bicycling and walking. The statutory provisions affecting bicycling and walking are codified in titles 23 and 49 of the United States Code (U.S.C.). This document describes the range of opportunities to improve conditions for bicycling and walking. |
Sep 2014 |
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FHWA Guidebook for Measuring Multimodal Network Connectivity
Building on the 2016 guidebook, this resource focuses on pedestrian and bicycle network connectivity and provides information on incorporating connectivity measures into state, metropolitan, and local transportation planning processes. Connectivity measures can help transportation practitioners identify high priority network gaps, implement cost-effective solutions that address multiple needs, optimize potential co-benefits, and measure the long-term impacts of strategic pedestrian and bicycle investments on goals such as improving safety, system efficiency, network performance, and access to key destinations. Toward that end, this resource should be used in conjunction with self-evaluation and transition plans to evaluate needs for pedestrians with disabilities. |
Feb 2018 |
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FHWA Report: Community Impact Assessment: A Quick Reference for Transportation
This publication is a handbook designed to provide information on how to conduct a community impact assessment in order to evaluate the effects of a transportation action on a community and its quality of life. The handbook is intended to help state DOTs, MPOs and other agencies or individuals involved in the project development process understand the possible approaches, data sources, and step-by-step procedures for conducting a community impact assessment. This update of the original 1996 publication "Community Impact Assessment: A Quick Reference for Transportation" has also been designed to reflect the growing importance of technology and an enhanced focus on the human environment. |
Jun 2018 |
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FHWA Report: Data Self-Assessment Workshops Final Report
State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) as well as other public transportation agencies rely on relevant, timely, and quality data to make data-driven business decision in managing transportation programs. Transportation programs, such as infrastructure investment and policy development, thrive on continuous assessment and improvement of existing data. Data self-assessment is part of comprehensive data lifecycle management. This process treats data as a critical asset that needs proper management and improvement. To introduce State DOTs to the data self-assessment tools developed under the National Cooperative Highway Program Project 08-92, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) in collaboration with the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), hosted two workshops. This report summarizes the proceedings from the two workshops, documenting the key takeaways, and lists the agencies that may be willing to participate on follow-on activities. |
Mar 2018 |
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FHWA White Paper: Integrating Resilience into the Transportation Planning Process
This white paper on the efforts of State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to integrate resilience into the transportation planning process builds on the findings of a literature review assessing the planning documents for 52 State DOTs and a selection of 101 MPOs. Key research questions sought to understand how these agencies are considering resilience in their transportation planning process, including their motivation for such considerations, how they are assessing hazards posing a threat to their transportation networks, how they are addressing such threats and vulnerabilities, and their projections for future plans and events. This report includes examples of agencies' efforts in order to better understand the current state of practice for resilience planning. |
May 2018 |
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FHWA/PBIC Report: Case Studies in Delivering Safe, Comfortable, and Connected Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC) developed “Case Studies in Delivering Safe, Comfortable, and Connected Pedestrian and Bicycle Networks” to provide an overview of pedestrian and bicycle network principles and highlights project examples from communities across the country. Connected pedestrian and bicycle networks allow people of all abilities and ages to easily and safely get where they want to go. The report covers 86 pedestrian and bicycle network examples, illustrating how agencies are using a number of different strategies to develop connected networks for nonmotorized travel. The Appendix provides a complete listing of projects highlighted in the report and additional projects that were identified in the study process. The report evaluates and categorizes key project types into six categories: Planning and prioritization, shared use paths, corridor improvements, bridges, on-road facilities, and intersections and crossing improvements. |
Dec 2015 |
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Framework for Better Integrating Health into Transportation Corridor Planning
A multi-disciplinary team from the FHWA Office of Planning, Environment, and Reality (HEP), with participation from the FTA Office of Planning and Environment, developed the “Framework for Better Integrating Health into Transportation Corridor Planning” to help State DOTs, MPOs, and local transportation agencies incorporate health considerations into their corridor planning processes. The Framework offers a step-by-step process for agencies to follow to encourage them to think holistically about the health impacts of decisions made in corridor planning processes. Anchored in traditional corridor planning technical steps that are familiar to practitioners, the Framework highlights specific activities that can inform transportation decisions at each step - making it intuitive to support healthy outcomes while improving the transportation system thus truly delivering infrastructure improvements that provide multiple benefits. Please check see the Health in Transportation website for the complete report. |
Jan 2019 |
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Framework for Life Cycle Assessment of Complete Streets Projects
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Dec 2018 |
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FTA Transit Asset Management Guide: Focusing on the Management of Our Transit Investments
This is a 2016 update of a guide originally published in 2012. To advance transit asset management, this guide provides a transit-specific asset management framework for managing assets individually and as a portfolio of assets that comprise an integrated system. The guide provides flexible, yet targeted guidance to advance the practice and implementation of transit asset management. |
Nov 2016 |
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GAO Report: Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Technologies Expected to Offer Benefits, but Deployment Challenges Exist
This report addresses: (1) the status of V2I technologies; (2) challenges that could affect the deployment of V2I technologies, and DOT efforts to address these challenges; and (3) what is known about the potential benefits and costs of V2I technologies. |
Oct 2015 |
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Guide for Integrating Goods and Services Movement by Commercial Vehicles in Smart Growth Environments
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 844: Guide for Integrating Goods and Services Movement by Commercial Vehicles in Smart Growth Environments describes policy, planning, design, and operations practices considering the coexistence of moving goods and services in smart growth environments at both the design and implementation stages as well as retroactively improving existing conditions. This report will help readers understand common issues and conflicts pertaining to smart growth, how those issues and conflicts manifest themselves in different environments, and the types of strategies and actions stakeholders can take to better integrate goods and services movement by commercial vehicles in smart growth environments. The report also presents the results of six case studies, each of which addresses one of the following Smart Growth classifications: industrial areas transitioning to housing and entertainment districts, working waterfronts transitioning to mixed-use and/or recreation, older commercial and neighborhood areas being revitalized, retrofitting aging commercial corridors, greenfield new communities, and large-scale reconstruction. |
May 2017 |
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Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures
FHWA’s “Guidebook for Developing Pedestrian and Bicycle Performance Measures” is designed to help communities develop performance measures for their pedestrian and bicycle efforts and to integrate those measures into their larger planning process. The guide describes the myriad ways bicycle and pedestrian investments, activities, and impacts can be measured and offers instruction on how to best track and document those measures. The performance measures can then be used to plan, fund, and implement pedestrian and bicycle projects that offer the highest level of benefit. The guidebook was developed by Kittelson and Associates in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC.) |
Mar 2016 |
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How to Develop and Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Action Plan
This report will assist agencies in developing and implementing a safety action plan to improve conditions for bicycling and walking. The plan lays out a vision for improving safety, examining existing conditions, and using a data-driven approach to match safety programs and improvements with demonstrated safety concerns. This guide will help agencies enhance their existing safety programs and activities, including identifying safety concerns and selecting optimal solutions. It will also serve as a reference for improving pedestrian and bicycle safety through a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to safety, including street designs and countermeasures, policies, and behavioral programs. |
Aug 2017 |
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How to Engage Low-Literacy and Limited-English-Proficiency Populations in Transportation Decision-making
An FHWA report that documents best practices in identifying and engaging low-literacy and limited-English-proficiency populations in transportation decisionmaking. The booklet also provides outreach techniques for these populations. |
Feb 2006 |
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Incorporating Livability into Transportation Asset Management Practices through Bikeway Quality Networks
This paper, published by TRB, outlines a framework for integrating livability and transportation asset management practices. The paper introduces the Bikeway Quality Framework, which provides ideas for assessment, prioritization, scenarios, and reporting for improved bikeway quality. The authors also suggest performance measures for livable bikeways including: agency expenditures, level of non-motorized investment, bikeway pavement condition, bikeway pavement marking condition, and jobs created. The paper applies the framework with a real-world example in San Francisco, California. |
Apr 2019 |
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Incorporating On-Road Bicycle Networks into Resurfacing Projects
FHWA’s new resource, "Incorporating On-Road Bicycle Networks into Resurfacing Projects," outlines recommendations for roadway agencies to efficiently and cost-effectively integrate bicycle facilities into resurfacing programs. The workbook provides recommendations for how roadway agencies can integrate bicycle facilities into their resurfacing program, as well as provides methods for fitting bicycle facilities onto existing roadways, cost considerations, and case studies. The workbook does not present detailed design guidance but highlights existing guidance, justifications, and best practices for providing bikeways during resurfacing projects. |
Mar 2016 |
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Incorporating Qualitative Data in the Planning Process: Improving Project Delivery and Outcomes
This report highlights emerging tools, techniques, and resources for gathering qualitative public and stakeholder input to inform the planning process, improve project outcomes, and contribute to streamlining project delivery. |
Mar 2017 |
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Incorporating TDM into the Land Development Process
The goal and objectives of this study were based on the premise that transportation demand management is a critical component in conjunction with land use planning, transportation system construction and transportation systems management for the development of a cost-effective and functional intermodal and multimodal transportation system. The report provides information for municipal planners, traffic engineers, land development proposal reviewers and transportation demand management professionals working for commuter assistance programs, transportation management associations and in other capacities. This study was sponsored by the Florida Department of Transportation and funded through the National Center for Transit Research. |
Oct 2005 |
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Integrating Demand Management into the Transportation Planning Process: A Desk Reference
This document has been developed to serve as a desk reference on integrating demand management into the transportation planning process. The desk reference is organized around two fundamental aspects of transportation planning - policy objectives and scope of the planning effort. The report discusses how demand management relates to seven key policy objectives that are often included in transportation plans, such as congestion and air quality. It then discusses how demand management might be integrated into four levels of transportation planning from the state down to the local level. The report also includes information on tools available for evaluating demand management measures and on the known effectiveness of these measures. |
Aug 2012 |
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Integrating Shared Mobility into Multimodal Transportation Planning
The paper provides a framework for conceptualizing shared mobility as part of the regional transportation planning process, describes opportunities and challenges associated with shared mobility planning and examples of how metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), local governments, transit agencies, and others are integrating shared mobility into their work. |
Feb 2018 |
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Integrating Shared Mobility into Multimodal Transportation Planning: Metropolitan Area Case Studies
New shared mobility services have become increasingly common and transportation agencies are beginning to integrate them into regional planning processes. This report provides three case studies of how metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and their regional partners are integrating shared mobility into regional multimodal transportation planning. The Boston, Massachusetts, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and San Francisco Bay metropolitan areas are featured. This report is a follow-up to the Federal Highway Administration White Paper "Integrating Shared Mobility into Multimodal Transportation Planning: Improving Regional Performance to Meet Public Goals". |
May 2019 |
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Integrating Transportation Demand Management into the Planning and Development Process Commute: A Reference for Cities
Transportation demand management is a key component of the San Diego Association of Governments 2050 Regional Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy as a cost effective means for easing traffic congestion and reducing air pollution, while improving the commute for thousands of San Diego region |
May 2012 |
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ITE Publishes Report on Curbside Management
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ITF Report: Income Inequality, Social Inclusion and Mobility
The International Transport Forum has released a report that evaluates mobility policies that could address transportation-related challenges of lower-income groups. The basis for the report is evidence across countries that lower-income populations tend to suffer more from restricted transportation options that have often have lower-quality services, safety, security, reliability, and comfort. |
Jul 2017 |
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Measuring the Effectiveness of Public Involvement in Transportation Planning and Project Development
This report provides a field-validated and practitioner-ready toolkit to measure the effectiveness of a transportation agency’s public involvement activities. The toolkit is designed to collect feedback from the public on several indicators of effectiveness and to compare that feedback with the agency’s own perceptions. The combined responses can then be used to calculate scores for each indicator and an overall effectiveness index. This allows for systematic comparison of the effectiveness of different public involvement strategies over time. |
Nov 2018 |
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Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Transportation Planning For Megaregions
The movement of people, goods, and information has rapidly changed during the beginning of the 21st century, due to globalization, technology, and new ideas about how transportation should be planned in metropolitan areas. The concept of megaregions provides a valuable new focus on identifying, prioritizing, and addressing important emerging 21st century mobility challenges and opportunities. This report explores innovative ways that metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are working with partners to begin to conduct planning to address the transportation issues of megaregions. This report is based on research for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Planning conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center). The research includes a focus on how MPOs are working within the roles for planning agencies identified in Federal regulations to explore needs outside of their boundaries. |
Dec 2014 |
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Metropolitan Transportation Planning: Executive Seminar
Tailored to audience requirements (topics and length), provides an overview of the basic concepts, components, and participants in the metropolitan planning process. Also highlights innovative and noteworthy practices. |
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Minnesota Tribes and Transportation E-Handbook
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Mobility on Demand Operational Concept Report
This operational concept report provides an overview of the Mobility on Demand (MOD) concept and its evolution, description of the MOD ecosystem in a supply and demand framework, and its stakeholders and enablers. Leveraging the MOD ecosystem framework, this report reviews the key enablers of the system including business models and partnerships, land use and different urbanization scenarios, social equity and environmental justice, policies and standards, and enabling technologies. This review is mostly focused on the more recent forms of MOD (e.g., shared mobility). |
Sep 2017 |
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Model Design Manual for Living Streets
Customizable design guide to help communities improve their transportation facilities for all users. |
Jan 2011 |
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Model Long-Range Transportation Plans: A Guide for Incorporating Performance-Based Planning
This guidebook informs State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), and Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs), as well as their planning colleagues, such as transit agencies, local governments, and Federal agencies, about effective practices for incorporating performance-based planning into the development of a long-range transportation plan. A performance-based plan sets the foundation of goals, objectives, performance measures, and targets that support decisions for long-range investments and policies, and guides programming, as well as shorter-range decisions that move toward achievement of desired system performance outcomes. This document identifies key components present in a "model" transportation plan, as well as process elements to reflect the priorities of the community and support attainment of desired performance outcomes for the multimodal transportation system. It highlights the importance of integrating performance-based plans, programs, and processes; data-driven analysis; and public and stakeholder engagement. Examples and case studies illustrate the guidebook's key points. |
Feb 2023 |
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Moving Together in the 21st Century: How Ridesharing Supports Livable Communities
This report provides an update to current ridesharing options and explores technology and policy developments that make new methods of ridesharing possible. The report also assesses ridesharing as a key contributing factor to supporting livable communities. |
Jun 2013 |
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MPO Staffing and Organizational Structures
This research report documents how MPOs have structured their organizations and allocated staff resources and expertise. It is an update to the 2010 report Staffing and Administrative Capacity of Metropolitan Planning Organizations. This report updates much of the information collected in the previous report related to administrative aspects of MPOs such as governance, host agency relationships, budgeting, and work planning, as well as issues related to staffing arrangements, technical skills, use of consultant labor, and employee retention |
Oct 2017 |
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Multimodal Planning at the Megaregional Scale
This project, undertaken between June 2015 and May 2017, examined the influence of the megaregions concept on local and regional long-range planning efforts and identified opportunities for and barriers to using local and regional long-range plans to advance megaregional goals. This effort resulted in the development of planning frameworks, highlighting opportunities for these local and regional agencies to address megaregional issues in their respective long-range plans. |
Jun 2017 |
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NACTO Shared Micromobility Report
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Dec 2018 |
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NACTO's Urban Street Design Guide
Unveils the toolbox and the tactics cities use to make streets safer, more livable, and more economically vibrant. |
Aug 2013 |
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National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) Urban Bikeway Design Guide
Provides cities with state-of-the-practice solutions that can help create complete streets that are safe and enjoyable for bicyclists. |
Aug 2013 |
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National Report Ranks Best Complete Streets Policies
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Jan 2018 |
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Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience
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Feb 2018 |
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NCHRP 20-102: Impacts of Connected Vehicles and Automated Vehicles on State and Local Transportation Agencies
The objectives of this National Cooperative Highway Research Program Project are to (1) identify critical issues associated with C/AVs that state and local transportation agencies and AASHTO will face, (2) conduct research to address those issues, an |
Sep 2019 |
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NCHRP Report 845: Advancing Automated and Connected Vehicles: Policy and Planning Strategies for State and Local Transportation Officials
This report assesses policy and planning strategies at the state, regional, and local levels that could influence private-sector automated vehicle (AV) and connected vehicle (CV) choices to positively affect societal goals. The report aims to assist agencies with exploring actions that might increase the likelihood that AV and CV technologies will have beneficial impacts on traffic crashes, congestion, pollution, land development, and mobility (particularly for older adults, youths under the age of 16, and individuals with disabilities). |
Apr 2018 |
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NCHRP Report 896: Updating Regional Transportation Planning and Modeling Tools to Address Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles
This report assesses policy and planning strategies at the state, regional, and local levels that could influence private-sector automated vehicle (AV) and connected vehicle (CV) choices to positively affect societal goals. The report includes detailed information and guidelines for state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to help update their modeling and forecasting tools to address expected impacts of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) on transportation supply, road capacity, and travel demand components. |
Aug 2019 |
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NCHRP report: Report 710: Practical Approaches for Involving Traditionally Underserved Populations in Transportation Decisionmaking
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Mar 2016 |
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Next Generation Scenario Planning: a Transportation Practitioner's Guide
This report profiles the next generation of scenario planning for transportation practitioners. It provides a summary of the history, key benefits and driving issues that warrant a scenario-based approach. It includes a framework for scoping a scenario planning process tailored to specific issues and local agency capacity. It also illustrates the different considerations associated with conducting a scenario planning process based on variable future orientations: what is likely to happen (probable), what we want to happen (desirable) and what could happen (uncertain). Finally, it walks through the six-phase scenario planning process and highlights key considerations practitioners should consider when developing and implementing a scenario-based process. The report also includes profiles of recent scenario planning efforts from across the United States. |
Jun 2017 |
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Next Generation Scenario Planning: a Transportation Practitioner's Guide
This report profiles the next generation of scenario planning for transportation practitioners. It provides a summary of the history, key benefits and driving issues that warrant a scenario-based approach. It includes a framework for scoping a scenario planning process tailored to specific issues and local agency capacity. It also illustrates the different considerations associated with conducting a scenario planning process based on variable future orientations: what is likely to happen (probable), what we want to happen (desirable) and what could happen (uncertain). Finally, it walks through the six-phase scenario planning process and highlights key considerations practitioners should consider when developing and implementing a scenario-based process. The report also includes profiles of recent scenario planning efforts from across the United States. |
Jun 2017 |
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NGA: State Strategies to Reduce Highway and Traffic Fatalities and Injuries
This roadmap highlights existing efforts in the states and serves as a policy development tool for governors and senior leadership who seek to improve coordination and bolster existing efforts across state agencies, including departments of public safety, transportation, public health, and emergency medical and trauma services. |
Feb 2018 |
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NHTSA Update: Traffic Safety Fact Sheets
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently released revised versions of its 2016 Pedestrian Traffic Safety Fact Sheet and 2016 Bicyclists and Other Cyclists Traffic Safety Fact Sheet. The revised versions replace the National Automotive Sampling System General Estimates of police-reported traffic crashes with a new data system, the Crash Report Sampling System. This data allows practitioners to identify problem areas, measure trends, and analyze highway safety initiatives to support safer roads for all users. |
Mar 2018 |
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Opportunities for Incorporating Innovative Finance and Funds Leveraging Tools and Techniques throughout the Planning and Programming Process: 2022-2023 Innovative Finance for Planners Roundtable Summary Report
This report summarizes the findings from two roundtables, sponsored by FHWA Office of Performance and Innovative Finance Support (OPIFS), focused on the introduction of Innovative Finance and Funds Leveraging strategies in the transportation planning process, particularly at the program development and project implementation phases. By bringing together agencies that currently use innovative finance and funding with agencies that are considering these tools to better meet their needs, we captured a sample of current successes and opportunities for expanded use. In reviewing the discussion themes, clear evidence of additional needs for capacity building and technical support to guide transportation agencies in the application of innovative finance and funding was revealed. While transportation agencies often handle both planning and finance for projects, these departments rarely coordinate. Additional efforts to support better coordination earlier in the planning process could expedite project delivery and create streamlined strategies for the construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure. |
May 2023 |
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Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2015 Preliminary Data
The Governors Highway Safety Association’s (GHSA) newest report on pedestrian traffic fatalities shows that pedestrian deaths are growing even as total traffic fatalities are declining. The study, “Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities by State: 2015 Preliminary Data,” also estimates that more than 2,300 pedestrians were killed in the first half of 2015, a 10 percent increase over 2014. The study is based on data from all 50 State highway safety agencies and the District of Columbia. It provides state-by-state data as well as analyzes recent trends in pedestrian fatalities and discusses state and federal efforts to reduce pedestrian fatalities and injuries. |
Mar 2016 |
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Performance-Based Planning and Programming Roundtable Series Summary
This document summarizes the ideas raised at seven peer-exchange roundtables on performance-based planning and programming held throughout 2016 by FTA in partnership with the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). |
Apr 2018 |
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Planning and Environment Linkages Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides a brief overview of Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL), explains why PEL is useful, and provides additional resources. |
Mar 2019 |
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Planning for the Future of Transportation: Connected Vehicles and ITS
This two-page brochure briefly overviews the USDOT-funded CV Pilot Deployment Program. Additionally, it outlines the key elements of performance-based planning and programming and how CV technologies can impact that process. |
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Preparing for the Future of Transportation: Automated Vehicle 3.0
This report is structured around three key areas: (1) Advancing multi-modal safety, (2) Reducing policy uncertainty, (3) Outlining a process for working with U.S. DOT. |
Oct 2018 |
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Public Involvement Techniques for Transportation Decisionmaking
Quality planning and project development require meaningful input from the public. Many members of the public are genuinely interested in what is happening in their community but do not know how they can effectively provide input to influence the outcome of a transportation plan or project. How does a transportation agency grab and hold the public’s interest in a project or plan and convince people that active involvement is worthwhile? How does an agency provide the means for the public to have direct and meaningful impacts on decisions? This guide provides a variety of tools to secure meaningful input from the public on transportation plans, programs, and projects—and it can help agencies improve their overall public involvement techniques. |
Jun 2015 |
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Reducing Speeding-Related Crashes Involving Passenger Vehicles: Safety Study
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has released a report that examines causes of and trends in speeding-related passenger vehicle crashes. The study focuses on five safety issues that pertain to effective countermeasures for speeding: speed limits, data-driven approaches for speed enforcement, automated speed enforcement, intelligent speed adaptation, and national leadership. |
Jul 2017 |
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Regional Models of Cooperation Handbook
Regional Models of Cooperation (RMOC) is an effort that originated from FHWA’s Every Day Counts-3 (EDC-3) program. The program provides a framework and process for State Departments of Transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to develop multijurisdictional transportation plans and agreements to improve communication, collaboration, policy implementation, technology use, and performance management across agency borders. |
Dec 2016 |
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Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) Fact Sheets
A Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) is an organization that identifies local transportation needs, conducts planning, assists local governments, and supports the statewide transportation planning process in non- metropolitan regions of a State. States are provided the opportunity to designate RTPOs as a method for formalizing the engagement of officials from areas with a population size less than 50,000 as they incorporate rural transportation needs in the statewide transportation planning process. This Fact Sheet will explain the essential elements of RTPOs and their functions. |
Apr 2017 |
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Regional Transportation Planning Organization Fact Sheets
A Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) is an organization that identifies local transportation needs, conducts planning, assists local governments, and supports the statewide transportation planning process in non-metropolitan regions of a State. States are provided the opportunity to designate RTPOs as a method for formalizing the engagement of local officials as they incorporate rural transportation needs in the statewide transportation planning process. View each of the noteworthy practices fact sheets below to learn more about RTPOs. • What is an RTPO? • How do RTPOs Benefit States and Regions? • RTPO Work Program Development & Content • RTPO Transportation Improvement Program Development • RTPO: A Statewide Approach to Transportation Planning that Works • RTPO: Public Involvement in Transportation Planning |
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Report Analyzes Safe Routes to Schools Health Effects
A new report from San Jose State University analyzes the active transportation health effects of the Safe Routes to Schools (SR2S) program. The research finds that SR2S methods are successful in improving health and increasing active transportation in the communities that implement them. The report also summarizes key resources that are currently available on the public health and active transportation outcomes of SR2S implementation. |
Apr 2019 |
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Report Considers Safety Attitudes Among Bicyclists
A new report published in the Journal of Safety Research connects individual bicycling crash histories with safety attitudes and perceptions among bicyclists. The research addresses gaps in bicycle safety data, and draws on survey data to capture bicyclist attitudes, safety perceptions, and individual bicycle crash histories. The report concludes that education of bicyclists about local bicycle laws and regulation is key to building cycling confidence, which may encourage people to start bicycling. |
Nov 2018 |
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Report to the U.S. Congress on the Outcomes of the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program
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Apr 2012 |
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Research Reconstructs Pedestrian Fatalities by Replacing Drivers with Automated Vehicles
This American Journal of Preventive Medicine open source article investigates automated vehicles' potential for reducing pedestrian fatalities by virtually reconstructing nearly 5,000 pedestrian fatalities with hypothetical scenarios that replace involved vehicles with automated versions equipped with state-of-the-art sensor technology. A result demonstrates that vehicle sensors’ abilities to detect pedestrians in advance of fatal collisions vary. See PBIC's Discussion Guide for Automated and Connected Vehicles, Pedestrians, and Bicyclists for more on detection and other key challenges related to AVs and pedestrians and bicyclists. |
Jan 2019 |
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Results of Financial Model Literature Scan
This document is a summary of research on the state of the practice in financial modeling and is based on a review of the technical literature and MPOs practice regarding use of technical models for forecasting expenses, revenues, and risk. |
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Return on Investment in Transportation Asset Management Systems and Practices
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Report 866: Return on Investment in Transportation Asset Management Systems and Practices explores how transportation agencies manage their transportation assets, and provides guidance for evaluating the return on investment for adopting or expanding transportation asset management systems in an agency. As the term is most generally used, transportation asset management (TAM) entails the activities a transportation agency undertakes to develop and maintain the system of facilities and equipment—physical assets such as pavements, bridges, signs, signals, and the like—for which it is responsible. Based on the research team’s work and the experiences of these agencies and others, the researchers describe a methodology that an agency may use to assess their own experience and to plan their investments in TAM system development or acquisition. A spreadsheet accompanies the research report helps agencies evaluate the return-on-investment of TAM systems. The tool allows users to summarize data from various simulation tools. The calculator also includes factors and procedures from the Highway Economic Requirements System State Version (HERS-ST) to estimate user benefits for pavement projects. It does not estimate user benefits for bridge projects. |
Jan 2018 |
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Review of State DOT Approaches to Distribute Federal Metropolitan Planning (PL) Funds to MPOs
Metropolitan Planning Funds (PL funds) are provided from the Federal Highway Trust Fund and distributed by State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) to Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) for the purpose of conducting planning activities as required by Title 23 of the U.S. Code 134. Each MPO is responsible for planning activities which meet the transportation needs within its metropolitan planning area. PL funds are allocated through the Federal-aid Highway program to the States beginning October 1, the start of the Federal Fiscal Year. State DOTs then distribute this funding to the MPOs in their State based on a formula, as agreed to by the MPOs, and approved by their FHWA Division Office.
This report describes various approaches to distribution formulas. It provides observations drawn from the DOT and MPO contacts and the study team’s analysis of the merits of the different approaches. FHWA is providing this information as a resource for State DOTs and MPOs nationwide to use in the self-assessment of current distribution approaches and to consider alternative approaches. |
Jul 2023 |
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Ridesharing Options Analysis and Practitioners' Toolkit
This report serves as both an analysis of current trends in ridesharing and a toolkit for public agencies, large and small, to create ridesharing programs tailored to meet the needs of their respective constituencies. Best practices from around the U.S. are illustrated in a series of case studies, and the report also contains a step-by-step "how to" guide for implementation. |
Dec 2010 |
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Ridesharing, Technology, and TDM in University Campus Settings: Lessons for State, Regional, and Local Agencies
This report examines how university campus transportation departments are using new technologies and supportive polices to advance ridesharing and transportation demand management (TDM) as alternatives to driving alone to campus. It looks at university campuses as "ridesharing and TDM laboratories" where innovations may be first attempted in a relatively more controlled environment, from which elements could potentially be transferred to broader, more complex metropolitan transportation planning contexts. The report features case studies of successful ridesharing and TDM practices at six U.S. universities which have dramatically lowered drive-alone rates. |
May 2016 |
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Safety for All Users Report
This report was developed to satisfy Section 1442(b) of the FAST Act, which directs the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to issue a report on the safe accommodation of all users of the surface transportation network, and to address additional guidance included in the Senate Report 114-243 under Nonmotorized User Safety. |
Dec 2017 |
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Shared Mobility: Current Practices and Guiding Principles
This Shared Mobility Primer provides an introduction and background to shared mobility; discusses the government's role; reviews success stories; examines challenges, lessons learned, and proposed solutions; and concludes with guiding principles for public agencies. The primer aims to provide an overview of this emerging field and current understanding—as in the years to come, shared mobility will continue to evolve and develop. In light of this evolution, ongoing tracking and longitudinal analysis are recommended to support sound planning and policymaking in the future. |
Feb 2017 |
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Shared Use Mobility: European Experience and Lessons Learned
Shared mobility services provide users with short-term access to transportation on an as-needed basis rather than through ownership. While ride-sourcing services are recent entrants to the industry, they have come to dominate what is thought of as shared mobility in the United States, often drowning out other shared alternatives. In Europe, the concept of shared use mobility has existed for decades, with some services dating back to the 1940s. Several European cities have developed programs that successfully improved mobility and reduced drive-alone trips. Others have integrated these services with existing public transport services. European public entities also have experience with a greater range of public-private partnership arrangements than many U.S. counterparts. FHWA undertook this study to identify and assess European practices for establishing, supporting, and regulating shared mobility services that could be applied in the United States. |
Sep 2018 |
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Showcasing Visualization Tools in Congestion Management
This publication is a summary report describing visualization practices used as part of the congestion management process (CMP), and is a supplement to the CMP Guidebook. These visualizations include maps, charts, graphs, photographs, videos, and computer illustrations and simulations. The report is organized both in terms of the type of visualization and the type/source of data, and includes many examples of visualizations used in CMPs around the nation. |
Jun 2017 |
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Statewide Opportunities for Integrating Operations, Safety and Multimodal Planning: A Reference Manual
This reference manual is designed to provide "how to" information to assist transportation professionals in taking action to integrate these activities. It identifies and describes opportunities at various levels of decisionmaking--statewide, regional, corridor, and project level--and the benefits of these approaches. It also highlights overarching themes such as the important role of multidisciplinary teams; data collection, sharing, and analysis; and broad use of performance measures within each of these levels. |
Jun 2010 |
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STIP State of the Practice Review: Development and Use of Statewide Transportation Improvement Programs
This report examines the state of the practice in the development and use of statewide transportation improvement programs (STIPs) by state departments of transportation (State DOTs). It includes the results of a scan of all 52 publically-available STIPs as of January 2014, a more detailed analysis of 14 STIPs which were selected as a group representing varying styles and techniques, and a discussion of three general descriptive models for understanding how ways in which State DOTs develop and use STIPs in the statewide transportation planning process both to meet regulatory requirements and to support broad agency goals such as communicating information to the public and performance-based planning and programming. The report features numerous illustrative examples of STIP practices from the 14 STIPs selected for more detailed analysis and summarizes potential future advancements in STIPs as “food for thought” in a theoretical “Enhanced STIP” model. |
May 2016 |
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Strategic Transit Automation Research Plan
The Strategic Transit Automation Research Plan outlines an FTA research agenda for transit bus automation over five years. The plan provides a framework for the transit industry to pursue transit bus automation in a safe, efficient, and economically sound manner. Built on stakeholder engagement, case analysis, and an extensive literature review, the plan defines activities in the areas of Enabling Research, Integrated Demonstrations, and Strategic Partnerships. |
Jan 2018 |
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Strategies to Advance Automated Vehicles and Connected Vehicles Briefing Document
This briefing document is intended for state, regional, and local agency and political decision makers who are framing public policy for these transformational technologies. The briefing document makes the case for taking action in spite of uncertainties and presents 18 policy and planning strategies that may be useful in advancing societal goals. |
Apr 2018 |
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Study on Metropolitan Planning Scenario Development: Costs and Benefits
This study evaluates the costs and benefits associated with metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) developing multiple scenarios for consideration as part of the development of their Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP). The study also includes an analysis of the technical and financial capacity MPOs need to develop the scenarios. |
Mar 2018 |
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Success in Stewardship: Case Studies Highlighting Benefits of Multimodal Roadway Design and Green Infrastructure
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently published a set of case studies as part of its efforts to document and promote connected pedestrian and bicycle networks in communities throughout the United States. The case studies are designed to provide information for agencies interested in improvements to their pedestrian and bicycle networks that incorporate green infrastructure and resiliency benefits. The information provided on stormwater and mobility benefits will help communities better understand the variety of goals and outcomes they can achieve through their projects. |
Jul 2018 |
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Supplement to January 28, 2008 "Transportation Planning Requirements and their Relationship to NEPA Process Completion
In clarifying the requirements additional questions arose from the field after the original memorandum's release. In response to the question, this document clarifies and simplifies information on what transportation planning requirements must be addressed before FHWA can make a final NEPA decision. |
Feb 2011 |
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Supporting Performance-Based Planning and Programming through Scenario Planning
This guidebook addresses how scenario planning can be used to support and advance the practice of performance-based planning and programming (PBPP). Scenario planning can use metrics, models, data sets, and tools to estimate and evaluate scenarios based on their ability to maximize system performance and support achievement of goals and performance targets. The guidebook presents a framework for connecting established scenario planning processes with the four phases of PBPP: direction, analysis, programming, and implementation. Three case studies provide examples of agencies of varying sizes that have used scenario planning in innovative ways to advance the practice of PBPP. A section and appendix of scenario planning and performance measurement tools that can be used in, or incorporated into, scenario planning is also provided. |
Apr 2016 |
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T4A: How MPOs Across the United States use Performance Measures
To understand MPOs use of performance measures and establish a state of the practice, T4America conducted a national survey of 104 MPOs from 42 states in 2016. This publishing describes the results of the survey. |
Jan 2018 |
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TCRP Report: Public Transit and Bikesharing
Public Transit and Bikesharing explores cooperative transit and bikesharing relationships and documents the experiences of transit systems with bikesharing as a mode. An increasing number of transit agencies have developed cooperative arrangements with bikesharing programs to strengthen the relationship between the modes. The implementation and integration of bikesharing programs can sometimes present challenges to transit agencies. The synthesis identifies the current state of the practice, including challenges, lessons learned, and gaps in information. |
Apr 2018 |
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The e-STIP: Using Technology to Support the STIP
The purpose of this guide is to introduce the electronic STIP (e-STIP) as an opportunity to assist state DOTs in managing the development and management of their STIPs. The guide summarizes the benefits of moving to an e-STIP and discusses e-STIP functionality that will allow state DOTs to maximize the benefits of turning to automation of this complex process. The Guide also includes an e-STIP prototype to help STIP managers envision what an e-STIP might do for their organizations as well as next steps to help develop a DOT action plan for moving forward. Throughout this guide we have cited examples from the 36 states that responded to our 2012 e-STIP survey and the detailed interviews we conducted with the six DOTs that are most advanced in their implementation. New federal requirements for Performance Based Planning and Programming (PBPP) are placing additional pressure on the accuracy and transparency of the STIP. Under these requirements, projects selected during programming are the glue that ties the required planning goals and targets to the outcomes that are identified in a performance based plan. Creating and managing the STIP will become even more complex as DOTs will be required to explain in the STIP how the program of projects will help advance the performance goals established during long range planning. STIPs have the potential to be a powerful source of data to support both the technical analysis and the policy decisions that will be required to support PBPP, and technology is an efficient and effective way to tap this information. |
Sep 2015 |
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The Role of Transportation Systems Management & Operations in Supporting Livability and Sustainability: A Primer
This primer describes the role of transportation systems management and operations (M&O) in advancing livability and sustainability. The document highlights the connections between M&O and livability and sustainability objectives and the importance of a balanced, comprehensive approach to M&O in order to support those objectives. |
Jan 2012 |
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The Transportation Planning Process: Key Issues
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Jan 2017 |
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TR News Publishes Alternative Contracting Methods Research
A featured article in the July-August 2018 issue of the TR News examines the latest application and implementation of alternative contracting methods for faster project delivery of transportation infrastructure. The TR News is TRB's bimonthly magazine featuring timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. It also includes brief news items of interest to the transportation community, research pays off articles that profile of transportation professionals, workshop and conference announcements, new book notices, and news of TRB activities. Submissions of manuscripts for possible publication are accepted at any time. Copies of the TR News may be purchased individually or ordered on an annual subscription basis. TRB policy is to release the full PDF version of a TR News four months after its release in print format. |
Aug 2018 |
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Traffic Impacts of Bicycle Facilities
The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that details interactions between vehicles and bicyclists to facilitate the safe, efficient design of transportation systems. Methods included a review of design guidelines for bicycle facilities, and observations of bicycle-vehicle interactions at roadways with different types of bicycle facilities. |
Jul 2017 |
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Transit at the Table I
Explores how transit agencies in larger metropolitan areas (more than 200,000 in population) could be more effective partners with MPOs in the metropolitan transportation planning and programming process. |
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Transit at the Table II
Explores how transit agencies in smaller metropolitan areas (populations between 50,000 and 200,000) could be more effective partners with MPOs in the metropolitan transportation planning and programming process. |
Jun 2010 |
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Transit at the Table III
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Sep 2011 |
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Transit Service Evaluation Standards
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May 2019 |
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Transportation and Land Use as Social Determinants of Health: Analysis of Exposure to Traffic in the Denver Metropolitan Region
The Upper Great Plains Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that examines residential exposure to traffic at regional and neighborhood level with race and socio-economic status as variables of interest. The study focused on how transportation and land use may influence residents' exposure to traffic and adverse health outcomes. |
Jun 2017 |
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Transportation Management Area Planning Certification Review Primer (Updated)
Updated in 2018, this primer outlines key concepts and expectations of a Transportation Management Area (TMA) Planning Certification Review, and is available as a resource for Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), State Departments of Transportation (DOTs), public transportation operators, the general public, and other partners to prepare for their participation in a successful Certification Review. |
Jan 2018 |
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Transportation Performance Management: Insight from Practitioners
NCHRP Report 660 - This guidebook provides insights from selected transportation agencies who are successfully integrating transportation performance management programs into a range of key decision-making processes in order to improve their effectiveness and transparency. |
Mar 2016 |
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Transportation Project Prioritization and Performance-based Planning Efforts in Rural and Small Metropolitan Regions
This new NADO Research Foundation report provides an overview of the state of the practice in non-metro regional transportation planning, including the contract amounts, RPO tasks, and committee structures. The research also examines rural long-range planning efforts and criteria used to rank regional priority projects. |
Sep 2011 |
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Transportation Safety Planning and the Zero Deaths Vision: A Guide for Metropolitan Planning Organizations and Local Communities
The Guide provides references to key information for Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) and local communities to understand and use the safety planning process to work toward the zero deaths vision |
Aug 2018 |
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Travel Behavior: Shared Mobility and Transportation Equity
Shared mobility—the shared use of a motor vehicle, bicycle, or other low speed transportation mode that allows users to obtain short-term access to transportation on an as-needed basis—has the potential to help address some transportation equity challenges. In an effort to categorize the myriad of transportation equity barriers facing transportation system users, this primer proposes a ‘STEPS to Transportation Equity’ framework including: Spatial, Temporal, Economic, Physiological, and Social barriers. For each barrier category, shared mobility opportunities and challenges are explored along with policy recommendations. |
Aug 2017 |
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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 139
TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 139: Transit Service Evaluation Standards provides an overview of the purpose, use, and application of performance measures, service evaluation standards, and data collection methods at North American transit agencies. |
May 2019 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2653
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2653 consists of 11 papers that explore transportation planning, including: -Travel and the Built Environment: Insights Using Activity Densities, the Sprawl Index, and Neighborhood Types -Closing the Induced Vehicle Travel Gap Between Research and Practice Delays, Detours, and Diversions: Paths to Fully Executed Safe Routes to School Projects -Taxonomy of Shared Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Management Problems to Inform Future Transportation Mobility -UrbanAccess: Generalized Methodology for Measuring Regional Accessibility with an Integrated Pedestrian and Transit Network -Evidence-Based Transit and Land Use Sketch Planning Using Interactive Accessibility Methods on Combined Schedule and Headway-Based Networks -When the Tides Come, Where Will We Go? Modeling the Impacts of Sea Level Rise on the Greater Boston, Massachusetts, Transport and Land Use System -Incorporating Equity and Resiliency in Municipal Transportation Planning: Case Study of Mobility Hubs in Oakland, California -Integration of National Long-Distance Passenger Travel Demand Model with Tennessee Statewide Model and Calibration to Big Data -Transit Access Measure: Incorporating Walk and Drive Access -Impacts of Model Resolution on Transportation Network Criticality Rankings |
Jun 2017 |
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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2654
TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2654 consists of 8 papers that explore transportation planning, including: -Evaluation of Vehicle Parking Queueing in a National Park: Case Study of the Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve in Grand Teton National Park Megaregion Projections 2015 to 2045 with Transportation Policy Implications -Road User Education and Multimodal Planning: Can Capability Be Part of the Process? -Application of Environmental Justice Analysis in a Statewide Freight Plan Issues in Expanding the Denver Regional Activity-Based Model for Statewide Modeling in Colorado -Assessment of Regional Transit Accessibility in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with Urban Access -Examining Multimodal Transportation in the El Paso, Texas, Region: Regional Transportation Survey Results -Automated System to Prioritize Highway Improvement Locations and to Analyze Project Alternatives |
Jun 2017 |
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Trends in Statewide Long-Range Transportation Plans: Core and Emerging Topics in 2017
This report synthesizes key findings and trends from the 2017 Statewide Long-Range Transportation Plan (SLRTP) Database, which represents key observations identified through a review of all 52 SLRTPs and Statewide Transportation Improvement Programs (STIPs) published as of December 31, 2016. The research analyzed SLTRPs and STIPs to provide examples of individual States’ approaches to incorporating important transportation planning topics and trends into their plans, highlighting planning topics addressed in innovative or noteworthy ways. The research team found diversity in the approach, content, and emphasis of SLTRPs, with plans varying by structure, initiatives and goals, topics addressed, and horizon date. Analyses also revealed consistency among the SLRTPs. For example, the majority of plans referenced multiple modes and the overarching policies, goals, or visions guiding decision-making, and many plans referenced Federal planning factors and financial planning or analysis. This report is intended to be a technical resource for DOTs, statewide planners, and their partners to aid in developing and managing planning programs as they update their SLRTPs by highlight examples of approaches taken by their peers and providing insights to the content, structure, and approach of SLRTPs nationwide. |
Nov 2017 |
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Trends in Statewide Transportation Plans Synthesis Report
The accompanying report provides analysis from the review and summarizes detailed findings on eight topics: 1) plan types, 2) implementation, 3) guiding principles, strategies, and objectives, 4) performance measures, 5) financial planning and analysis, 6) systems planning, 7) livability and sustainability, and 8) climate change. |
Mar 2012 |
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Tribal Transportation Best Practices Guidebook
This guidebook highlights best practices in tribal transportation. |
Dec 2009 |
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Truck Freight Bottleneck Reporting Guidebook
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Jul 2018 |
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USDOT Summary Report: DOT Pedestrian and Bicycles Road Safety Assessments
The U.S. DOT released the first element of its Safer People, Safer Streets initiative. “Summary Report: DOT Pedestrian and Bicycles Road Safety Assessments” offers an overview of the approaches taken and the outcomes of those assessments. It highlights successes and identifies common barriers, as well as potential solutions, to improving pedestrian and bicycle safety. DOT launched the Safer People, Safer Streets initiative in Fall 2014 with the goal of improving pedestrian and bicycle safety across the country. The first element of the initiative was a call to convene a walking or biking safety assessment in every State. |
Oct 2015 |
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Virtual Public Involvement Fact Sheets
Fact sheets covering eight types of virtual public involvement in transportation planning and project development. The fact sheets describe commonly used digital tools and techniques to enhance and broaden public involvement, highlighting examples from state departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, transit agencies, and local governments. |
Dec 2018 |
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Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Framework, 3rd Edition
The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Framework (the Framework), third edition, is a manual to help transportation agencies and their partners assess the vulnerability of transportation infrastructure and systems to extreme weather and climate effects. It also can help agencies integrate climate adaptation considerations into transportation decisionmaking. The Framework provides an in-depth and structured process for conducting a vulnerability assessment. The Framework describes the primary steps involved in conducting a vulnerability assessment. For each step the Framework features examples from assessments conducted nationwide between 2010 and 2017 and includes links to related resources that practitioners can access for additional information. |
Dec 2017 |
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White Paper: Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Highway Resilience
Natural systems play an important role in protecting built infrastructure along the coast. Healthy beaches, dunes, wetlands and other natural coastal ecosystems reduce the extreme forces of coastal storms. Thus, nature itself is a ‘model’ for coastal engineering resilience. This white paper briefly describes the current state of practice regarding the use of nature-based coastal solutions in general and with specific emphasis on their use along coastal highways. It provides an overview of available tools for design, implementation challenges, and knowledge gaps. This white paper is an initial attempt to frame the conversation about using nature-based solutions to improve coastal highway resilience. It was developed as part of an FHWA research effort and will be used to focus the discussion at a series of upcoming peer exchanges around the country on this topic. An implementation guide for nature-based solutions for coastal highways will then be developed. |
Feb 2018 |
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Working with Community-Based Organizations on Transportation Planning (Florida International University)
The Project main objectives are as follows: 1) Identify the circumstances under which partnerships with community based organizations would be the most effective, 2) Provide support for government agencies to partner with community-based organizations and report on the successes and issues in using community-based groups to support agency planning and project development activities and 3) Provide documentation on (1) and (2) for purposes of dissemination. Project should attempt to be national in scope (issues), but local in implementation. |
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