Category: Government Agencies

Improving Transportation Infrastructure Resilience through Post-event Damage Inspection (PDI) and Postevent Engineering Investigation (PEI)

  • April 8th, 2025

This document summarizes the highway infrastructure resilience framework and practices for PostEvent Damage Inspection (PDI) and Post-Event Engineering Investigation (PEI) developed under the FHWA Task Order “Framework for Infrastructure Resilience and Post-Hazard Response.” The document describes the framework components: pillars, lenses, dimensions and indicators. It outlines the steps suggested for the evaluation of the resilience […]

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Understanding Construction Change Orders

  • March 28th, 2025

This report identifies common issues that result in change orders and cause project delays and overruns, organized into three main categories relating to the quality of technical project development work, influences of organizational culture, and uncertainty introduced by financial forces. It also describes best practices to minimize and mitigate change orders and highlights noteworthy project […]

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National Survey of Speeding Attitudes and Behaviors

  • February 7th, 2025

For more than 20 years speeding has been involved in about one-third of all motor vehicle fatalities (NCSA, 2014, 2023). Even as new vehicle technologies improve driver and passenger safety, a driver’s propensity to drive too fast for the road conditions or more than the speed limit often has tragic consequences. The 2022-2023 National Survey […]

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Making Good on the Potential of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

  • January 30th, 2025

Since the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rebuild our nation’s infrastructure, every state and region of this country has seen historic federal investments announced in roads and bridges, ports and airports, trains and transit. To date, more than $570 billion in BIL funding has been announced for more than […]

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2023 Traffic Safety Culture Index

  • January 30th, 2025

The National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 40,990 people died in motor vehicle crashes in the United Sates in 2023 (National Center for Statistics and Analysis, 2024a). Although this perilously high number represents a small decline in motor vehicle related fatalities compared to 2022 (3.6%), each death represents an unacceptable human, societal, and economic […]

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Promising Practices for Transportation Agencies to Address Road Safety Among People Experiencing Homelessness

  • January 24th, 2025

This Case Study highlights how State and local transportation agencies and professionals are implementing strategies to address the road safety needs of people experiencing homelessness—a population that experiences significant disparities in roadway fatalities—as part of their work to reach the goal of zero deaths. The Case Study shares information on seven promising practices. Each promising […]

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Novice Teen Driver Education Data Collection Guide

  • January 24th, 2025

This report helps State driver education program administrators review their current data collection, identify additional sources of relevant information, manage operations, assess the status of driver education, demonstrate accomplishments, and provide a foundation for possible research. Driver education State administrators can use their own data and information from partner agencies to learn about the State’s […]

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Evaluating The Load Capacities of Flooded Pavements

  • January 24th, 2025

Incorporation of flood resilience in road infrastructure is urgently needed to reduce economic losses. Flooded roads may undergo rapid deterioration after being reopened to traffic. Thus, transportation agencies must develop pavement design and management practices and methodologies that account for the likelihood and impacts of flooding, using prior experiences in similar situations and nondestructive testing […]

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Early Estimates of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities and Fatality Rate Through June 2024

  • January 17th, 2025

NHTSA has recently issued a projection report of traffic fatalities and the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled (VMT) for the first half of 2024 (Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities the First Half (Jan–Jun) of 2024, Report No. DOT HS 813 633). That report shows an estimated 18,720 people died in […]

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