Tag: FHWA

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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Incorporating Nondestructive Evaluation Methods Into Bridge Deck Preservation Strategies

  • January 17th, 2025

The use of NDE and structural monitoring (SM) technologies for assessing bridge deck condition is becoming increasingly popular due to cost savings and extended service life from timely interventions. Traditional assessment relies on visual and sounding surveys, but NDE methods, such as those based on physical principles of stress-wave propagation, electromagnetic properties, and electrochemical and […]

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A Systematic Approach to Selection of Changeable Messaging Signs During Nonrecurring Events

  • January 13th, 2025

Changeable message signs (CMSs) serve as safe, accessible sources of relevant travel information. Previous research has provided insight into the potential value of CMSs as sources of traveler information. However, a gap remains in efforts to document the information and the messaging that effectively promote desired changes in traveler behavior to improve safety and the […]

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Building Resiliency through Maintenance Activities, Low Volume Roads, and Public Lands Roadways

  • January 13th, 2025

The evolving landscape of climate conditions leads to more frequent and intense natural hazard events, affecting low-volume roads on federal lands. Despite the existence of known maintenance solutions to reduce these impacts, the limited funding availability hinders the implementation of these solutions at scale. This funding limitation is compounded by the absence of necessary data […]

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Building Resiliency through Maintenance Activities, Low Volume Roads, and Public Lands Roadways

  • January 13th, 2025

The evolving landscape of climate conditions leads to more frequent and intense natural hazard events, affecting low-volume roads on federal lands. Despite the existence of known maintenance solutions to reduce these impacts, the limited funding availability hinders the implementation of these solutions at scale. This funding limitation is compounded by the absence of necessary data […]

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FIRST RESPONDER DATA ASSESSMENT: STRUCK-BY CRASHES

  • November 19th, 2024

This report documents the effort by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Safety and Operations Research & Development and the FHWA Office of Operations to assess current data sources, to compile existing data, to review gaps, and to propose a data collection strategy that will start to quantify the occurrence of responder struck-by crashes. […]

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Safety Compass Newsletter: Winter 2022

  • April 4th, 2022

Read the FHWA’s latest Safety Compass Newsletter to learn more about the latest improvements, resources and announcements in traffic safety. Topics include: Nine New Proven Safety Countermeasures Added 2021 FHWA Safety Discipline Awards Safe System Strategic Plan: A New Resource on Implementing the Safe System Approach Together Safety Stories Puerto Rico Highway Safety Corridor Program […]

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Safety Compass Newsletter: Summer 2021

  • July 13th, 2021

Read the FHWA’s latest Safety Compass Newsletter to learn more about the latest improvements, resources and announcements in traffic safety. Topics include: 2020 Safety Discipline Awards Mainstreaming Safety Improvement—How Agencies Are Assessing Safety on All Projects Advancing Implementation of the Safe System Approach: Resources You Can Use Contributing Factors for Focus Crash and Facility Types […]

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Safety Compass Newsletter: Fall 2020

  • November 13th, 2020

Read the FHWA’s latest Safety Compass Newsletter to learn more about the latest improvements, resources and announcements in traffic safety. Topics include: U.S. Department of Transportation Launches Virtual Series on Pedestrian Safety Saving Lives with Effective Transportation Planning Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program Offers Free Online Technical Assistance and Training New Zero Deaths Success Stories […]

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Summer 2020 Safety Compass Newsletter

  • July 14th, 2020

In this issue… What’s new? State departments of transportation put pedestrian safety into context Considerations for developing a local safety policy or program Roadway safety analysis videos: from basic to advanced application of the predictive method and crash modification factors 2019 Safety Discipline Award Winners Data and analysis Update on pedestrian and bicycle crash analysis […]

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