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Report Number: ST-2015-027 FHWA established a data-driven, risk-based approach to oversee States’ compliance with the NBIS, which its Division Offices have effectively implemented. However, we identified gaps in three areas of FHWA guidance that could limit the program’s long-term success. First, FHWA established the Assessment Reporting Tool (ART) to serve as a central repository of […]
Report Number: ST-2015-027 FHWA established a data-driven, risk-based approach to oversee States’ compliance with the NBIS, which its Division Offices have effectively implemented. However, we identified gaps in three areas of FHWA guidance that could limit the program’s long-term success. First, FHWA established the Assessment Reporting Tool (ART) to serve as a central repository of […]
See how our Federal Highway Administration and its partners collaborate to make biking and walking safer, affordable, more accessible, and an integral part of livable communities across America.
Trucking Safely Through Work Zones
Report Number: WBS: 25-1121-0003-140 The majority of crash fatalities in the United States occur along rural roadways. These roadways typically have low volumes and widespread crashes. In other words, no one location generally has an unexpectedly high number of crashes. Systemic safety tools/methodologies can be used in this type of situation because they evaluate and […]
For Jaideep and Sandhya Jain, the prospect of their teenage son starting to drive led directly to their start-up venture, Truvolo, or true “speed” in Latin, which aims to monitor car health and improve driving habits through data nestled in every automobile’s computer. “It wasn’t about wanting to spy on him, but about making him […]
Every year, the average American commuter spends a total of about one week of their life in traffic. Traffic congestion and the resulting delays costs major U.S. cities $121 billion in fuel costs and productivity loss annually, the equivalent of about $800 per commuter. Now, computer scientists in Pennsylvania have a new smart traffic signal […]
House committee leaders usually have a driver on staff to shuttle them between Hill votes, fundraisers, and speeches, but Transportation ad Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster let the technology take the wheel Wednesday. After a 30-mile ride in a driverless car developed by General Motors and Carnegie Mellon University, the Pennsylvania Republican said the experience – […]
Picture an all-electric vehicle cruising down the highway, emitting little noise and no noxious fumes. It’s such an improvement that you have to wonder why only a handful of all-electric vehicles are now available on the mass market. Here’s a big reason: Picture the driver of that same car getting a call from a relative […]
The purpose of this memorandum is to request your assistance in soliciting projects from State Departments of Transportation (DOTs). Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), Federal Land Management Agencies (FLMAs), and local governments on utilizing INVEST 1.0, FWA’s voluntary self-assessment tool, to assess and enhance the sustainability of their projects and programs. INVEST (Infrastructure Voluntary Evaluation Sustainability […]
