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Guidebook for Managing Compliance with Federal Regulations: An Integrated Approach

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Report 156: Guidebook for Managing Compliance with Federal Regulations: An Integrated Approach provides guidance on managing compliance with federal regulations pertaining to the operation and management of airports. Accompanying the guidebook

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TR News March-April 2016: Research Convergence for a Multimodal Future

A featured article in the March-April 2016 issue of the TR News highlights photos from the 95th TRB Annual Meeting, January 10-14, 2016. The article features photographs of sessions, workshops, committee meetings, and awards. Dr. Hani Mahmassani, William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transp

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SHRP2 Flyer

SHRP2 Flyer

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2014 Traffic Safety Fact Sheet: School-Transportation-Related Crashes

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that summarizes data on fatal school-transportation-related motor vehicle traffic crashes from 2005 to 2014.

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Summit White Papers: 1, 2, & 3

These White Papers were prepared for the NOCoE Workforce Development Summit on June 22-23, 2016.

Summit White Paper 1:

White Paper 1 is designed to provide general background and context regarding TSM&O as a program activity and TSM&O staf

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Navigating Multi-Agency NEPA Processes to Advance Multimodal Transportation Projects

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 827: Navigating Multi-Agency NEPA Processes to Advance Multimodal Transportation Projects analyzes approaches taken by state departments of transportation (DOTs), their local partners, and other project sponsors to satisfy Nationa

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NCHRP Impacts on Practice: Knowledge and Information - Critical DOT Assets

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) latest Impacts on Practice explores how guidance from two NCHRP reports have been applied by state departments of transportation to manage resources and run as efficiently as possible. Guidance on knowledge management has helped state de

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Best Practices Outsourcing Winter Maintenance Services

This project was initiated and sponsored by VMS, Inc., a privately owned, maintenance systems company based in Richmond, VA, that provides snow removal and other maintenance services for the Virginia DOT, the City of Washington, DC, the Texas DOT, the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority and the Oklahoma

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Best Practices In Winter Maintenance Summary Report

The purpose of the Winter Maintenance Scanning Tour was to seek out and observe the progress that State and local highway agencies are making in advancing today’s technology in the area of winter roadway maintenance.  While this was the first domestic tour in the USA, it was tailored after t

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National Winter Maintenance Peer Exchange

The National Winter Maintenance Peer Exchange is held every two years. This website contains information about the 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2013 events as well as the progress of research needs in "Progress Scoreboard" (click here.)

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Winter Highway Maintenance Operations:Connecticut

This study addresses issues identified in legislation adopted by the Connecticut General Assembly that directed the Commissioner of Transportation to conduct an analysis of corrosive effects of chemical road treatments, determine the cost of corrosion created by road treatments, an

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Grand Challenges: A Research Plan for Winter Maintenance

This study was requested by AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) and specifically by the Standing Committee on Highways (SCOH) on behalf of Subcommittee on Maintenance. The members of the task group that guided this study are listed in the Acknowledgements.

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State DOTs Connecting Specialized Transportation Users and Rides Volume 1: Research Report

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 832: State DOTs Connecting Specialized Transportation Users and Rides, Volume 1: Research Report provides resources for agencies and organizations with practices for connecting specialized transportation users with the rides they

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TR News January–February 2016: Disruptions and Transformations: Findings from the States

The full edition of the January–February 2016 TR News is now available. This edition features the annual overview of trends and developments in policy and practice at state departments of transportation and other agencies—particularly research needs, research in progress, and applied researc

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TR News January–February 2016: Disruptions and Transformations: Findings from the States

The full edition of the January–February 2016 TR News is now available. This edition features the annual overview of trends and developments in policy and practice at state departments of transportation and other agencies—particularly research needs, research in progress, and applied researc

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Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report

 

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released Continuing Innovation in Information Technology: Workshop Report, which summarizes a workshop hosted by the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board on March 5, 2015 that explores the link between gov

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Public Transportation, Volume 3: Management, Performance, and Quality of Service

TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2541 consists of 8 papers addressing public transportation issues, including:

Rising Costs of Transit and Baumol’s Cost Disease Demand-Sensitive Candidate Route Generation Algorithm Dear Driver,
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2016 - 2017 NOCoE Business Plan

The National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) recently completed its first full year of activities under a comprehensive Technical Service Plan (TSP), from July 1st, 2015, to June 30th, 2016. This success was only made possible through strong partnerships between NOCoE and its founding org

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Transportation Systems Management and Operations Program Planning—Experiences from the SHRP2 Implementation Assistance Program

Strategic Transportation System Management & Operations (TSM&O) Program Plans and associated programming planning activities are proving effective in accelerating and focusing TSM&O programs within state and local transportation agencies. AASHTO has tentatively defined a framework for

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Travel Behavior, Volume 1

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2565, includes 12 papers that explore information related to travel behavior, including:

Incentivizing Modal Change: Exploring Effect of Multimodal Information and Ticketing Systems for Medium and Lo
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Planning and Preliminary Engineering Applications Guide to the Highway Capacity Manual

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 825: Planning and Preliminary Engineering Applications Guide to the Highway Capacity Manual will help planners apply the methodologies of the 6th Edition of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) to common

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Use of Narrow Lanes and Narrow Shoulders on Freeways: A Primer on Experiences, Current Practice and Implementation Consideration

This primer provides information to policy makers, transportation agency managers, designers and operators on the use of narrow lanes and narrow shoulders to improve capacity within an existing roadway footprint. Much of the information contained in the primer is presented in the broader context

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The Adoption of Transit Communications Interface Profiles in the Transit Industry

This report identifies the institutional and economic reasons that have impeded the adoption of TCIP standards into the public transit industry. Overall, there is a fundamental tradeoff to be made in the adoption of technology standards such as TCIP, a tradeoff between short-term benefits which a

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NOCoE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan

NOCoE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan

The National Operations Center of Excellence’s (NOCoE) identified workforce development as one of the focus areas that would provide value to the Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) community and hosted

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NOCOE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan Final

NOCOE 2016 Workforce Summit Proceedings and Implementation Plan 

The National Operations Center of Excellence’s (NOCoE) identified workforce development as one of the focus areas that would provide value to the Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) community and h

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Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Report 835: Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes. The report provides implementation guidance for transportation agencies interested in designing, implementing

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Traffic Signal Systems Volume 1 2016

 

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2557 consists of 11 papers that explore traffic signal systems, including:

Signal Timing for Diverging Diamond Interchanges: Fundamentals, Concepts, and Recommended Applications Hi
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AZ Tech Operations Implementation Plan

AZTech began as a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Model Deployment Initiative (MDI) for the Phoenix metropolitan area in 1996. As part of the MDI, AZTech’s mission was to provide a champion for the integration of intelligent transportation and 

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AZ Tech Action Plan FY 2016-2017

The AZTech Action Plan is a five-year operations planning document with a near-term focus to help AZTech advance the priority implementation strategies that were identified in the 2015 AZTech Operations Implementation Plan. The Action Plan is owned and driven by the AZTech members, and reflects t

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AZ Tech FY 2016 - FY 2017 Projects Aligned to the 2015 Implementation Plan Focus Areas

AZ Tech FY 2016 - FY 2017 Projects Aligned to the 2015 Implementation Plan Focus Areas

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Maintenance Services, Transportation Weather, and Winter Maintenance

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2551 consists of 16 papers that explore traffic and equipment maintenance, especially with regards to weather, including:

•Accuracy of Ice Melting Capacity Tests: Review of Melting Data for Sodium Ch

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Guide to Value Capture Financing for Public Transportation Projects

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) has released a pre-publication, non-edited version of Research Report 190: Guide to Value Capture Financing for Public Transportation Projects. Value capture is the public recovery of a portion of increased property and other value created as a re

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UDOT

As a Department, UDOT’s goal is to reduce overall impacts to the public while meeting transportation needs. As such, planning for and executing appropriate strategies to involve and communicate with the public at large and with individual stakeholders throughout the life cycle of transportation p

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NCHRP

NCHRP

This document contains the proposed Information Organization Framework (IOF)1 with the embedded list of categories to classify/filter various performance measurements from the most relevant and most recent literature2 . In addition, this final draft of the report describes the pro

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Public Transportation: Volume 1, Urban and Rural Bus Service

 

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2539 consists of 10 papers that explore public transportation, including:

Modeling Fuel Consumption of Hybrid Electric Buses: Model Development and Comparison with Conventional Buses
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NCHRP20 - 07 TASK 365 Transportation Systems Management and Operations Program Planning – Experiences from the SHRP 2 Implementation Assistance Program

NCHRP20 - 07 TASK 365 Transportation Systems Management and Operations Program Planning – Experiences from the SHRP 2 Implementation Assistance Program

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WAZE

WAZE: ITE Journal

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Iowa TSMO Program Plan Development

As part of the second Strategic Highway Research Program, the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) participated in a workshop in late 2013 that adapted Capability Maturity Model (CMM) techniques to assess its prevailing support for a variety of transportation systems and management (TSM&O)

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Caltrans RFO for TSMO Program Plan

Historically, state departments of transportation (DOT), including Caltrans, have primarily focused efforts and resources on construction and maintenance activities resulting in limited emphasis and resources placed on daily operational needs. Recognizing this deficiency, the Federal Highway Adminis
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NOCoE Annual Report 2016

NOCoE Annual Report 2016

This 2016 annual report showcases the progress and latest services of the National Operations Center of Excellence for the aforementioned year.

We hope those of you in the TSMO community as well as transportation engineers and professionals, engin

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ICM Primer: Integrated Corridor Management and the Smart Cities Revolution: Leveraging Synergies

Integrated Corridor Management and the Smart Cities Revolution: Leveraging Synergies

Previously published ICM primers, including on traffic incident management (TIM) and transit operations, described how specific modal programs or activities could be integrated into ICM to provide addit

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Integrated Corridor Management and Traffic Incident Management: A Primer

Integrated Corridor Management and Traffic Incident Management: A Primer

This primer will examine both how TIM can be integrated into an ICM approach, as well as the many benefits resulting from ICM that can contribute to the advancement of TIM programs. It will explore opportunities to

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Integrated Corridor Management, Managed Lanes, and Congestion Pricing: A Primer

Integrated Corridor Management, Managed Lanes, and Congestion Pricing: A Primer This primer examines how congestion pricing can be integrated into an integrated corridor management (ICM) approach. It defines the needs of ICM stakeholders and the benefits of congestion pricing in realizing effe

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Integrated Corridor Management, Transit, and Mobility on Demand

Integrated Corridor Management, Transit, and Mobility on Demand

This primer examines how both public transportation and mobility on demand (MOD) can be incorporated into an integrated corridor management (ICM) approach. It also defines the needs for including public transportation and m

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Integrated Corridor Management and Freight Opportunities

Integrated Corridor Management and Freight Opportunities

The vision of integrated corridor management (ICM) is that transportation networks will realize significant improvements in the efficient movement of people and goods through integrated, proactive management of existing infrastruc

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Leveraging the Promise of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles to Improve Integrated Corridor Management and Operations: A Primer

Leveraging the Promise of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles to Improve Integrated Corridor Management and Operations: A Primer This primer examines connected and automated vehicles (CAV) and how the advent of this new technology can be incorporated into an integrated corridor management (ICM)

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NCHRP Synthesis 507: Traffic Signal Preemption at Intersections Near Highway–Rail Grade Crossings

Traffic Signal Preemption at Intersections Near Highway–Rail Grade Crossings TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 507: Traffic signal operations near highway–rail grade crossings are important from both safety and mobility perspectives, but practice varies wide

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NICE Cybersecurity Workforce 2 3 Framework (NCWF)

This publication describes the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF), the product 95 of many years of collaboration regarding workforce training and education. NCWF provides a 96 fundamental reference resource for describing and sharing information about cybersecurity work 97 roles, the d

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Critical Infrastructure Training

The Department’s Office of Infrastructure Protection (IP) offers a wide array of free training programs to government and private sector partners. These web-based independent study courses, instructor-led courses, and associated training materials provide government officials and critic

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Civil Engineering Resource Guide

The work of civil engineers is evident everywhere you look, from roads and bridges to water supply systems and skyscrapers. And as populations grow and new infrastructure is needed, the demand for qualified civil engineers can be expected to increase, as well. Whether you’re a student of civil en

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Resilience: Key Products & Projects and Cooperative Research Programs Security, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection Research Status Report – May 2017

CCooperative Research Programs

SSecurity, Emergency Management, and Infrastructure Protection

Research Status Report – May 2017 

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NCHRP: Traffic Signal Preemption at Intersections Near Highway–Rail Grade Crossings

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 507: Traffic Signal Preemption at Intersections Near Highway–Rail Grade Crossings documents the current practices of traffic signal preemption deployed at intersections adjacent to railway grade crossing in both the United Stat

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I-405 Peak-Use Shoulder Lane Project Overview

I-405 Peak-Use Shoulder Lane Project Overview

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A Performance-Based Highway Geometric Design Process

 

 

 

 

 

 

The design of a highway—its thre

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Strategic Program Delivery Methods

Strategic Program Delivery Methods

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Data Management and Governance Practices

Data Management and Governance Practices

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Highway Worker Safety

Highway Worker Safety

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Guide for Integrating Goods and Services Movement by Commercial Vehicles in Smart Growth Environments

Guide for Integrating Goods and Services Movement by Commercial Vehicles in Smart Growth Environments

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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

Decision-Making Toolbox to Plan and Manage Park-and-Ride Facilities for Public Transportation: Guidebook on Planning and Managing Park-and-Ride

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Challenges to CV and AV Applications in Truck Freight Operations

Challenges to CV and AV Applications in Truck Freight Operations

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Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 829: Leadership Guide for Strategic Information Management for State Departments of Transportation assists executives and managers with developing and maintaining an agency’s capability to provide timely, high-quality, mission-cri

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State of the Practice on Data Access, Sharing and Integration

The purpose of this state-of-the-practice review was to lay both technical and institutional foundation for all aspects of the development of the Virtual Data Access Framework. The review focused on current data sharing and integration practices among State and local agencies, example data enviro

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Guide to Effective Freeway Performance Measurement: Final Report and Guidebook

This report documents the research performed on the project. Detailed recommendations and guidance are provided in the Guidebook, which is structured for providing transportation engineers and planners assistance in developing and maintaining a comprehensive freeway performance monitoring program

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Successful Intermodal Corridor Management Practices for Sustainable System Performance

Intermodal corridor management strives to meet transportation demand at the least social and economic cost while maximizing the return on previous and future investments in infrastructure and services. Intermodal corridor management builds on the principles of multimodal corridor planning, integr

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TRB Resilience June 2017

TRB Resilience June 2017

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Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program Phase 2 Data Privacy Plan-Wyoming DOT

The Wyoming Department of Transportation’s (WYDOT) Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Deployment Program is intended to develop a suite of applications that utilize vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication technology to reduce the impact of adverse weather on truck tra

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Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program Phase 2 Data Management Plan-Wyoming DOT

The Wyoming Department of Transportation’s (WYDOT) Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot Deployment Program is intended to develop a suite of applications that utilize vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication technology to reduce the impact of adverse weather on truck tra

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Prototype Road Weather Performance Management (RW-PM) Tool and Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) Field Evaluation

FHWA’s Road Weather Management Program developed a Prototype Road Weather Management (RW-PM) Tool to help DOTs maximize the effectiveness of their maintenance resources and efficiently adjust deployments dynamically, as road conditions and traffic flow evolve during road weather events. Adverse r

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Dynamic Interrogative Data Capture (DIDC) Concept of Operations

This Concept of Operations (ConOps) describes the characteristics of the Dynamic Interrogative Data Capture (DIDC) algorithms and associated software.

The objective of the DIDC algorithms and software is to optimize the capture and transmission of vehicle-based data under a range of dyn

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Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program Phase 2 Data Privacy Plan – New York City

This document represents a data privacy plan for ensuring the data privacy and security of those participating in the New York City connected vehicle pilot. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Sensitive PII (SPII) will be collected from various participants during the course of the pilo

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Dedicated Short-Range Communications Roadside Unit Specifications

The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program definition of connected vehicles includes both 5.9 Gigahertz (GHz) Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) and non-DSRC technologies as means of facilitating communication for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) app

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St. Lawrence Seaway: Overview of Safety, Efficiency, Operational, and Environmental Issues

This report is the first in a series of two reports focused on identifying opportunities for application of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology – or equivalent – to address challenges and/or opportunities in the St. Lawrence Seaway. This paper summarizes current condition, challeng

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St. Lawrence Seaway: Potential Opportunities for the Application of Information and Communication Technologies

This report is the second in a series of two reports focused on identifying opportunities for application of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology – or equivalent – to address challenges and/or opportunities in the St. Lawrence Seaway. The first paper in this series summarized curren

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Iowa Automated Corridors Study

The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) is conducting a planning study of the rural portions of the Interstate 80 corridor to best address safety and mobility needs of all freight and passenger travelers (Planning Study). This study is being conducted using the federally adopted Planning and

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C04 Unabridged Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Demand Model Specifications and Estimation Results Chapter 3 provides a detailed technical discussion of the main focus of the C04 research project, the specification and estimation of new advanced forms of travel demand models that aim to substantially improve how road pricing and con

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Project C04 Amplified Work Plan

The objective of this Project C04 is to develop mathematical descriptions of the full range of highway user behavioral responses to congestion, travel time reliability, and pricing. This Amplified Work Plan presents the approach to accomplishing the project's goals.

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Interim Presentation to TEG

This interim presentation the the Project C04 TEG was held on January, 14, 2010, in Washington, DC. At this stage, the PB team recommended advanced behavioral travel models that incorporate congestion effects, pricing, and reliability.

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Project C04 Specification Slides

This presentation contains equations and graphs on estimating distance and income effects on value of time.

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C04 Presentation to SHRP2 Oversight Committee

An update on project C04 progress.

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Project C04 TEG Meeting Presentation (Mahmassani)

This presentation was held in Washington, DC on January 14, 2010. It is titled "Improving Our Understanding of How Congestion & Pricing Affect Travel Demand".

Related Artifacts: Project C04 TEG Meeting Presentation (Bradley), Project C04 TEG Meeting Presentation (Donnelly)

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Project C04 TEG Meeting Presentation (Donnelly)

This presentation, held at the Project C04 TEG Meeting in Washington, DC on January 14, 2010, discusses the project overview and objectives.

Related Artifacts: Project C04 TEG Meeting Presentation (Bradley), Project C04 TEG Meeting Presentation (Donnelly), Project C04 TEG

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