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Improving Our Understanding of How Highway Congestion and Pricing Affect Travel Demand

This project was carried out to review and advance the state of the practice in modeling the effects of highway congestion and highway pricing on travelers decisions, including the choice of facility, choice of route, choice of mode and choice of departure. Important findings are related on how d

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Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Evacuation, and Logistics of Disaster Recovery 2014

TRB’s Transportation Research Record (TRR): Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR), No. 2459: Critical Infrastructure, Emergency Evacuation, and Logistics of Disaster Recovery 2014 summarizes ways to plan post-disaster operations in a highway network; a model for investigat

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Transportation Decision Making: Proof of Concept—Maryland

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L35B-RW-1: Value of Travel Time Reliability in Transportation Decision Making: Proof of Concept—Maryland addresses how an agency can include a value of travel time reliability in a benefit–cost analysis when making congestion

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Performance Measures for Freight Transportation

The objective of this research was to develop measures to gauge the performance of the U.S. freight system. It recommends the creation of a Freight System Report Card with 29 measures, divided among six categories: demand, efficiency, system condition, environmental impacts, safety, and adequacy

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Planning for Severe Weather Events in Public Transit Operations

This document is a Master’s Thesis developed for an Urban Planning and Policy program. It makes recommendations for implementing a severe weather planning process for transit agencies. To start, it reviews weather impacts on surface transportation and potential impacts of climate change. Severe w

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State-of-the Practice

Recruiting and Retaining Individuals in State Transportation Agencies

This synthesis summarizes the state of the practice (in 2002) of recruitment and retention at state transportation agencies. The results of this synthesis are based on survey responses from 27 transportation agencies. The report includes:  

Observations on recruitment and retentio
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Training Programs, Processes, Policies, and Practices

This synthesis of practice focuses on the program components required by a DOT to have a sound set of policies, processes, and procedures for planning, developing, implementing, funding, and evaluating state DOT training, development, and education programs. It does not focus on specific DOT trai

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Managing Change in State DOTs - Scan 4 of 8: Innovations in DOT Communications, Image, and Positioning

This report examines state DOT communications (internal and external), image (what people think of the agency), and positioning (the ways DOTs choose to gain support and funding for programs and projects). Those agencies that were most advanced focused on improving both internal communications wi

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Uses of Social Media in Public Transportation

This report explores the use of social media among transit agencies and documents successful practices in the U.S. and Canada. Thirty-four of 39 transit agencies in large metro, small urban, and rural areas responded to a survey, and six of those participated in phone interviews to develop case e

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The Role of Transit in Emergency Evacuation

This report, commissioned by Congress, explores the capacity of transit systems serving the nation’s 38 largest urbanized areas (representing populations of >1 million) to accommodate the evacuation, egress, or ingress of people from or to critical locations in times of emergency. The research

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