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Guide to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on Transportation System Performance

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 806: Guide to Cross-Asset Resource Allocation and the Impact on Transportation System Performance provides guidance and a spreadsheet tool to help managers with applying data-driven techniques to project prioritization, program de

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Guidelines for Virtual Transportation Management Center Development

This guidebook is intended to serve as a detailed reference that addresses the concepts, methods, processes, tasks, techniques, and other related issues for practitioners to consider associated with planning and development for a virtual Traffic Management Center (TMC). The guidebook describes th

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Freeway Operations; Regional Systems Management and Operations; Managed Lanes 2014

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2470 consists of 18 papers that explore a comprehensive framework for planning and assessment of traffic incident management programs; evaluation of hero-coordinated ramp metering installation; online scalable

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Critical Incident Management and Clearance Practices for Rail Transit

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 114: Critical Incident Management and Clearance Practices for Rail Transit summarizes the current state of the practice regarding incident response and identifies strategies for post-incident evaluations.

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FEMA and FHWA Emergency Relief Funds Reimbursements to State Departments of Transportation

 A comprehensive and systematic review of current practice, synthesizes the range of things DOTs can do, and in some cases are doing, to ease their response effort, secure appropriate reimbursements, and simplify cost identification. 

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Improving Safety Data Programs Through Data Governance and Data Business Planning

TRB’s Transportation Research Circular E-C196: Improving Safety Data Programs Through Data Governance and Data Business Planning summarizes the major themes of a peer exchange held on March 3-4, 2015, in Washington, D.C., which explored effective data governance and data business planning solutio

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Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas: A Planning Guide

TRB’s National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) Report 33: Improving Freight System Performance in Metropolitan Areas: A Planning Guide outlines potential strategies and practical solutions for public and private stakeholders to improve freight movement system performance in diverse m

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Design Guidance for Channelized Right-Turn Lanes

This report documents and presents the results of research to develop design guidance for channelized right-turn lanes. Observational field studies were conducted at 35 intersection approaches in cities to assess pedestrian crossing behavior, motorist yield behavior, and the interaction between p

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Standards & Recommended Practices

Operation of Traffic Signal Systems in Oversaturated Conditions

This research project included work in several areas related to the operation of traffic signal systems in oversaturated traffic conditions. Some of the strategies and methods addressed in the guide include metering, gating, turn restrictions, dynamic lane control or assignment, offset weighting,

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