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State of the Practice on Data Access, Sharing, and Integration
"The effective analysis of transportation operations strategies for planning and investment decisions requires an accurate and complete understanding of transportation system performance obtained by integrating multiple sources of transportation data from multiple stakeholders. This report examines the state of the practice in data sharing and integration, specifically (1) current data sharing and integration practices among State and local agencies, (2) example data environments, (3) technical integration formats, and (4) business rules for integration and sharing. The review was conducted at the outset of a Federal Highway Administration project to develop a prototype framework for sharing planning and operations data between State and local transportation agencies from multiple sources within a region. The results of the review were used to inform the development of the framework. Transportation operators, planners, and data professionals can use this report to enhance their data sharing and integration efforts by building on the experiences and effective practices of other agencies that are documented in this report."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2016-12
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Deficient Bridges by Highway System
A collection of tables by year and state, of deficient bridges in the United States' highway system.
United States. Federal Highway Administration
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Women and Transit Security: A New Look at an Old Issue
"The research from which this paper is drawn was supported by the United States Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), Project F-6, 'Guidelines for the Effective Use of Uniformed Transit Police and Security Personnel.' The TCRP was established in 1992 to provide a continuing program of applied research on transit issues. It is sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and is carried out under a three-way agreement among the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), acting through its Transportation Research Board (TRB); the Transit Development Corporation, an educational arm of the American Public Transit Association (APTA); and the FTA. There is no better way to introduce the topic of women and transit security than with the experiences of one rapid transit system in attacking head-on the issues of women's fears of using public transit. Only three years after its initial opening, this transit system was forced to organize a special police force to deal with the problem of crowding. Within eight years of its opening, the transit system was being criticized for the sexual harassment of women and girls, who, although they accounted for only about a quarter of all peak hour passengers, were forced to endure jostling and unwelcome sexual contact. The cross-class nature of these incidents was viewed as 'a violation of the laws of decency.' One solution the transit system rejected was cars solely for women, although years later the system would embrace the idea of cars for students travelling between school and home in the afternoon hours. The transit system, though, continued to receive criticism about the safety of women riders. A few years later, women police officers worked as decoys to contain the behavior of men who made it 'their business to insult and annoy women and girls.' More than fifteen new mass transit systems have opened during the last 20 years. Would anyone like to guess which system we are describing? Good guesses all, but none are correct. In fact, we are describing New York City's first subway, the Interborough Rapid Transit, which opened in 1904, and was viewed as a sensation for its underground travel, its extremely high speeds, and its unprecedented crowding. It was this last attribute that led to concerns about women's safety on the system. This contrasts sharply with today's concern about women's safety, which more often revolves around dark and deserted stations and parking lots, rather than problems of too many people in too little space."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Schulz, Dorthy Moses; Gilbert, Susan
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Bridge Security Design Manual
"The Bridge Security Design Manual provides information for structural engineers, planners, owners and others to incorporate effective strategies in bridge projects and make highway systems resilient against terrorist threats. These threats have been a growing concern in the U.S. since the 9/11 attacks. While previous infrastructure security research and practice have focused primarily on buildings, the limited bridge-specific design guidance suggests that bridges protected against common loadings these terrorist threats can impart to bridge components. 'The primary objective of this bridge security design manual is to present state-of-the-art guidance on bridge-specific security planning, extreme loading phenomenology and characterization, and protective design strategies to be used by the highway bridge community in terrorist threat vulnerability assessments of existing bridges, resilient design of new bridge construction, and emergency planning efforts.' The manual covers a broad range of topics, including security planning, material performance, blast phenomenology, mechanics of structural elements, dynamic response of structures, protective design guidance and example designs for several component types (such as concrete towers), and the use of the software tool, Anti-terrorism Planner for Bridges (ATP-Bridge). It is intended to be a resource for broad audiences to better understand bridge security and a reference tool for designers to build protection into bridges and enable the highway systems they connect to function at a high level under a variety of threats. It makes use of the latest technology and research, including the ATP-Bridge tool."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Davis, Carrie; Sammarco, Eric L.; Williamson, Eric B., 1968-
2017-06
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Traffic Control Concepts for Incident Clearance
"This document discusses various aspects of traffic control for incidents with the focus on the traffic control roles and responsibilities of the responders as well as the safety of the responders and the motoring public. It also recognizes that active traffic management is necessary to meet the fluctuating needs of the scene and to minimize clearance and recovery time. An overview of popular state laws and policies enacted to support safe, quick clearance is provided. The roles/responsibilities of the various categories of responders are addressed. Available traffic control devices are discussed. There is also focus on the affects on traffic control created by the dynamic nature of incident clearance. Highlights some 'best practices' to enhance traffic control implementation are included."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Birenbaum, Ingrid; Creel, Charles; Wegmann, Sally G.
2009-01
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Information Sharing for Traffic Incident Management
"Traffic incident management focuses on developing procedures, implementing policies, and deploying technologies to more quickly identify incidents, improve response times, and more effectively and efficiently manage the incident scene. Because so many entities are involved in response efforts, rapid and effective traffic incident management relies on successful information sharing between public safety agencies, transportation agencies, and other public and private sector incident responders. This document identifies and summarizes the information needs of public and private incident responders. It describes how information is obtained and shared during an event in order to best support safe, quick response. Additionally this document addresses technical and institutional barriers to information exchange as well as methods devised to overcome these barriers. This report presents key research showcasing the advantages of data sharing between multiple agencies. It identifies and summarizes the information needs of various incident response agencies, describing the means to obtain and share information during an event. Case study information is also presented to illustrate various means of information sharing. Collection and distribution of information is addressed in the context of the incident timeline. Selected best practices for information sharing are presented. Various information sharing barriers are presented as well as some strategies to overcome them."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2009-01
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Planning and Preparing for Mass Evacuations, 2009 National Conference on Community Preparedness: The Power of Citizen Corps
This document is a compilation from the 2009 National Conference on Community Preparedness. This document contains statistics relating to the principle causes of large scale evacuations in the United States from 1990-2003. Additionally, it lists publications that are available from the Federal Highway Administration.
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2009-08-10
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OECD Trilog Plenary Symposium: Public Policy Issues in Global Freight Logistics
This is the fifth plenary symposium on public policy issues in global freight logistics conducted by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). OECD's Trilateral Logistics Project, Trilog Project, is aimed at clarifying the public policy issues in global freight logistics and strengthening the public-private partnership in resolving freight-related problems throughout the world. On the first day of the symposium, opening addresses were presented, followed by sessions discussing the globalization of transport logistics, regional characteristics of freight logistics - government cooperation and coordination, and sectoral and industry characteristics of logistics - government support requirements. The second day sessions covered the following: improving the efficiency of intermodal transport and global logistics; financing national transport networks and links in support of global logistics; U.S. initiatives to improve system efficiency; human resource implications of changes in global logistics practices; performance measures, benchmarking, and data requirements in global logistics; and summaries and conclusions from moderators of panel presentations - recommendations for follow-up activities.
United States. Federal Highway Administration
1998-12-18
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Hazardous Material Transportation Safety and Security Field Operational Test Final Evaluation Plan Executive Summary
Based on these concerns, after sponsoring an industry competitive procurement, FMCSA awarded a contract jointly funded with the U.S Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office. The team is led by Battelle will test major technologies that now exist that can offer solutions to minimize security risks throughout the HAZMAT movement chain. Several off-the-shelf technologies that enhance HAZMAT security and transport safety will be deployed and tested by the Battelle Team under this Operational Test, including: ·Wireless satellite or terrestrial communications (with global positioning systems [GPS]) provide for load/cargo positions and status updates readily assessable and visible to a dispatcher. ·Panic buttons that provide real-time emergency alert message notification by the driver to the dispatcher. ·Driver authentication accomplished by driver login via authorized user identification (ID) and password codes or through biometric login (fingerprint scan recognition). ·Intelligent onboard computers (OBCs) can be integrated with wireless communications and remote vehicle operating systems to enable vehicle-disabling capabilities.
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2003-03-17
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Evacuation Transportation Management Task Five: Operational Concept
"Much of what is known about evacuations is based on preparations for incidents, such as hurricanes, for which there is advance warning. With advance warning, evacuations can be planned and managed using procedures and systems that have been developed as a result of extensive and methodical pre-planning. This approach, however, does not adequately support management of incidents when there is no advance warning or when conditions are changing rapidly. Evacuations in response to these types of incidents tend to be monitored, but not well managed. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recognized the importance of and need for new tools and processes to help agencies plan for and manage evacuations where there is little or no advanced warning. Consequently, the FHWA initiated a project to assess the state of the practice and state of the art in evacuation transportation management. The purpose of this document is to outline a concept of operations for transportation management during a no-notice emergency evacuation. This report will illustrate how agencies interact with each other, what information is shared, and how transportation systems are effectively managed during disasters. The concept of operations is intended to address who, what, when, where, why, and how the transportation management system needs to operate during a major no-notice event or disaster requiring evacuation. A high level description of activities that occur during each phase of the evacuation process is provided."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Pretorius, Pierre; Akwabi, Kwasi; Crowther, Brent
2006-06-26
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Low-Cost Surveillance for Rural Evacuation Routes: System Recommendations Report
"This document applies to the Low-Cost Surveillance for Rural Evacuation Routes System (LCSRERS). The document control number for this document is contained in the document footer and the file name for the electronic rendition of the document is recorded in this document's table of contents. This document summarizes the LCSRERS pilot project, the project's findings, and the system recommendations resulting from pilot system testing and analysis. These recommendations are intended to be used by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as well as Departments of Transportation (DOT's) across the nation when implementing their own LCSRERS systems. This document can also be used as a cost and configuration guide when determining what type of system configuration will provide the best cost to benefit ratio for a given system deployment."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Mixon/Hill, Inc.
2005-10
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Task Two: Literature Search for Federal Highway Administration (ITS-JPO): Assessment of State of the Practice and State of the Art in Evacuation Transportation Management
"Much of what is known about evacuations is based on preparations for incidents, such as hurricanes, for which there is advance warning. With advance warning, evacuations can be planned and managed using procedures and systems that have been developed as a result of extensive and methodical pre-planning. This approach, however, does not adequately support management of incidents when there is no advance warning or when conditions are changing rapidly. Evacuations in response to these types of incidents tend to be monitored, but not well managed. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recognized the importance of and need for new tools and processes to help agencies plan for and manage evacuations where there is little or no advanced warning. Consequently, the FHWA initiated a project to assess the state of the practice and state of the art in evacuation transportation management. This report was prepared to document a literature search to assess what is currently known about the management of evacuations and transportation management during evacuation situations, including the necessary support from public safety and other public organizations with a role in managing evacuations."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Houston, Nancy; Wilson-Goure, Stephanie; Vann Easton, Andrea
2006-02-07
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Task Three: Technical Memorandum for Federal Highway Administration (ITS-JPO) on Case Studies: Assessment of State of the Practice and State of the Art in Evacuation Transportation Management
"Much of what is known about evacuations is based on preparations for incidents, such as hurricanes, for which there is advance warning. With advance warning, evacuations can be planned and managed using procedures and systems that have been developed as a result of extensive and methodical pre-planning. This approach, however, does not adequately support management of incidents when there is no advance warning or when conditions are changing rapidly. Evacuations in response to these types of incidents tend to be monitored, but not well managed. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recognized the importance of and need for new tools and processes to help agencies plan for and manage evacuations where there is little or no advanced warning. Consequently, the FHWA initiated a project to assess the state of the practice and state of the art in evacuation transportation management. This report was prepared to document four case studies regarding no-notice evacuations from a transportation point of view: (1) El Dorado, Arkansas, hazardous material fire; (2) Graniteville, South Carolina, chlorine gas incident; (3) South Salt Lake City, Utah, hazardous chemical leak from a tanker car; (4) Big Bear Valley, California wildfires.The intent of the case studies is to identify commonalities and unique distinctions among the cross-section of incidents to identify successes, lessons learned, and best practices to provide guidance to agencies in planning for and managing evacuations including transportation, public safety and other public organizations with a role in managing evacuations."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Houston, Nancy; Wilson-Goure, Stephanie; Vann Easton, Andrea
2006-02-06
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Evacuation Transportation Management Task Four: Interview and Survey Results
"Much of what is known about evacuations is based on preparations for incidents, such as hurricanes, for which there is advance warning. With advance warning, evacuations can be planned and managed using procedures and systems that have been developed as a result of extensive and methodical pre-planning. This approach, however, does not adequately support management of incidents when there is no advance warning or when conditions are changing rapidly. Evacuations in response to these types of incidents tend to be monitored, but not well managed. Because the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recognized the importance of and need for new tools and processes to help agencies plan for and manage evacuations where there is little or no advanced warning, they initiated a project to assess the state of the practice and state of the art in evacuation transportation management. The purpose of this report is to document emergency evacuation plans and practices employed by transportation management organizations in several large metropolitan areas in the United States. This document discusses specific practices with regard to management through the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and related traffic management tools such as CCTV cameras, Dynamic Message Signs (DMS), Highway Advisory Radio (HAR), 511 systems, websites, interconnected traffic signal systems, High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes, and traffic signal priority for transit. Interview results for 14 public and private."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Pretorius, Pierre; Akwabi, Kwasi; Crowther, Brent
2006-06-26
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Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations: An Objectives-Driven, Performance-Based Approach
"This guidebook presents an approach for integrating management and operations (M&O) strategies into the metropolitan transportation planning process that is designed to maximize the performance of the existing and planned transportation system. This approach is recommended as a means to meet Federal transportation planning requirements for promoting efficient system management and operations and implementing a congestion management process (CMP). The approach is driven by operations objectives for the regional transportation system and performance measures for achieving those objectives. The MTP [metropolitan transportation plan] resulting from this approach contains specific, measurable operations objectives, performance measures, and M&O strategies that directly influence the projects selected for the transportation improvement program (TIP). This approach not only helps fulfill Federal planning requirements, but also results in an MTP that is a better able to meet customer needs, creating a more optimal mix of transportation investments."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Grant, Michael; Bauer, Jocelyn; Plaskon, Terence
2010-02
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Intersection Safety: A Manual for Local Rural Road Owners
"According to the Federal Highway Administration, over 6 million lane-miles of roadway are in rural areas, and more than two-thirds of these rural roads are owned and operated by local entities. In 2008 56 percent of the 37,261 fatalities on U.S. roadways occurred in rural areas. Rural areas face a number of highway safety challenges due to the nature of their facilities. More than 20 percent of all traffic fatalities in the United States occur at intersections and over 80 percent of intersection-related fatalities in rural areas occur at unsignalized intersections. This document provides information on effectively identifying intersection safety issues in local areas, choosing the countermeasures that address them, and evaluating the benefits of those treatments. It is geared toward local road managers and other practitioners with responsibility for operating and maintaining their roads. It offers information on the procedures and processes to improve the safety of local rural unsignalized intersections and to reduce the potential for future crashes."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2011-01
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Road Safety Information Analysis: A Manual for Local Rural Road Owners
"According to the Federal Highway Administration, over 6 million lane-miles are in rural areas, and more than two-thirds of these rural roads are owned and operated by local entities. In 2008, 56 percent of highway fatalities occurred in rural areas. Rural areas face a number of highway safety challenges. Data is the foundation of any roadway safety improvement program and often this is lacking, especially in local rural areas. This document was developed to provide data collection and analysis techniques as well as other processes applicable to the local practitioner to help improve the safety of local rural roads. The information will acquaint local practitioners -- regardless of background or experience level -- with the sources, calculations, tools, and methods to make data-supported decisions regarding local rural road safety."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Golembiewski, G.A.; Chandler, B.
2011-01
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PEDSAFE: Pedestrian Safety Guide and Countermeasure Selection System [website]
"The Pedestrian Safety Guide and Countermeasure Selection System is intended to provide practitioners with the latest information available for improving the safety and mobility of those who walk. The online tools provide the user with a list of possible engineering, education, or enforcement treatments to improve pedestrian safety and/or mobility based on user input about a specific location."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
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Roadway Departure Safety: A Manual for Local Rural Road Owners
"According to the Federal Highway Administration, over 6 million lane-miles are in rural areas, and more than two-thirds of these rural roads are owned and operated by local entities. Rural areas face a number of highway safety challenges due to the nature of their facilities. Roadway departure crashes are frequently severe and account for the majority of fatalities in rural areas. This document provides information on effectively identifying roadway departure safety issues in local areas, choosing the countermeasures that address them, and evaluating the benefits of those treatments. It is geared toward local road managers and other practitioners with responsibility for operating and maintaining their roads. This document offers information on the procedures and processes to improve the safety of local rural roadways and to reduce the potential for future roadway departure crashes."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Golembiewski, G.A.; Chandler, B.
2011-01
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Field Operations Guide for Safety/Service Patrols
"FHWA [Federal Highway Administration] produced this guide for use by Safety/Service Patrol operators and supervisors. It is expected that Safety/Service Patrol personnel will carry the guide in their vehicle to use as a quick reference while performing patrol tasks. They should refer to this guide on a regular basis as a refresher on steps and tasks associated with managing incidents--particularly for those situations not encountered every day. This guide is not designed to stand alone, but in conjunction with training and exercises that will indoctrinate the Safety/Service patrol operators into these good practices as well as Agency formal Standard Operating Guidelines or Procedures."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Sparks, John; Schuh, Jessica; Smith, Arland T.
2009-12
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Tabletop Exercise Instructions for Planned Events and Unplanned Incidents/Emergencies
"When planned special events are held, they generally increase traffic demands in or near the location of the event. In order to address this influx of traffic, transportation management plans are developed with the intent of minimizing the effect the event has on the transportation system. For a transportation management plan to be successful, however, it is strongly recommended that the plan be tested and reviewed prior to the event. One of the most effective ways to test a transportation management plan is through a tabletop exercise. A tabletop exercise uses the transportation management plan as the basis for action. It enables participants to role play in a scenario-based exercise conducted in an informal stress-free environment. During this low cost/low stress activity, key stakeholders involved in the planning and implementation of transportation management plans test the plan through a facilitated scenario based discussion. Tabletop exercises allow traffic management team officials to review the effect of certain event-specific action plans on other concurrent events. Through this interaction, contingencies are vetted and resolved. In addition, a tabletop exercise can be used to train and familiarize personnel with their roles and responsibilities within the planned special event's transportation management plan. No matter how thorough a transportation management plan may be, it can not account for all contingencies. The purposes of a tabletop exercise are to (1) test the written assumptions in the transportation management plan and (2) see what must be changed and how the plan can be improved. The tabletop exercise allows the participants to see how they react to unexpected events such as equipment failure or personnel shortages. Though originally designed for planned special events, the information in the guide can be used for the management of unplanned incidents including traffic incidents and responses to emergencies."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Radow, Laurel J.
2007-11
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Traffic Signal Preemption for Emergency Vehicles:A Cross-Cutting Study
"This cross-cutting study identifies issues associated with emergency vehicle operations and emergency vehicle preemption. This study reports information gathered during a review of publications and site visits to three jurisdictions operating emergency vehicle preemption systems. The purpose of this study is to increase awareness among stakeholders--including police, fire, rescue and emergency medical services (EMS)--about the benefits and costs of emergency vehicle preemption. […]. This study also identifies major lessons learned to guide others in achieving similar benefits. The following list highlights some of these elements critical to successful emergency vehicle preemption deployment."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2006-01
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Using Highways During Evacuation Operations for Events with Advance Notice
"Disasters can come in infinite varieties and can happen anywhere at any time, often without warning. Regardless of where in the spectrum the disaster falls, transportation is critical to evacuation operations, bringing responders to the scene, and transporting the ill and injured to medical facilities. To achieve an efficient emergency management response, transportation assets must be effectively utilized. A 2003 report issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) provided selected case studies on evacuations that occurred across the country from January 1, 1990, through June 30, 2003. The NRC observed that a large-scale evacuation involving 1,000 or more people occurs approximately every three weeks. The leading cause of evacuations was natural disasters (58 percent), with wildfires accounting for 23 percent of these evacuations. Technological disasters accounted for 36 percent of evacuations. These causes included hazardous material releases, train derailments, and traffic incidents. Malevolent acts, including terrorist attacks, accounted for six percent of evacuations. Due to the frequency of events leading to localized evacuations, local and state agencies, particularly in larger metropolitan areas, have become familiar with evacuation planning and its related issues and areas of concern such as transportation-disadvantaged and vulnerable populations, identification of decision makers, and the effects of an evacuation order. Local and State agencies routinely handle evacuations from wildfires, floods, tornadoes, hazardous material accidents, or significant transportation crashes. The 2003 NRC study found that only 17 of the 230 evacuations over the past 12½ years involved 100,000 people or more."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2006-12
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Managing Pedestrians During Evacuation of Metropolitan Areas
"The September 11, 2001, (or 9/11) attacks on the high-profile workplaces of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City and the Pentagon in the Washington, D.C. area, made real the impact of an unexpected, or 'no-notice,' event in a metropolitan setting. The news coverage of the events of 9/11 showed thousands of people leaving the area of the WTC on foot. The evacuation from the borough of Manhattan included not only the typical traffic congestion expected in an evacuation in the United States, but thousands of pedestrians moving along with, or among, the vehicles. […] Evidence that large numbers of pedestrians may be part of an evacuation raised questions within the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) about what actions are needed to manage pedestrian traffic during metropolitan evacuations and what FHWA can contribute in this area to ensure safe and effective movement of pedestrians while minimizing their impact on vehicular movement. The term 'no-notice metropolitan evacuation' here refers to an emergency evacuation taken as a protective action that is implemented for a portion of a densely built-up downtown area in a large city in the United States. […] The term 'pedestrian evacuation' generally refers to masses of people who leave a suddenly dangerous area in order to reach a safer place and do so on foot. For pedestrian evacuation to be of concern to transportation agencies, it entails the combination of masses of people on foot along with the corresponding congestion of the evacuation of others in private vehicles, always or at times moving along the same routes."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Bolton, Patricia A.
2007-03
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Planned Special Events: Checklists for Practitioners
"These checklists follow the order in which the topics are presented in Chapters 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Federal Highway Administration handbook, Managing Travel for Planned Special Events. Each checklist provides common, sequential steps for plans and activities that practitioners may use for most significant planned special events, regardless of the event or area type. However, considering that no two events have the same effect on surface transportation operations, each step incorporates several assessments designed to address the effects that planned special events may have on traffic, parking, pedestrian, and transit operations that are attributable to variables such as travel demand, road/site capacity, event operation, available resources, and external factors. Planned special event practitioners may apply these checklists to a specific planned special event to develop a customized 'road map' of essential tasks required to manage transportation operations for the event. Because planned special events practitioners may have different requirements, these checklists have been created in MS Word and are designed to be adaptable to each user's needs. Therefore, users are encouraged to create copies of this document and modify them by reordering elements within each list or adding to them based on each practitioner's needs and experiences with the special event planning process. Each checklist is also colored differently for ease of navigation. It is the goal of this document to be an adaptable tool for practitioners, one which may be shared among stakeholders and other partners to facilitate coordination and buy-in."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2006-10
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Simplified Guide to the Incident Command System for Transportation Professionals
"The Incident Command System (ICS) is a systematic tool used for the command, control, and coordination of an emergency response. ICS allows agencies to work together using common terminology and operating procedures for controlling personnel, facilities, equipment, and communications at a single incident scene. The purpose of this Guide is to introduce ICS to stakeholders who may be called upon to provide specific expertise, assistance, or material during highway incidents but who may be largely unfamiliar with ICS organization and operations. These stakeholders include professionals at transportation agencies, companies involved in towing and recovery, as well as elected officials and government agency managers at all levels. This document may also be beneficial to public safety professionals, who are familiar with ICS but may not fully understand how ICS concepts are applicable to transportation agencies. The need for familiarity with ICS is growing. Emergency services are already well accustomed to using ICS for all types of incidents, and other agencies are becoming more comfortable with ICS, in part due to the increasing deployment of joint operations. Transportation agencies are an integral part of ICS because of their role in monitoring and controlling traffic flow in response to a disruption in roadway system operations. Private towing companies play an indispensable role in incident removal and restoring the affected road section back to normal operation."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2006-02
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Multiyear Plan for Bridge and Tunnel Security Research, Development, and Deployment
"The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) national security strategic goal is to improve highway security and support national defense mobility through collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and our State, local government, private sector, and other Federal Agency partners. […] This report, developed by the Office of Infrastructure Research and Development (R&D), proposes a plan addressing objectives 2 and 4 above. The plan focuses on bridge and tunnel security. R&D associated with securing other parts of our national highway system is being addressed by other offices within FHWA. It has been repeatedly stated that the surface transportation system is a resilient system, and except in a few major metropolitan areas and during peak periods, our national transportation network has significant redundancy (i.e., there are readily available alternate routes and alternate transportation modes). However, what is not so well documented is the enormous impact a damaged bridge or tunnel may have on a city, region, or possibly even the Nation's economy. This is especially true if the restoration and reopening of the damaged structure and/or network were to take an extended period of time, which will typically be the case for major structures. Because terrorism is an unpredictable event, it is more appropriate to rely on layers of security rather than on a single measure. In the long run, however, to ensure continued functionality of the Nation's physical infrastructure, it would be more appropriate to develop cost-effective designs utilizing improved materials, components, and structural systems, rather than relying solely on techniques for detection and surveillance."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2006-03
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Talking Freight: National Freight Policy Framework [February 21, 2006 Transcript]
Jennifer Seplow moderated this National Freight Policy Framework Webinar during which Tony Furst, Director of the Federal Highway Administration Office of Freight Management and Operations gave a presentation on the National Freight Policy Framework.
United States. Federal Highway Administration
Furst, Tony; Seplow, Jennifer
2006-02-21
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Appendix E: Quantification of Impacts of Alternatives
"This study endeavors to estimate the economic benefits that may result from improved border control coordination between Mexican and United States border control officials. The alternatives that are considered in this study would have various impacts on U.S. Customs and other government agencies, the trading community, and other segments of society. The impacts may be negative (costs) or positive (benefits), and to evaluate the alternatives it is desirable to sum the costs and benefits, which leads us to the realm of benefit-cost analysis."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2002-11
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Appendix D: Description of Coordination Problems and Alternatives
"Binational port planning is not coordinated to include all U.S. and Mexican agency and private-sector requirements. There is no long-term strategy for border system planning, or planning is dependent on the inclinations of senior U.S. and Mexican officials. Trade practices and new technologies may not be taken into consideration during the planning process. This appendix endeavors to develop medium- and long-range plans for port of entry and binational planning that involve all U.S. and Mexican public agency and private-sector stakeholders."
United States. Federal Highway Administration
2002-11
