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Infrastructure 2012: Spotlight on Leadership – This report highlights examples of infrastructure leadership, exploring how six U.S. regions are approaching infrastructure in the new economy. It also examines key trends influencing infrastructure globally and reviews the massive projects underway in the rapidly urbanizing and developing countries of china, India, and Brazil. Teen Driver Risk in [...]
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Linking Community Visioning and Highway Capacity Planning – This research report developed a Vision Guide as a supporting framework that identifies the basic process and core elements of a vision and establishes possible linkages to transportation planning efforts. It presents four critical topic areas relevant to visioning and transportation planning: considering communities, reaching stakeholders, forming [...]
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Intelligent Transportation Systems: Improved DOT Collaboration and Communication Could Enhance the Use of Technology to Manage Congestion – This study addresses (1) the current and emerging uses of ITS technologies by state and local governments, (2) the challenges these governments face in using ITS, and (3) the extent to which DOT’s efforts to promote and [...]
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Transportation and the New Generation: Why Young People Are Driving Less and What It Means for Transportation Policy – This report documents the many ways in which young people are changing their transportation behavior and their desires for the future—and argues that many of those changes are here to stay. Young Drivers Report the Highest [...]
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Model-based Transportation Performance: A Comparative Framework and Literature Synthesis – This report compares performance measures recommended to achieve desired goals and reviews the literature to determine the degree to which these measures have been implemented and what they indicate about the relative effectiveness of land-use, transit, and automobile pricing policies. Multimodal and Corridor Applications of [...]
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2010 Status of the Nation’s Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions & Performance – This report summarizes the condition, performance, and future capital investment needs of the Nation’s highway and transit systems. Best Planning Practices: Metropolitan Transportation Plans – This report examines the critical role Metropolitan Transportation Plans can play as the cornerstone of metropolitan area [...]
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A Decade of Change in Fuel Prices and U.S. Domestic Passenger Aviation Operations – This report looks at changes in U.S. domestic passenger aviation operations that have occurred during the same time frame as significant events have taken place, with particular focus on those related to fuel price increases. The Life and Death of Urban [...]
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Fixing It: Infrastructure and the Economy – This report summarizes a survey result of counties on the current conditions of county roads and bridges and how the recent economic slowdown has affected construction and maintenance funding. The summary also documents how much funding each county would need to upgrade all of its roads and bridges [...]
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FDOT Reports Transportation Resources, Expenditures and Costs: Transportation Resources – This report summarizes Florida’s transportation funding through various entities. Regional Cooperation in Transportation Planning – This project reviews the literature, and statutes and programs of all fifty states, to identify regional transportation planning practices. It focuses on innovative transportation planning approaches that support regional integration [...]
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Teenage Driver Fatalities by State: 2011 Preliminary Data – This report examines preliminary teeange driver fatalities collected from the states for the first six months of 2011. Traffic Safety and Public Health: State Legislative Action, 2011 – This report summarizes the many bills regarding traffic safety issues that were considered by state legislatures during the [...]
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