Measuring Transportation Network Performance

Measuring Transportation Network Performance

Author: Cambridge Systematics

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 0309154928

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This guidebook provides methods for integrating performance measures from individual transportation modes and multiple jurisdictions and for developing new measures, if needed, to monitor transportation network performance. These network performance measures can be used to improve system management, planning, and investment decisions and can be applied to various scenarios. The guidebook should be of immediate use to practitioners in state, regional, or local governments; specially designated authorities; or those in the private sector who are responsible for measuring, operating, and investing in the performance of multimodal and/or multijurisdictional transportation networks.


Evaluating Cultural Resource Significance

Evaluating Cultural Resource Significance

Author: Mark R. Edwards

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0309088240

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 542: Evaluating Cultural Resource Significance: Implementation Tools examines information technology (IT) tools that are designed to improve and streamline the National Register evaluation of cultural resources. The report highlights IT prototype tools that include a searchable database of historic contexts and a collection of National Register evaluation documents. The second prototype provides an explicit, but flexible tool designed to improve the National Register eligibility determinations.


Passing Sight Distance Criteria

Passing Sight Distance Criteria

Author: Douglas W. Harwood

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 0309099277

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At head of title: National Cooperative Highway Research Program.


Integrated Safety Management Process

Integrated Safety Management Process

Author: Geni Bahar

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 0309087708

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Rising awareness of and increased attention to sexual harassment has resulted in momentum to implement sexual harassment prevention efforts in higher education institutions. Work on preventing sexual harassment is an area that has recently garnered a lot of attention, especially around education and programs that go beyond the standard anti-sexual harassment trainings often used to comply with legal requirements. On April 20-21, 2021, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the workshop Developing Evaluation Metrics for Sexual Harassment Prevention Efforts. The workshop explored approaches and strategies for evaluating and measuring the effectiveness of sexual harassment interventions being implemented at higher education institutions and research and training sites, in order to assist institutions in transforming promising ideas into evidence-based best practices. Workshop participants also addressed methods, metrics, and measures that could be used to evaluate sexual harassment prevention efforts that lead to change in the organizational climate and culture and/or a change in behavior among community members. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.


Analytical Travel Forecasting Approaches for Project-level Planning and Design

Analytical Travel Forecasting Approaches for Project-level Planning and Design

Author: C. D. M. Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 9780309284042

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 765: Analytical Travel Forecasting Approaches for Project-Level Planning and Design describes methods, data sources, and procedures for producing travel forecasts for highway project-level analyses. This report provides an update to NCHRP Report 255: Highway Traffic Data for Urbanized Area Project Planning and Design. In addition to the report, Appendices A through I from the contractor's final report are available on CRP-CD-143. These appendices supplement this report by providing a substantial amount of companion data and information. The appendices also include the extended literature review, the detailed NCHRP Report 255 review, supplementary tables, a list of defined acronyms, and a glossary. Also included on CRP-CD-143 are spreadsheet demonstrations, and, for reference purposes, a tool developed by the North Carolina Department of Transportation to assess annual average daily traffic."--Publisher's description.


Guide to Accelerating New Technology Adoption Through Directed Technology Transfer

Guide to Accelerating New Technology Adoption Through Directed Technology Transfer

Author: Mark M. Hood (Engineer)

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780309284189

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 768: Guide to Accelerating New Technology Adoption through Directed Technology Transfer presents a framework and guidance on how to use technology transfer to accelerate innovation within a state department of transportation or other such agency."--Publisher description.


Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes

Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes

Author: Daniel Brod

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 0309283485

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"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 755: Comprehensive Costs of Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Crashes describes a process for estimating the costs of highway-rail grade crossing crashes. A spreadsheet-based tool to facilitate use of the cost estimation process is available online." --Publisher description.


Remediation of Petroleum-contaminated Soils

Remediation of Petroleum-contaminated Soils

Author: David J. Friend

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780309058711

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This synthesis will be of interest to state transportation personnel involved with project planning and location (administrative and regulatory personnel), design staff (general civil, geotechnical, and environmental engineers), and project managers (construction and maintenance engineers and staff). It will also be of interest to federal and state environmental agencies and to environmental consultants and contractors as well as to trainers in the field of petroleum-contaminated soil remediation. This synthesis describes the remedial technologies that may be available to transportation agencies faced with the regulatory responsibility to clean or remediate petroleum-contaminated soils in the vadose zone (unsaturated soils above the groundwater table) at a particular site as well as the state of the practice within the agencies. This report of the Transportation Research Board describes the applicability and cost-effectiveness of alternate technologies to remediate petroleum-contaminated soil. Practices currently being used by state transportation agencies to remediate petroleum-contaminated soils, both on site and off site are also described. This summary of transportation agency practice complements the limited telephone survey of soil remediation techniques that was performed in preparing NCHRP Report 351, Hazardous Wastes in Highway Rights-of-Way.