The Federal highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Freight Management and Operations and Office of Planning developed this guidebook as a resource for FHWA, states, metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs), and other parties involved in the identification of freight needs, development of financing plans to fund projects designed to address these needs, and involved in the actual delivery of an eligible project. This guidebook is composed of four sections: * Funding and Financing Tools for Freight Improvements; * Case Studies of Freight Financing; * References; and * Glossary of Terms an...

Under direction of the Federal Railroad Administration's Office of research and Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center conducted a technology assessment of low-cost active waning devices for application at passive highway-rail grade crossings. The objective of this research was to present an objective assessment of the available low-cost warning device technologies and recommend a migration path that would be facilitate implementation in the U.S.

This report presents operational and safety findings and countermeasure recommendations from a comparative analysis of bicycle lanes (BLs) versus wide curb lanes (WCLs). The primary analysis was based on videotapes of almost 4,600 bicyclists in the cities of Santa Barbara, CA, Gainesville, FL, and Austin, TX. The videotapes were coded to learn about operational characteristics (e.g., intersection approach position and subsequent maneuvers) and conflicts with motor vehicles, other bicycles, or pedestrians.

This report was one in a series of pedestrian safety synthesis reports prepared for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to document pedestrian safety in other countries. This review reports research in six areas of pedestrian safety: 1) Interventions to prompt pedestrians to watch for turning vehicles. 2) Improving pedestrian signals for better indication of clearance interval. 3) Use of pedestrian-activated beacons at uncontrolled crossings. 4) Use of advance stop lines. 5) Increasing conspicuity of crosswalks. 6) Use of multiple interventions to increase motorist yielding to...

This report was one in a series of pedestrian safety synthesis reports prepared for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to document pedestrian safety in other countries. This report is a review of recent pedestrian safety research in Sweden (in particular) with some attention to similar research in other Scandinavian countries. The report states that even in Sweden, where attention has long been paid to pedestrian and bicyclists concerns, even so, still too much traffic planning is addressed as if it were a vehicular issue only.

This report was one in a series of pedestrian safety synthesis reports prepared for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to document pedestrian safety in other countries. This report is a review of recent pedestrian safety research in the Netherlands. It addresses several topics, reporting findings and providing a comprehensive list of references. Topics addressed include: Pedestrian crossings and traffic calming measures: Here research is reviewed on pedestrian crossings; along with other research pertaining to infrastructure changes in the form of traffic calming. Children and the...

This report was one in a series of pedestrian safety synthesis reports prepared for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to document pedestrian safety in other countries. Australia is a federation of States and Territories, and government responsibilities broadly mirror that in the USA. Local government is responsible for 80 percent of the road network, though the less heavily traveled parts. Australia is highly urbanized (notwithstanding large tracts of sparsely populated land). Almost 40% of the population lives in Melbourne or Sydney, and another 20% in Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide....