Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon

Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon
Author: Dwight A. Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 323
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780875952055

Handsome illustrations of more than two hundred bridges, including Columbia River Scenic Highway bridges, covered bridges, and magnificent coastal bridges.

Highway Infrastructure

Highway Infrastructure
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2001
Genre: Federal aid to transportation
ISBN:

Highway infrastructure FHWA's model for estimating highway needs has been modified for statelevel planning.

Highway infrastructure FHWA's model for estimating highway needs has been modified for statelevel planning.
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN: 1428947922

Federal and state governments have played a vital role in the nation economy by facilitating the movement of people and goods through significant investments in highways. At the federal level, the Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) uses a computer model known as the Highway Economic Requirements System (HERS) to estimate the future investment required to maintain and improve the nation highways. DOT reports the results of this analysis to the Congress on a biennial basis. However, state governments make a large number of highway infrastructure investment decisions. States currently use a variety of analytic tools to make these decisions. Interest in using HERS at the state level has grown. Two states Indiana and Oregon are already using customized versions of the model, and in December 2000, FHWA began a pilot project to test its state-level version of HERS, called HERS-ST, with interested states.

Report

Report
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2008
Genre: Highway research
ISBN:

Roadway Incident Diversion Practices

Roadway Incident Diversion Practices
Author: Walter M. Dunn
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1999
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780309068598

This synthesis report will be of interest to officials of municipal, regional, and statewide transportation and law enforcement agencies who are responsible for roadway incident diversion practices. It will also be of interest to others who interact with these agencies to achieve a better understanding of the processes, barriers, and technologies associated with alternate route plan development and deployment. This report presents state-of-the-practice information about the development and implementation of roadway incident diversion practices. It documents specific trends in the practice, and in examining individual practices, identifies unique plans, processes, and technologies from which other agencies may find useful applications. This TRB report addresses a broad list of topics associated with roadway incident diversion and profiles successful incident diversion practices, as reported by surveyed agencies. In particular, it focuses concern on alternate route plans for random incidents, those resulting in nonrecurring congestion.

Forecasting Statewide Freight Toolkit

Forecasting Statewide Freight Toolkit
Author: Cambridge Systematics
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2008
Genre: Freight and freightage
ISBN: 0309099242

Federal planning legislation and regulations now mandate that state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations consider the needs of freight when planning and programming transportation investments. While there are standard techniques used to forecast the movement of people, less attention has been paid to forecasting freight movements, and there are consequently fewer standardized techniques that state and local agencies can adapt to their local situation. This Toolkit is designed to provide transportation planners with the information they need to prepare forecasts of freight transportation by highlighting techniques successfully developed by state agencies across the country.