Center for Transportation Research: Highlights

In the August 2, 2011 issue of the Federal Register (Vol. 76, No. 148) the FHWA issued a Request for Comments on proposed revisions to Sections 1A.09 and 1A.13 of the 2009 MUTCD. SUMMARY: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is incorporated in our regulations, approved by the Federal Highway Administration, and recognized [...]

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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and and the Volpe Center have released a joint report, “Estimated Land Available for Carbon Sequestration in the National Highway System.” The project team used Geographic Information Systems to analyze aerial images, detailed state DOT maps and ROW plans to estimate that the NHS includes about 5 million acres of [...]

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Victor Mendez, former Director of the Arizona Department of Transportation and the 2007 President of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, has been named by President Barack Obama as the next Federal Highway Administrator, subject to Senate confirmation. AASHTO Executive Director John Horsley said, “We consider Victor Mendez an outstanding choice for [...]

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<img src=”http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/dotfhwa.gif”> The Federal Highway Administration posted its October Transportation and Climate Change Newsletter. It contains the latest news in this area of policy and study. U.S. DOE and U.S. EPA announce the 2010 Fuel Economy Guide for model year 2010 vehicles. World Resources Institute issues provisional GHG emissions reporting standard for public sector EESI publishes State Actions on [...]

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In a recent letter posted to the Web, according to Smart Brief the “ISA contends that the research being conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is biased against digital signs, uninformed as to the differences between digital billboards and on-premise EMCs, and exclusionary in leaving the on-premise sign industry entirely out of the process.” [...]

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