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Accommodating Bicycle and Pedestrian Travel: A Recommended Approach

Accommodating Bicycle and Pedestrian Travel: A Recommended Approach is a policy statement adopted by the United States Department of Transportation. USDOT hopes that public agencies, professional associations, advocacy groups, and others adopt this approach as a way of committing themselves to in

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Active Traffic Management (ATM) Implementation and Operations Guide

ATM Implementation & Operations Guide (Click here to download)

This Guide provides regional and local agencies guidance on how to strategically and effectively implement and operate Active Traffic Management (ATM) strategies. The Guide describes the stepwise approach to accomplishin

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Best Practice

Active Traffic Management Feasibility and Screening Guide

This Guide was developed to assist transportation agencies and planning organizations in making informed investment decisions regarding Active Traffic Management (ATM) by determining the feasibility of ATM strategies before committing significant resources towards any subsequent project developme

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Case Studies & Lessons Learned

Active Traffic Management: The Next Step in Congestion Management

Active Traffic Management is a complete package of strategies that recognize that there is an increase in travel demand, a growth in congestion, a commitment to safety, and a shift in agency culture toward active management and system operation that focus on the customer. This document assesses E

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Active Transportation and Demand Management: ATDM Analysis Brief #2: Methodology for Capacity and Operations Analysis of ATDM

Project Purpose:

A research project sponsored by FHWA was to develop new and/or updated methodologies, data sets, and content for the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) that would better reflect the demand and traffic flow behavior that result from the application of Active Transportation an

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Adaptive Urban Signal Control

The AUSCI evaluation is divided into four separate test plans.  Each test plan addresses a

specific project goal.  The Evaluation Final Report provides results for each of the following evaluation test plans:

Test Plan One– Assess Performance Characteristics

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Advancing Metropolitan Planning For Operations

The Desk Reference contains more than 200 examples of customizable operations objectives that can be incorporated into transportation planning documents.

One-page fact sheets link these sample objectives to performance measures, data needs, M&O strategies, and possible safety impact

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Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations: An Objectives-Driven, Performance-Based Approach – A Guidebook

This guidebook presents an approach for integrating TSM&O strategies into the metropolitan transportation planning process that is designed to maximize the performance of the existing and planned transportation system. Planning for operations is recommended as a means to meet federal transpor

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Advancing Metropolitan Planning for Operations: The Building Blocks of a Model Transportation Plan Incorporating Operations - A Desk Reference

This document is a resource designed to enable transportation planners and their partners to build a transportation plan that includes operations objectives, performance measures, and strategies that are relevant to their region, that reflect the community’s values and constraints, and that move

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Advancing Regional Transportation Operations: A National Workshop

TRB Transportation Research E-Circular E-C 150: Advancing Regional Transportation Operations: A National Workshop is a summary of the December 2008 workshop held in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the workshop was to advance the state of the practice in regional approaches to managing and oper

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