Tuesday, February 9, 2010

FHWA's TIM(Traffic Incident Management) Performance Measurement Knowledgebase

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has launched a website designed to provide transportation professionals the knowledge and tools they need, including sample documents and models from other states, to successfully implement program-level traffic incident management (TIM) performance measures in their state.
http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/eto_tim_pse/preparedness/tim/knowledgebase/index.htm

Monday, February 1, 2010

AASHTO Launches High Speed Rail Website

AASHTO launched a new website which brings together news and information, best practices, and technical assistance etc. about high speed and intercity passenger rail.
http://www.highspeed-rail.org/Pages/default.aspx

Thursday, December 17, 2009

FHWA Releases MUTCD 2009 Edition

The MUTCD's new 2009 edition features many new and updated requirements, ranging from changes in highway signs and bike lanes to the color of high-visibility garments worn by road workers, and will become effective January 15th, 2010. http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

New Applications for TRISWorld and TRB Publications Index

RSS Feeds and other Web 2.0 sharing applications are now available on both TRISWorld (http://trisworld.trb.org) and the TRB Publications Index (http://pubsindex.trb.org). RSS Feeds on the Research in Progress database were implemented this Fall. Users are now able to get RSS feeds to update specific search results on the various TRB databases.