The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government. This print version is the Official United States Federal Government edition of the Code of Federal Regulations. CFR 23 covers the U.S Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. In this volume, you will find rules, procedures, and regulations pertaining to credit assistance for surface transportation projects, drug offender's driver's license suspension, public road mileage for apportionment for highway safety funds, transportation infrastructure management, engineering and traffic operations, design standards for highways, safety belts usage and compliance, open container laws, national minimum drinking age, construction, inspection, maintenance, and approval. This volume also includes t bridges, structures, hydraulics, utilities, ruck specifications, as well as car-van-pool projects, pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, certification of size and weight enforcement, and more. Other products pertaining to this topic available from the US Government Publishing Office that may be of interest include the following: Standard Specifications for Construction of Roads and Bridges on Federal Highway Projects can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-001-00346-5?ctid=127 Primer for the Inspection and Strength Evaluation of Suspension Bridge Cables can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-002-00114-1?ctid=127 Stream Instability, Bridge Scour, and Countermeasures: A Field Guide for Bridge Inspectors can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-002-00112-4?ctid=127 Public Roads bi-monthly print periodical subscription can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/750-005-00000-4?ctid=127 Best Practices Guide for Identifying Threats to Bridges and Tunnels, June 2006 (Controlled Item) can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-001-00178-9?ctid=127 Hazard Mitigation Field Book: Roadways --print format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/064-000-00052-7 --ePub format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/999-000-44442-5 Traffic Incident Management in Hazardous Materials Spills in Incident Clearance can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-001-00345-7?ctid=127 Railcar Inspection Guide (RIG) March 2004 (Package of 10) (TSWG Controlled Item) can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-001-00169-0?ctid=127 Keywords: cfr 23; 23CFR; 23 CFR; Cfr 23; Highways; highways; department of transportation; transportation; national driver register; problem driver point system; state observational surveys of seat belt use; state highway safety grant programs; intelligent transportation system architecture and standards; railroads; Indians roads; inidan roads; Indian roads; federal lands highways; electronic toll collection; highway safety; public transportation; mass transit and special use highway projects, emergency relief fund; environmental impact; highway beautification program;
These Standard Specifications for the Construction of Roads and Bridges on Federal Highway Projects are issued primarily for constructing roads and bridges on Federal Highway projects under the direct administration of the Federal Highway Administration. These specifications are cited as "FP-03 U.S. Customary Units" indicating “Federal Project” Standard Specifications issued in 2003 and converted to United States customary measure units. U.S customary units were previously referred to as English units and are the units of measurement customarily used in the U.S. today. When designated in a contract, the FP-03 becomes part of the contract and binding upon all parties to the contract. All construction contracts of the Federal Highway Administration are also governed by the following regulations: Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Title 48, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 1; and Transportation Acquisition Regulation (TAR), Title 48, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 12. The FAR and TAR regulations are not included in the FP-03. A complete copy of the FAR is available from the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. U.S. customary measure units are used in the FP-03 U.S. Customary Units as authorized by the Waiver Request of DOT Metric Policy.
TRB Special Report 234 - Data for Decisions: Requirements for National Transportation Policy Making examines data requirements necessary to support strategic transportation policy making and the institutional changes necessary to make those data available on a permanent basis. The report calls for the establishment of a statistical agency within USDOT (this recommendation became helped create the Bureau of Transportation Statistics), the development of performance indicators, and regular reporting to the Secretary and Congress on important trends in system performance.
The purpose of this study was to provide the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) with specific research recommendations designed to develop a better understanding of a broad range of societal, economic, and institutional factors that affect--and are affected by--the nation's highway transportation system. The report is organized in four chapters and six appendices.
In September 2004, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published updates to the work zone regulations at 23 CFR 630 Subpart J. The updated rule is referred to as the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule (Rule) and applies to all State and local governments that received Federal-aid highway funding. Transportation agencies are required to comply with the provisions of the Rule by October 12, 2007. The changes made to the regulations broaden the former rule to better address the work zone issues of today and the future. Growing congestion on many roads, and an increasing need to perform rehabilitation and reconstruction work on existing roads already carrying traffic, are some of the issues that have lead to additional, more complex challenges to maintaining work zone safety and mobility. To help address these issues, the Rule provides a decision-making framework that facilitates comprehensive consideration of the broader safety and mobility impacts of work zones across project development stages, and the adoption of additional strategies that help manage these impacts during project implementation. The Rule requires agencies to develop an agency-level work zone safety and mobility policy to support systematic consideration and management of work zone impacts across all stages of project development. Based on the policy, agencies will develop standard processes and procedures to support implementation of the policy. The third primary element of the Rule calls for the development of project-level procedures to address the work zone impacts of individual projects. To help transportation agencies understand and implement the provisions of the Rule, FHWA has been developing four guidance documents. This Guide is the main Rule Implementation Guide and provides a general overview of the Rule and overarching guidance for implementing the provisions of the Rule. This document includes guidelines and sample approaches, examples from transportation agencies using practices that relate to the Rule, and sources for more information. While this Guide covers aspects of the Rule, it also contains information that can be useful to agencies in all of their efforts to improve safety and mobility in and around work zones, and thereby support effective operations and management of our transportation system.
Urges the formation of the Strategic Forum for Innovation in Highway Infrastructure, whose central mission would be to identify and effect positive change in the fundamental opportunities and incentives for innovation in products and services for the highway system. This report discusses the mission of the Forum, membership and participation, organization and support, related initiatives, steps to launch the Forum, and issues and opportunities for the Forum.
The Code of Federal Regulations is a codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the United States Federal Government. This print version is the Official United States Federal Government edition of the Code of Federal Regulations. CFR 23 covers the U.S Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration. In this volume, you will find rules, procedures, and regulations pertaining to credit assistance for surface transportation projects, drug offender's driver's license suspension, public road mileage for apportionment for highway safety funds, transportation infrastructure management, engineering and traffic operations, design standards for highways, safety belts usage and compliance, open container laws, national minimum drinking age, construction, inspection, maintenance, and approval. This volume also includes t bridges, structures, hydraulics, utilities, ruck specifications, as well as car-van-pool projects, pedestrian and bicycle accommodations, certification of size and weight enforcement, and more. Other products pertaining to this topic available from the US Government Publishing Office that may be of interest include the following: Standard Specifications for Construction of Roads and Bridges on Federal Highway Projects can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-001-00346-5?ctid=127 Primer for the Inspection and Strength Evaluation of Suspension Bridge Cables can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-002-00114-1?ctid=127 Stream Instability, Bridge Scour, and Countermeasures: A Field Guide for Bridge Inspectors can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-002-00112-4?ctid=127 Public Roads bi-monthly print periodical subscription can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/750-005-00000-4?ctid=127 Best Practices Guide for Identifying Threats to Bridges and Tunnels, June 2006 (Controlled Item) can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-001-00178-9?ctid=127 Hazard Mitigation Field Book: Roadways --print format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/064-000-00052-7 --ePub format can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/999-000-44442-5 Traffic Incident Management in Hazardous Materials Spills in Incident Clearance can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/050-001-00345-7?ctid=127 Railcar Inspection Guide (RIG) March 2004 (Package of 10) (TSWG Controlled Item) can be found at this link: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-001-00169-0?ctid=127 Keywords: cfr 23; 23CFR; 23 CFR; Cfr 23; Highways; highways; department of transportation; transportation; national driver register; problem driver point system; state observational surveys of seat belt use; state highway safety grant programs; intelligent transportation system architecture and standards; railroads; Indians roads; inidan roads; Indian roads; federal lands highways; electronic toll collection; highway safety; public transportation; mass transit and special use highway projects, emergency relief fund; environmental impact; highway beautification program;
Reducing traffic congestion and improving roadway safety are high priorities for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Traffic incidents are a major source of both highway congestion and safety problems. Incidents are estimated to cause approximately half of all traffic delay. Crashes that result from other incidents account for approximately 16 percent of all crashes and cause 18 percent of freeway deaths. For these reasons, FHWA strongly endorses the establishment and use of good traffic incident management. Effective transportation system management and operations depends on the aggressive management of temporary disruptions (caused by traffic incidents, work zones, weather, special events, etc.) in order to reduce the consequences of these disruptions and return the system to “full capacity.” The Incident Command System (ICS) is the systematic tool for the command, control, and coordination of an emergency response. ICS allows agencies to work together using common terminology and operating procedures for controlling personnel, facilities, equipment, and communications at an incident scene. The purpose of this Simplified Guide is to introduce the ICS to stakeholders who may be called upon to provide specific expertise, assistance, or material during highway incidents but who may be largely unfamiliar with ICS organization and operations. These stakeholders include transportation agencies and companies involved in towing and recovery, as well as elected officials and government agency managers at all levels. This document may also be beneficial to public safety professionals, who are familiar with ICS but may not fully understand how ICS concepts are applicable to transportation agencies.
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), which was signed into law in August 2005, contained several provisions focused on streamlining the environmental review process. One of these provisions, Section 6002,allowed for State Department of Transportation (State DOT) funding of staff, at both Federal and State resource agencies, who are dedicated to working on State DOT projects on environmental streamlining and related planning activities. This report assesses trends in the use of these “funded positions” and provides recommendations to State DOTs and resource agencies to support more effective uses of funded positions. The report is based on a study conducted by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Project Development and Environmental Review with assistance from the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center). The study consisted of two parts:(1) a literature review to assess the state of the knowledge about State DOT-funded positions and agreements, and (2) a series of interviews with participants in funded positions programs, including program managers at State DOTs and Federal and State resource agencies and individuals in those positions.
This session contains the following papers: Status of IVHS operational tests in the United States (Baxter, JR); Evaluation of a motorist information system using computer display terminals (Thompson, BA and Holcombe, TW); TravTek: An advanced traveler information system (Rupert, R); Human factors considerations in the development of an IVHS system - Night vision enhancement (Lunenfeld, H and Stephens, BW); Evaluation of alternative AVI/ETTM configurations at toll barriers (Pietrzyk, MC).
In March 1998, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Natural Environment, released the FHWA Traffic Noise Model (FHWA TNM) Version 1.0, a state-of-the-art computer program for highway traffic noise prediction and analysis. Since then, the FHWA, with assistance from the Volpe Center Acoustics Facility (Volpe Center) and Foliage Software Systems (FSS), have released updates of TNM (Versions 1.0a, and 1.0b) in March 1999 and August 1999, respectively. In support of the FHWA and the California Department of Transportation, the Volpe Center and FSS released Version 1.1 in September 2000. TNM 2.0 is the latest release of the TNM software. Two companion reports were released with TNM Version 1.0, a Technical Manual that describes the acoustics within TNM and a User's Guide. In addition, prior to TNM release, a data report was published that describes the vehicle noise-emissions data base within TNM. This document is an addendum to the FHWA TNM Version 1.0 User's Guide. It details the enhancements in the program up to and including Version 2.0.
Includes full color illustrations. The increased use of underground space for transportation systems and the increasing complexity and constraints of constructing and maintaining above ground transportation infrastructure have prompted the need to develop this technical manual. This FHWA manual is intended to be a single-source technical manual providing guidelines for planning, design, construction and rehabilitation of road tunnels, and encompasses various types of road tunnels including mined, bored, cut-and-cover, immersed, and jacked box tunnels. The scope of the manual is primarily limited to the civil elements of road tunnels.
This Guide is designed to help transportation agencies develop and implement transportation management plans (TMPs). A TMP lays out a set of coordinated transportation management strategies and describes how they will be used to manage the work zone impacts of a road project. The scope, content, and level of detail of a TMP may vary based on an agency's work zone policy and the anticipated work zone impacts of the project. The intended audience for this Guide is the persons responsible for developing TMPs. Depending on the agency's processes and procedures, this may be agency personnel and/ or contractors. Persons responsible for TMP-related policy/procedure development and revision, implementation, review, approval, and assessment will also benefit from this Guide. This document also provides support to agencies in their efforts to implement the recently updated work zone regulations. In September 2004, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published updates to the work zone regulations at 23 CFR 630 Subpart J. The updated rule is referred to as the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule (Rule) and applies to all State and local governments that receive Federal-aid highway funding. Transportation agencies are required to comply with the provisions of the Rule by October 12, 2007. The changes made to the regulations broaden the former rule to better address the work zone issues of today and the future. Growing congestion on many roads, and an increasing need to perform rehabilitation and reconstruction work on existing roads already carrying traffic, are some of the issues that have lead to additional, more complex challenges to maintaining work zone safety and mobility. To help address these issues, the Rule provides a decision-making framework that facilitates comprehensive consideration of the broader safety and mobility impacts of work zones across project development stages, and the adoption of additional strategies that help manage these impacts during project implementation. The Rule requires agencies to develop an agency-level work zone safety and mobility policy to support systematic consideration and management of work zone impacts across all stages of project development. Based on the policy, agencies will develop processes and procedures to support implementation of the policy. The third primary element of the Rule calls for the development of project-level procedures to address the work zone impacts of individual projects. This includes requirements for identifying significant projects and developing and implementing TMPs for all Federal-aid highway projects. This document is the third of four guidance documents on the Rule and contains guidance, as well as many examples of how transportation agencies have developed and implemented TMPs or similar plans.
This manual has been developed to provide construction project personnel with information and guidance for field activities relating to materials. This manual complements the Standard specifications for Construction of Roads and Bridges on Federal Highway Projects (FP). When the guidelines or directions set forth in this manual conflict with an FLH contract, the contract shall govern. This manual is intended as general guidance. It sets forth procedures and best practices for testing and verifying materials on a contract. The application of this manual to any particular situation is to be guided by sound engineering principles. This manual does not create enforceable rights. However, a contract may adopt or incorporate by reference any portion of this manual and thereby establish that portion as binding on the parties. The manual is divided into five chapters and six divisions. Chapter 1 – Division 100: Acceptance and Verification Procedures and Material Project Requirements; Chapter 2 – Division 200: Earthwork Testing and Evaluation; Chapter 3 – Division 300: Aggregate Base, Subbase, Aggregate-Topsoil, and Base Stabilization; Chapter 4 – Division 400: Asphalt Pavements and Surface Treatments; Chapter 5 – Division 500: Concrete. Chapter 1 processes and procedures are generally applicable to the categories of materials addressed in Chapters 2 through 5. Chapters 2 through 5 set forth the processes needed to address the categories of materials specifically addressed in each particular chapter.
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