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This document serves as a guide to state and local agencies, as well as industry professionals, for leveraging the ITS Joint Program Office’s (JPO) ITS Deployment Evaluation Databases for the purpose of analyzing ITS benefit-costs. The purpose of this guide is to convey a high-level methodology that agencies can tailor for their own projects. Examples are also provided to convey how analysis results can be shared with a variety of stakeholders to gain support, commitment, and excitement for the deployment.

The Resources section of the TRB committee web site provides much information including "The 10 Principles of Access Management", an interactive graphic, and the 2006 CD-Rom Library, which contains a wealth of access management documents and resources. National conference proceedings dating from 1993 are included, as well as the leading handbooks and papers from around the country.

This fact sheet highlights the benefits of investing in active transportation in Kansas communities.

This study is the first to quantify the relationship between specific measures of recent sleep and the risk of crash involvement in a representative sample of crashes of the general driving population.

Home page of American Association of State and Highway Officials.

Home page of American Public Works Association.

Home page of American Society of Civil Engineers.

Home page of American Traffic Safety Services Association.

Describes federal regulations that pertain to wearing high-visibility safety apparel and shows when to use Type 1, 2, and 3 garments. Includes helpful illustrations and photographs.

Explains the benefits to public works agencies of using social media.

This comprehensive plan lays out U.S. DOT’s multimodal strategy to promote collaboration and transparency, modernize the regulatory environment, and prepare the transportation system for the safe integration of automated vehicles. It illustrates how the Department’s work extends beyond government to meet the challenges of a modern transportation system by providing real-world examples of how the Department’s operating administrations collaborate to address the needs of emerging technology applications.

Topics covered include how to bank a curve, crown a road, check a grade, take elevation on each end of a culvert, and how to determine pipe length.

The FHWA software available at this site is in the public domain and is available for downloading as zipped files or self-extracting zipped files. This software may be downloaded and used without restriction.

This article will help you to look for collaborations that build upon community events and program to highlight the service of your transit agency.

The CARMA Ecosystem has created six new message types to enable vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication between vehicles and other entities for various CDA cooperation classes, as defined in SAE J3216,1 which enables true cooperative behavior.

Kansas rural transit district pilot projects have developed a road map for coordinating transit in rural areas. What process should other communities in Kansas follow? This fact sheet provides an outline of the process and lessons learned in the pilot projects.

Helps transit managers understand the correct way to count riders. It explores new and existing counting technologies and helps you decide what method is right for your transit agency.

Counties can prioritize the development of these types of employment opportunities within a broader goal of creating a local green economy that focuses on environmentally friendly and sustainable economic development for the county. Merging county economic growth goals with green practices has the potential to not only generate job growth but also result in local savings both environmentally and financially

This handbook is intended to offer an overview of critical leadership roles and to provide practical tips and tools as well as insight and wisdom from peers. Both newly elected officials and veterans will find something of value. Early reviewers have found the text “interesting, readable, and a good reminder about what leadership really is.”

The Crash Modification Factors Clearinghouse provides a searchable database of CMFs along with guidance and resources on using CMFs in road safety practice.

The PPM begins with a statement of purpose explaining that it was developed to establish a uniform system of personnel policies within your agency and to outline procedures governing the behavior of all employees. The manual and any revisions to it must be made available to all employees, ensuring that everyone is aware of both their rights and responsibilities.

An overview of a recent TCRP project on how to develop a travel training program for older adults. Contains tips for finding a good trainer and how to make a travel training program successful.

This video is intended to serve as a training tool for transit supervisors and trainers of student operators at East Carolina University to show the correct ways to accommodate passengers in wheelchairs. It covers the right way to load a passenger in a wheelchair, the correct way to secure a passenger in a wheelchair using a floor-mounted tie-down system, how to safely turn and apply brakes, and how to properly unload a passenger in a wheelchair.

A workplace poster warning against the dangers of impaired driving.

This article will describe a CarFit assessment and its benefits to any driver, including transit drivers.

Describes how to secure oxygen tanks on buses.

Little is known about how driving performance and attention change over time with increased automation. The current study assessed the effect of varying levels of vehicle automation on driver performance over time. Participants gained experience with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) across four sessions in the driving simulator. The specific driver assistance system was manipulated between subjects and included cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), lane-keeping assist (LKA), a combination of CACC and LKA (CACC + LKA), and a control condition with no driving assistance features. Adaptation was assessed by measuring drivers' response to uneventful roadway conditions and unexpected critical events during both earlier and later exposure to the technology. Overall, the results of the current study paint an optimistic view of driver assistance technology. Participants who used the technology were able to do so in a way that benefited their driving performance and allowed them to direct more of their attention to the road ahead. Further, driver adaptation was not associated with impaired responses to emergency events. The results suggest that Level 1 driver assistance systems have the potential to benefit driver safety even after drivers have adapted to the technology following repeated use.

Transit consultant Peter Schauer describes three purposes for conducting interviews and how a carefully prepared to interview plan can benefit your agency and community.

Transit drivers must operate their buses in a manner that irritates impatient divers. This article discusses the importance of being aware of road rage, methods for avoiding road rage situations, and ways to react positively if and when situations occur.

This technical brief provides information on the importance of having a professional website for your transit agency and provides best practices for transit-specific websites. Updated in 2018.

This synthesis describes energy reduction strategies being used in the United State and Canada that address vehicle technologies; vehicle operations, maintenance, and service design; non-revenue vehicles; stations and stops; building; indirect energy use; and renewable power generation.

Home page of Environmental Protection Agency.

This guide presents a strategy and information to assist professional judgment in developing cost-effective erosion control treatments for conditions commonly encountered on USDA Forest Service lands. This guide focuses on erosion control treatment and does not specifically, address sediment control. While the guide emphasizes permanent, long-term erosion control on steep slopes (greater than 50-percent slope gradient), the strategy and information may also apply to temporary construction-related erosion control and on flatter slopes. In addition, a strategy is presented for considering complicated and high-risk erosion conditions, such as gullies and landslide prone areas.

This article explores some of the key responsibilities of a board of directors and their committees and how the board interacts with the agency manager or executive director, and agency staff.

In summary, four SHA construction specifications were selected for analysis from three SHAs, two for hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavements, and two for portland cement concrete (PCC) pavements. The study shows that either the computer program SPECRISK or computer simulation can be used to analyze the statistical risks of most, if not all, specifications. Both HMA pavement specifications and one of the PCC pavement specifications were amenable to analysis by SPECRISK because they are based on percent within limits as the statistical quality measure. The remaining PCC pavement specification was based on averages and had to be analyzed by computer simulation. Probabilistic Optimization for Profit (Prob.O.Prof) was one of the software programs anticipated to be useful in the analysis. However, it required data that were not available and thus could not be used in the analyses. The report includes an analysis of the specifications, particularly the risks involved, and recommendations for improving areas that are considered unclear or statistically invalid.

In this Phase II study, researchers observed and documented advances in design and utilization of Safety Edge equipment, sampled, tested, and assessed consolidation of the Safety Edge, inspected field conditions on previously-installed Safety Edge projects, evaluated changes in shoulder settlement/erosion, and assessed any deterioration of sloped HMA pavement edges.

The objective of this project was to develop a technical report that describes treatments that result in driver self-selection of appropriate operational speeds on curve and tangent sections. The study was conducted in two phases. The first phase included a review of literature on design features and current practices associated with safer operating speeds and the identification of treatments for field evaluations. The second phase involved evaluating treatments to determine their effectiveness in reducing speeds on two-lane horizontal curves in rural and suburban areas. High-friction surface treatment was evaluated at four treatment sites and three control sites in West Virginia. The speed and encroachment analyses found no consistent differences between the before and after time periods. The friction analysis, however, clearly demonstrated that the friction supply increased. Optical speed bars (OSB) were implemented and evaluated at seven sites in Massachusetts, four sites in Arizona, and eight sites in Alabama. Two different designs were tested as part of this research, and the results yielded inconsistent speed reductions at all the test sites. Based on the results, it can be concluded that the OSB designs used in this research were unsuccessful in reducing vehicle speeds. The safety effects of lane-width–shoulder-width combinations on rural two-lane, two-way road segments in Minnesota and Illinois were also estimated as part of this study. Parameters for lane width indicators showed that, with shoulder width ignored, the expected number of total (i.e., all types and severities) crashes increases as lane width decreases, but it is difficult to distinguish the performance of an 11-ft lane width from that of 12-ft lane width. The main effect of shoulder-width was a decrease in the expected number of crashes as shoulder width increased. In addition, the interaction of the lane width indicator and shoulder width showed that shoulder width has the greatest effect on safety when the lane width equals 10 ft. Shoulder width also has a greater effect on safety when the lane width is 11 ft than when the lane width is 12 ft.

Home page of the FHWA.

These reports summarize the findings of projects associated with the track, rolling stock, train control, and communications, or human factors research. Research Results may also be used for intermediate project reporting after a significant milestone has been reached or in lieu of a full Technical Report for short projects.

This article will describe the development of these two spreadsheets for modeling rural transportation demand, how they provide an improvement over previous models, and how they can be used by transit providers in their own service areas.

Key points from a pre-conference workshop taught in Kansas by Rich Garrity, transportation operations and management consultant, who provided a crash course to new transit managers on federal regulations for Section 5311 and 5310 programs.

Q and A regarding the use of geotextiles and geogrid from an interview with Dr. Jie Han at the University of Kansas.

This article will describe a few best practices for creating and implementing an employer survey to help determine the location of a new transit service.

Summarizes key takeaway points and case studies from the TCRP Synthesis 94, reviews the innovative shift to regional governance in regional governance in Kansas rural transit and provides tips for making your organization more innovative.

Each year, GHSA publishes reports for its members and partners on a variety of pressing highway safety issues.

Contains examples of programs and policies for managing stormwater with green infrastructure.

Triennial reviews ensure that agencies receiving federal funds through KDOT are compliant with federal regulations. The process is an opportunity to learn more about federal provisions and maintain compliance with KDOT and federal requirements. This article provides guidance in the preparation of KDOT triennial reviews.

The purpose of Highways for LIFE (HfL) was to advance longer-lasting highway infrastructure using Innovations to accomplish the Fast construction of Efficient and safe highways and bridges. The three goals of HfL were to improve safety during and after construction, reduce congestion caused by construction, and improve the quality of the highway infrastructure.