TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R16-RR-1: Strategies for Improving the Project Agreement Process between Highway Agencies and Railroads examines the process by which highway agencies and railroads develop agreements for highway projects which interact with railways. The report examines the underlying causes of delay in the project-agreement process and developed ...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a report that describes the results of a pilot test of the Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP) collaborative decision-making tool as part of the Complete Streets plan in the city of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. TCAPP is now known as PlanWorks. TCAPP is designed to provide agencies and pract...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C33A has released a report titled An Examination of 14 Projects to Validate the Results of SHRP 2’s Transportation Project Impact Case Studies (T-PICS) that evaluates the results of T-PICS. T-PICS is a web-based, preliminary planning tool for planners, policy makers, and others interested in gauging the economic impact of ty...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-C10A-RW-1: Dynamic, Integrated Model System: Jacksonville-Area Application explores development of a dynamic integrated travel demand model with advanced policy analysis capabilities. The report describes the implementation of the model system in Burlington, Vermont, and in Jacksonville, Florida; the calibration and validation of t...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R06F-RW-1: Assessment of Continuous Pavement Deflection Measuring Technologies catalogs existing continuous deflection measuring technologies and assesses the capabilities of select devices.  It also includes case studies that illustrate the application of the technology for supporting various pavement management decision...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R09-RW-1: Developing the "Guide for the Process of Managing Risk on Rapid Renewal Projects" documents the development of  Guide for the Process of Managing Risk on Rapid Renewal Projects , which is geared to manage risk during rapid renewal projects. Additionally, three electronic tools may assist with successfully i...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-S04A-RW-1: Naturalistic Driving Study: Development of the Roadway Information Database documents efforts to design, build, and populate a Roadway Information Database (RID) encompassing data from the SHRP 2 mobile data collection project (S04B), other existing roadway data, and supplemental traffic operations data. The RID was...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) S2-R23-RR-1: Using Existing Pavement in Place and Achieving Long Life describes a procedure for identifying when existing pavements can be used in place as part of the rehabilitation solution and the methods necessary to incorporate the original material into the new pavement structure while achieving long life. The R23 project also produced...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L38 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report that tested SHRP 2's reliability analytical products at a Southern California pilot site. The Southern California site focused on two freeway facilities: I-210 in Los Angeles County and I-5 in Orange County. The pilot testing demonstrates&nbs...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) SHRP 2 Safety Project S08 has released a report titled Initial Analyses from the SHRP 2 Naturalistic Driving Study: Addressing Driver Performance and Behavior in Traffic Safety that summarizes phase 1 work produced by four analysis contracts that were awarded to study specific research questions using early SHRP 2 naturalistic driving study ...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project C40B has released a report that demonstrates the transferability of previously-developed methods to assess biological and ecological impacts from transportation projects. The report also documents the development of a national impact scoping tool. The C40B project also produced  Regulatory Acceptability of Remotely Sens...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R26-RR-2: Guidelines for the Preservation of High-Traffic-Volume Roadways provides suggested guidelines for the application of preservation treatments on high-volume roadways. The guidelines consider traffic volume, pavement condition, work-zone requirements, environmental conditions, and expected performance. Errata (October 2011)...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L02-RR-2: Guide to Establishing Monitoring Programs for Travel Time Reliability describes how to develop and use a Travel Time Reliability Monitoring System (TTRMS). The guide also explains why such a system is useful, how it helps agencies do a better job of managing network performance, and what a traffic management center (...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report: S2-L01-RR-1: Integrating Business Processes to Improve Travel Time Reliability addresses various ways that transportation agencies can reengineer their day-to-day business practices to help improve traffic operations, address nonrecurring traffic congestion, and improve the reliability of travel times delivered to roadway system user...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report: Regional Operations Forums for Advancing Systems Operations, Management, and Reliability documents the piloting of the Transportation System Management & Operations (TSM&O) curriculum through a Regional Operations Forum (ROF) concept. In addition to the report, the project also produced a set of  PowerPoint presentations...