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) Report S2-L08-RW-1: Incorporation of Travel Time Reliability into the Highway Capacity Manual presents a summary of the work conducted during the development of two proposed new chapters for the Highway Capacity Manual 2010 (HCM2010). These chapters demonstrated how to apply travel time reliability methods to the analysis of freeways an...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R03-RW-1: Identifying and Reducing Workforce Fatigue in Rapid Renewal Projects documents worker fatigue impacts during rapid renewal operations in the highway construction industry; and describes development of an integrated fatigue management toolkit. SHRP 2 Report S2-R03-RW-1 is only available electronically. The same p...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a report that describes the result of a test of Steps 2-6 of the Integrated Ecological Framework (IEF) within the western portion of the Colorado Department of Transportation Region 1. The IEF was developed in SHRP 2 Projects C06A (Integration of Conservation, Highway Planning, and Environmental Permitting Using an Outcome-Based...

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 Washington State Department of Transportation’s (WSDOT) I-5/SR 509 Corridor Completion and Freight Improvement Project. TCAPP is now known as ...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-S01A-RW-1: Development of Analysis Methods Using Recent Data introduces an approach to microscopic or individual event modeling of crash-related events, where driver actions, initial speeds, and vehicle locations are treated as inputs to a physical model describing vehicle motion. The report also illustrates how a trajectory model,...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R03-RR-2: Guide to Identifying and Reducing Workforce Fatigue in Rapid Renewal Projects is designed to help in the development and implementation of fatigue risk management in rapid renewal highway construction environments. The guide includes organizational practices guidance, technical reference materials, fatigue training m...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-C39-A1 titled Pilot Testing of the TCAPP Decision Guide and Related Capacity Products: Hoopstick Creek, South Carolina evaluates and proposes enhancements to the Transportation for Communities—Advancing Projects through Partnerships (TCAPP) collaborative planning tool. TCAPP is now known as PlanWorks. The report explores the tool’s...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R07-RR-1: Performance Specifications for Rapid Highway Renewal describes suggested performance specifications for different application areas and delivery methods that users may tailor to address rapid highway renewal project-specific goals and conditions. SHRP 2 Renewal Project R07 also produced: Implementation Guidelines: Volume ...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Capacity Project Report S2-C39-A3: Pilot Testing of the TCAPP Decision Guide and Related Capacity Products: Oregon Metro Greenhouse Gas Planning documents how several metropolitan planning organizations in the state of Oregon tested the usefulness of the Transportation for Communities – Advancing Projects through Partnership (TCAPP) too...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Reliability Project L07 has released a prepublication, non-edited version of an Analysis Tool for Design Treatments to Address Nonrecurrent Congestion: Annotated Graphical User’s Guide Version 1.0. The guide is intended to assist users of the Microsoft-based Excel analysis tool .  The analysis tool is designed to analyze the effect...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Renewal Project R16B has released a prepublication, non-edited version of a report titled Tools for Communicating Railroad-DOT Mitigation Strategies. This report summarizes the  background, approach, and activities conducted in the R16 Report, along with the tools developed during the final phase of an earlier SHRP 2 project,  Stra...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) S2-R11-RW-1: Strategic Approaches at the Corridor and Network Level to Minimize Disruption from the Renewal Process documents the development of the work zone impact and strategy estimator (WISE)--a decision support software system designed to help evaluate the impact of work zones and determine strategies to reduce those impacts. ...

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...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-R06A-RR-1: Nondestructive Testing to Identify Concrete Bridge Deck Deterioration identifies nondestructive testing technologies for detecting and characterizing common forms of deterioration in concrete bridge decks. The report also documents the validation of promising technologies, and grades and ranks the technologies based on r...