TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that summarizes the results of SHRP 2 Renewal Project R15B: Identification of Utility Conflicts and Solutions Project, which explored best practices on the use of utility conflict matrices (UCM), developed and tested a standardized UCM concept, and developed training materials and implementation guidelines on the concept.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that summarizes SHRP 2 Renewal projects that are designed to help transportation agencies deal with the unique challenges that rapid highway renewal techniques present. The brief describes tools that agencies can use to mitigate worker and manager fatigue, develop and apply performance specifications, manage risk and complex projects, and sequence related projects.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that reviews advances in methods to help transportation agencies meet rapid renewal goals through nondestructive testing and nondestructive evaluation techniques.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a Project Brief that describes SHRP 2 tools that make it easier for road owners to gain the benefits of rapid renewal through the use advanced pavement technologies. The tools highlighted in the brief include model design specifications for modular pavement technology, guidelines for constructing composite pavements, a new design that uses part of the existing pavement “structure” in place, preservation guidelines for high-traffic...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that highlights Transportation Project Impact Case Studies (T-PICS). T-PICS is a web-based tool designed to allow for economic impacts to more easily be considered during community visioning for transportation, or during public and stakeholder involvement for long-range system planning or corridor planning. Visit the  T-PICS website to access the national database of case studies that can be used to assess the pre-...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that provides an overview, brief description, and the status of the SHRP 2 projects related to underground utilities.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that highlights several projects from the SHRP 2 Capacity and Reliability focus areas that are working to improve existing planning models, operations models, and activity-based models that are often used to help inform decisions about spending public funds on transportation improvements.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that highlights new tools being developed through SHRP 2’s Reliability focus area to improve reliable travel times by helping to change business processes to support travel time reliability, monitor travel time reliability and usefully preserve the data, evolve the institutional arrangements of agencies, improve traffic incident scene management, and improve overall systems operations and management.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that highlights a new tool to help highway agency managers and engineers preserve high-volume roadways in serviceable condition for longer periods of time, at a lower cost, in a safer manner, and with limited disruption to the traveling public. The brief also describes two products available in both print and electronic formats: Guidelines for the Preservation of High-Traffic-Volume Roadways, and a final report of the r...

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) has released a project brief that summarizes SHRP 2 Reliability Project L01, which addressed opportunities to employ highway operational efficiencies by making it easier for transportation and other agencies to coordinate their activities. Reliability Project L01 produced a guide and a final report that synthesizes successful practices. The guide is designed to help managers within state and local agencies that are responsible for overseeing operat...