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Hidden Ways Transportation Design Impacts Your Health
Did you know that lighting and noise generated by transportation infrastructure affect health and mobility? How about orienting cities around active transportation can improve residents’ mental health, social connection, and even their lifespans? Find out why.
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Telematics Data: A How- and When-To Guide for Transportation Professionals
Telematics makes data accessible that otherwise might never have been collected, allowing for novel analyses to answer age-old questions. Let’s dive into the role of Telematics data in the transportation industry, and when and how you might choose to use it.
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Paving the Way for Low-Carbon Concrete—And Why It’s the Future
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world—and one of the highest contributors to the global carbon dioxide emissions that accelerate climate change. Learn what low-carbon concrete is, why it matters, and how agencies can take practical steps to lead the way in building a lower-carbon future.
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Visualizing the Future: 3D Design Delivery Adds Dimension to Transportation Projects
Transportation infrastructure is intended to move people and goods efficiently and minimize disruptions. The transportation industry is evolving to reflect growing demands with a tool that delivers results: 3D design.
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Peer Reviews: The Secret Ingredient to Better Roundabouts
Spending the time and effort to solicit a roundabout peer review can be tremendously beneficial for catching issues before they become costly problems.
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Intersection Control Evaluation Brings Consistency and Confidence to Transportation Designs
Learn how we’ve been applying intersection control evaluation on design projects, and the difference we’ve seen it make!
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Breaking Down Video-Based Conflict Monitoring
How can we identify risk factors on roadways before crashes occur? Learn how to use video-based conflict monitoring, or near-miss analysis, to proactively uncover safety issues.
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How EV Charging Can Boost Tourism
How can destinations leverage EV charging to attract more business? Read strategies to estimate EV charging demand… and increase it!
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Leveraging Micromobility to Tackle VMT and Mode Shift Goals
Small vehicles can have a mighty impact in the quest to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT).
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Partnerships to Pathways: How to Overcome Obstacles and Get Projects Built
Across the country, public agencies encounter obstacles that can impede projects. However, there are ways to navigate these barriers and pave the way for faster, safer, and more impactful project delivery.
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What is Access Management? Your 10-Minute Primer
Perhaps you’ve heard the term mentioned in project scopes, transportation guidebooks and Transportation Research Board session titles, but what does this work actually entail?
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Building EV Chargers in Commercial Locations: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs?
Can EV chargers alter travel behavior and trip generation, boosting profits for the nearby businesses?
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How to Bring Context Classification to Your Agency: What We Can Learn from FDOT’s Influential Graphic
Learn how the graphic came about, and what it means for how states can approach context classification today.
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How to Make Incremental Progress in Your Bike Network Through Private Development
Developer-built bike infrastructure offers exciting potential to make incremental progress, development by development, in the creation of a community-wide bike network.
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Safety, Innovation, and Empathy: Key Takeaways from TRB 2025
The TRB Annual Meeting programming provided opportunities to challenge our assumptions, debate new directions, and celebrate how far we have come in advancing our field. Here are some of our observations from the 2025 Annual Meeting.
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Happy Holidays from Kittelson!
From our hearth to yours, we wish you a cozy season filled with warmth, good cheer, and joyful journeys ahead.
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10 Impactful Research Publications that Hit the Streets in 2024
As we look ahead to the 2025 Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, we’re also looking back on the impactful research that was published in 2024.
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The Current State of Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures
Trends and Thoughts for the Future
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How Long Should a Yellow Light Be?
Dive into the research and discover how engineering solutions can make a difference in reducing crashes.
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Myth Busters: Are Long-Range Traffic Forecasts the Best Tool to Guide Decisions about our Streets?
Are long-range forecasts accurate? Should they be the primary tool for guiding decisions about the future our streets? Bust this myth with us!
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Myth Busters: Are One-Way Streets Better than Two-Way Streets?
Did the conversion of two-way streets to pairs of one-way streets improve efficiency and benefit businesses? Bust this myth with us!
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Myth Busters: Do Stop Signs Slow Down Traffic?
Are stop signs an effective traffic calming tool? Do they actually slower driver speeds? Bust this myth with us!
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