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How a Small Oregon Town Is Slowing Down Roads and Speeding Up Community Trust
In Bayshore, Oregon, small-scale road safety projects show how changes like paint and speed humps can improve safety, walkability, and community trust.
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Running Interference: The Hidden Potential of D.C.’s Stadium Redevelopment
The DC Council advanced a proposal to demolish the aging RFK Stadium and redevelop 190 acres on the city’s east side, including a new Commanders Stadium. Reactions have ranged from excitement to concern. This moment offers DC a chance to rethink how a football stadium connects with its neighborhood and the city, potentially setting a new model for urban sports venues.
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Two Decades at the Cascades Amphitheater: Traffic Control Solutions for Event Venues
Explore 20 years of traffic control innovation at the Cascades Amphitheater in Clark County, WA—featuring intersection control, detours, and trip consolidation strategies for large event venues.
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Think Like a Salmon: How Transportation Infrastructure Can Support Fish Habitat
Today, tribes, agencies, and companies throughout the Pacific Northwest, including Kittelson, are working with ingenuity and resources—and hope—to set policy, seek funding, and deliver projects that improve salmon habitat and passage. Here’s how.
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How to Get All-Weather Protection for Communities and Ecosystems
Communities are now experiencing intense downpours more often. Streets flood more often; storm drains overflow; and the infrastructure that was once enough is struggling to keep up. The question isn’t just how to respond to these changes, but how to intelligently and sustainably prepare for them.
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The 2025 Roundabouts Week Roundup
To celebrate Roundabouts Week, we’ve gathered recent projects, research, and stories that show the ways roundabouts are being applied in our communities.
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Fixing Bikes, Finding Belonging: Inside West Oakland’s Bike Collective
Situated in the heart of West Oakland, California, Spokeland is no ordinary bike shop—it’s a nonprofit bike collective rooted in accessibility, education, and community care….
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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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