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Abbreviations in this issue:
AASHTO - American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
DOT - Department of Transportation
FDOT - Florida Department of Transportation
- AASHTO Peer Exchange: Communicating Transportation Funding Issues - This peer exchange shares emerging and best practices that state DOTs are using to better communicate the complex issues surrounding finance, funding, planning, and project selection with the general public and the users of the transportation system; identifies successful case studies of communication techniques by state DOTs; and begins to develop a best practice resource explaining practical techniques and related tools to the target audience.
- FDOT Reports
- Nonlinear Road Pricing - This report develops methodologies for determining optimal nonlinear road pricing schemes for realistic road networks and explores its impacts on congestion, equity, and other factors.
- Validity and Usability of a Safe Driving Behavior Measure for Older Adults - This research develops the Fitness-to-Drive Screening Measure, a free Web-based tool, to evaluate aging road users' driving behavior.
- Methodologies to Estimate the Economic Impacts of Disruptions to the Goods Movement System - This report describes the impacts of bottlenecks and interruptions to the flow of goods through the nation’s major freight corridors and intermodal connectors, the dynamics of that flow in response to disruptions, and the full economic impact on public and private entities beyond just the critical infrastructure and the carriers that depend on that flow.
- Miscellaneous Reports
- Climate Change and Older Americans: State of the Science - This report assesses the vulnerability of older Americans to climate change and to identify opportunities for adaptation.
- Rural Water Infrastructure: Additional Coordination Can Help Avoid Potentially Duplicative Application Requirements - This report examines the (1) potential for fragmentation, overlap, and duplication between EPA and USDA drinking water and wastewater infrastructure programs and (2) extent to which these agencies coordinate at the federal and state level to fund community water infrastructure projects.
- Bridging the Gap: Prototype Tools to Support Local Disaster Preparedness Planning and Collaboration - This report describes a capabilities-based planning tool and two networking tools that were designed for helping local military and civilian planners collaborate in disaster preparedness.
