Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

1. Connected Commuting - This study examines the potential benefits of connecting commuters to one another through mobile phone apps. It seeks to compare experiences of connected and unconnected commuters, and examines the kinds of information commuters share with each other.
2. U.S. Transportation Construction Market Forecast 2013 - This report forecasts the U.S. transportation construction infrastructure market will show modest growth in 2013, increasing three percent from $126.5 billion to $130.3 billion. Growth is expected in highway and street pavements, private work for driveways and parking lots, airport terminal and runway work, railroads, and port and waterway construction.
3. Understanding Road Usage Patterns in Urban Areas - This report tracks travel using anonymous cellphone data rather than survey data or information obtained from U.S. Census Bureau travel diaries. It demonstrates that canceling or delaying the trips of 1 percent of all drivers across a road network would reduce delays caused by congestion by only about 3 percent, but canceling the trips of 1 percent of drivers from carefully selected neighborhoods would reduce the extra travel time for all other drivers in a metropolitan area by as much as 18 percent.
4. Passenger Rail Security: Consistent Incident Reporting and Analysis Needed to Achieve Program Objectives - This report assesses the extent to which (1) TSA has overseen and enforced the reporting requirement for U.S. passenger rail agencies to report all potential threats and significant security concerns to TSA and (2) TSA has analyzed passenger rail security incident information to identify security trends.
5. Increase the durability and lifetime of existing bridges (Sign in required)- This report presents a library of examples on methods of minimizing the maintenance or repair cost or the traffic restrictions through increasing the durability and lifetime of existing bridges or structure components.
6. Miscellaneous Reports
   • Making the Most of MAP-21 - This handbook attempts to explain the many changes of MAP-21, and how these changes will impact local communities and the projects in the communities.
   • Upgrade Your Infrastructure: A Guide to the Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standard And Building Stormwater Retrofits - This guide provides a framework for the long term and predictable implementation of green infrastructure.
   • Residential Construction Trends in America's Metropolitan Regions: 2012 Edition - This study examines residential construction trends in America’s metropolitan regions. It finds that infill housing provides economic and public health benefits to metropolitan areas while protecting the local environment, help raise property values, increase a community’s tax base, and attract retail businesses to serve the larger residential population.