Florida Department of

TRANSPORTATION

Office of Policy Planning

Abbreviations in this issue:

BRT - bus rapid transit
LRT - light rail transit

1. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis - This report assesses the physical aspects of climate change with a focus on those elements that are relevant to understand past, document current, and project future climate change.
2. TCRP Reports
   • Building a Sustainable Workforce in the Public Transportation Industry — A Systems Approach - This guidebook addresses contemporary issues in workforce development, retention, and attraction, and public transportation image management.
   • Energy Savings Strategies for Transit Agencies - This synthesis describes energy reduction strategies being used in the United State and Canada that address vehicle technologies; vehicle operations, maintenance, and service design; non-revenue vehicles; stations and stops; building; indirect energy use; and renewable power generation.
3. Landscaping of Highway Medians at Intersections - This report examines the safety aspect of landscaping on highway medians at intersections.
4. Transportation Energy Data Book- This compendium represents an assembly and display of statistics and information that characterize transportation activity, and presents data on other factors that influence transportation energy use. It provides relevant statistical data in the form of tables and graphs.
5. More Development for Your Transit Dollar: An Analysis of 21 North American Transit Corridors - This report systematically documents the extent to which BRT and LRT systems and streetcars in the US and Canada have stimulated development and explores the factors that have contributed to their success.
6. Miscellaneous Reports
   • Freight-Truck-Pavement Interaction, Logistics, & Economics - This pilot study analyzes the potential economic effects of delayed road maintenance and management, leading to deteriorated riding quality and subsequent increased vehicle operating costs, vehicle damage and freight damage.
   • A Fast, Auction-Based Algorithm for Paratransit Vehicle Assignment - This project addresses the problem of fleet routing for transporting a population of persons with disabilities from their homes to a set of centrally-located facilities.
   • Improving the Effectiveness of Nighttime Temporary Traffic Control Warning Devices, Volume 1: Evaluation of Lights on Nighttime Work Zone Channelization Devices - This study examines the effectiveness of warning lights on nighttime channelization devices by reviewing pertinent literature, experimental studies of nighttime work zones with and without lights on drums, driver surveys, and focus groups of driver perceptions and behavior in work zones using traffic drums.

For further information contact Monica Zhong or phone (850) 414-4808