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        **December**
        **Content Link:**Public Roads Magazine November/December 2015 - - posted December 29, 2015**Date:**December 29, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-16-001**Category:**Public Roads**Type:**Periodical**PDF:** PDF Not available**Content Link:**Remotely Monitoring Water Quality Near Highways: A Sustainable Solution**Date:**December 17, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-16-018**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:****Content Link:**Tools for Improving The Sustainability and Durability of Concrete - Modeling Hydration and Performance**Date:**December 10, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-084**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:****Content Link:**FHWA R&T Now - - November/December 2015**Date:**December 2, 2015**Publication No.:**None**Category:**research, infrastructure, safety, policy, operations, environment, planning**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:**Information As A Source of Distraction**Date:**December 1, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-027**Category:**research, safety**Type:**Report**PDF:** ​​
  


      **November**
        **Content Link:** LTPP Newsletter, January-June 2015 - - posted November 20, 2015**Date:**November 20, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-061**Category:**Infrastructure, Pavements, Research, LTPP**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:**User's Manual for The Traffic Incident Management Benefit-Cost (TIM-BC) Tool (Version: 2.0)**Date:**November 20, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-16-020**Category:**research, operations, intelligent transportation systems, ITS**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Traffic Incident Management Benefit-Cost Estimation Tool**Date:**November 19, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-16-016**Category:**research, operations, intelligent transportation systems, ITS**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:****Content Link:**Novel Alternative Cementitious Materials for Development of The Next Generation of Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure**Date:**November 18, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-16-017**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Summary Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Multiple Sources of Safety Information From V2V and V2I: Redundancy, Decision Making, and Trust-Safety Message Design Report**Date:**November 18, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-007**Category:**research, safety**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Safety Evaluation of Wet-Reflective Pavement Markings**Date:**November 10, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-065**Category:**Safety, Research**Type:**Report**PDF:** ​​
  


      **October**
        **Content Link:**Transportation Operations Research and Development Newsletter - Fall Issue**Date:**October 29, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-16-015**Category:**Transportation Operations Research and Development**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:**Driver Simulators to Test Shared Controls, Limited Autonomy Vehicle Systems**Date:**October 22, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-077**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Reference Scans**PDF:****Content Link:**Breakthroughs in Vision and Visibility for Highway Safety Workshop Summary Report - August 13-14, 2014**Date:**October 22, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-067**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Assessing Pavement Surface Splash and Spray Impact on Road Users**Date:**October 16, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-062**Category:**research, infrastructure, pavements and materials**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**Safety Evaluation of Centerline Plus Shoulder Rumble Strips**Date:**October 13, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-064**Category:**Safety, Research**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:** ​​
  


      **September**
        **Content Link:**Public Roads Magazine - September/October 2015 - - posted September 25, 2015**Date:**September 25, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-006**Category:**Public Roads**Type:**Periodical**PDF:**PDF Not available**Content Link:**FHWA R&T Now - - September/October 2015**Date:**September 24, 2015**Publication No.:**None**Category:**research, infrastructure, safety, policy, operations, environment, planning**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:**Automated Video Analysis - Analyzing Large Quantities of Transportation Research Data**Date:**September 15, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-070**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:****Content Link:**Coordinating High-Resolution Traffic Cameras - Developing Intelligent, Collaborating Cameras for Transportation Security and Communications**Date:**September 15, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-068**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:****Content Link:**Properties of Anchor Rods Removed From San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge**Date:**September 4, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-057**Category:**research, infrastructure, structures**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Evaluation of The Impact of Spectral Power Distribution on Driver Performance**Date:**September 4, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-047**Category:**Safety, Research**Type:**Report**PDF:** ​​
  


      **August**
        **Content Link:**Real-time Ridesharing**Date:**August 28, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-069**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Reference Scans**PDF:****Content Link:**LTBP Newsletter - Issue 5**Date:**August 3, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-050**Category:**Infrastructure, Bridges, Research**Type:**Newsletter**PDF:** ​​
  


      **July**
        **Content Link:**Safety Evaluation of Access Management Policies and Techniques**Date:**July 31, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-044**Category:**Safety, Research**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**FHWA R&T Now - - July/August 2015**Date:**July 22, 2015**Publication No.:**None**Category:**research, infrastructure, safety, policy, operations, environment, planning**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:**The Impact of Automated Transit, Pedestrian, and Bicycling Facilities on Urban Travel Patterns Summary Report**Date:**July 13, 2015**Publication No.:******FHWA-HRT-15-015**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Summary Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Safety Evaluation of Centerline Plus Shoulder Rumble Strips**Date:**July 8, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-048**Category:**Safety, Research**Type:**Report**PDF:** ​​
  


      **June**
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      **May**
        **Content Link:**Computer-Based Guidelines for Concrete Pavements, HIPERPAV III, Version 3.3 User's Manual**Date:**May 28, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-087**Category:**Infrastructure, Pavements, Research**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Factors Influencing Operating Speeds and Safety on Rural and Suburban Road**Date:**May 28, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-030**Category:**Safety**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**FHWA R&T Now - - May/June 2015**Date:**May 27, 2015**Publication No.:**None**Category:**research, infrastructure, safety, policy, operations, environment, planning**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:**Impacts Of Led Brightness, Flash Pattern, And Location For Illuminated Pedestrian Traffic Control Device**Date:**May 12, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-042**Category:**Safety, Research**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**Behavioral Economics and Transportation**Date:**May 5, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-035**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Reference Scans**PDF:****Content Link:**Field Evaluation of Detection-Control System**Date:**May 1, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-058**Category:**Safety, Infrastructure, Research**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Photographic Data Extraction Feasibility and Pilot Study in Support of Roadside Safety and Roadway Departure Research**Date:**May 1, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-13-088**Category:**Safety, Infrastructure, Research**Type:**Report**PDF:** ​​
  


      **April**
        **Content Link:**Long-Term Pavement Performance Program**Date:** April 23, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-018**Category:**Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials, LTPP**Type:**Brochure**PDF:****Content Link:**Public Roads Magazine, March/April 2015 - - posted April 20, 2015**Date:**April 20, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-003**Category:**Public Roads**Type:**Periodical**PDF:**PDF Not available**Content Link:**LTPP 2014 and Beyond - What is Needed and What Can Be Done?**Date:**April 16, 2015**Publication No.:******FHWA-HRT-15-017**Category:**research, infrastructure, pavements and materials, LTPP**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:****Content Link:**Radio Frequency Identification Applications in Pavements**Date:**April 15, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-061**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Lightweight Concrete: Shear Performance**Date:**April 15, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-021**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Structures**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**Long-Term Pavement Performance Ohio SPS-1 and SPS-2 Dynamic Load Response Data Processing**Date:**April 8, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-088**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Development of A Platform Technology for Automated Vehicle Research - Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control**Date:**April 7, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-032**Category:**research, operations, intelligent transportation systems, ITS**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:****Content Link:**Transportation Operations Research and Development Newsletter - Spring Issue**Date:**April 7, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-045**Category:**Transportation Operations Research and Development**Type:**Periodical**PDF:** ​​
  


      **March**
        **Content Link:**Making Driving Simulators More Useful for Behavioral Research - Simulator Characteristics Comparison and Model-Based Transformation**Date:**March 31, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-016**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Summary Report**PDF:****Content Link:**The FHWA 2015 R&T Story - Research and Innovative Solutions for the Nation's Highway Challenges**Date:**March 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-091**Category:**research, technology**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Construction Quality Assurance for Federally Funded Local Public Agency Projects**Date:**March 25, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-009**Category:**research, infrastructure**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**Nondestructive Inspection Protocol for Reinforced Concrete Barriers**Date:**March 25, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-076**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Structures**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Crash Modification Factors Needs Assessment Workshop**Date:**March 25, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-020**Category:**Safety, Research**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**FHWA R&T Now - - March/April 2015**Date:**March 23, 2015**Publication No.:**None**Category:**research, infrastructure, safety, policy, operations, environment, planning**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:**Performance-Based Contractor Prequalification As An Alternative to Performance Bonds**Date:**March 18, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-034**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Long-Term Pavement Performance Automated Faulting Measurement**Date:**March 17, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-092**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Synthesis of Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil (GRS) Design Topics**Date:**March 5, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-094**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Structures**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:** Evaluation of Pavement Safety Performance**Date:**March 5, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-065**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Assistive Technologies for Visually Impaired Persons**Date:**March 4, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-040**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Fact Sheet**PDF:** ​​
  


      **February**
        **Content Link:**Public Roads Magazine, January/February 2015 - - posted February 23, 2015**Date:**February 23, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-002**Category:**Public Roads**Type:**Periodical**PDF:** PDF Not available**Content Link:**Bond Behavior Of Reinforcing Steel In Ultra-High Performance Concrete**Date:**February 19, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-089**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Structures**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**Classification Of Features Of Pavement Profiles Using Empirical Mode Decomposition**Date:**February 19, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-13-093**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:** Evaluation of LTPP Climatic Data for Use in Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) Calibration and Other Pavement Analysis**Date:**February 19, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-026**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Pavements, Materials**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**National Multimodal Freight Analysis Framework Research Workshop**Date:**February 5, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-054**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Technical Summary: Federal Highway Administration Focus Area Data Definitions**Date:**February 3, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-062**Category:**research, safety, HSIS**Type:**Summary Report**PDF:** ​​
  


      **January**
        **Content Link:**Distress Identification Manual for The Long-Term Pavement Performance Program (Fifth Revised Edition)**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-13-092**Category:**research, infrastructure, pavements and materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Strategic Plan for The Turner-Fairbank Research Center**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:******FHWA-HRT-14-020**Category:**research, safety, human centered systems**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Evaluation of Dynamic Speed Feedback Signs on Curves: A National Demonstration Project**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:******FHWA-HRT-14-020**Category:**research, safety, human centered systems**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:** Interlaboratory Variability of Slip Coefficient Testing for Bridge Coatings**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-093**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Structures, Bridges**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**EAR Program Research Results - Updated Through 2014**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-024**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Brochures**PDF:****Content Link:**Alkali-Silica Reaction Mechanisms and Detection: An Advanced Understanding**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-079**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Structures, Bridges**Type:**Techbrief**PDF:****Content Link:**Long-Term Bridge Performance High Priority Bridge Performance Issues**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-14-052**Category:**research, infrastructure, pavements and materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**Verification, Refinement, and Applicability of Long-Term Pavement Performance Vehicle Classification Rules**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-13-091**Category:**research, infrastructure, pavements and materials**Type:**Report**PDF:****Content Link:**The Exploratory Advanced Research Program**Date:**January 27, 2015**Publication No.:**FHWA-HRT-15-023**Category:**Advanced Research, Exploratory Advanced Research**Type:**Brochure**PDF:****Content Link:**FHWA R&T Now - - January/February 2015**Date:**January 22, 2015**Publication No.:**None**Category:**Research, Infrastructure, Structures**Type:**Periodical**PDF:****Content Link:** FHWA's Safety Training and Analysis Center - - posted January13, 2015**Date:**January 13, 2015**Publication No.:**None**Category:**research, partners**Type:**Web Site**PDF:** ​​ PDF Not available

    
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