unds on this day of remembrance.”

A grant from the Federal Highway Administration will make it possible for the National Park Service to preserve the site as it was on September 11, 2001, while also making the memorial more accessible to visitors.

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ss heroes who responded to senseless violence with courage and compassion. The memories and images of that day will stay with us forever. President Obama proclaimed Sept. 7-9 as National Days of Prayer and Remembrance. Presidential Proclamation<http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/07/presidential-proclamation-national-days-prayer-and-remembrance-2012>

o provide guidance on how to plan, implement and measure the success of bike share programs in communities of all sizes. The Guide has been designed to serve as a resource for a broad audience, including transportation planning professionals, as well as public officials considering implementation of a bike share program. The study focused on a wide range of municipal bike-share systems, where local jurisdictions (including cities, counties, etc.) have been engaged in the funding, managing, administering and/or permitting the bike-share program. Read more here.

oject-by-project basis? To address the need for more reliable and practical methodologies, researchers at the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) J. Sterling Jones Hydraulics Research Laboratory at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, Virginia are developing a scour testing field device. (This is also known as an in situ device because it will be used at actual bridge sites rather than in the laboratory.) The project is made possible through an FHWA Pooled-Fund solicitation with contributions from California, Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, New York, Texas, Utah, Wisconsin, and the FHWA Federal Lands Highway. Read more here.

ater angle, but overcorrects and the vehicle slingshots across the road. Will he regain control? Or will the vehicle overturn, or cross over into oncoming traffic?

Adding a sloped pavement edge to roads is a treatment intended to minimize drop-off-related crashes. Known as Safety EdgeSM,the treatment creates a 30-degree slope that makes it easier for drivers to safely reenter the roadway after inadvertently driving onto the shoulder.

The Federal Highway Administration is conducting a study to determine the crash modification factor (CMF) of Safety EdgeSM. This is expected to provide a better understanding of the potential crash reductions for various geometries and a greater justification for widespread implementation. A crash modification factor helps highway safety engineers and transportation researchers estimate the safety effectiveness of various countermeasures. It provides information that is used in the analysis of benefits and costs that help highway designers select an appropriate treatment to improve safety.

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quick release emergency relief funds immediately available to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development to help repair roads and bridges damaged by Hurricane Isaac.

"The Obama Administration is committed to help Louisiana recover from Hurricane Isaac," said Secretary LaHood. "Travel has been disrupted, and these emergency relief funds will help the state with key repairs."

Hurricane Isaac came ashore in southern Louisiana near Terrebonne Bay on August 29 and continued in a northwest direction through New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Alexandria and Monroe. The damage, primarily from wind and flooding, affected more than twenty-four parishes but was particularly severe in Plaquemines, Lafourche and St. John the Baptist parishes.

"We're working in partnership with Louisiana to help restore critical transportation routes," said Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez. "The emergency relief funds we're providing today represent a down payment on our commitment to help get things back to normal for residents and assist the state with future repairs."

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iver Bridges project now moves into its construction phase, thousands of jobs will be created during the next six years, and that's going to be a real shot in the arm for the region.

Last Thursday Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez helped Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear break ground on the East End Crossing Bridge.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood discusses the Ohio Rivers Bridges project and the groundbreaking on his blog.

rs to bypass U.S. Highway 101 from Fairholm Hill to Sappho. The grant comes from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration under the Public Lands Highway discretionary program. Read more here.

d in Brighton, Monroe County, can now get an at-the-scene view of the construction work online via webcam, said New York State Department of Transportation Commissioner Joan McDonald.
The purpose of the webcam is to document traffic conditions during the construction phase of this innovative project. The webcam is also a learning tool for construction of future Diverging Diamonds across the country. The webcam can be accessed on the project Web site at www.dot.ny.gov/590winton.

The webcam was funded with a portion of the $550,000 grant provided by Federal Highway Administration under the Highways for LIFE (HfL) program. The purpose of Highways for LIFE is to advance Longer-lasting highway infrastructure using Innovations to accomplish the Fast construction of Efficient and safe highways and bridges. Innovations is an inclusive term used by HfL to convey all of the following: technologies, materials, tools, equipment, procedures, specifications, methodologies, processes or practices used in the financing, design or construction of highways. The 590/Winton Diverging Diamond is part of the research being performed across the country to provide guidance on future projects.

the region's growing commercial truck traffic.

The $72 million project, which relied on more than $58 million in federal funds, will allow freight to move through the area more easily. The new route is expected to improve Bennington's livability and to protect the historic community's quality of life.

s expected to improve traffic safety and substantially reduce congestion between Southern Indiana and Louisville. The East End Crossing Bridge, the Louisville area's first new bridge in more than 50 years, will offer drivers four lanes with full-width shoulders that will offer the flexibility of restriping the bridge to six lanes when future traffic warrants additional capacity. The bridge will also feature a 13-foot-wide shared-use path for bicycles and pedestrians. Read more here.

ern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes in Wyoming.

The 17 Mile Road reconstruction project that will make significant safety improvements to the roadway, which has the highest highway fatality rate in the state.

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ridges. Among the highlights will be resources available and lessons learned. Topics for the September session include application of load testing techniques in bridge load rating, such as diagnostic static load testing, and ambient vibration dynamic load testing for bridge evaluation. The December session will focus on experiences in North Carolina and Rhode Island, as well as load testing of bridges at Logan Airport in Boston, Massachusetts.

Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP), FHWA and the pilot communities have examined the impacts of the investments and continue to do so as more projects are completed. A working group established by NTPP estimates, based on traffic counts and studies, that bicycling as a mode share of transportation increased 36 percent across all four communities between 2007 and 2010, walking increased 14 percent, and driving decreased 3 percent. Read more here.