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Federal Highway Administration

Index Federal Highway Administration

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. [1]

60 relations: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Bertram D. Tallamy, Department of transportation, Federal government of the United States, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Federal Register, Federal Works Agency, Francis Turner (engineer), Francis Victor DuPont, Fuel tax, Gregory G. Nadeau, Highway, Highway Gothic, Intelligent transportation system, Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute, Interstate Highway System, J. Richard Capka, John S. Hassell Jr., John Volpe, Karl S. Bowers, Kenneth R. Wykle, Local technical assistance program, Logan Waller Page, Long-Term Pavement Performance, Lowell K. Bridwell, LTPP Data Analysis Contest, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Martin Dodge, Mary E. Peters, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, National Highway System (United States), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, National Park Service, National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol, Norbert Tiemann, President of the United States, Ray Barnhart, Rex Marion Whitton, Road surface marking, Robert E. Farris, Rodney E. Slater, Roy Stone, Thomas D. Larson, Thomas Harris MacDonald, Thomas J. Madison Jr., Title 23 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Traffic light, Traffic sign, United States Department of Agriculture, ..., United States Department of Commerce, United States Department of Transportation, United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation, United States Forest Service, United States Numbered Highway System, United States Secretary of Transportation, United States Senate, Victor Mendez, Washington, D.C., William M. Cox. Expand index (10 more) »

American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) is a standards setting body which publishes specifications, test protocols and guidelines which are used in highway design and construction throughout the United States.

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Bertram D. Tallamy

Bertram Dalley Tallamy (December 1, 1901 – September 14, 1989) was superintendent of the New York State Department of Public Works from 1948 to 1955.

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Department of transportation

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is the most common name for a government agency in North America devoted to transportation.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.

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Federal Highway Administration

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation.

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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is an agency in the United States Department of Transportation that regulates the trucking industry in the United States.

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Federal Register

The Federal Register (FR or sometimes Fed. Reg.) is the official journal of the federal government of the United States that contains government agency rules, proposed rules, and public notices.

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Federal Works Agency

The Federal Works Agency (FWA) was an independent agency of the federal government of the United States which administered a number of public construction, building maintenance, and public works relief functions and laws from 1939 to 1949.

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Francis Turner (engineer)

Francis Cutler Turner (December 28, 1908 – October 6, 1999) was an American administrator, who headed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) from 1969 to 1972.

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Francis Victor DuPont

Francis V. du Pont was a member of the famous Du Pont Family of DuPont Chemical, based in Wilmington, Delaware, and an official connected with the development of public roads and highways in the United States.

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Fuel tax

A fuel tax (also known as a petrol, gasoline or gas tax, or as a fuel duty) is an excise tax imposed on the sale of fuel.

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Gregory G. Nadeau

Gregory G. Nadeau became the Acting Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration on July 30, 2014, where he served as the agency’s Deputy Administrator since 2009.

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Highway

A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.

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Highway Gothic

Highway Gothic (formally known as the FHWA Series fonts or the Standard Alphabets for Highway Signs) is a set of sans-serif typefaces developed by the United States Federal Highway Administration and used for road signage in the Americas, including the U.S., Canada, Ecuador, Venezuela and Chile, with Asian countries influenced by American signage practices including the Philippines, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

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Intelligent transportation system

An intelligent transportation system (ITS) is an advanced application which, without embodying intelligence as such, aims to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.

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Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute

The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute is a national University Transportation Center headquartered at the University of Minnesota.

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Interstate Highway System

The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly known as the Interstate Highway System, is a network of controlled-access highways that forms part of the National Highway System in the United States.

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J. Richard Capka

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John S. Hassell Jr.

John S. Hassell Jr. became Associate Administrator for Planning in 1977, Deputy Federal Highway Administrator in 1978, and Administrator on July 11, 1980.

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John Volpe

John Anthony Volpe (December 8, 1908November 11, 1994) was an American diplomat, politician and member of the Republican Party who served as the 61st and 63rd Governor of Massachusetts from 1961 to 1963 and 1965 to 1969, as the United States Secretary of Transportation from 1969 to 1973 and as the United States Ambassador to Italy from 1973 to 1977.

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Karl S. Bowers

Karl S. Bowers became Deputy Federal Highway administrator in June 1977 and was appointed Administrator on August 3, 1978.

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Kenneth R. Wykle

Kenneth R. Wykle was born in Ronceverte, West Virginia, joined the United States Army in 1963.

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Local technical assistance program

The Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) is a Federal Highway Administration technology transfer program that provides technical assistance and training to local highway departments in the USA.

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Logan Waller Page

Logan Waller Page (January 10, 1870 – December 9, 1918) was an American administrator, who became the first Director of the newly created Office of Public Roads in 1905, after the US Congress passed an act that consolidated the Office of Public Inquiry and the Bureau of Chemistry.

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Long-Term Pavement Performance

Long-Term Pavement Performance Program, known as LTPP, is a research project supported by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to collect and analyze pavement data in the United States and Canada.

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Lowell K. Bridwell

Lowell K. Bridwell (14 June 1924 – 21 November 1986) was an American journalist.

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LTPP Data Analysis Contest

The LTPP International Data Analysis Contest or the LTPP Data Analysis Contest is an annual international data analysis contest held by the American Society of Civil Engineers and Federal Highway Administration.

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Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices

The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) is a document issued by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to specify the standards by which traffic signs, road surface markings, and signals are designed, installed, and used.

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Martin Dodge

Martin Dodge (May 27, 1851 – April 23, 1931) was an American administrator.

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Mary E. Peters

Mary E. Peters (born December 4, 1948) served as the United States Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009.

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (also known as "NASEM" or "the National Academies") is the collective scientific national academy of the United States.

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National Highway System (United States)

The National Highway System (NHS) is a network of strategic highways within the United States, including the Interstate Highway System and other roads serving major airports, ports, rail or truck terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and other strategic transport facilities.

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, pronounced "NITS-uh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. government, part of the Department of Transportation.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol

The National Transportation Communications for Intelligent Transportation System Protocol (NTCIP) is a family of standards designed to achieve interoperability and interchangeability between computers and electronic traffic control equipment from different manufacturers.

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Norbert Tiemann

Norbert Theodore "Nobby" Tiemann (July 18, 1924 – June 19, 2012) was a Republican politician from Wausa, Nebraska, and was the 32nd Governor of Nebraska, serving from 1967 to 1971.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Ray Barnhart

Ray Anderson Barnhart (January 12, 1928 – May 26, 2013) was a businessman and Republican politician, formerly from Pasadena in Harris County, Texas.

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Rex Marion Whitton

Rex Marion Whitton (1898 – July 7, 1981) was an American administrator.

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Road surface marking

Road surface marking is any kind of device or material that is used on a road surface in order to convey official information; they are commonly placed with road marking machines (or road marking equipment, pavement marking equipment).

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Robert E. Farris

Robert E. Harris (–) was appointed Federal Highway Administrator in June 1988, after serving as the FHWA's Deputy Federal Highway Administrator from August 1986.

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Rodney E. Slater

Rodney Earl Slater (born February 23, 1955) was the United States Secretary of Transportation under U.S. President Bill Clinton.

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Roy Stone

Roy Stone (October 16, 1836 – August 5, 1905) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War.

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Thomas D. Larson

Thomas D. Larson (September 28, 1928 – July 20, 2006) was an American administrator, who was sworn in as the Federal Highway Administrator on August 10, 1989.

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Thomas Harris MacDonald

Thomas Harris "Chief" MacDonald (July 23, 1881 – April 7, 1957) was an American civil engineer and politician with tremendous influence in building the country's interstate highway system.

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Thomas J. Madison Jr.

Thomas J. Madison, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate to be Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration at the U.S. Department of Transportation on August 1, 2008.

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Title 23 of the Code of Federal Regulations

CFR Title 23 - Highways is one of fifty titles comprising the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), containing the principal set of rules and regulations issued by federal agencies regarding highways.

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Traffic light

Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control flows of traffic.

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Traffic sign

Traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of or above roads to give instructions or provide information to road users.

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United States Department of Agriculture

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), also known as the Agriculture Department, is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for developing and executing federal laws related to farming, forestry, and food.

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United States Department of Commerce

The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth.

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United States Department of Transportation

The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is a federal Cabinet department of the U.S. government concerned with transportation.

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United States Deputy Secretary of Transportation

The Deputy Secretary of Transportation, in the United States government, advises and assists the Secretary of Transportation in the supervision and direction of the Department of Transportation (DOT).

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass.

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United States Numbered Highway System

The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States.

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United States Secretary of Transportation

The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential Line of Succession.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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Victor Mendez

Victor Mendez is the former Deputy Secretary of Transportation from 2014 to 2017 and was previously sworn in on July 17, 2009, as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the 18th person to hold this position.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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William M. Cox

William M. Cox (born February 4, 1942) is a former American highways administrator.

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Administrator of Federal Highway Administration, Bureau of Public Roads, FHWA, Federal Highway Administrator, Federal Highway Commission, Federal Lands Highway Program, Office of Public Roads, Office of Road Inquiry, Public Roads Administration, U.S. Bureau of Public Roads.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Highway_Administration

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