Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications


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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index




Managing Speed


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TRB Special Report 254 - Managing Speed: Review of Current Practices for Setting and Enforcing Speed Limits reviews practices for setting and enforcing speed limits on all types of roads and provides guidance to state and local governments on appropriate methods of setting speed limits and related enforcement strategies. Following an executive summary, the report is presented in six chapters and five appendices.







Traffic Safety and Human Behavior


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This comprehensive 2nd edition covers the key issues that relate human behavior to traffic safety. In particular it covers the increasing roles that pedestrians and cyclists have in the traffic system; the role of infotainment in driver distraction; and the increasing role of driver assistance systems in changing the driver-vehicle interaction.




Down with Speed


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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Public Policy


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Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) holds a prominent place among the techniques of public policy analysis. Exposure to the fundamental issues surrounding the use of CBA and examples of its practical application have value to current and future practitioners of policy analysis as well as to researchers in the policy sciences. This volume seeks to facilitate such exposure by drawing together into a convenient collection the fine articles on CBA and its application that have appeared in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).




Special Report


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Intelligent Transportation Systems Benefits


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This report continues the emphasis in documenting evaluation results of ITS user services and the benefits these services provide to the surface transportation system. It is intended to be a reference report. It highlights the benefits identified by other authors and refers the reader to information sources. The interested reader is encouraged to obtain source documents to appreciate the assumptions and constraints placed on the interpretation of results.




Speed Management


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Speeding is the number one road safety problem in a large number of OECD/ECMT countries. It is responsible for around one third of the current, unacceptably high levels of road fatalities. Speeding has an impact not only on accidents but also on the ...