Publications and Products

Conditions and Performance (C&P) Reports

• 2002 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance Report
• 2004 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance Report
• 2006 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance Report
• 2008 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance Report
• 2010 Status of the Nation's Highways, Bridges, and Transit: Conditions and Performance Report

Innovations for Tomorrow's Transportation

• Issue 1, May 2009 also available in PDF  (4.4 MB)

HIGHWAY COST ALLOCATION

• Final Version of the State Highway Cost Allocation Study Model Tools, 2002.
  You can receive a CD copy of the tools by selecting the following link: State HCAS Tools
  
• Addendum to the 1997 Federal Highway Cost Allocation Study Final Report, May 2000
• 1997 Federal Highway Cost Allocation Study - Final Report, August 1997
• 1997 Federal Highway Cost Allocation Study - Summary Report, August 1997

For further information contact Mr. Max Azizi

HIGHWAYS AND THE ECONOMY

Macroeconomic Perspectives

• Summary Employment Impacts of Highway Infrastructure Investments
• Technical Documentation for Estimating Employment Generation from Federal-Aid Highway Projects – Anderson [HTML, PDF]
• Productive Highway Capital Stock Measures Summary (2008) – Fraumeni [HTML, PDF]. The full report is available, please contact Kwhite@dot.gov.
• Production, Consumption and the Rates of Return to Highway Infrastructure Capital (2003) – Mamuneas and Nadiri [summary]
• A Report on the Effects of Highway Capital on Consumption Demand (2000) – Nadiri and Mamuneas [summary]
• Productive Highway Capital Stock Measures (1999) – Fraumeni [HTML, PDF]
• Transportation Investment and New Insights in Economic Analysis (1999) – Shirley [HTML, PDF]
• A Summary of Contributions of Highway Capital Output and Productivity Growth in the U.S. Economy and Industries (1998) – Jacoby [HTML]
• Contribution of Highway Capital to Output and Productivity Growth in the U.S. Economy and Industries (1998) – Nadiri and Mamuneas [HTML]
• Economic Returns from Transportation Investment (1996) – Madrick [HTML, PDF]
• Contribution of Highway Capital to Industry and National Productivity Growth (1996) Nadiri and Mamuneas [PDF]
• Productivity and the Highway Network: A Look at the Economic Benefits to Industry from Investment in the Highway Network (1996) – U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration [HTML, PDF]

Microeconomic and Industry Analysis

• Longer Combination Vehicles on Exclusive Truck Lanes: Interstate 90 Corridor Case Study [HTML, PDF]
• Estimated Cost of Freight Involved in Highway Bottlenecks HTML
• You can receive a CD copy of the Estimated Cost of Freight Involved in Highway Bottlenecks-Full report by selecting the following link: Freight and Bottlenecks Full Report
• Application of Detailed Interchange Analysis to Top Freight Bottlenecks Methods, Results, and Road Map for Future Research (2007) [PDF]
• An Initial Assessment of Freight Bottlenecks on Highways (2005) – Cambridge Systematics [HTML, PDF]
• The Effect of Government Highway Spending on Road Congestion Costs (2004) – Winston and Langer [HTML, PDF]
• The Impact of Congestion and Shippers' Inventory Costs (2004) – Shirley and Winston [HTML, PDF]
• Firm Inventory Behavior and the Returns from Highway Infrastructure Investments (2003) – Shirley and Winston [PDF]
• Chicago-New York City Corridor Analysis Report for the Strategic Multimodal Analysis [HTML]

For further information contact Dr. Karen White or Ms. Rabinder Bains.

STRATEGIC PLANS AND PERFORMANCE REPORTS

FHWA/DOT Strategic Plans

• FHWA Strategic Plan Update
• DOT FY 2006-2011 Strategic Plan

FHWA/DOT Performance Budgets and Reports

• FHWA FY 2011 Performance Budget
• DOT FY 2011 Budget in Brief
• DOT FY 2010 Annual Performance Report

For more information, contact Woody Stanley.

TRUCK SIZE AND WEIGHT ANALYSIS

• Information sheet for the Intermodal Transportation and Inventory Costing Model (ITIC-ST), also available in PDF (91 KB PDF)
• You can receive a CD copy of the Intermodal Transportation and Inventory Cost Model State Tools (ITIC-ST) by clicking the following link: ITIC-ST CD
• The Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Study

Executive Summaries

• Analysis of the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey for Trucks with Five Axles or More (1,544 KB PDF file) Excel spreadsheets, May 2001 (WinZip file)
• Truck Size and Weight Workshop Proceedings, August 2000 (124 KB PDF file)
• Analysis of the Truck Inventory and Use Survey from the Truck Size and Weight Perspective for Trucks with Five-Axles or More
• Synthesis of Truck Size and Weight Studies and Issues
• Truck Size and Weight Modeling Workshop
• 1995 Truck Size and Weight Performance-Based Workshop Report
• Western U.S. Canada Crossborder Case Study
• Western Uniformity Scenario Report, also available in PDF (1.24 MB PDF)

For further information contact Dr. Karen White or Mr. Max Azizi.