ENERGY CONSERVATION AND THE FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAY PROGRAM
The basic question facing the Federal Highway Administration is how to provide leadership in developing methods to curb the Nation's longstanding appetite for more fuel consumption and still provide needed transportation services. This publication presents some of the methods (and resulting benefits) that the Federal Highway Administration, in cooperation with the States, is using to meet this energy conservation challenge. The following areas are addressed: planning, design considerations, construction and maintenance, traffic operations, ridesharing and high occupancy vehicle incentives, and transportation system management. In conclusion, it is pointed out that the total Federal Highway Administration organization has begun to think "ENERGY" and to redirect its programs to meet the new challenges.
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Corporate Authors:
Federal Highway Administration
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 1981-6
Media Info
- Features: Appendices; Photos;
- Pagination: 33 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Energy conservation; Fuel consumption; High occupancy vehicles; Highway design; Highway maintenance; Highway operations; Highway planning; Incentives; Ridesharing; Road construction; Traffic; Transportation system management
- Identifier Terms: U.S. Federal Highway Administration
- Old TRIS Terms: Federal highway administrator
- Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00361323
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Report/Paper Numbers: HS-032 496
- Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
- Created Date: May 28 1982 12:00AM