Transportation Engineering

ARTBA provides regular updates on current market conditions, economic and policy reports, and other key economic indicators.

This report from the American Society of Civil Engineers examines the impact of deteriorating roads and bridges on the nation's economy.

A huge, searchable repository of highway research from the Federal Highway Administration.

This online edition is the legal standard for all states (11th ed., 2023).

A report on the vicious circle created when traffic increases after highway expansion: causing more delays, more expansion, and more traffic.

Standards, guidance, and technical information on Lighting Practice, Lighting Applications, Lighting Science, Lighting Measurement and Testing, and Roadway and Parking Facilities. Included in ASTM Compass.

Massachusetts highway, bridge, and specification manuals in .pdf format.

Offers an extensive collection of crash test performance reports on highway guardrail systems and luminaire supports.

NCHRP Reports, Syntheses of Practice, Research Results Digests, Web-Only Documents, and Legal Research Digests contain the findings of individual research projects sponsored by the Transportation Research Board (TRB).

Information on driving safety, vehicle safety, driving research, crash data, and auto safety laws and regulations.

A Federal Highway Administration magazine.

Design guidelines, plans and specifications, reports and publications.

Traffic calming measures, links, and publications.

Standards, guidance, and technical information on Lighting Practice, Lighting Applications, Lighting Science, Lighting Measurement and Testing, and Roadway and Parking Facilities. Included in ASTM Compass.

Provides four years of mobility data for an analysis of road traffic and its economic costs within the world’s most-congested urban areas.

Resources tab provides access to best practices in complete street design.

Information on driving safety, vehicle safety, driving behavior research, crash data, and auto safety laws and regulations.

This interactive street cross-section builder allows users to design urban streets for various transit modes.

Boston's initiative to end road fatalities in the city.

This organization works with cities to provide safe, healthy, equitable mobility for all.

This brief video describes Barcelona's "superblock" urban grid design, which has limited cars usage, increased pedestrian traffic, and created a greener city (5:30 min).

This Federal Highway Administration website contains useful information on pavement analysis and design; pavement materials and construction technology; FWD calibration; and quality assurance.

Free research reports on concrete pavements.

Excellent source of research reports on soils, asphalt, and asphalt mixes,

Reports from the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association on sustainable concrete applications.

Best practices guide from the National Association of City Transportation Officials.