Business And Administrative Communication - 5 BAC
(Book) - This book addresses learning how to communicate well through written communication in a workplace setting. It covers topics such as planning, composing, and revising; adapting a message to a specific audience; communicating across cultures; writing reports; and much more. There is a CD included that includes templates for letters and résumés; PowerPoint slides; and more.
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Letter Writing Made Easy - 5 LWME
(Book) - In this book, author Margaret McCarthy offers sample letters for hundreds of common occasions. Need to write a thank-you note? Want to dispute a bill? Having trouble expressing your feelings upon the death of a friend's loved one? Want to write a powerful business correspondence? Samples are included that can be adapted to your own needs. The book also includes practical advice on format, style, tone, forms of address, and much more.
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Now, Discover Your Strengths - 5 NDS
(Book) - Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance.
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What Color Is Your Parachute - 5 WCP
(Book) - What Color Is Your Parachute? ­has been the best-selling job-hunting book in the world for more than three decades, in good times and bad, and it continues to be a fixture on best-seller lists, from New York Times to BusinessWeek. It has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into 20 languages around the world. Parachute is streamlined this year to help those struggling in these hard economic times acquire the job-search tools they need faster and more efficiently. Its life-saving information is, as always, updated and relevant to today’s job market. Career guru Richard N. Bolles leads job-hunters to find meaningful work. He asks, WHAT skills do you most love to use? WHERE–in what field–would you most love to use them? And HOW do you find such a job without depending on agencies and ads? This book is not only about finding a job in hard times. It’s about finding your passion. In the words of Fortune magazine: “Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides.”
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Unpaved Road Chemical Treatments - 50 URCT
(Book) - This report documents survey results regarding the state of the practice of using chemical treatments on unpaved roads. It provides insights into road manager choices and challenges and is useful supplementary reading to the accompanying Unpaved Road Dust Management, A Successful Practitioner’s Handbook by Jones et al. (2013). Roughly 80% of the survey respondents used chemical treatments for six or more years. Ninety eight percent (98%) of those indicated it was to control (fugitive road) dust, in part, to comply with federal regulations, for human and livestock health, in response to public complaints, or as a courtesy to the public. Other top reasons were to reduce maintenance costs and extend grader maintenance intervals. The most common treatment method was spray-on surface application with the top three chemical treatments being magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, and lignin sulfonate, respectively.
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Unpaved Road Chemical Treatments - F50 URCT
(Book) - This report documents survey results regarding the state of the practice of using chemical treatments on unpaved roads. It provides insights into road manager choices and challenges and is useful supplementary reading to the accompanying Unpaved Road Dust Management, A Successful Practitioner’s Handbook by Jones et al. (2013). Roughly 80% of the survey respondents used chemical treatments for six or more years. Ninety eight percent (98%) of those indicated it was to control (fugitive road) dust, in part, to comply with federal regulations, for human and livestock health, in response to public complaints, or as a courtesy to the public. Other top reasons were to reduce maintenance costs and extend grader maintenance intervals. The most common treatment method was spray-on surface application with the top three chemical treatments being magnesium chloride, calcium chloride, and lignin sulfonate, respectively.
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Unpaved Road Dust Management - 50 URDM
(Book) - This handbook provides broad programmatic aspects of unpaved road management. It is based on observations made during a national scan tour and provides useful and insightful excerpts of real world examples and includes practical how-to instructions for determining what type of treatment may be needed for different situations. It ultimately strives to encourage road managers to think broadly about the process of unpaved road management rather than just focusing on a specific type of chemical treatment.
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Unpaved Road Dust Management - F50 URDM
(Free Publication) - This handbook provides broad programmatic aspects of unpaved road management. It is based on observations made during a national scan tour and provides useful and insightful excerpts of realworld examples and includes practical how-to instructions for determining what type of treatment may be needed for different situations. It ultimately strives to encourage road managers to think broadly about the process of unpaved road management rather than just focusing on a specific type of chemical treatment.
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Model Inventory Of Roadway Elements — Mire, Version 1.0 - 50 MIRE
(Book) - Safety data are the key to sound decisions on the design and operation of roadways. Critical safety data include not only crash data, but also roadway inventory data, traffic data, driver history data, citation/adjudication information, and other files. The need for improved and more robust safety data is increasing due to the development of a new generation of safety data analysis tools and methods. The Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) Version 1.0 is a listing and accompanying data dictionary of roadway and traffic data elements critical to safety management. It builds upon the initial minimum MIRE listing released in 2007. A MIRE website has been developed to provide additional background information, resources, and discussion Forums.
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Model Inventory Of Roadway Elements — Mire, Version 1.0 - F50 MIRE
(Free Publication) - Safety data are the key to sound decisions on the design and operation of roadways. Critical safety data include not only crash data, but also roadway inventory data, traffic data, driver history data, citation/adjudication information, and other files. The need for improved and more robust safety data is increasing due to the development of a new generation of safety data analysis tools and methods. The Model Inventory of Roadway Elements (MIRE) Version 1.0 is a listing and accompanying data dictionary of roadway and traffic data elements critical to safety management. It builds upon the initial minimum MIRE listing released in 2007. A MIRE website has been developed to provide additional background information, resources, and discussion Forums.
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A Resident’s Guide For Creating Safe And Walkable Communities - F50 ARG
(Free Publication) - This guide is intended to assist residents, parents, community association members, and others in getting involved in making communities safer for pedestrians. The guide includes facts, ideas, and resources to help residents learn about traffic problems that affect pedestrians and find ways to help address these problems and promote pedestrian safety. The guide includes information on identifying problems, taking action to address pedestrian concerns, finding solutions to improve pedestrian safety, and resources to get additional information.
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Commercial Drivers’ Licenses: A Prosecutor’s Guide To The Basics Of Commercial Motor Vehicle Licensing And Violations - F50 CDL
(Free Publication) - THE NATIONAL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION and the National Traffic Law Center gratefully acknowledge the contributions of all the people and organizations whose collaborative efforts made this monograph possible. The funding for this monograph was provided by a grant from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). FMCSA’s partnership made this project possible. This monograph is the result of collaboration between traffic safety professionals from all points in the criminal justice system. Most sincere thanks go to Lieutenant John Harmon, Tennessee State Highway Patrol, Sergeant Ken Sellers, Texas Highway Patrol, Senior Attorney Kristen Shea, National Traffic Law Center and Karen Wittman, Kansas Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor. These individuals contributed their time, talents, and expertise to help write this monograph and ensure its accuracy. Special appreciation goes to Mr. Robert (Bob) Redmond, Senior Transportation Specialist, Commercial Driver’s License Division with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Given that Mr. Redmond wrote many of the federal regulations that this monograph attempts to explain, his assistance with interpretation and willingness to answer questions were invaluable. This monograph is an example of what can be accomplished by like-minded state, local, federal, and non-profit traffic safety professionals working together
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Safety Solutions For Older Drivers - FCD SSOD
(Free Publication) - The Roadway Safety Foundation has created videos designed to educate the public about older driver safety tips. As the nation’s population grows older, it is imperative that motorists are well-informed about the various issues facing seniors.
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Non-motorized User Safety: A Manual For Local Rural Road Owners - F50 NMUS
(Free Publication) - Many of the roads in the U.S. are non-Interstate, local and rural roads that are maintained and operated by local agencies, such as towns, counties, and Tribal governments. Non-motorized modes of travel, such as biking, walking, and riding horses or horse-drawn carriages can be expected along these roads and may face safety concerns when utilizing the same roadway as motorized travelers. This Non-Motorized User Safety Manual focuses on low-volume local rural roadways and rural villages and describes a process that can be used to address the safety of non-motorized users. It provides a concise "toolbox" of resources and information for addressing non-motorized safety concerns, and provides evaluation methods for locally-implemented initiatives to address the safety of non-motorized users. Key Words;Non-motorized, Local, Rural, Rural Village, Toolbox, Implementation, Evaluation, Local Road, Safety.
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Speed Management: A Manual For Local Rural Road Owners - F50 SM
(Free Publication) - In 2010, 35 percent of the 30,196 fatal crashes on U.S. roadways occurred on local rural roads, with nearly one-third (3,427) of these involving speeding. This document is intended to provide local road practitioners with information on how to address speeding-related crashes through the implementation of a comprehensive Speed Management Program. An effective program addresses all factors that influence speeding through engineering, enforcement, education, and emergency services—known as the four E’s of safety. Key Words:Speed, Speeding, Speed Management, Local, Rural, Speed Study, Low Cost Safety Countermeasures
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Design Of Concrete Overlays Using Existing Methodologies - F24 DCO
(Free Publication) - Over the years, concrete overlay design procedures have been developed by a number of agencies, including the American Association of State Highwayand Transportation Officials (AASHTO),the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the Portland Cement Association (PCA),the American Concrete Pavement Association (ACPA), and various state departments of transportation (DOTs).Each method addresses different types of concrete overlays and involves different inputs, software, strengths, and deficiencies. This technical summary provides an overview of the concrete overlay design process and identifies some of the more sensitive variables inherent with three different procedures: (1) the 1993 AASHTO Guide for Design of Pavement Structures (1993 AASHTO Guide), (2) the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG), and (3) the,ACPA method for bonded concrete overlays on asphalt (BCOA) pavements. The first method, the 1993 AASHTO Guide, is the procedure most commonly ,used today for concrete overlay thickness design. The MEPDG is currently being implemented and evaluated by numerous state DOTs and is therefore included here. Finally, the ACPA BCOA method is presented to address the unique behavior of thinner BCOA, which is not captured by the first two methods.
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Guide For Partial Depth Repair Of Concrete Pavements - F24 GPDR
(Free Publication) - The purpose of this guide is to help practitioners understand how to select, design, and construct successful partial depth repairs of concrete pavements. It defines “partial depth” repairs as everything from very shallow surface repairs to those that extend as deep as the top one half of the pavement slab. It also provides quality control guidance and troubleshooting information.
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How To Reduce Tire-pavement Noise: Better Practices For Constructing And Texturing Concrete Pavement Surfaces - F50 HRTP
(Free Publication) - Concrete pavements can be designed and constructed to be as quiet as any other conventional pavement type in use today. This report provides an overview of how this can be done—and done consistently. In order to construct a quieter concrete pavement, the texture must have certain fundamental characteristics. While innovative equipment and techniques have shown promise for constructing quieter pavements in the future, quieter concrete pavements are routinely built today all across the United States using the following standard nominal concrete pavement textures: drag, longitudinal tining, diamond grinding, and even, to limited extent, transverse tining. This document is intended to serve as a guide that describes better practices for designing, constructing, and texturing quieter concrete pavements.
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Current And Innovative Solutions To Roadside Revegetation Using Native Plants - 20 CISR
(Book) - The use of native plants in roadside revegetation has evolved as more and more resource management agencies prescribe the practice as a much better approach for ecosystem. However, this practice is not widely used by state and local agencies that are responsible for building majority of the roads. The goals and priorities of those responsible to successfully complete roadside revegetation projects are as diverse as the methods used to accomplish them. Even for the most seasoned revegetation professional, achieving success is not guaranteed. A domestic scan was initiated by the Federal Highway Administration to facilitate understanding about the processes and techniques used in successful and innovative projects that used native plants for roadside revegetation. This report summarizes the observations, discussions and broad conclusions of nationally-recognized revegetation specialists during the 2009 scan tour. A key finding was that there are many interconnected elements involved in both the technical and non-technical aspects of the revegetation process – all of which should be addressed in a project revegetation plan. Notably, the non-technical aspects—planning, design, implementation, monitoring,
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Intersection Safety - A Manual For Local Rural Road Owners - 50 IS
(Book) - According to the Federal Highway Administration, over 6 million lane-miles of roadway are in rural areas, and more than two-thirds of these rural roads are owned and operated by local entities. In 2008 56 percent of the 37,261 fatalities on U.S. roadways occurred in rural areas. Rural areas face a number of highway safety challenges due to the nature of their facilities. More than 20 percent of all traffic fatalities in the United States occur at intersections and over 80 percent of intersection-related fatalities in rural areas occur at unsignalized intersections. This document provides information on effectively identifying intersection safety issues in local areas, choosing the countermeasures that address them, and evaluating the benefits of those treatments. It is geared toward local road managers and other practitioners with responsibility for operating and maintaining their roads. It offers information on the procedures and processes to improve the safety of local rural unsignalized intersections and to reduce the potential for future crashes.
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Roadway Departure Safety: A Manual For Local Rural Road Owners - 50 RDS
(Book) - According to the Federal Highway Administration, over 6 million lane-miles are in rural areas, and more than two-thirds of these rural roads are owned and operated by local entities. Rural areas face a number of highway safety challenges due to the nature of their facilities. Roadway departure crashes are frequently severe and account for the majority of fatalities in rural areas. This document provides information on effectively identifying roadway departure safety issues in local areas, choosing the countermeasures that address them, and evaluating the benefits of those treatments. It is geared toward local road managers and other practitioners with responsibility for operating and maintaining their roads. This document offers information on the procedures and processes to improve the safety of local rural roadways and to reduce the potential for future roadway departure crashes.
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Roadway Safety Information Analysis: A Manual For Local Rural Road Owners - 50 RSIA
(Book) - In 2008, 56% of highway fatalities occurred in rural areas. Rural areas face a number of highway safety challenges. Data is the foundation of any roadway safety improvement program and often this is lacking, especially in local rural areas. This document was developed to provide data collection and analysis techniques as well as other processes applicable to the local practitioner to help improve the safety of local rural roads. The information will acquaint local practitioners – regardless of background or experience level – with the sources, calculations, tools, and methods to make data-supported decisions regarding local rural road safety.
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Successful Roadside Revegetation Using Native Plants - DVD50 SRRUNP
(DVD) - The use of native plants in roadside revegetation has evolved as a much better approach for the ecosystem. This DVD documents the processes and techniques used in successful and innovative projects that used native plants for roadside revegetation.
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The Art And Science Of Revegetation - F20 TASR
(Free Publication) - Understanding the importannce of using native plants for roadside revegetation
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Traffic Monitoring In Recreational Areas - 20
(Book) - Traffic monitoring in recreational areas is often challenged by distinct traffic and roadway characteristics and the multitude of agencies responsible for the management of Federal lands and/or the collection of supporting traffic data. These challenges are exacerbated by a lack of consistent procedural guidance; existing national traffic monitoring guidelines lack sufficient direction and detail for recreational travel. In an effort to improve/lend consistency to traffic monitoring in recreational areas, the Coordinated Technology Implementation Program tasked the Office of Federal Lands Highway-Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) with conducting an assessment of the nationwide practices for recreational traffic data collection. A review of pertinent literature related to recreational traffic data collection was conducted. A targeted survey of various State and local agencies responsible for traffic monitoring was administered. A workshop focused on traffic monitoring in recreational areas was also conducted. Key findings from these activities are briefly described herein.
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