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CARMA (Service Mark) leads the way with cooperative driving automation (CDA). The Federal Highway Administration's CARMA Program is spearheading research on CDA concepts. Click to learn more. Image shows three vehicles with one vehicle and one emergency vehicle on the right shoulder. The third vehicle is using automated technology to move to the left lane according to the “move over” law requiring vehicles to slow or move to another lane when passing one or more emergency vehicles on the shoulder.

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Research, Mission, Vision, and Agenda

The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) RT&E Program strives to generate new solutions, build more effective partnerships, and provide better information and tools for decision making, which will enable the Nation to enhance and make the best investments in the U.S. transportation system.

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Human Factors Remote Data Collection Demonstration

Watch a real-time demonstration of remote data collection conducted by FHWA’s Human Factors Team.

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Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center

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With 15 cutting-edge laboratories onsite, Federal Highway Administration’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is the Nation’s premier facility for advanced and applied research and development related to new and existing highway technologies.

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The expertise of our scientists, engineers, and support staff encompasses more than 100 transportation-related disciplines and expertise areas. Our expertise contacts can be found at the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center and offices housed at the research and development facility.

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The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) managers and staff responsible for research and technology (R&T) in particular functional areas develop and set their own R&T agendas, which reflect FHWA's mission, support strategic goals, and engage internal and external stakeholders.

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Many research reports and publications published by TFHRC are available online. The FHWA Research Library staff can help find information on a topic, perform literature searches in support of research projects, and search library catalogs, article databases, and locate facts and statistics.

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