The US Transportation Collection consists of documents from across all transportation modes with specific focus on research reports from US DOT, state DOTs, and other transportation organizations.
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The rising popularity of non-motorized transportation has brought about safety risks. The inclusion of accurate traffic volume information is one of the key elements to produce robust outcomes when researching safety. The project investigates and enhances transportation safety for pedestrians and bicyclists, emphasizing the integration of Location-
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Work zone control strategies, such as taper length and transverse rumble strips, have the potential to significantly impact traffic operations and safety. The performance of these strategies is often evaluated based on traffic throughput, time headway, speed, and travel time measured at multiple locations or over a segment. Such metrics do not prov
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2024-05-01
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According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s 2022 National Occupant Protection Use Survey, the estimated seat belt use rate over the decade 2013 to 2022 increased from 87.2 percent in 2013 to 91.6 percent in 2022. There were 42,514 traffic fatalities in the United States in 2022, of which 25,420 (60%) were occupants of passenge
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Stormwater discharges from highway construction that disturb soil greater than five acres are permitted by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) where runoff sediment must be controlled meeting General Permit (TNR100000) requirements including development and submittal of a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP). Wit
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Pedestrian safety has been a major concern throughout the 140-year history of the automobile, resulting in the development of numerous safety treatment options for mid-block pedestrian crossings. These include several types of beacons and signals. Some of these devices use flashing yellow beacons to alert motorists to pedestrian presence, while oth
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Since the early 2000s, over 1,600 transportation agencies in the United States have adopted Complete Streets policies. Recently, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) published its Complete Streets, Roads, and Highways Manual, which aims to implement a safe and equitable transportation system throughout the state, as well as a Complete Streets
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The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) contains safety performance functions (SPFs) that are used in project-level decision-making to estimate the average crash frequency by severity level for existing conditions, alternatives to existing conditions, or proposed new roadways. Because most existing HSM SPFs were developed for states other than Texas, SPF c
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This study's main objective was to enhance the efficiency of winter salting operations for the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) through the following objectives. The first aim was to optimize the routing of salting vehicles from current facility locations to assigned road segments. The second and more pivotal objective was to identify t
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This report documents the conduct and findings of a research program undertaken to evaluate alternative methods for design of drilled shafts founded in weak rock in Oklahoma, and to develop probabilistically calibrated resistance factors to achieve a target design reliability for recommended design methods. The report documents important background
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The main objective of this project was to develop HPC performance specifications to ensure adequate durability performance matching with exposure conditions.
We examined daylight and paired non-daylight sites at 12 locations in central Pennsylvania to determine if daylighting had secondary benefits to native plants and pollinators. Daylight sites had significantly more species of native flowering forbs and shrubs than non-daylight sites. However, daylight sites also harbored significantly more species o
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Vermont Agency of Transportation has adopted use of the accelerated bridge construction (ABC) approach to deliver bridge construction and reconstruction projects. While ABC projects enjoy high material quality due to a large fraction of precast and prefabricated elements, connections between these elements must be placed in-situ. These are often tr
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A variety of physical property measurements were performed including Dynamic Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA), compression testing, tensile testing, heat deflection temperature (HDT) testing, and Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) testing. Results showed a wide range of properties of the resins. Lab scale applicatio
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While the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) has several models that quantify the economic benefits and impacts of its investments, the Economic Development Impact Tool (EDIT) is the unique product of national research in market access, development capacity, and historical economic performance. A review of national literature and existing ODO
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This report presents a possible stochastic methodology that can be used in identifying bridges with greater probability of failure from vehicular collisions. To meet this objective, this report first outlines the design of bridges against these collisions in the United States and compares against the Eurocode design methodology. Existing experiment
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This research studied Oregon drivers’ and cyclists’ conceivability of and receptivity to bike turnouts (auxiliary bike lanes). The driver and cyclist survey consisted of 32 and 35 questions, respectively, all of which were fixed choice, except for 3 open-ended response questions. The surveys were distributed online to 612 Oregon residents, made up
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This report presents a comprehensive analysis of work zone safety considering multiple factors, including crash severity, speed analysis, countermeasure analysis, and state-of-the-practice in DOTs. It encompasses a broad literature review, drawing from DOT reports, NCHRP publications, MUTCD guidelines, and academic research, to explore a range of t
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This paper proposes a new method for network screening on rural low-volume roads. These roads are important as they provide critical access to agricultural land and tourist attractions. Most low-volume roads belong to the lowest functional class (local rural roads) and thus are built to lower design standards. Conventional hot spot network screenin
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United States. Department of Transportation. Highly Automated Systems Safety Center of Excellence
2024-04-01
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AI assurance refers to the techniques, activities, and processes used to evaluate and assure expected properties of AI components or AI-enabled systems throughout the lifecycle of these components or systems. The properties may relate to performance, safety, or security. Typical examples of AI assurance techniques are verification, validation, and
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