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 objectives of this research were to provide a comprehensive study to examine safety issues associated with commercial driveways and to develop guidance for transportation agencies responsible for access management.
United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2024-04-01
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This Research Note summarizes distracted driving statistics for 2022. Driver distraction is a specific type of driver inattention that occurs when drivers divert attention from the driving task to focus on some other activity. Often discussions regarding distracted driving center around cellphone use and texting, but distracted driving also include
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2024-04-01
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This is the updated and revised Crash Report Sampling System Analytical User’s Manual for the period 2016 to 2022. This multi-year analytical user’s manual provides documentation on the evolution of coding practices of CRSS from 2016 to 2022. The manual will continue to grow each year and present the historical coding of CRSS from inception through
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With noticeable staff turnover in certain employment classifications, NJDOT engaged Cambridge Systematics (CS) to conduct the Compensation Scan and Retention Study. This scope of work is focused on researching and collecting information on compensation and retention of employees utilized by municipalities and county transportation agencies, private
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KDOT currently uses a variety of thin bonded overlay systems to prolong the life of bridge decks in Kansas. These vary in both thickness and material type from thin ¼ in. bonded polymer overlays to common 1.5 in. silica fume concrete overlays. Jay’s Majic Mud was submitted as a potential new material product that could serve as a cost-effective alt
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2024-04-01
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Non-traffic motor vehicle crashes are a class of crashes that occur off the public trafficways. These are mostly single-vehicle crashes on private roads, two-vehicle crashes in parking facilities, or collisions with pedestrians in driveways. In addition, there are “non-traffic incidents” such as a vehicle falling on a person underneath the vehicle
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To improve the visibility and safety of pedestrian and bicyclist crossings, traffic-safety professionals across Minnesota have installed the Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) and Pedestrian Hybrid Beacon (PHB) at numerous locations around the state. The purpose of this evaluation was to determine the safety benefits, if any, for pedestrians
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This project intends to investigate the feasibility of deploying LaneBlade® on CHART vehicles under various environmental conditions such as low visibility conditions, etc., as well as the effectiveness of LaneBlade® in reducing debris clearance time in various scenarios where its deployment is feasible.
United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2024-04-01
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The Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) system is a virtual data collection system of which one part is designed to gather data on fatalities and injuries that occur in nontraffic crashes, which can occur on private roads, driveways, and parking lots. The NTS program accepted potential crashes only from FARS analysts and from sampled Crash Report Sampli
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2024-04-01
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Domestic Airline Fares Consumer Report
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Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, including flight delays, mishandled baggage, over sales, and a variety of other types of consumer complaints. In response to an increasing number of inquiries from consumers about domestic airline pric
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2024-04-01
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The Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) system is a virtual data collection system of which one part is designed to gather data on fatalities and injuries that occur in nontraffic crashes, which can occur on private roads, driveways, and parking lots. The NTS program accepted potential crashes only from FARS analysts and from sampled Crash Report Sampli
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Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are expected to take a critical role in a variety of transportation safety applications in connected and autonomous vehicle environment. However, Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC), one of the representative technologies implementing the V2X communications, is encountering challenges due to the re
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Transportation investments vary across geographic areas. Currently, there is no mechanism in place to ensure that those investments are equitable. This project examined transportation investments and infrastructure quality (e.g., pavement conditions, presence of bike lanes, transit access, speed limits, etc.) in urban and rural Utah and correlated
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E-commerce services and facilities have the benefits of bringing new employment opportunities to communities and meeting consumer needs, but they also attract heavy traffic, which results in congestion and negative environmental and economic repercussions. This project offers a new lens for studying future e-commerce facility siting, considering cu
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This report details the development and evaluation of an innovative component in a traffic management system aimed at enhancing safety in work zones through targeted warning messages. The primary objective of the system is to improve the rates of driver compliance with work zone guidelines presented on signages and message boards, which our studies
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Workforce education is crucial to ensuring the safety and equality of the work environment. Immersive virtual reality (VR) training is revolutionizing workforce education, providing practical on-the-job training within a safe simulated environment. The project aimed to develop an immersive training platform using state-of-the-art VR technologies an
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The primary objectives of this study were to establish the state-of-practice in winter weather data applications and to design a platform that integrates all weather data into a single decision support tool. Expected outcomes include documentation of the state-of-practice and interface designs for a comprehensive winter operations decision support
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In 2017, the AASHTO Committee on Bridges and Structures (COBS), Technical Committee T-19 on Software and Technology organized the pooled fund study TPF-5(372) BIM for Bridges and Structures. The pooled fund objective was to develop a standard way of exchanging 3D models and other digital data using an open, nonproprietary format. The TPF-5(372) stu
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This report documents the stress-strain responses from sensors embedded inside different layers of a pavement section on Interstate I-40, near Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the Phase 3 of this project. Pavement responses were measured under real time traffic loads and routine Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) test loads at various weather condit
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The objective of this project is to evaluate published literature regarding the efficacy of IDEAL-CT and IDEAL-RT test methods to characterize the performance of asphalt mixtures in the field. Many agencies have used and researched these BMD methods, and reviewing their efficiency can provide the state of Louisiana with additional tools and help ag
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