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 objective of this project was to develop a snowplow truck route optimization plan for one district (District 4) to help KDOT enhance snow removal efficiency by justifying the fleet size and efficiently allocating limited resources while maintaining roadway safety and reliability.
This study presents the performance evaluation of 21 direct pile-CPT methods for estimating the ultimate load carrying capacity of square precast prestressed concrete (PPC) piles driven into Louisiana soils utilizing the cone penetration test (CPT) data. The investigated methods are: Schmertmann, De Ruiter and Beringen, Bustamante and Gianeselli (L
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In 2019, the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) funded a research study evaluating the performance measures of UDOT’s expanded Incident Management Team (IMT) program. The number of IMTs patrolling Utah roadways increased from 13 to 25 between 2018 and 2020. Crash data were collected from the Utah Highway Patrol’s Computer Aided Dispatch datab
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Speed limits are a popular safety measure used in urban areas. A new analysis that monitored driving speeds before and after posted changes to speed limits reveals lower speed limits may not, at least initially, cause drivers to slow down.
Budgets for transportation improvements are limited so it is important for governments to focus on improving locations most in need of safety funding. The objective of the Two-Output Model for Safety (TOMS) is to provide the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) with a reliable method to prioritize safety improvements on state-owned roadways amo
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This report presents the methods, results, and applications of an updated flood-frequency study for the State of Illinois. This study, which uses data through September 2017, updates two previous studies that used data through 1999 and 2009, respectively. Flood-frequency estimates are used for a variety of land-use planning and infrastructure desig
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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) oversees ferry service for Michigan’s islands as part of its mission to provide safe and equitable access to state residents. To identify ways to improve service to island residents now and in the future, MDOT sought a more comprehensive understanding of the critical aspects of ferry service. This re
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Construction is underway along Corridor Q, a 14-mile section of highway in Southwest Virginia that will open to traffic in stages from 2023 to 2027. Preliminary data indicated that a newly established reintroduced herd of elk regularly travels on and alongside the partially constructed road. The purpose of this study was to determine potential desi
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Despite over 30 percent of bridges in the United States having exceeded their 50-year design lives, most state departments of transportation (DOTs) lack the funding needed to replace bridges on a large scale. In response, agencies have increasingly turned to bridge preventive maintenance activities to prolong bridge service lives. These activities
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The connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies will bring unprecedented changes in the landscape of transportation systems for areas like operations, management, and infrastructure needs. To assure a safe, reliable, and trustworthy connected and automated transportation system, it is important to have a clear CAV implementation pathway that
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The connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies will bring unprecedented changes in the landscape of transportation systems for areas like operations, management, and infrastructure needs. To assure a safe, reliable, and trustworthy connected and automated transportation system, it is important to have a clear CAV implementation pathway that
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This report documents the work conducted as a multi-disciplinary project on the wireless charging of parked Electrical Vehicles (EVs) by Wright State University and supported by the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT). This document summarizes our progress on a wide variety of topics, including 1) in-house software to read and label the open-s
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The global electric vehicle (EV) market is forecasted to grow by 24.3% till 2028 constantly. However, the development in charging infrastructure is still lagging behind that, hindering the EV's widespread application, i.e., 30 million chargers are still needed to support the existing EV demand. Also, based on the survey by Witricity, 86% of EV owne
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Connected Vehicle (CV) communication technology (i.e., Vehicle-to-Everything, V2X) enables vehicles to "talk" to other vehicles on the road (Vehicle-to-Vehicle, V2V), roadside infrastructure (Vehicle-to-Infrastructure, V2I), vulnerable road users (Vehicle-to-Pedestrian, V2P), and the "cloud" (vehicle-to-network, V2N). The V2X connectivity will prov
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The objective of this project was to synthesize available information on non-chloride deicers to allow for a more comprehensive understanding by winter roadway maintenance professionals and allow for easy comparisons between products and with sodium chloride (as salt brine or rock salt). This was accomplished through a literature search that summar
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To meet the requirements of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) Act of 2012, a life-cycle cost analysis management (LCCAM) tool was developed to manage the maintenance actions of the portion of National Highway System (NHS) for the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT). The LCCAM software that was developed with the coopera
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The overarching goal of this project was to upgrade the life-cycle cost analysis management (LCCAM) software tool for continued use by the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT). Specific objectives were as follows: • Integrate road user cost calculations into the software without disrupting the current maintenance management procedure for bridge
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The seamless bridge concept eliminates expansion joints on the bridge deck and joints between the bridge and approach, which can significantly reduce the maintenance costs and improve the long-term durability of the primary load-carrying components. Past applications of seamless bridges have utilized Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavement (CRCP)
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Enhancing the quality and efficiency of the Texas surface transportation system necessitates reliable predictions about the initiation and dispersion of prolonged congestion, as well as effective tracking of atypical events and their potential evolution. Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a unique avenue for achieving these goals, presenting an op
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MDT is in the process of modernizing their contract time determination processes by developing user-friendly tools to facilitate the estimation process of project duration and contract time. As part of this modernization effort, a top-down project duration estimation tool was developed in this research project. This tool is particularly useful when
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