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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Recent hurricanes and other extreme events have resulted in substantial damage to North Carolina’s transportation infrastructure. In some cases, the same locations have been damaged multiple times, but the amount of damage differs, which suggests that DOT strategies were effective. However, without a detailed quantification of the performance diffe
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Low-volume roads (LVRs) are an integral part of the rural transportation network providing access to remote rural areas and facilitating the movement of goods from farms to markets. These roads pose unique challenges for highway agencies including those related to safety management on the highway network. Specifically, traditional network screening
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Car access is practically a necessity to get around in rural areas of the United States. Yet approximately 4% of rural residents or 4.3 million people do not have a car. Despite important rural–nonrural differences in the built environment and how people travel, research on rural mobility disparities by car access is limited. This paper addresses t
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Two types of energy dissipation devices at circular culvert outlets were investigated: full-length weirs and staggered weirs. Related literature was reviewed; a model broken-back circular culvert and dissipation basin was built; instrumentation was installed to measure discharge, piezometric head, and velocities; and four sizes of full-length and s
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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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Rear-end collisions in work zones, induced primarily by speeding and tailgating, are a predominant concern for roadway safety. Although considerable research has shed light on the dangers and implications of speeding within these zones, there exists a conspicuous research gap on tailgating behaviors. To address this gap, the present project was con
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The objective of this research project is to understand factors (especially curb/corner radii) affecting safety at intersections involving right-turning vehicles and pedestrians/bicyclists. A mixed-methods approach was used, combining crash data analysis with analysis of observational video data. For the crash analysis, data were assembled about mo
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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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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 Tensile Strength Ratio (TSR) test is the most widely used test by state agencies based on a survey and specification review. The next most widely used test is the Hamburg Wheel-Track Test (HWTT). The survey also found there has been a move from the TSR test to the HWTT by state agencies over the last 10 years. Limited TSR and HWTT testing for t
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The height of jump-outs along a fenced road corridor should be low enough for the target species to readily jump down from the fenced road corridor to the safe side, or the habitat side, of the fence. At the same time, the jump-outs should be high enough to discourage animals from jumping from the habitat side of the fence up into the fenced road c
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This study focuses on calibrating and validating performance models for pavement in Michigan and provides testing protocols for field and laboratory material testing. The research team selected various new and rehabilitation projects for flexible and rigid pavements to evaluate previous calibration efforts, verify global models in the Pavement-ME,
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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 variations in electromagnetic and electric properties with the moisture content of several geomaterials were assessed in this report to demonstrate their viability in estimating the moisture content of compacted geomaterials. A prototype device was also designed and fabricated to estimate the moisture content of compacted geomaterials by measur
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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 Fargo Moorhead MPO’s (The F-M MPO) Travel Demand Model (TDM) is updated every five years to replicate new data and the advancements in state-of-the-art transportation modeling methods and techniques. The original timeline for the current model was set for 2020. However, due to COVID-19, travel patterns changed because of travel restrictions and
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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.
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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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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State departments of transportation (DOTs) spend substantial resources on snow and ice control activities and operations each year. The Kansas DOT (KDOT) spends from $7 million to $22 million annually. KDOT winter maintenance operations currently deploy a fleet of 591 snowplow trucks, including 1,182 drivers and approximately 200 engineering techni
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