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 Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) started deploying queue warning trucks ahead of interstate work zonestoalert motorists of queued traffic. Along with visually alerting the motorists, digital alerts were integrated with navigational applications such as Apple Maps, Waze, and the in-vehicle infotainment system of Stellantis vehicles.
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Distracted driving is one of the main causes of injuries and fatalities in the United States. 3,142 people were killed, and 324,000 were injured because of distracted driving in 2020. According to previous studies, cell phone use is one of the main sources of distraction while driving. The percentage of young drivers who never text and drive under
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The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) uses a wide range of data to support business functions across the enterprise. While data is not always available, accessible, or reliable, it is critical for developing products that meet the needs of the Department’s customers and supporting DOT business operations. The Department recognizes the urgency
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Activity-based household travel surveys (HTS) are one of primary data sources for many research fields at Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT). Traditional HTS methods are often costly, time-consuming, less scalable, and difficult to achieve high quality and accuracy. Recent years have witnessed a fast-growing interest in conducting HTS th
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Subsurface investigations currently rely on conventional soil borings with the aid of cone penetrometer test (CPT)soundings. However, these geotechnical explorations can be expensive and information is not provided between bore holes. Geophysical methods can aid in providing some information between the boreholes at a lower cost for the Louisiana D
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Roadway fatalities are a major priority in the transportation sector. UDOT has noted that fatalities increased in 2020 with the leading cause, by a substantial margin, being rural roadway departures. Knowledge about the specific characteristics of rural roadway departure crashes can help UDOT to develop proper mitigation strategies. This research w
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This research project investigated the impacts of traffic signal progression strategy on the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists. The CUTR team used historical (crash, traffic, and roadway) data, cross-sectional study designs, and random parameter negative binomial models to estimate the effects of signal progression design on pedestrian and bicyc
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Public engagement is an important and required element of the transportation planning process. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, public engagement has shifted dramatically. Agencies of all sizes accelerated their transition to virtual engagement in 2020 to comply with shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines. Social media an
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Within the state of Indiana, there are approximately 9,000 structures with unsupported span lengths that range from 4 ft to 20ft that the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is responsible for maintaining. These structures are referred to as large culverts by INDOT. The agency recognized the need to improve culvert inspection procedures so
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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is divided into six districts, with district offices located in LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Crawfordsville, Greenfield, Vincennes, and Seymour. Each district has a Technical Services Department responsible for (with support from INDOT Central Office staff) managing the INDOT assets within the district and p
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University of Alabama. Center for Transportation Operations, Planning and Safety
2022-10-01
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Research Project 931-050, Research the Application of GeoGIS in Support of ALDOT Geo-Referenced Documents was a continuation of the GeoGIS project initiated and led by ALDOT Materials and Test. After transitioning GeoGIS to ALDOT in a previous project, Project 931-050 continued to populate documents in GeoGIS, improve user satisfaction with GeoGIS,
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The design of laterally loaded piles is often done in practice using the p-y method with API p-y curves representing the behavior of soil at discretized points along the pile length. To account for pile-soil-pile interaction in pile groups, AASHTO (2020) proposes the use of p-multipliers to modify the p-y curves. In this research, we explored, in d
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Transportation agencies have begun to adopt design practices that introduce greater flexibility and promote a more holistic approach to design as opposed to a strict adherence in designing to standards. This allows for explicit consideration of economic, social, and environmental resources as opposed to more traditional design strategies that are l
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Distracted drivers and pedestrians pose one of the most difficult challenges to ensuring a safe and efficient transportation system. Modern communications have delivered greater convenience. However, this has come at the cost of attention spans. Safety has been thoroughly explored in terms of distracted driving and pedestrians. However, impacts on
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In this study, the authors develop a comprehensive framework to model the impact of cyberattacks on safety, security, and head-to-tail stability of connected and automated vehicular platoons. First, the authors propose a general platoon dynamics model with heterogeneous time delays that may originate from the communication channel and/or vehicle on
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The purpose of this study is to determine through statistical analysis if the dynamic cone penetrometer (DCP) can be used as a reliable method of quality assurance to evaluate in-situ resilient modulus (MR) of a reclaimed stabilized base (RSB) in full depth reclamation (FDR) projects. DCP data collected by contractors from the RSB layer at the time
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The purpose of this study is to determine through statistical analysis if the dynamic cone penetrometer (DCP) can be used as a reliable method of quality assurance to evaluate in-situ resilient modulus (MR) of a reclaimed stabilized base (RSB) in full depth reclamation (FDR) projects. DCP data collected by contractors from the RSB layer at the time
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Fine aggregates used for concrete can sometimes contain organic matter that can inhibit the cement hydration reactions and reduce strength. AASHTO T 21 and AASHTO T 71 have been developed as screening tests for fine aggregate organic matter and quality. The objective of this research project is to determine whether a modified Walkley Black test or
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There is a need to improve signalized intersection operations through identifying malfunctioning detectors, as recent work has shown that errors in data quality and accuracy may be widespread due to issues with aging equipment and unmet maintenance needs. Accordingly, there is a desire for policies, procedures, and techniques to identify malfunctio
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Wildfires in California have increased due to climate change, poor forests maintenance, and human factors. Post-wildfire mudflows frequently occur during rain events on burn scars due to loss of vegetation, change of surface morphology, and soil surface hydrophobicity. Spreading Xanthan gum biopolymer on slopes after wildfires may mitigate the risk
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