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.
Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_ust or https://doi.org/10.21949/1530857.
The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant breakdown of the traditional retail sector, resulting in a substantial surge in ecommerce demand for the delivery of essential goods. The e-retailers coped with this surge in demand, albeit while operating at a much lower level of service than usual, by outsourcing part of their operations through: crowdso
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This report presents the results of a mixed-methods study of the 2020-2022 Oakland Slow Streets program. An official response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the program used signs and temporary barricades to limit thru-traffic on 21 miles of city streets to create more and safer space for walking, cycling, and outdoor recreation. Researchers collected d
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Secretary of Transportation
2022-07-01
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Executive Order (E.O.) 14057 details the President’s bold and ambitious vision for the federal government — using a whole of government approach and the power of procurement to achieve net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050. Critical goals include transitioning to zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) and energy efficient, net-zero emissions buildings, bo
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This project focused on forecasting freight logistics needs and developing and analyzing capacity plans for the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to consider. The forecast timeframe ranges from the 2020 to 2045; the commodities considered are those used in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) framework. The authors considered five S
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Road salt (NaCl) is used predominantly across the state for winter road anti-icing (as brine) and de-icing (as a solid) operations. Road salt is used because it is inexpensive and effective, but the thousands of tons used annually have resulted in increasing chloride concentrations of surface water bodies throughout Minnesota. In many cases, chlori
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2022-07-01
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In 2020, there were 15,033 (42%) fatal traffic crashes in rural areas resulting in 16,665 (43%) traffic fatalities. There were 20,233 (57%) fatal traffic crashes in urban areas resulting in 21,650 (56%) traffic fatalities. Fatalities in rural areas increased by 2 percent from 16,288 in 2019 to 16,665 in 2020, and in urban areas increased by 9 perce
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2022-07-01
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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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The objective of this research is to improve and validate the mass concrete thermal management methods (e.g., passive or active cooling) and decision-making tools developed from the Phase I research (Investigation and Guidelines for Mass Concrete Construction Management) against the Georgia Department of Transportation’s (GDOT’s) real-world mass co
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For the 2019-2020 winter season, vehicle-to-everything (V2X) systems using dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) were placed on Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) snowplows and state routes to test the effectiveness of snowplows requesting signal preemption from traffic controllers. This study was done to understand the impacts and bene
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is leading a Safety Data Initiative (SDI), to enhance the analysis and visualization that informs safety policy decisions. Populus was selected to perform analysis and assess the quality of leveraging GPS trip trace data from micromobility operators such as Lime, Bird, and Superpedestrian (LINK), to serve
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This report describes the research efforts aimed at determining the repeatability of the IDEAL-CT test for asphalt concrete mixtures. It follows a series of studies investigating different cracking tests. Three mixes in common production in the northern part of Utah were investigated by three different labs experienced in performance testing. Withi
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In a prior research project (BDK83 977-24), the Financial Achievability Model (FAM) was created for the Florida Department of Transportation Research Center. The Research Center can use the FAM in all phases of research to meet strategic objectives, including demonstrating the potential benefits of proposed projects, allowing for a more cost-effect
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This study developed a spatial interpolation technique using finite element shape functions to derive wind speed records for all unsampled Kansas counties from data recorded at 17 city locations in and near Kansas. A computational method using the Kaimal spectrum is presented for generating artificial time histories of wind speeds. This is done to
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Our goal was to develop seed mixture recommendations to improve establishment and development of roadside vegetation in Minnesota. We selected 14 research sites across Minnesota and seeded 40 turfgrass mixtures. Turfgrass coverage was assessed at each site twice a year and the weed seed bank was examined. We found that greater seeded turfgrass spec
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As the portable weight-in-motion (WIM) technology has been successfully explored and practically used to collect site-specific traffic data in Texas Department of Transportation Research Project 0-6940 Develop System to Render Mechanistic-Empirical Traffic Data for Pavement Design, this standardized guideline was developed to aid users understand m
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The goal of this research project was to determine the environmental impact of potassium acetate (KAc) as a deicer, including its effects on water quality and the resulting toxicity to biota. The motivation for the research was the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT’s) exploratory use of KAc to significantly reduce the use of chloride-
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The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) engaged Cambridge Systematics (CS) to assist with the development the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Implementation Plan that will be used to improve the safety of New Jersey roads and ensure the state meets federal performance targets in the coming years.
This project focused on forecasting freight logistics needs and developing and analyzing capacity plans for INDOT to consider. The forecast timeframe ranges from the 2020 to 2045; the commodities considered are those used in the FHWA framework. We considered five SSP (Shared Socio-Economic Pathways) scenarios that are in sync with those used by the
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
2022-07-01
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National Transportation Statistics (NTS)
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In 2010, there were 32,999 people killed, 3.9 million were injured, and 24 million vehicles were damaged in motor vehicle crashes in the United States. The economic costs of these crashes totaled $242 billion. Included in these losses are lost productivity, medical costs, legal and court costs, emergency service costs (EMS), insurance administratio
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Despite increased efforts to improve safety in recent years (e.g., the Focus Cities Program in California), California continues to have a high rate of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities. Currently, the state currently lacks a cohesive messaging strategy to improve behaviors related to pedestrian and cyclist traffic safety practices. To fulfill th
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