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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Pollutants found in runoff from highways may cause toxic responses in receiving waters for some conditions and, in addition, are obstacles to obtaining water quality goals in the United States. This study investigated the capability of two vegetative controls -- grassed swales and vegetated buffer strips -- to treat highway runoff. A grassed swale
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Original Report Date: October 1997. This study evaluates the performance of sedimentation/ filtration systems that are the most common control for treating highway runoff in the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone. The study includes: 1) monitoring and evaluating the Seton Pond sedimentation/filtration facility in Austin, Texas, and 2) evaluating the fac
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In an effort to reduce the high crash rate and resulting injuries of young drivers, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has sponsored research to assess the factors responsible for this heightened crash risk and to determine the implications for traffic safety programs. As part of this research, this review of research literature was
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Research directed toward improving the design and construction of permanent ground anchor walls is presented. The research focused on tiedback soldier beam walls for highway applications. These walls are generally less than 25 ft high, and they are supported by one or two rows of permanent ground anchors. This volume is part of a four-volume report
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Surface deterioration of exposed transportation structures is a major problem. In most cases,surface deterioration could lead to structural problems because of the loss of cover and ensuingreinforcement corrosion. To minimize the deterioration, various types of coatings have been tried overthree decades with different degrees of success. For succes
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Environmental instruments to measure temperature, soil moisture and frost depth were installed at five test sections of the SHRP pavement project on U.S. 23 north of Delaware, Ohio. At three of these locations tensiometers, which a designed to measure negative pore pressures, were added to the instrumentation package. The pore pressures as recorded
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This Interim Technical Bulletin recommends procedures for conducting Life-Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) of pavements, provides detailed procedures to determine work zone user costs, and introduces a probabilistic approach to account for the uncertainty associated with LCCA inputs. The Bulletin begins with a discussion of the broad fundamental principl
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The loads that trucks impose on pavements and bridges have an important effect on the life of the infrastructure and, therefore, on total national road costs. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Road Transport Research Programme has found that dynamic pavement loading is increasing in OECD countries, resulting in an in
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This implementational manual is intended for local governments who want to make improvements to existing conditions that affect bicycling. Thirteen of the most typical situations or factors that impact bicycle use are considered.
Research directed toward improving the design and construction of permanent ground anchor walls is presented. The research focused on tied back soldier beam walls for highway applications. These walls are generally less than 25 ft high, and they are supported by one or two rows of permanent ground anchors. This volume is part of a four-volume repor
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The hot water and knife adhesion tests developed in this study proved to be a valuable tool for quality control and for in-depth studies of coating adhesion. Hot water and knife adhesion tests were very useful in discriminating and identifying good from bad quality coatings. The tests were relatively easy to perform and did not require special or s
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Coating damage to epoxy-coated rebars (ECR) in chloride-contaminated concrete may lead to failure of the coating protection system. Damage to epoxy coating can occur during the stages of coating application, handling, storage, transportation, fabrication, assemblage, and/or concrete placement. Epoxy patching materials are manufactured to repair coa
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Construction of around 10km of the US 183 elevated highway in Austin, Texas, using precast segmental posttensioned construction provided a unique opportunity to investigate many aspects of segmental bridge technology. The project included balanced cantilever erection, span-by-span erection and some cast-in-place transitions. Some of the piers were
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This is the fourth in a series of six research reports focusing on the process of preparing and evaluating feasibility studies for private toll road projects in Texas. State legislation requires that the sponsors of a proposed private toll road project submit a feasibility study to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The financial viabi
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This is the fifth in a series of six research reports focusing on the process of preparing and evaluating feasibility studies for private toll road projects in Texas. State legislation requires that the sponsors of a proposed toll road project submit a feasibility study to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The financial viability of a
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This is the third in a series of six research reports focusing on the process of preparing and evaluating feasibility studies for private toll road projects in Texas. State legislation requires that the sponsors of a proposed toll road submit a feasibility study to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). The financial viability of a propose
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Most vehicle detection today relies on inductive loop detectors (ILDs). However, problems with installation and maintenance of these detectors have necessitated evaluation of alternative detection systems. Replacing ILDs with better detectors requires a thorough evaluation of the alternatives. This evaluation included examination of the functional
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Speeding and speed control are often considered critical issues on residential and collector streets. Activities to reduce speed and volume on residential streets have recently been gathered under the term traffic calming. Speed management goes a step beyond traffic calming by looking at higher speed facilities such as arterials in addition to resi
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The main focus of this study is congestion, primarily that occurring on freeway corridors in metropolitan areas. Lack of coordination in the operation of various components of the system is often a major source of inefficiency, resulting in greater delays to motorists than what might be achievable with the existing physical infrastructure. Ineffici
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A comprehensive laboratory and field test program was undertaken with the objective of developing an improved procedure for predicting field skid resistance performance of bituminous aggregates. The field test program included monitoring of 55 test pavement sections that were located in various climatic zones within the state of Texas over the 3-ye
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