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 ability to ship Type B liquid packages will be necessary for the nuclear industry to meet the energy production requirements of the next century. There are no packages licensed in the United States for transportation of large quantities of such liquids at present. Packages designed for transporting liquids must address technical challenges and
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The ODOT Abandoned Underground Mine Inventory and Risk Assessment process was conceived as a proactive response to the need to locate and assess the risk of all mapped or otherwise identified roadway sites beneath which abandoned underground mines exist. The scope of such an undertaking is extremely formidable. Hundreds of such roadway sites potent
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Two approach guardrail transitions for use with concrete safety shape barriers were developed and crash tested. For this study, the transition systems were attached to the New Jersey safety shape concrete barrier; however, it is believed that these transition systems could be easily adapted to the F-shape barrier with no need for further crash test
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Since it began operations in 1971, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation(Amtrak) has never been profitable and has received about $21 billion in federalsubsidies for operating and capital expenses. In December 1994, at thedirection of the administration, Amtrak established the goal of eliminating itsneed for federal operating subsidies by 200
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This is the statement of Keith O. Fultz, Assistant Comptroller General, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division before the Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives. Currently the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), other federal agencies, and the aviation industry are impl
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An accelerated testing procedure was developed to evaluate performance of separation layers used between open-graded bases and lime stabilized subgrades. Significantly of concern was assessing separation layer performance in regard to the degree of pumping into the open-graded base and the magnitude of deformations occurring during testing. A pneum
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This document describes the procedures that the Long Term Pavement Performance (LTPP) program recommends for ensuring that traffic data collection equipment used for LTPP traffic monitoring efforts operates correctly and collects valid data.
This report described the work conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology under an interagency agreement (DE-AI01-92CE50354) signed in September 1992 between DOE and NIST for 5 years. The interagency agreement expires on September 30, 1997. The interagency agreement envisions continual funding from DOE to support the developmen
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Testimony of Gerald L. Dillingham, Associate Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division before the Subcommittee on Aviation, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, U.S. Senate on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) oversight of repair stations that maintain and repair aircraft and a
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The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in May, before seasonal adjustment, to a level of 162.8 (1982-84=100). For the 12-month period ended in May, the CPI-U increased 1.7 percent. The Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W) rose 0.3 percent in May, prior to seasonal adjustmen
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A rolling dynamic deflectometer (RDD) was developed as a nondestructive method for determining continuous deflection profiles of pavements. Unlike other commonly used pavement testing methods, the RDD performs continuous rather than discrete measurements. The ability to perform continuous measurements makes RDD testing very effective for quickly ch
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The objective of the present investigation is to determine the mode I stress-intensity factors along two symmetric surface cracks emanating from a centrally located hole in a rectangular plate (the so-called Round Robin Problem) using the domain integral ;See also PB98-146186. Prepared in cooperation with Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL. Center fo
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In developing and transition economies 60 to 80 per-cent of all passenger and freight transport moves by road, and roads provide the main form of access to most rural communities. Yet most of the 11 million kilometers of roads in these countries are poorly man-aged and badly maintained. Harral and Faiz (1988) estimated that in the 85 countries that
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The increased numbers of bonded composite components and bonded repairs of cracked structures make knowledge of adhesive bonding crucial to aircraft design and life extension. This report covers an effort which focused on using fracture mechanics to evaluate the Mode I fracture and fatigue properties of several adhesively bonded aerospace material
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The B and W Hanford Company's (BWHC) 327 Facility (Postirradiation Testing Laboratory (PTL)) houses 10 hot cells in which a variety of postirradiation examinations have been performed since its construction in the mid 1950s.
In recent years, private industry has been more involved in highway financing and operation. Many countries have started to apply new or improved strategies to promote the development of highway projects using sources other than the State. The most widely used concept is the scheme known as Build-Operate-Transer (T-O-T). The major problem related t
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Currently, there are different monitoring techniques which can be used for damage detection in bridges. These include approaches based on both static and dynamic behavior. The use of dynamic properties has advantages over static properties, since components of the dynamic properties are only marginally influenced by variations in the loading. When
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An accelerated testing procedure was developed to evaluate performance of separation layers used between open-graded bases and lime stabilized subgrades. Significantly of concern was assessing separation layer performance in regard to the degree of pumping into the open-graded base and the magnitude of deformations occurring during testing. A pneum
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The passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) has resulted in several urban areas in Texas being designated non-attainment areas. While the non-attainment areas are acting to improve air quality, several near non-attainment areas need to act to maintain their air quality at current levels to avoid being designated a non-attainment area. T
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The 1997 traffic fatality count was 1,446, down 3.9 percent from the 1996 figure of 1,505.Compared with 1996, injuries were down 3.5 percent and total crashes were down 2.2percent. These figures translated into a death rate of 1.6 per 100 million miles of travel,down 5.9 percent from the death rate of 1.7 reported in 1996. Nationally, fatalities we
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