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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Congressional testimony by Gerald L. Dillingham, Associate Director, Transportation Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office (GAO), on competition in the domestic airline industry. In October 1996, the GAO reported that certain industry practices, such as restrictive gate-leasing arrangements, imped
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Persons in households with low incomes are much less likely to have a vehicle, largely in part because a greater proportion of their income is spent on shelter and food. About a quarter (26%) of low income households do not have a car, compared to 4% of other households These low income households often are without regular telephone service because
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This report by the General Accounting Office examines the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) oversight of the aviation repair station industry. Specifically, this report addresses the following questions: (1) What is the nature and scope of the oversight of repair stations conducted by FAA personnel? (2) How well does FAA follow up on inspecti
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The purpose of this working paper is to summarize current and evolving Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies and strategies related to the design, development, and deployment of regional multi-modal traveler information systems. This report provides a resource document and a framework to assist in the selection of state-of-the-art IT
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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of sexual harassment cases at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The objective was to determine the number of sexual harassment cases pending and resolved, including the case age, status, and processing time.
A memorandum from the Office of the Inspector General to the Federal Transit Administrator regarding their audit of revenue retention at the Los Angeles World Airports, City of Los Angeles.
United States. National Transportation Safety Board
1997-10-17
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On April 25, 1996, a truck with a concrete mixer body, unable to stop, proceeded through an intersection and collided with and overrode a passenger car near Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. The driver of the car was fatally injured, and the truckdriver sustained minor injuries. The major safety issues discussed in this report are the maintenance and
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United States. National Transportation Safety Board
1997-10-17
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On November 26, 1996, a utility truck collided with and fatally injured a 10-year-old student near Cosmopolis, Washington. The child had just exited a transit bus that had transported him from school to his residence. No other injuries were involved. The major safety issues discussed in this report are the inequity between the safety of children tr
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In order to provide waterborne commerce information as soon as possible, the Waterborne Commerce Statistics Center (WCSC) has prepared this summary document of estimated waterborne commerce statistics for calendar year 1996. The foreign import and export estimates were furnished by the Bureau of the Census. The domestic national totals are based on
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This environmental impact statement evaluates the potential effects of developing up to 1,000,000 square feet of additional office space at the Washington Naval Yard to support the relocation of 4,100 personnel associated with the Washington Sea System Command. The purpose of and need for the proposed action, alternatives considered, affected envir
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For more than 30 years, traffic engineers have attempted to provide information to travelers about traffic conditions and other occurrences on the roadway network that could affect their journey. The traffic data collected by agencies and its dissemination was, and still is, a necessary tool to help those agencies manage the transportation system t
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Following the Fourth Annual African-African American Summit in Harare, Zimbabwe, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater pledged to continue his engagement with Africa and to follow-up on the issues and concerns addressed there. On October 8, 1997, Secretary Slater convened a U.S.- Africa Roundtable on Trade and Investment, fulfilling his
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This final report focuses mainly on evaluating the overall performance of The University of Texas' Automated Road Maintenance Machine (ARMM). It was concluded that the introduction of automated methods to the pavement crack-sealing process will improve productivity and quality and can reduce costs and safety risks.
This congressional testimony by Gerald L. Dillingham, Associate Director,Transportation Issues Resources, Community, and Economic Development Divisiondiscusses the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Wide Area AugmentationSystem (WAAS) program. FAA is planning a transition from a ground-based civilair navigation system to a satellite-based syst
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United States. Office of Ports and Domestic Shipping
1997-10-01
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This report is the seventh edition in a series of reports that continues the capital expendituresurvey first begun by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1956. Subsequentreports were published by the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) and currently bythe U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD).In 1991, MARAD published the Uni
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In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the ability of travel demand models to estimate travel not only for the average weekday, but for different periods within the day. Travel demand models are increasingly required to be analysis tools for a broad range of issues on transportation policy and project alternatives. These issues ofte
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Most of the bridges that are currently part of the United States infrastructure were constructed following the passage of the Federal Aid Highway Act in 1956 (1). Today, many of these bridges do not meet current federal and state design standards for geometry, strength, or average daily vehicular traffic. This can be attributed to the excessive dem
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