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 purpose of this amendment to the FY 1998 Rail Improvement Program Supplement is to present an analysis which has been formulated, using prescribed methodology, to assist in an investment decision concerning track rehabilitation and new track construction work within the former Chicago, Missouri & Western rail yard located in Bloomington, Illino
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The purpose of this amendment to the FY 1998 Rail Improvement Program Supplement is to present an analysis which has been formulated, using prescribed methodology, to assist in an investment decision concerning new track construction at the Prairie Central Cooperatives facility located north of Pontiac, Illinois.
The risk of being involved in a fatal crash varies considerably depending on specific crash characteristics, i.e., those of the driver, vehicle and environment. A generally accepted measure of the risk of a fatal crash is the ratio between the number of fatal crashes associated with a specific set of conditions and the amount of travel performed un
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1997-07-01
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This report provides estimates of the numbers of persons injured as a result of hazards involving four specific motor vehicle components: radiators, batteries, power windows, and power roofs. The injury estimates are based upon data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). NEISS collects
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1997-07-01
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) National Center for Statistics recently examined data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) National Electronic Injury Surveillance (NEISS) on cases involving injuries burns and/or contamination resulting from associated with motor vehicle batteries. The data on injuries associ
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The purpose of this document is to describe the Hughes Surface Search Radar System (AN/SPS-73(V)) Radar Data Service (RDS) Communication (COMM) Software. This document includes an introduction to the RDS COMM, its function, and provides an example of sending and receiving messages. The RDS COMM will be used by External Tactical System (ETS) to inte
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Electronic resistance tomography (ERT) was used to follow the infiltration of water into a pavement section at the UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station. A volume of pavement 1 m square and 1.29 m in depth was sampled by an ERT array consisting of electrodes in 9 drilled holes plus 8 surface electrodes. The data were collected using a computer-control
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This manual supplements the New York State Department of Transportation's one-day workshop on "Bridge Maintenance/Inspection." More specifically, it is intended as a handy reference for preventive-maintenance and corrective-maintenance activities applicable to local bridges, as described in the workshop.
The appendix belongs to "High cycle fatigue crack modeling and analysis for deck truss flooring connection details : final report". The Oregon Department of Transportation is responsible for many steel deck truss bridges containing connection details that are fatigue prone. A typical bridge, the Winchester Bridge in Roseburg, Oregon, was analyzed t
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Knowledge of the variability in acceptable bituminous concrete pavement materials and construction in Oklahoma is a prerequisite for the development of successful QA specifications. Toward this end, the ODOT commissioned this study to: (1) develop reliable estimates of the overall variability in the quality characteristics, (2) determine the compon
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This publication contains the fifty-two technical papers presented at the FAA-NASA Symposium on the Continued Airworthiness of Aircraft Structures. The symposium, hosted by the FAA Center of Excellence for Computational Modeling of Aircraft Structures at Georgia Institute of Technology, was held to disseminate information on recent developments in
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The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) recently completed a field performance evaluation of lllbruck Willseal (hereafter referred to as Willseal) at one of two experimental evaluation locations. An expansion joint in the deck of an overpass bridge on U.S. 62 was scaled with Willseal pre-compressed foam sealant in October 1993. The maximum
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This publication consists of a listing of experimental products that are being, or have been, evaluated by The Oklahoma Department of Transportation, or other transportation agencies. The listing is continuously updated as new information is received. A status of the evaluation is given for each item, showing the progress or result of the evaluatio
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Second Joint Government/Industry Pipeline Mapping Quality Action Team
1997-07-01
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This draft document contains 7 sections. They are as follows: 1. General Topics, 2. Data Formats, 3. Metadata, 4. Attribute Data, 5. Data Flow, 6. Descriptive Process, and 7. Validation and Processing of Submitted Data. These standards were created with input from the pipeline industry and government agencies. They address the design of the Nationa
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Following a series of qualitative interviews with South Dakota Department of Transportation (SD DOT) as well as consumers during the week of March 24, 1997, a telephone survey of 800 interviews was conducted between April 17 and May 8, 1997 among two samples - 768 Citizens of SD and 32 current and former state legislators. Average interview length
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Following a series of qualitative interviews with SD DOT as well as consumers during the week of March 24, 1997, a telephone survey of 800 interviews was conducted between April 17 and May 8, 1997among two samples – 768 Citizens of SD and 32 current and former state legislators. Average interview length was 23 minutes and 14 seconds. When asked wha
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
1997-06-27
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This handbook is approved for use by all organizations of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It provides a general description of the applications and services, within an Open System Environment (OSE), that are available to users. It begins by discussing the OSE and the types of applications it supports. Section 3 introduces the OSE referen
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A memorandum to the Acting Federal Aviation Administrator from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) about the audit of the FAA apportionment of the Airport Improvement Program grant appropriations by the Airport and Airway Trust Fund for Fiscal Year 1996.
Airline deregulation has led to lower airfares and better service for most air travelers, due largely to increased competition spurred by the entry of new airlines into the industry and established airlines into new markets. However, some airports-particularly those serving small and medium-sized communities in the East and upper Midwest-have not e
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