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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Armstrong, Hillary M.:Dean, Craig D: Espinoza, Juan
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Fletcher, David R
1997-06-01
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The Geographic Information System-Transportation (GIS-T) ISTEA Management Systems Server Net Prototype Pooled Fund Study represents the first national cooperative effort in the transportation industry to address the management and monitoring systems as well as the statewide and metropolitan transportation planning requirements of the Intermodal Sur
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A consensus that the nation's persistent federal deficit must be addressed and that the effectiveness of federal programs must improve substantially has spurred widespread efforts in the executive branch and Congress to dramatically change the way the federal government is managed. During the 1990s, Congress enacted a broad statutory framework, wit
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To address the heavy dispatching workload and communications challenges in its paratransit operations, Chapel Hill Transit (CHT) requested that the Operations Research Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conduct a study on the potential costs and benefits of adding mobile data terminals (MDT's) to CHT's current system. A n
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The Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee (GCM) Corridor is one of the four "Priority Corridors" established by the United States Congress in the Inter-Modal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). These corridors have been selected for special federal transportation funding based on very specific transportation and environmental criteria. The GCM Corridor
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The MS Extended Vector Product (MSEVP) prototype being developed is an extended vector product format-based product containing a continuous surface representation and a consistent view of elevation across the thematic coverages contained within a database. A continuous surface representation is provided in the MSEVP prototype as a Triangulated Irre
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This paper has summarised the role and importance of systematic assessment and evaluationwhen considering investment in Road Transport Telematics. The CONVERGE project recommends the use of five broad evaluation themes detailed above, to which we can add a sixth market assessment - to give the commercial perspective.
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
1997-05-22
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This advisory circular (AC) sets forth an acceptable means, but not the only means, for developing and evaluating a 14 Code of Federal Regulations (14CFR) Special Federal Aviation Regulation (SFAR)36 engineering procedures manual. As such, the terms "shall" and "must" used in this advisory circular pertain to an applicant who chooses to follow the
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The Chairman of the Forum, Tom Larson, summarized the topic for the forum as managing change, and bringing institutions along, so that they are contemporary with the world they are in. The mission is to make our transportation facilities function as an entire system, and bring everyone together, and develop the human capacity more rapidly in order
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The relative petroleum use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for severalpopular and proposed alternative fuels were estimated and compared withconventional petroleum fuels, either gasoline (non-oxygenated) or No. 2 dieselfuel. The estimates were based on data from previous studies, and werenormalized to a common basis to facilitate comparisons amo
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Working paper evaluates the implemented public 911 and private non-911 cellularbased emergency centers around the country, and within theGary-Chicago-Milwaukee (GCM) Corridor and documents the impact, implications andexperiences of switching from a non-911 based cellular emergency system to aregional public 911 number, by summarizing the results of
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United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation
1997-05-19
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The Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program (CMAQ) provides funds to states for projects designed to help attain and maintain the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) set under the Clean Air Act (CAA). CMAQ was created in 1991 by the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), and Congress is now considerin
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The purpose of this working paper is to provide insight into the options that are available from which to design the Gateway Traveler Information System (TIS). This working paper will discuss each option in a general manner without becoming overly technical. It allows for an in-depth look at all of the available technologies and their potential app
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The purpose of this working paper is to provide an information base of lessons learned from activities similar to the design of the Gary Chicago Milwaukee (GCM) Corridor Architecture and the Gateway Traveler Information System (TIS). Many similar activities have taken place in the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) community and there is no n
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Congressional testimony by John H. Anderson, Jr., 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, impeded entry,
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
1997-05-12
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This Advisory Circular (AC) provides information and guidance to potential training device manufacturers and aviation training consumers concerning a means, acceptable to the Administrator, by which personal computer-based aviation training devices (PCATD) may be qualified and approved for flight training toward satisfying the instrument rating tra
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Highway and roadside safety features are crash tested for compliance with certain safety criteria. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) uses a surrogate reusable test vehicle, Bogie, to conduct crash tests of roadside safety features. Bogie is intended to replace an impacting vehicle in order to reduce the cost of the test. Bogie can be config
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
1997-05-08
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This advisory circular (AC) provides information and standard forms, but not the only forms, that may be used to comply with some of the provisions of the Pilot Records Improvement Act of 1996 (PRIA), which is contained in Title V of Public Law 104-264, 110 Stat. 3259 (1996).
Increasing mobility and access has become the primary goal of the transportation network. As part of its update of its Regional Transportation Plan, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC) has established the following goals and objectives for the regional transportation network through the year 2015. Specific performance measures
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