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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In designing large cantilever bent caps for use on recent projects under current AASHTO design specifications,designers were faced with considerable uncertainties. Questions arose when designers attempted to satisfyboth serviceability and strength requirements for a series of cap designs that mixed both non-prestressed andprestressed concrete solut
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The General Accounting Office (GAO) was requested to assess the effectiveness of the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA's) oversight of the costs of large-dollar highway and bridge projects (those with a total estimated cost of over $100 million). In particular, GAO was asked to (1) determine if large-dollar highway projects experience cost gro
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This paper presents the results of a user centered systems analysis of a proposed software system, the North Dakota Intermodal Management System. The study surveyed and evaluated several object-oriented analysis methods to select the one that best supports user centered development. This examination determined that Jacobson's Use Case Driven Approa
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The concept of Readiness to Perform (RTP) refers to that state in which a person is prepared and capable of performing a job for which that person is willingly disposed and is free of any transient risk factors, such as drugs, alcohol, fatigue, or illness. A large study involving thirty-two subjects, five RTP tests, two work sample tasks, and three
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This report contains a summary of the work performed during the development of a minimum performance standard for lavatory trash receptacle automatic fire extinguishers. The developmental work was performed under the direction of the International Halon Replacement Working Group.
United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1997-02-01
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In late 1994, NHTSA conducted the first National Occupant Protection Use Survey(NOPUS). Shoulder belt use was observed at a random sample of sites across thecountry for drivers and right-front passengers of cars and light trucks. In oneportion of the study, called the controlled intersection study, license platenumbers were recorded in addition to
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This report presents the material characterization for the Minnesota Road Research Project (Mn/ROAD) bituminous materials. This effort will provide the historical base line information on properties needed for the validation of future pavement evaluation and design models. The objectives of the work were to 1) Document construction of Mn/ROAD, 2) E
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The FHWA Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) provides technology transfer products to local highway departments. One of the most valuable and well-received resources of the program, the LTAP (or T 2 ) centers, have proven themselves invaluable in developing innovative approaches to technology transfer and in coordinatingFederal, State, local,
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To answer questions being raised by abutting residents and businesses about proposed elevated and/or depressed freeway improvements in the urban and suburban areas of Texas, a four-year study has been conducted to estimate the social, economic, and environmental effects of such freeway designs. Eight existing, two under-construction, and one approv
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Every year, a tremendous amount of toner is produced for copiers and printers by toner manufacturing companies throughout the United States. Some of this toner does not meet quality specifications and consequently becomes a waste product of the manufacturing process. This manufacturing waste, along with the spent toner (residue from copiers and pri
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In 1993, a steel girder I-beam deck was extended to cross a new on-ramp at the Marquam Bridge Interchange in Portland, Oregon. The steel members of this new structure were fastened together using the lock-pin and collar fastening system.These fasteners are quicker and easier to install than the standard threaded ASM 325 bolts. While the lock-pin ar
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A Simulation of Rotor Blade Element Turbulence (SORBET) model has been developed for real-time aircraft simulation that accommodates stochastic turbulence and distributed discrete gusts as a function of the terrain. This model is applicable to conventional aircraft, V/STOL aircraft, and disc rotor model helicopter simulations. Vehicle angular activ
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This report examines the status of motor vehicle traffic crashes as a leading cause of death by age and sex of the person. The data used in this report are based upon mortality data for the United States for the calendar year 1992 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). NCHS compiles info
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1997-02-01
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) recently completed a study of data from the National Center Health Statistics (NCHS) to obtain an estimate of the number of nonoccupant fatalities associated with off-road backing crashes. The NCHS data were contrasted with data from the Fatal Accide
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The Self Restoring Barrier (SERB) is a proprietary guardrail unit comprised of a single tubular thrie beam held outward from the supporting wooden posts by pivoting metal arms, its height above the ground secured by short cables attached to the top of the wooden posts. Two SERB guardrail systems were installed on the Pacific Highway (Interstate 5)
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Because of the size, complexity, and importance of FAA's air traffic control (ATC) modernization, the General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed it to determine (1) whether FAA has a target architecture(s), and associated sub-architectures, to guide the development and evolution of its ATC systems; and (2) what, if any, architectural incompatibilitie
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Packaging and Transportation Safety Program (PATS) has been charged with the responsibility of retrieving reports and information pertaining to transportation and packaging incidents from the centralized ORPS database. These selected reports are analyzed for trends, impact on packaging and transportation ope
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In previous studies, the performance of bare and resurfaced JRCP and CRCP on the Illinois freeway system was assessed by survival analyses. In this study, the 1994 data has been used to update the survival analysis of JRCP and CRCP and to carry out an initial survival analysis on the full depth asphalt sections (HMAC) of the Illinois freeway system
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The Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), with the Florida Department of Transportation, convened its first national symposium on African-American mobility issues in March 1994. In 1995, with the support of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials and Federal Highway Administration, CUTR convened the second symposium. Building
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