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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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
1996-12-01
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This publication consists of individual profiles for each reporting agency located in an urbanized area with a population exceeding 200,000. The data contained in each profile consists of general and summary reports, as well as modal, performance, and trend indicators for the 1995 Report Year. The 1995 Report Year consists of data from transit agen
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This is a field manual designed for maintenance supervisors and residentengineers responsible for repair and replacement of traffic control devices onhighways and streets. Standards and practices have not always taken in accountthe realities of the performance to be expected from a growing minority in theUnited States, the older motorist. After des
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The key element in improving traffic operations and performing effective real time management is the ability to assess the effectiveness of the various alternatives prior to implementation. Simulation methods have long been recognized as the most effective tool for such an analysis, and various simulators have been developed by different agencies f
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United States. National Transportation Safety Board
1996-12-01
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This report explains the runway departure during attempted takeoff of Tower Air flight 41, N605FF, a Boeing 747-136 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York, on December 20, 1995. The safety issues discussed in this report include the adequacy of Boeing and air carrier procedures for B-747 operations on slippery runways; adequacy of fligh
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Minnesota. Division of Transportation Research and Investment Management
1996-12-01
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This document has been prepared to assist in the development of the State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP). The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) requires the development of a Statewide Transportation Improvement Program. The STIP must include the capital and most non-capital transportation projects proposed
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In this paper the authors report on the results of a telephone survey conducted in Southern California during August and September 1996. The purpose of the survey was to inform respondents about a set of rather complex pricing policies designed to reduce motor vehicle emissions and to estimate respondent support for those policies. After receiving
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This document describes and assesses planned modifications to be made to the Building 3544 Process Waste Treatment Plant of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The modifications include the provision of a new double contained LLW line. Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
There are competing demands for curb space on a city street. Among the uses are free flow of traffic, buses or taxis loading and unloading passengers, commercial vehicles making deliveries or service calls, people running errands to nearby businesses, and vehicles parking for various reasons. Roadway designers are required to balance the competing
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Traffic loading data are essential for the planning and design of adequate and cost-effective highway pavements. Data from an augmented weigh-in-motion (WIM) system have been collected and analyzed. The augmented WIM systems, which comprise bending-plate weighpads, infrared sensors, inductance loop detectors, and thermocouples, were installed in th
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1996-12-01
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NHTSA's National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) recently completed an analysis of data from the Fatal Accident Reporting System (FARS) to reexamine the effectiveness of restraints in saving the lives of children, ages 0 - 4. This analysis updates the work published in Lives Saved by Child Restraints from 1982 through 1987 by Susan C. Par
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This report provides an overview of the research being conducted by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop fire safe cabin materials for commercial aircraft. The objective of the Fire-Resistant Materials program is to eliminate burning cabin materials as a cause of death in aircraft accidents. Long-term activities include the synthesi
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This annual report of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) for the fiscal year (FY) ending September 30, 1995, is the 14th report of activity required by Section 47131 of Title 49, United States Code. The current grant program, known as the Airport Improvement Program,was established by the Airport and Airway Improvement Act of 1982. It authorized
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The Public Transportation and Intercity Rail Passenger Plan for WashingtonState is a 20-year plan for preserving our current public transportation systemswhile improving mobility for a growing population. The plan builds toward afuture in which people have more public transportation choices, in which connectionsbetween modes are efficient and easy
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This resource guide provides a list of references with annotations, including many how to guides, for use by local jurisdictions, developers, transit operators and citizens groups that are interested in planning, designing, reviewing and implementing community-oriented transportation projects. The goal is to provide straightforward information that
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Primary objective for this study was to identify and profile subpopulations at highest risk for drinking and driving, and persons who may be in a position to intervene in their drinking and driving behavior. A related objective was to explore media messages to determine which strategies may be most effective in motivating the target interveners. To
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The South Dakota Department of Transportation has experienced problems with rotation of sill type bridge abutments resulting in abutment backwalls jamming against the ends of girders and bridge decks. A sill tieback system to prevent displacement and rotation of bridge abutments has been designed for use in new construction and abutment retrofittin
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Expedited bonded concrete overlays offer an economical alternative to rehabilitating concrete pavements. The construction of a bonded concrete overlay in El Paso has provided the opportunity to research pavement design, mix design, construction methods, and specification development for use in future overlay construction. This report documents the
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In this study, the project staff pursued three main objectives. The first objective, the subject of Report 1 356-1, was to define the concept of full-cost analysis in the context of a multimodal transportation evaluation framework, including the identification of all cost components of transportation systems and a summary of estimations made in pre
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Recent failures of cantilever overhead sign structures in Michigan and elsewhere, coupled with the absence of standards for tightening methods for the double-nut system used with large-diameter anchor bolts in similar structures in Texas have been the motivation for this study. Practices of various field offices were reviewed, a literature study wa
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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is revising its Barricade and Construction Standard sheets. In support of this effort, an earlier study developed a proposed set of specifications to evaluate and qualify plastic drums for use in work zones. Various plastic drums obtained from manufacturers were submitted first to static tests then cra
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