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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Examines the current extent of private sector participation at commercial airports in the United States and foreign countries, the current incentives and barriers to the sale or lease of airports, and the potential implications for major stakeholders such as the passengers, airlines, and local, state, and federal governments, should airports be sol
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Inspector General
1996-11-05
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We have completed a review of the Buy American Act (Act) requirements for Amtrak’s contract to purchase high-speed trainsets for use on the Northeast Corridor. The review was conducted in response to a hotline complaint regarding compliance with the Act’s rules and special financing terms.
The WLM(R) Coastal Buoy Tender was a small cutter in the preliminary design stage at Marinette Marine Shipyard, Marinette, WI. This report documents the results of a comprehensive fire safety analysis of the design of the WLM(R) conducted under the Small Cutter Fire Protection (SCFP) project and provides a recommended class specific fire protection
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The long-term performance ofsoil nail walls has been proven after 20 years of use in Europe and the United States. The purpose of this manual is to facilitate the implementation ofsoil nailing into American transportation design and construction practice and to provide guidance for selecting, designing, and specifying soil nailing for those applica
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has designed and constructed a prototype portable neutron coincidence counter intended for use in a variety of applications, such as the verification and inspection of weapons components, safety measurements for novel and challenging situations, portable portal deployment to prevent the transportation of fissil
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Beginning in 1996, the Montana DOT began to conduct a series of phone interviews with Montana residents to obtain the perceptions the respondents held about the maintenance of interstate and state highways in Montana. Highway maintenance topics surveyed have included: winter maintenance; highway surface smoothness; roadside maintenance; signs maint
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This report documents the findings from a study on institutional issues related to implementing Intelligent Transportation Systems in Commercial Vehicle Operations (ITS-CVO) in the Dakotas.
Episodic descriptions are provided of the effects of the Loma Prieta earthquake (1989) on the gas pipeline systems of Pacific Gas & Electric Company and the Cit of Palo Alto and of the Northridge earthquake (1994) on Southern California Gas' pipeline system.
Reported herein are the details and the results of laboratory and bench scale unit experiments that were conducted at Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc. (HTI), under DOE Contract No. DE-AC22-93PC92147 during the period of October 1, 1992, to December 31, 1995. The program results described herein build on the previous technology base and investigating
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The overall objective of this study was to evaluate a variety of asphalt additives in the laboratory and in the field to determine their merit in reducing cracking and rutting. In the late 1980s, test pavements were constructed in Texarkana, Sherman, San Benito, and Ft. Worth, Texas. In 1995, cores were obtained from Texarkana and Sherman and evalu
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The Texas-Mexico border area possesses many unique characteristics that could potentially reduce the effectiveness of traffic control devices used in these areas. This report describes the results from the first year of a three-year research project on the use of traffic control devices in Texas border areas. The first year was devoted to informati
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This report presents the results of an evaluation of the cost effectiveness of the Northeast Transit Terminal, an existing Sun Metro bus transit terminal located 23 km north of downtown El Paso, Texas. The evaluation of the transit terminal's cost effectiveness was conducted from a full-cost perspective and consisted of hypothesizing the amount of
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Accelerated intersection reconstruction requires that all phases of the construction process be well-planned and included in the list of activities that must be completed prerequisite to reopening the intersection to the traveling public. Consequently, accelerated intersection - reconstruction includes an integrated effort to forge a team consistin
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The objective of this study was to exploit the beneficiation and utilization of coal combustion by-products (CCBPs) as low-cost alternate aggregates and stabilizers in roadway and airfield construction. A literature review and laboratory investigation were performed to investigate the use of CCBPs in three highway construction applications: (I) fly
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For rehabilitation of concrete pavements, resurfacing with a bonded concrete overlay (BCO) may provide significantly longer life and reduced maintenance costs. Two important issues are bonding and rapid reopening of resurfaced sections. The project objective was to determine a method or methods for constructing a bonded concrete overlay under extre
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In the Bryan District, SH 6 and SH 21 are experiencing severe pavement distortion in several locations causing an exceptionally rough ride. Routine site investigation prior to construction did not reveal underlying soil conditions that could produce the kinds of pavement distresses that appeared relatively soon after pavement construction was compl
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This research focused on development of a comprehensive field instrumentation program to measure the in-situ responses of a concrete pavement system subjected to Falling Weight Deflectometer (FWD) loading and various environmental conditions. Responses measured were slab stresses, vertical slab deflection, temperature gradient through the slab thic
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Automated pavement crack sealing technology has been developed in the project described in this report. Performance of the prototype has been demonstrated, and the economics are attractive. A follow-up implementation and testing project involving field trials across the state has been approved. Crack sealing is a widespread, dangerous, costly, and
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The investigation has included an inventory of current road and traffic speed conditions in Louisiana, a review of practice in neighboring states, a literature review of findings in other states and other countries, a survey of District Traffic Operations Engineers of the Department of Transportation and Development, a interviews with representativ
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