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 report describes the results of the study to collect scour and associated hydraulic data at bridges in Ohio and to compare measured scour at piers with that determined from selected pier-scour prediction equations.
United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Inspector General
1996-10-16
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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed a complaint from Congressman Deal on behalf of a constituent. The constituent alleged waste and mismanagement occurred in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Route Traffic Control Centers Critical and Essential Power Systems (ACEPS) Project. OIG condensed the complainant's concerns into the t
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This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting Airworthiness Directive (AD) 96-18-22 which was sent previously to all known U.S. owners and operators of Robinson Helicopter Company (Robinson) Model R44 helicopters by individual letters. This AD requires an inspection of the mating surfaces of the main rotor gearbox (gearbox)
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Inspector General
1996-10-02
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The Office of Inspector General (OIG), Department of Transportation, conducted an inspection of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Deicing Program. Following the March 1992 crash of USAir Flight 405 at La Guardia Airport in New York, New York, FAA amended Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 121.629, and developed the "Aircraft Ground Deic
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United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Inspector General
1996-10-02
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The Office of Inspector General, Department of Transportation; conducted a follow-up inspection of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Deicing Program. We initiated this study to observe deicing operations as a follow-up to our report on the FAA Deicing Program, (No. E5-FA-7-001, dated October 2, 1996). The objective of this inspection was to
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The impact on the Montana state highway system of adopting Canadian lnterprovincial, Canamex, or Canamex Short limits on vehicle size and weight was determined. Canadian lnterprovincial vehicle configurations were developed based on an investigation of vehicle safety, economy, and damage to the highway system. Canamex and Canamex Short limits are h
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The National Center for Statistics and Analysis’ (NCSA) Information Services Branch (ISB) required a more effective method of receiving, tracking, and completing requests for data, statistics, and information. To enhance ISB’s services, a new customer interface comprising a voice mail system supported by a customized tracking system will be install
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This report consists of an analysis of air traffic control and pilot voice communications that occurred at 3 terminal air traffic control facilities (TRACONs). Each transmission was parsed into communication elements. Each communication element was assigned to a speech act category (e.g., address, instruction, request, advisory) and aviation topic
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A number of experimental admixtures were compared to Pozzutec 20 admixture for their ability to protect fresh concrete from freezing and for increasing the rate of cement hydration at below-freezing temperatures. The commercial accelerator and low-temperature admixture Pozzutec 20 served as the reference admixture for this project as it has been a
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This report provides literature reviews, empirical findings and policy analysis related to some of the effects of building a highway bypass around a small town in Kansas. The report describes three types of models: an origin-destination model showing the number of trips between each town and city in Kansas; a model to estimate the value of the time
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A simulation framework has been developed for a large-scale, comprehensive, scaleable simulation of an Intelligent Transportation System. The simulator is designed for running on parellel computers and distributed (networked) computer systems, but can run on standalone workstations for smaller simulations. The simulator currently models instrumente
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An evaluation of public transit maintenance and storage facilities in Florida was performed to determine the stormwater quality of runoff from these facilities. The characteristics of the facilities were investigated to evaluate the potential for stor.mwater runoff pollution and to determine the probable origin of potential pollutants. The characte
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United States. General Accounting Office. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division
1996-10-01
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State Infrastructure Banks (SIBs) are intended to complement traditional transportation grant programs and provide states with increased flexibility to offer many types of financial assistance, such as loans and subsidized interest rates, and provide bond or other debt-financing security tailored to fit a project's specific needs. The General Accou
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration
1996-10-01
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By law, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has responsibility for ensuring railroad safety throughout the nation. The United States railroad system consists of over 600 railroads with more than 250,000 employees, 200,000 miles of track, 1.2 million freight cars, and 20,000locomotives. To monitor railroad compliance with federally mandated sa
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The challenge of managing corridor development lies in the dynamic interaction between transportation and land use. The land use plan used to predict transportation needs inevitably changes as new highways stimulate real estate speculation, rezoning, and growth. At the same time, competing demands on the corridor may damage long term transportation
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The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) had communications requirements uncommon to Tech Report services. Currently, there were no Defense Message System (DMS) products that could be used to send messages to underway vessels with multiple modes of communications. The DMS architecture did not address some of the problems and operational considerations of a mobi
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Washington (State). Dept. of Transportation. Water Quality Unit
1996-10-01
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The prioritization system, which compares the impacts of one outfall to anotherand makes a determination of their overall impacts, was developed in thePrioritization Method for Retrofitting Highways with Stormwater BMPs, preparedby the Water Quality Unit of WSDOT in 1993.
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