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. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1996-06-01
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Law enforcement and highway safety administrators are an integral part of the solution to reduce injury and death on our roadways caused by impaired drivers. The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have teamed together to develop Impaired Driving Enforcement: A Program
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A specific objective of this scan of recent travel surveys is to facilitate the exchange of information among agencies and individuals having an interest in the design and conduct of household and other types of travel surveys. The information contained in this report complements the companion "Travel Survey Manual", published as part of the Travel
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This report is intended to provide technical information and recommendations on activities related to the management of spent radium sources, including preparation of sources at the user premises, conditioning and interim storage, together with an appropriate quality assurance program. Radium sources addressed in the present report are mainly those
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This report by the General Accounting Office summarizes (1) the results offederal and other studies on the cost-effectiveness of using reformulatedgasoline compared to other measures to control automotive emissions and comparethe price estimates used in the studies for reformulated gasoline with morerecent actual prices; (2) the results of studies
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This document publishes in the Federal Register an amendment adopting Airworthiness Directive (AD) 97-12-06, which was sent previously to known U.S. owners and operators of certain Cessna Aircraft Company (Cessna) Model 172R airplanes. This AD requires checking the clearance between both the gascolator and cowling area and the tailpipe and cowling
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1996-06-01
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This technical bulletin summarizes a two volume publication entitled "Planning Emergency Medical Communications." Volume One, the State Level Planning Guide, contains general background information about a two tiered approach to EMS communications planning. First, the state plan identifies the communications goals and factors that need to be coordi
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1996-06-01
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The intent of this statement is to represent the consensus of the EMS community on essential and desirable activities for EMS in primary injury prevention. After reviewing the literature, the project steering committee drafted the statement. Then the draft was reviewed by more than 100 members of the EMS community including EMS administrators, indi
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This executive summary describes the current level of technology used by U.S. motor carriers and provides assessments of the six proposed technology-based FHWA ITS/CVO User Services. Issues surrounding implementation of the User Services are also presented. The final report thoroughly details the analysis. The six proposed User Services have been a
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Flight Standards Service
1996-06-01
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The Private Pilot Lighter-Than-Air (Balloon and Airship) Practical Test Standards (PTS) book has been published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish the standards for private pilot certification practical tests for the lighter-than-air category, balloon and airship classes. FAA inspectors and designated pilot examiners shall co
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Iowa State University. Center for Transportation Research and Education
1996-06-01
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Accurate information on aircraft activity at non-towered airports is of significant concern to airport owners and operators as well as to those responsible for planning, developing, and administering these facilities. Unfortunately, without on-site air traffic controllers it is not possible to accurately record aircraft activities. Certain planning
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United States. Dept. of Energy. Nevada Operations Office
1996-06-01
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The DOUBLE TRACKS site is located on Range 71 north of the Nellis Air Force Range, northwest of the Nevada Test Site (NTS). DOUBLE TRACKS was the first of four experiments that constituted Operation ROLLER COASTER, on May 15, 1963, with weapons-grade plutonium. Sponsored by Department of Energy, Washington, DC.
This document, which is a portion of the Ohio 1997-2000 State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP), describes the conformity determination for the former eight county Cleveland/Akron/Lorain (CAL) Moderate Ozone Nonattainment Area, which includes the planning areas of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA), the Akron Metropolit
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1996-06-01
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This document summarizes the results of a study about why some individuals repeatedly drive while under the influence or intoxicated, even after being convicted of DWI and after experiencing sanctions. Qualified interviewers asked repeat offenders directly about their life experiences with the legal and adjudication process, as well as about their
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The current ODOT overlay design procedure sometimes indicates additional pavement thickness is needed right after the overlay construction. Evaluation of the current procedure reveals that using spreadabiity to back calculate existing pavement modulus for both flexible, rigid, and composite pavements could lead to substantial errors. Spreadability
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The report describes the evaluation of an experimental 4-day, 10-hour-per-day work week used by the Virginia Department of Transportation's (VDOT) Chatham Residency between May 15, 1995 and October 6, 1995. The residency, totaling over 100 people, adopted a Monday through Thursday work week during that period. The study evaluated the effect of the
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The Transportation Improvement Program, often referred to as the TIP, is a four-year implementation schedule for transportation projects within the Greene, Miami and Montgomery County Region. The locally developed State Fiscal Year 1997 through Fiscal Year 2000 TIP shows planned projects for which one or more phases will begin within the next four
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As part of the Urban Transportation Planning Process, under the Federal Planning regulations (Title 23 U.S.C. and Title 49 U.S.C.), the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) is required to develop and keep current a Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) in cooperation with state and local officials, the regional or local transit operator and
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Heavily congested urban highways in the United States have spurred the development of Freeway Management Systems (FMS). Among the goals of these systems is the improvement of traffic management and the facilitation of more rapid incident detection and response. Reduction in this time, in turn, may affect the numbers of fatalities. A statistical ana
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Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies
1996-06-01
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The topic for this symposium was selected to help satisfy the increased need for awareness of and preparedness for possible terrorism attacks on the surface transportation systems within the United States and the world. A group of experts was assembled to present a summary of their vast experience and concerns in the areas of terrorism to an invite
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Norman Y. Mineta International Institute for Surface Transportation Policy Studies
1996-06-01
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The topic for this symposium was selected to help satisfy the increased need for awareness of and preparedness for possible terrorism attacks on the surface transportation systems within the United States and the world. A group of experts was assembled to present a summary of their vast experience and concerns in the areas of terrorism to an invite
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