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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This report presents analyses of activity and travel patterns that explicity account for transportation level of service. The analyses are conducted using composite accessibility measures, land-use type, and density around the residences and workplaces of survey participants in the Seattle region. Using Puget Sound Transportation Panel (PSTP) data
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The problem of highway accidents involving snowplows has arisen again and again over the years. Snowplow operators work in a harsh environment when winter winds blow snow across the road, and snow from the plow blows over the top of the hood. further obscuring visibility. Each winter motorists travel at speeds higher than conditions dictate into co
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The Coordinated Federal Lands Highways Technology Improvement Program (CTIP) was developed with the purpose of serving the immediate needs of those who design and construct Federal Lands Highways. A wide assortment of guardrails, bridge rails, and transitions are being used on roads under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service and other Fede
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The principal objective of this study was to monitor existing sections of rural, multi-lane, divided highway in Texas that have received shoulder treatments designed to mitigate single vehicle run-off-the-road (SVROR) accidents. The study evaluated SVROR accidents over an 8-year period, 1987-1994. Statistical analyses of the pre- and post-treatment
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This study evaluated the full cost of three modes of intercity transportation: air, highway, and high speed rail. The evaluation is done within the context of the California Corridor, connecting the Los Angeles Basin and the San Francisco Bay Area. The purpose of evaluating full cost is to compare the economic implications of investment in, or expa
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The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on January 1, 1994, created a trading region extending from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico to the Yukon region of Alaska with trade between the United States, Canada, and Mexico totaling $341 billion by the end of the first year of the agreement. Louisiana's exports to Mexico fr
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This project is intended to suggest ways in which least-cost planning principles could be incorporated into the transportation planning process. The Mt. Hood corridor was chosen for examination. The examination of the planning process highlighted several differences between a least-cost planning approach and the present process. First, the corridor
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This report identifies specific intermodal performance measures developed by 15 State departments of transportation. The performance measures are classified by goals and analyzed by frequency of use. The report discusses the role of performance measures in the transportation planning process and their relationship to intermodal management systems.
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This report presents the construction procedures and initial performance evaluation of a four-inch Bonded Concrete Overlay placed on Interstate 80 near Moline, Illinois. Preconstruction testing consisted of Falling Weight Deflectometer, permeability to chloride, and distress surveys. Surface preparation included: full-depth patching, partial-depth
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To approach the reflection cracking problem in AC overlays systematically the properties of the materials intended to be used in an ISAC system were first identified. Various thermal/structural models and laboratory equipment were used for this purpose. A number of woven and nonwoven geotextiles were selected and tested for their engineering proper
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The Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 required emissions reductions in nonattainment areas. The CAAA contains conformity provisions requiring transportation plans and programs to conform to air quality plans. Based on the documented analysis, the Fiscal Years 1997-2000 Transportation Improvement Program of the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional C
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This volume expands on the presentations in the main manual by presenting further discussions and examples. Contents: Appendix A: The Costs of Travel Surveys; Appendix B: Census Data for Travel Surveys; Appendix C: An Example of the Systems Capabilities of CATI; Appendix D: Recent RFPs for Survey Contracting Assistance on a Household Travel/Activit
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Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments
1996-06-01
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Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) is composed of eight counties: Dearborn in Indiana; Boone, Campbell and Kenton Counties in Kentucky; and Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties in Ohio. The OKI Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is the compilation of all publicly-assisted transportation projects including b
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Technical Operating Procedures (TOPS) for Providing Funding to Natural Resources Trustees To Conduct An Initiation of Assessment of Natural Resource Damages under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 have been developed to provide guidance on funding "Initiate" (initiation of natural resource damage assessments (NRDA)) activities under the statute. This m
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This manual has been developed to provide information and guidance to engineering staffs involved with project develop and design of highways. It identifies those standards, specifications, guides, and references approved for use in carrying out the highway and bridge design responsibilities in the Federal Lands Highway (FLH) Program. One primary g
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Technical Operating Procedures (TOPs) for Resource Documentation under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (P.L.101-380) have been developed to provide guidance to users operating as, or in support of, the Federal On-Scene Coordinator (FOSC). The procedures cover, ceiling management, guidance to the Federal On-Scene Coordinator, removal activity, Polluti
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This Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) project focused on developing an on-board, intelligent brake warning device (IBWD) for air-brake-equipped commercial vehicles. The IBWD, which is low cost, mounts in the cab or tractor of a truck or bus and warns the driver of brake degradation or impending failure from any mechanical cause. Th
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The Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) intends to spend over $1.1 billion, including $750 million in federal funds, to extend mass transit service to the San Francisco International Airport. The project is controversial, encountering both widespread support and opposition in the San Francisco Bay area. The controversy, which includes concerns o
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
1996-05-29
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The purpose of this special issue is to advise and provide guidance concerning the prohibition of transporting chemical oxygen generators as cargo on passenger-carrying aircraft.
CG OSCs, operating under the National Contingency Plan, 40 CFR 300, Subpart E -Hazardous Substance Response, have access to SUPERFUND/CERCLA Fund on areimbursable basis when responding to a hazardous substance incident. EPA annually provides to the CG NPFC an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAG) which supplies limited funding for CG OSC hazardous substance
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