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.
Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_ust or https://doi.org/10.21949/1530857.
United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Flight Standards Service
1996-04-01
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The Flight Instructor - Rotorcraft (Helicopter and Gyroplane) Practical Test Standards (PTS) book has been published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish the standards for flight instructor certification practical tests for the rotorcraft category, helicopter and gyroplane classes. FAA inspectors and designated pilot examiners
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Flight Standards Service
1996-04-01
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The Commercial Pilot ? Rotorcraft (Helicopter and Gyroplane) Practical Test Standards (PTS) book has been published by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish the standards for commercial pilot certification practical tests for the rotorcraft category, helicopter and gyroplane classes. FAA inspectors and designated pilot examiners sh
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This Manual describes the Department of Energy?s (DOE?s) explosives safety requirements applicable to operations involving the development, testing, handling, and processing of explosives or assemblies containing explosives. It is intended to reflect the state-of-the-art in explosives safety and to ensure that applicable criteria and requirements f
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The Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Program was established to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of surface transportation in the United States. One aspect of this program is Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS). As part of the ATMS research, the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is developing a congestion forecasting model
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United States. Department of Energy. Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
1996-03-14
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This notice of final rulemaking concludes a regulatory action that is mandated under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (the Act), Pub. L. 102-486. That Act provides for a comprehensive national energy policy for strengthening U.S. energy security by reducing dependence on imported oil. Titles III, IV, V, and VI of the Act contain regulatory requirement
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This statement by John H. Anderson, Jr., Director, Transportation and Telecommunications Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office, before the U.S. House of Representatives addresses the FAA progress in implementation of the Military Airport Program (MAP). Under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP),
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This amendment adopts a new airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to Boeing Model 757 series airplanes that are equipped with certain Abex spoiler actuator electro-hydraulic servo valves (EHSV) installed in Abex spoiler actuators. This action requires a one-time inspection of the spoiler actuator to determine if a suspect EHSV is incorrectly ins
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United States. National Transportation Safety Board
1996-03-11
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On May 2, 1995, a truck consisting of a tractor and a lowbed semitrailer became lodged on a high-profile (hump) railroad grade crossing near Sycamore, South Carolina. About 35 minutes later, the truck was struck by southbound Amtrak train No. 81 en route from New York City to Tampa, Florida. No deaths resulted from the accident, but 33 persons sust
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Flammability testing of aircraft blankets was conducted in order to develop a fire performance test method and performance criteria for blankets supplied to commercial aircraft operators. Aircraft blankets were subjected to vertical Bunsen burner testing, 4-ply vertical testing, full-scale match and cigarette testing, and single- and 4-ply horizont
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Office of ProgramDevelopment and Evaluation (OPDE) conducts research and evaluation projectsdealing with human attitudes, behaviors and failures (motor vehicle crashes).OPDE's focus is on drivers, passengers, pedestrians, bicyclists, andmotorcyclists and their role in traffic safety. OPDE conduct
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Hurricane Andrew devastated parts of South Florida in August 1992, causing $20 billion in property damage, killing at least 41 people, and injuring many more. EDA joined other federal agencies in the disaster recovery process by promptly sending a team to Miami to help the area begin to revive and reconstruct.
This amendment clarifies information in an existing airworthiness directive (AD), applicable to certain Boeing Model 767 series airplanes, that currently requires tests, inspections, and adjustments of the thrust reverser system. That AD also requires installation of a terminating modification and repetitive follow-on actions. The actions specified
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1996-03-01
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This sentencing guide is designed to assist judges and prosecutors in reducing recidivism among people convicted of drinking and driving offenses. Today's driving under the influence (DUI) arrestee is often a repeat offender and resistant to deterrence. This guide provides information for judges and prosecutors in matching offenders to the most eff
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Word document. This report presents Phsase II results on an international Project Arrangement between the Federal Aviation Administration and Transport Canada Aviation for the development and testing of a nondestructive inspection system for aircraft corrosion detection in fuselage lap splice joints. The process is based on D SIGHT, an optical tech
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Section 520 of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Authorization Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-305) directs the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study of innovative approaches for using Federal funds to finance airport development as a means of supplementing financing available under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). The Secretary
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In accordance with the Congress' directive, this study assesses:1)The effects of electronic entertainment systems and video gambling on air travel safety from both a technical standpoint and a behavioral standpoint, 2)the impact of the current U.S. gambling ban on the competitive position of U.S. airlines relative to foreign air carriers, and the p
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This report describes a feasibility study of recycling asphalt pavements using two major analytical techniques: High Performance Gel Permeation Chromatography (HP-GPC) and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA). HP-GPC probes the chemistry of the asphalt cement. DMA measures certain physical characteristics of the asphalt cement and of the mix. Four pro
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The report uses information from a household survey and an airport managers' survey conducted by the University of Montana's Bureau of Business and Economic Research (UM/BBER) to: [a] conduct a multimodal activity analysis that identifies and defines airport mutlimodal activity in Montana; [b] conduct a multimodal methods and strategies analysis, i
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, through its support to the U.S. Department of Energys (DOEs) Office of Facility Safety Analysis, EH-32, retrieves reports and information pertaining to transportation and packaging occurrences from the centralized Occurrence Reporting and Processing System (ORPS) database. These selected reports are analyzed for t
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This study was undertaken (a) to reexamine the rationale behind the minimum VMAvalues currently being used, and (b) to quanti~ the relationship between various asphalt film thicknesses and the aging characteristics of the HMA mix, so that an optimum film thickness desirable for satisfactory mix durability could be established. The optimum film thic
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