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 management of parking supply is one important strategy for discouraging solo driving and encouraging use of ridesharing, transit, cycling and walking.
The 1994 traffic fatality count was 1,419, up 0.4 percent from the 1993 figure of 1,414.Compared with 1993, injuries were up 5.7 percent and total crashes were up 9.5 percent.These figures translated into a death rate of 1.7 per 100 million miles of travel, up 6.25percent from the death rate of 1.6 reported in 1993. Exposure factors in 1994 showed
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Commercial Space Transportation
1995-05-01
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The Department of Transportation (DOT) is authorized to regulate and licenseU.S. commercial launch activities. Within DOT, the Secretary's authority hasbeen delegated to the Office of Commercial Space Transportation (OCST). OCSTis responsible for the preparation of National Environmental Policy Act of 1969(NEPA) documentation, including Environment
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A pavement joint seal prevents the passage of liquids into the pavement base and the intrusion of solids into the joint. The primary mechanical requirements of a pavement seal are that it respond elastically or viscoelastically to any movement of the joint without failure and that it withstand indentation of hard objects like rocks. This report rev
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United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
1995-05-01
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In responding to the political and military challenges of the Cold War, and the urge to explore and exploit outer space, the United States developed a capable fleet of space transportation systems for carrying cargo and people into space. Increasing federal budget constraints, commercial competition from foreign launch firms, and a desire to contin
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The objectives of this study were (1)to assess the scope of stray-current corrosion on electrified rail systems based upon information in the literature and from interviews with selected transit system operators, and (2)to determine whether new or additional corrosion monitoring or mitigation techniques are needed. Strong emphasis was placed on dis
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This research project was undertaken to evaluate the performance of recycled pavements in comparison to virgin (control) asphalt pavements. Five projects, each consisting of a recycled section and a control section, were subjected to detailed evaluation. In-situ mix properties (such as percent air voids, resilient modulus and indirect tensile stren
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In 1970, Congress authorized a three-part Great Lakes-St.Lawrence Seaway Navigation Season Extension Program. It authorized a winter navigation demonstration program, a detailed survey study of season extension feasibility and a study of insurance rates for shippers. This report provides a review of numerous environmental and engineering studies co
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United States. Department of Transportation. Maritime Administration
1995-05-01
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The Annual Report of the Maritime Administration (MARAD) for the fiscal year (FY) which ended on September 30, 1994, is submitted to Congress in accordance with Section 208 of the Merchant Marine Act of 19936, as amended.
Georgia has benefited from a comprehensive multimodal transportation network. The availability of road, air, rail and port transportation facilities has been a magnet for business development and economic activity. The ability to connect goods to markets and people to destinations is a key factor determining the quality of life and creating new opp
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This report describes the tasks conducted during the second year of a three-year study evaluating the use of guide signs on conventional highways in rural areas. Some of the major tasks conducted during the second year of the study include: a survey of signing practices in other states, a survey of driver information needs, a laboratory evaluation
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Commercial Space Transportation
1995-05-01
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The Department of Transportation's Office of Commercial Space Transportation is in the process of assessing the safety of a reentry vehicle and its operation and is developing an associated regulatory framework for ensuring public safety while minimizing regulatory burdens, delays, or uncertainties that could hamper or prevent development of commer
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The Hampton Roads Planning District Commission has developed a transportation plan which addresses a twenty year planning period (1990-2015). The Hampton Roads 2015 Regional Transportation Plan includes both long-range and short-range strategies/actions, with projected fiscal constraints, that will lead to the development of an integrated intermoda
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A revised version of an earlier attempt to numerically solve Miller's equations for the RIGIDICE model of frost heave is presented that corrects earlier mistakes and incorporates recent improvements in the scaling factors of ground freezing. The new version of the computer code also follows the concepts of Object Oriented Numerics (OON), which allo
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Air Traffic Control Specialists (ATCS) work rotating shift schedules for most of their careers. Specifically, many work a counterclockwise rotating shift schedule, called the 2-2-1, or some variation of the schedule. The 2-2-1 involves rotating from two afternoon shifts to two mornings and, finally, to a midnight shift over the course of one work w
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Alternative methods of using flotation seat cushions for water crash survivors were identified at the Civil Aeromedical Institute (CAMI). These methods, tested in the CAMI survival tank and a theme park wave pool, were: 1) two people facing each other, holding two cushions between them; 2) two people facing each other, holding two cushions between
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The fourth phase of research on human factors in aviation maintenance continued to look at the human's role in the aviation maintenance system via investigations, demonstrations, and evaluations of the research program outputs. This report describes the field evaluation plan for the Performance Enhancement System, a computer-based tool designed to
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FAA Air Traffic Control Operations Concepts Volume VII.- TRACON Controllers (1989) developed by CTA, Inc., a technical description of the duties of a TRACON air traffic control specialist (ATCS), formatted in User Interface Language, was restructured into a hierarchical formal sentence outline. To ensure that none of the meaning associated with a t
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