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Highly automated vehicles and highways--which permit higher travel speeds, narrower lanes, smaller headways between vehicles, and optimized routing (collectively called intelligent vehicle-highway systems or IVHS)-- have been generally conceded to be the most promising solutions to our existing, and future, highway transportation problems. Although
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Universities can and should make vital contributions to national needs in aviation human factors. However, to guide and utilize university research effectively we must understand what types of expertise and facilities universities can bring to bear on aviation problems. We should be aware of where relevant research is already underway and where unt
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Maintaining alertness to information provided visually is an important aspect of air traffic controllers' work. Improper or incomplete scanning and monitoring behavior is often referred to as one of the causal factors associated with operational errors and deviations. This study was undertaken to assess changes in vigilance/attention across 3 separ
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The current Coast Guard policy criteria for accepting pressure vessels on existing vessels that are being brought under U.S. Flag and requesting a Coast Guard Certificate of Inspection is basically, design to an acceptable national standard, certification by a recognized classification society and successful operating experience. In addition suffic
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This report is from the NHTSA sponsored program, "IVHS Countermeasures for Rear-End Collisions". This Volume, Volume II, Statistical Analysis, presents the statistical analysis of rear-end collision accident data that characterizes the accidents with respect to their frequency, severity, time and place of occurrence, the vehicle, and the involved d
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
1994-02-16
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This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance for airport sponsors in the selection and employment of architectural, engineering, and planning consultants under Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airport grant programs. It also discusses services that normally would be included in an airport grant project, types of contracts for these services,
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This report is from the NHTSA sponsored program, "IVHS Countermeasures for Rear-End Collisions". This Volume, Volume VI, Human Factors, presents the results of the initial human factors literature review and study.
This report is from the NHTSA sponsored program, "IVHS Countermeasures for Rear-End Collisions". The Task 1 Interim Report consists of six volumes. This Volume, Volume III, 1991 NASS CDS Clinical Case Analysis presents the results of a clinical case analysis of the 1991 National Accident Sampling System (NASS) Crashworthiness Data System (CDS) data
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The Task 1 Interim Report consists of six volumes. This Volume, Volume V, 1985 NASS Analysis, presents the results of the analysis of the 1985 NASS crash data. Data from 1985 was selected for analysis because it provided more insight into roadway variables that are no longer available in the current CDS or GES databases.
Economic development and transportation are closely linked. Economic development stimulates transportation demand by increasing the number of workers commuting to and from work, customers traveling to and from service areas, and products being shipped between producers and consumers. Additional demand can then trigger the need for transportation im
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Employers often provide employees with subsidized parking. Employers may provide free parking to employees in parking spaces they own or lease, or provide parking at rates below market value in the area. The parking subsidy is the difference between what employees pay for parking, if anything, and the market rate for parking as established by compa
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This report identifies strategies to maximize the positive economic impacts as well as minimize possible detrimental impacts of state route mainstreets and state route bypasses through small towns. The strategies are developed from case studies in seven eastern Washington communities that have either a state route bypass or state route mainstreet.
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An extensive highway, rail, barge and air system serves the transportation needs of eastern Washington's businesses and industries. Future public investment in this system will be guided by multiple criteria ranging from improved public safety to enhanced freight and passenger mobility. Among the most important of these criteria is the potential of
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Under the Airport Improvement Program, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) funds airport improvement projects. FAA can provide either grants or letters of intent, which document FAA's intent to obligate the money in future years, subject to authorization and appropriations. Between fiscal years 1988 and 1993, FAA issued letters of intent wort
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This document defines criteria for issuing permits for overweight vehicles passing over H15, H20, and HS20 highway bridges in the state of Texas. The resulting formulae have been developed to ensure that the maximum stress does not exceed the operational stress level. Criteria are first developed for simple span bridges. The approach used analyzes
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Five individual cathodic protection systems were installed on the U.S. 87 Missouri-Pacific Railroad overpass structure in Big Spring, Texas. The cathodic protection systems were installed in October 1988 as a demonstration project to compare the various systems. Three distributed anode types were used to protect the bridge deck: (1) titanium mesh;
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The punching shear behavior of concrete bridge decks under static, pulsating fatigue, and rolling fatigue loads was studied using both analytical and experimental models. The study of the analytical models also played a large role in the design of the experimental specimens, test setup, and test procedure. In this report, the development of the tes
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The City of Portland identified pavement surface distress on East Burnside Street between East 39th Avenue and East 47th Avenue. Therefore, the City developed a construction project to improve the pavement. The project included cold planing, an asphalt concrete leveling course, geotextile fabrics, and an asphalt concrete overlay.The City of Portlan
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This publication consists of a listing of experimental products and equipment that are being considered or evaluated by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, other transportation departments, or other agencies. The listing is continuously updated as new information is received. A status of the evaluation is indicated for each item, showing the
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Transportation, like all human activities, affects the environment. This paper is designed to both give an overview of the environmental effects of transportation and to present alternative roles in the environmental arena available to the Department of Transportation. It begins with an overview of the issue areas covered, underlying causes of the
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