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 SMERP (Supplemental Maintenance Effectiveness Research Program) study was designed to study the types of maintenance treatments typically used in Texas. Six maintenance treatments and a control section were applied at twenty test locations throughout the state. Treatments included: asphalt rubber chip seal, polymer modified emulsion chip seal,
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Middle Rio Grande Council of Governments of New Mexico
1993-10-01
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The purpose of this report is to document the finding that the transportation plans and programs for the Albuquerque Metropolitan Planning Area (AMPA) are in conformity with the applicable Clean Air Act implementation plans for the nonattainment area of Bernalillo County. Although the AMPA is not coterminous with Bernalillo County, the transportati
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Technological advances are changing the way that advanced air traffic controlautomation should be developed and assessed. Current standards and practices ofsystem development place field testing at the end of the development process.While such practices may have been suitable for manual control systems, they arebecoming quickly outdated for systems
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The application of automatic vehicle location (AVL) systems is becoming more widespread in the transit industry in North America. Many public transportation agencies in Texas are currently operating and implementing AVL systems and more are in the planning stage. Automatic vehicle location systems, which allow transit operators to monitor the curre
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Construction project documentation is vitally important to completing construction projects efficiently and effectively. Multiple functional, organizational and geographic entities must precisely coordinate activities to maximize productivity. Information is distributed widely to keep respective parties informed and this has led to duplication of e
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
1993-09-09
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This advisory circular (AC) provides guidance for the use of value engineering (VE) in airport projects funded under the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Airport Grant Program. Department of Transportation (DOT) Order 1395.1, Use of Value Engineering in the Department of Transportation, directs all administrations within the DOT to establish
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The logistical system within the Red River Trade Corridor region will play a key role in determining the success of this North American trade corridor. Within this report there is an inventory of shipping services in and through the Red River Trade Corridor. Furthermore, the fundamentals of shipping commodities by rail or truck are presented.
The vast majority of Illinois' non-interstate network is constructed of jointed Portland cement concrete (PCC). Typically, Illinois' first significant rehabilitation efforts for jointed PCC pavements are in the form of full-depth bituminous concrete or undoweled PCC patches, followed by a 2.5-in. bituminous concrete policy overlay. The full-depth b
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Wisconsin. Dept. of Transportation. Social Media Peer Exchange Planning Team
1993-09-01
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The purpose of this document is to provide assistance in the form of a general set of guidelines that can be used by Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), communities, and counties as they plan and develop bicycle facilities. Although the emphasis of the guidelines is on planning for bicycle transportation, general design information on the d
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For the rehabilitation of damaged concrete piles situated in coastal marine environment, the feasibility of sealing cracks in reinforced concrete by electrochemical accretion of seawater minerals in the cracks was investigated. Two different series of reinforced concrete specimens with induced cracks were subjected to the accretion processes under
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All clinical color vision tests currently used in the medical examination of pilots were studied regarding validity for prediction of performance on practical tests of ability to discriminate the aviation signal colors, red, green, and white given under both day and night conditions. Those same practical tests are given to pilots with color vision
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An inexpensive illuminant for color vision screening suggested by the NRC-NAS Committee on Vision was evaluated as a substitute for the Macbeth Easel Lamp. The Macbeth Easel Lamp is the recommended illuminant for pseudoisochromatic plate tests used in aeromedical color vision screening, but is no longer in production. Subjects included both normal
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This test report documents one of a series of 12 crash tests to evaluate the NHTSA's Modified Volkswagen Rabbits. Testing was conducted on a 1976 Volkswagen Rabbit 2-door hatchback with structural modification designated as Heavy Weight at the TRCO Crash Test Facility, East Liberty, Ohio. The test vehicle was impacted on the left side by a moving d
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To provide an all encompassing technology document was beyond the scope of this particular effort. Consequently, the new technology introduced with this updated document focused on selected topics which were considered by the authors to be of prime importance to U.S. Coast Guard personnel. New technologies were selected and added to this edition of
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This report was developed for use by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) in expanding and developing its airspace or right-of-way leasing program. The report collects and presents policy and procedure data from several states currently involved in airspace leasing with the goal of providing information that TxDOT can use to expand its ri
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The current procedures for analyzing freeway weaving sections with four or more directional freeway lanes contain approximations and estimates based on observed freeways with fewer lanes. The use of larger cross-section freeways to cope with congestion reinforce the need for updated ramp merge/diverge and weaving area analysis procedures. This stud
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This report was developed for use by TxDOT in planning efforts to reduce the degree of impact on the Texas highways in the event of a closure to the Texas Gulf intracoastal Waterway. With the provision of up-to-date GIWW commodities and roadway conditions, the methodologies developed in this report can predict the expected tonnage to be shifted to
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This report was developed for use by TxDOT in planning efforts to reduce the degree of impact on the Texas highways in the event of a closure to the Texas Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. With the provision of up-to-date GIWW commodities and roadway conditions, the methodologies developed in this report can predict the expected tonnage to be shifted to
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The goal of the study was to determine if a real-time travel information program could be established by forming a partnership between private citizens, private companies, and the public sector.
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