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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United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
1992-07-01
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Older vehicles produce a disproportionate share of total U.S. vehicle air emissions. Congress asked Office of Technology Assessment to examine the ability of vehicle scrappage programs to reduce gasoline use and emissions. This report presents the results of a preliminary analysis designed to examine the overall potential of scrappage programs and
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United States. Interdepartmental Task Force on the Wright Amendment
1992-07-01
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Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) opened in 1974. To ensure its successand to provide assurance that the airport could meet its bond obligations, the cities of Dallas andFort Worth agreed to move commercial passenger carrier operations from Love Field (DAL)in Dallas and Meacham Field in Fort Worth to Dallas-Fort Worth Airport. At the ti
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United States. Interdepartmental Task Force on the Wright Amendment
1992-07-01
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A change to the Wright Amendment will result in more service, more competition, lowerfares, and more traffic for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and the region. Travellers toor from the Metroplex region will save an estimated $183 million per year in air fares. Theamount of additional service that can be provided at Love Field beyond the 214,000ann
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This report summarizes the results of a broad series of studies dealing with the installation of loop detectors. The studies initially used the older type detectors commonly in use by local governmental units. The later studies used the Texas series detector units which are remarkably more sensitive than their earlier counterparts. This study inclu
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This research report is the fourth-year continuation of a six-year research effort focused on quantifying urban mobility. This study contains the facility information for 50 urban areas throughout the country. The data base used for this research contains vehicle-miles of travel, urban area information, facility mileage, and facility lane-mile data
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In an attempt to reduce the discontinuity between the bridge and the roadway due to the settlement and/or consolidation of the approach embankment, and experimental construction method was tested on the Lost River Bridge in Klamath County. The method consisted of combining soil in six 1' lifts, interlaced with the geotextile reinforcement. This met
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of System Capacity and Requirements
1992-07-01
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Added publisher and formatted title and abstract. NK 20251014 This is the second in a series of pamphlets detailing capacity initiatives that offer solutions for improving the Nation's aviation system capacity. Based on the application and refinement of new systems and procedures, these initiatives promise an increase in capacity with relatively li
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United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of System Capacity and Requirements
1992-07-01
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One of the major aviation challenges in recent years has been the increase in the number and duration of flight delays. This pamphlet offers the reader a description of near-term capacity initiatives, their intended purpose, an indication of which airports may benefit, and the target implementation dates. Initiatives described in this pamphlet: • S
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The Louisiana Airport System Plan (LASP) Five-Year-Capital Improvement Program (CIP) is a development plan for all commercial service, reliever, and general aviation airports in Louisiana. It is a detailed listing of potential projects based on the anticipated funding levels of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Airport Improvement Program (
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This report is intended to identify costs and estimates for the improvements identified for Louisiana airports participating in the five-year planning horizon. A database was developed from airport master plans and standard unit costs from recent Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development construction projects in the area of each airpor
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This report applies measures of performance to gauge the extent to which the airport system achieves its goals and objectives by the implementation of the Airport System Plan. Measures of Performance are expressed as percentages of the given demographic or economic centers that being served by a particular class of airports in the state system. Mea
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This document established the goals, objectives, performance measures, entry criteria, design standards and general procedures used to update the Louisiana Airport System Plan. The goals and objectives identified for the airport system are used as a guide to define the service level and role for a LASP airport. The FAA Airport Improvement Program f
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This is a report summary which summarizes a three year research effort related to the study of bridge deck expansion joint movements. Bridge deck expansion joint systems often develop serious problems requiring extensive and expensive maintenance. This has become a nuisance to users and to bridge engineers, and many states have been involved in inv
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Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) is a relatively common non-prescription sympathomimetic amine. As such, it is frequently detected during forensic analysis. The presence of phenylpropanolamine can be confirmed by using Gas Chromatograph-Fourier Transform Infrared (GC-FTIR) spectrophotometry. One constraint of the GC-FTIR is the quantity of material requir
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During 1989 and 1990, the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) received specimens from 975 victims of fatal aircraft accidents. The maximum concentration of ethanol allowed under FAA regulations (0.04%. 40mg/dL) was exceeded in 79 of these cases (8%). It was determined based on the distribution of ethanol in urine, vitreous, blood, and tissue t
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Triamterene, a diuretic drug used in combination with other drugs for the treatment of hypertension, was found in the blood and urine of a fatal aircraft accident victim. The extraction and identification of triamterene is difficult. It exhibits poor extraction efficiency using some standard base extraction procedures and the parent drug is unsuita
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Seventy individual surface treatment projects throughout the state of South Dakota were surveyed to determine the current condition and extent of problems with surface treatments in South Dakota. These projects were one to two years old, and included 7 contractors, 11 aggregate sources, 5 asphalt sources, and covered a wide range of ADT. The follow
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Trucking firms who rely on owner-operators to any significant extent will not achieve an advantage in a highly competitive industry if they do not understand their partners. But understanding them is only the first step in creating a competitive advantage. This understanding must be translated into a program of earnest partnershipping in which both
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This report provides the Department of Transportation’s recommendations to Congress for allocation of Section 3 New Start funding for FY 1993. The report is required by Section 3(j) of the Federal Transit Act (FT Act).
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