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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Laboratory rats were exposed to experimental atmospheres of (a) carbon monoxide (CO) in air, (b) acrolein in air, and (c) to mixtures of CO and acrolein in air. The toxic potency of each of the three types of environments was evaluated toxicokinetically by measurement of time-to-incapacitation (ti) as a function of toxic gas concentrations. Regress
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An experimental investigation of the hydraulic performance of culvert endsections is reported. Of particular concern is the effect on performance that the addition of safety gratings may have. The head-discharge characteristics for various model inlet treatments were measured to determine inlet performance. Hydraulic models of various end sections
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In 1989, the Texas Department of Transportation, through the Texas Transportation Institute, began an overall effort to evaluate and update the practice of transportation planning in the state to equal or exceed current state-of-the-art practice in transportation planning. A new trip generator program, TRIPCAL5, was subsequently developed to replac
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The principal objectives of this study were to use supercritical fractionation of asphalt and a study of fraction properties to gain a deeper understanding of what determines asphalt properties and how the asphalt composition can be manipulated to improve properties. This report describes the first attempts to fractionate asphalt, characterize the
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The need for new instrumentation to sense, classify, and control increasing traffic flows has been evident for several years. In some cases, older technology (ACRS for example) has proven inadequate for projects such as counting vehicles crossing rural bridges, owing to the adverse conditions in which the instrumentation must operate. Currently ava
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This report documents a computer program, HEEM-III, that will analyze proposed added-capacity, bypass (new location), High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV), interchange, and railroad grade separation projects. The Program represents a completely new program as compared to the HEEM-II computer program. The major changes include use of hourly volumes to calcu
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In recent years, problems associated with retaining retroreflective raised pavement markers (RPMs) on Texas highways have to a large extent been successfully resolved. Problems with the maintenance of acceptable levels of RPM reflectivity, on the other hand, have remained persistent. This report summarizes a variety of activities, including determi
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Recently, attention has been directed towards the urban arterial street system to provide greater mobility, specifically in the form of a network of high-mobility arterial streets. These streets were named strategic arterials and would operate with greater capacity and operating speeds than current principal arterials, however, they would not fulfi
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Oregon State Highway Division, Materials and Research Section
1990-11-01
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Laboratory studies have shown that microsilica concrete (MC) has sufficient strength and impermeability to substitute for Latex modified concrete (LMC) in bridge deck overlays. In addition, manufacturers of microsilica admixtures state that MC can be mixed in batch plants, like Portland cement concrete (PCC). This many be an advantage over LMC on c
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State Legislation requires that cost responsibility studies be available for the 1991 and 1993 Legislative sessions. Part of this legislative requirement includes the need to re-evaluate and establish a sound basis for the weight-mile tax. To be fair and equitable, this tax should reflect the relative contribution of environment factors and traffic
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This report describes the Texas Transportation Institute's continuing efforts to upgrade the MODULUS backcalculation system. Enhancements have been made in several areas, including: 1. Inclusion of a procedure to estimate the depth to a stiff layer. 2. A method of assessing the non-linearity of the subgrade and computation of the optimum number of
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
1990-11-01
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Sobriety checkpoints have been a valuable tool for law enforcement's continuing fight to remove impaired drivers from the road. The purpose of the checkpoint is twofold; to apprehend impaired drivers at the physical location of the checkpoint; and secondly, to increase the "risk of apprehension" in those who might decide to drive while impaired. Th
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Over the next two decades, the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) plan for new automated systems will change the air traffic control specialist's (ATCS) job as many of the current controller's tasks become automated. The purpose of this paper was to review the findings from current research on selection of ATCS's that may guide the design of s
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The Federal Aviation Administration sponsored a 2-day meeting in December 1989 as part of a continuing program to address issues of human factors and personnel performance in aviation maintenance and inspection. This meeting focused on issues of "information exchange and communications." The primary goal was to consider means of ensuring that the e
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This report contains the results of a survey of truck drivers to determine their opinions about specific areas of their work and how important these areas are to their job satisfaction.
A three-year study of urban arterial work zones is currently in progress. The objective of the study is to develop improved guidelines for selecting and implementing work zone traffic control on urban arterials. The second-year study efforts are documented in a three-volume report. The Technical Report appears in Volume 1. This document is Volume 2
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A three-year study of urban arterial work zones is currently in progress. The objective of the study is to develop improved guidelines for selecting and implementing work zone traffic control on urban arterials. The second year study efforts are documented in a three volume report. The Technical Report appears in Volume 1, which is this document. V
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A three-year study of urban arterial work zones is currently in progress. The objective of the study is to develop improved guidelines for selecting and implementing work zone traffic control on urban arterials. The second-year study efforts are documented in a three-volume report. The Technical Report appears in Volume 1 and the Appendices for Vol
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This report presents a description of existing high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) facilities in operation either on freeways or in separate rights-of-way in North America. Up-to-date information is provided on the design, operations, enforcement characteristics, and current utilization rates for 40 HOV facilities in 20 metropolitan areas. The report incl
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