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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This study was designed to determine the visual characteristics of smoke-protective devices for flight deck crews. Visual measurements were made on five male subjects, who ranged in age from 35 to 54, while they were wearing each of the 26 devices tested. These measurements included1.visual field,2.visual acuity,3.stereoscopic depth perception,4.co
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This report describes the results of a program to test and evaluate the potential benefits of energy absorbing bumpers for transit buses. The objective of the program is to determine, through controlled tests, the capabilities/limitations of six new design energy absorbing bumper systems. Principal emphasis is placed upon the bumper system performa
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Studies of urban traffic operations were conducted on the freeways of Texas to determine the design and effectiveness of traffic control and surveillance systems; to relieve peak period congestion; to lessen the impact of disabled vehicles on the operation and safety of the freeways; and reduce the incidents of overhead structure damage by over-hei
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Three fine-grained soils, varying in clay content between 20% and 70%, were tested in a unique repet1ttve loading apparatus to determine how soil suction! temperature, and stress state affect the resilient modulus and residual strains expected under highway and railroad loadings. ln developing equations to predict these dynamic properties, three va
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This research was undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of a diagrammatic sign as compared to a conventional sign at a particular location. The measure selected for determining sign effectiveness was erratic traffic maneuvers. It was assumed that any significant differences in the proportion of erratic maneuvers "before" and "after" the diagramm
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An annotated bibliography of translations of foreign-language articles is presented. The 20 listed entries are concerned with studies of cardiology; aviation vestibular testing and vestibular factors in accidents; use of bones of identification of remains; psychological characteristics associated with pilots, stewardesses, and nuclear workers; stre
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This relatively short-term project was initiated in order to perfect installation, operation, and maintenance practices necessary for continued accurate and reliable operation of a computerized Weigh-in-Motion system which will be used to gather truck weight data in a long-term study to improve flexible pavement design.A complete Weigh-in-Motion Sy
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This volume is a convenient reference on the design and construction of lateral support systems and underpining which are often required in conjunction with cut-and-cover or soft ground tunneling. The design recommendations and construction methods described herein are a summary of the more detailed information presented in the companion volumes of
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This report provides current information and design guidelines on cut-and-cover tunneling for practicing engineers. The main emphasis is on the geotechnical aspects of engineering. Included in this volume is a state-of-the-art summary of displacements and lateral pressure. Other topics are basic concepts of soil mechanics, ground water in open cut,
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This report provides current information and design guidelines on cut-and-cover tunneling for practicing engineers. The main emphasis is on the geotechnical aspects of engineering. Included in this volume is a state-of-the-art summary of displacements and lateral pressure. Other topics are basic concepts of soil mechanics, ground water in open cut,
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Thirty-six highway control sections were analyzed for the effectiveness of renewal of surface friction. After elimination of sections serving as links for incomplete interstate routes and of sections requiring upgrading, 23 sections remained. A criterion was developed to estimate a normal number of wet road accidents and hence the potential acciden
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The purpose of this paper is two-fold: 1) to demonstrate the fact that there has been a structural change with regard to the ingredient cost/retail cost relationship in recent years in the bread processing industry; and 2) to establish the fact that the American wheat farmer is neither the great benefactor nor cause of rising bread prices.
The Louisiana Department of Highways has recently completed a program to evaluate the use of vibratory rollers in the compaction of asphaltic concrete pavements. In all, a total of nine different vibratory rollers was tested along with conventional static weight roller previously required by Specifications. Emphasis of the evaluation is centered up
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Student pilots or new air traffic controllers have two ways to learn to understand the noisy and distorted communications common to aircraft operations: they may learn as they are working on other aspects of the activity, or they may learn by devoting a continuous period of time to speech-intelligibility improvement. Work completed at this laborato
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This report represents a continuation of analyses concerned with the patterns and methods of distributing grain from North Dakota. This series began with the analysis of 1956-57 data and was published in Agricultural Economics Report 14, Department of Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University. Subsequent years' data were analyzed in Agr
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Student pilots receiving all instruction in an aircraft and student pilots who received a portion of their flight training in a ground trainer were compared in terms of flying proficiency, psychological (anxiety) states during training, and certain physiological measures. Pilot performance appeared to be equal in both groups, as measured by objecti
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An economical means of rehabilitating deteriorated pavement is through the use of an overlay. The performance of overlay systems has, however, been far from satisfactory as the performance of any one system has varied widely among different installation sites. This study presents a rational approach for the prediction of overlay life and gives reco
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An On-Freeway Lane Closure to adjust the capacity of two roadways to a merge point in order to improve the efficiency of operation of the total I.H. 10-I.H. 610 interchange in Houston is evaluated. Delay studies conducted on I.H. 610 northbound show that closing the outside lane of I.H. 10 facilitates merge operations which result in a savings of a
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This bibliography lists publications consulted or referenced during An Assessment of Community Planning for Mass Transit, a study sponsored by Office of Technology Assessment. The bibliography has three parts. Each reference is listed on the access index, which identifies the type of publication, the author's general approach, the publication's geo
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This report on urban transportation planning in the Seattle metropolitan area is one of nine case studies undertaken by the Office of Technology Assessment to provide an information base for an overall assessment of community planning for mass transit. The findings of the overall study are reported in the summary document, An Assessment of Communit
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