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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An integrated pavement design processor has been developed as a strategic approach to the design and management of construction and rehabilitation of pavements. The modular processor is a comprehensive decision framework with a capacity to drive different optimization routines at the user's command through interactive queries between the computer a
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Presented in this report is a theoretical study of the effects of varying the modulus and thickness of asphalt concrete surfacing materials. Three typical flexible pavement design problems at two levels of hot mix asphaltic concrete (HMAC) elastic modulus are analyzed using linear elastic theory. Specific findings are: (1) the use of an HMAS modulu
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One of the most important needs in a pavement design program is for an established relationship between pavement distress and pavement performance. Many mechanistic models have been developed for use in the prediction of stresses, strains, deflections, etc., but these models provide no way to predict the performance of a pavement.
Ramp metering is a means of controlling the flow of traffic entering a freeway to improve freeway and merging operations. Most studies in freeway control have involved large sections of freeway with many ramps. The control systems have usually been traffic responsive, traffic actuated, and system coordinated. The results have been cost effective in
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The objective was to obtain data needed to reach rational decisions regarding state regulations so that wide-load movements can be made as safely as possible, without undue economic burdens to the purchasers of such homes, to the states, or to other users of the highways. The project included extensive photographic and visual observations of vehicu
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The objective was to obtain data needed to reach rational decisions regarding state regulations so that wide-load movements can be made as safely as possible, without undue economic burdens to the purchasers of such homes, to the states, or to other users of the highways. The project included extensive photographic and visual observations of vehicu
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Similar mineralogy and textures exist in the basaltic rock studied from four quarries in the Nestucca River area of northwestern Oregon. However, durability of the aggregates manufactured from these quarries differs greatly. This study, done by petrographic and X-ray analysis shows that no new minerals form during degradation. Existing delays such
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The need for developing a method to account for variations and uncertainties of factors in pavement design was recognized by the FHWA-HRB Advisory Committee of the "Workshop on the Structural Design of Asphalt-Concrete Pavement Systems" in 1970 as one of the most pressing problems facing pavement engineers. A first step in the solution of the probl
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Vestibular and visual mechanisms are critical sensing systems in spatial orientation and in spatial disorientation. In aviation or space environments in particular, the role of the vestibular system is central to the problems of spatial disorientation and 'pilot's vertigo.' A question of significant concern in this regard has been centered around t
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The paper presents clinical observations, physiological data and pathological findings that have been collected on a series of baboons exposed to controlled occipital impacts under local anesthesia. This acute experimental trauma study was accomplished to establish trauma mechanisms and compare the relative effects of impact with supported heads an
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Recent ATC attrition rates showed no sex differences in the proportion of trainees who completed FAA Academy training; however, the percentage of females who subsequently left ATC work was over twice that of male trainees. In the present study, the 56 females who entered the Academy between December 1968 and November 1970, and who were no longer wi
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An index to Office of Aviation Medicine Reports (1964-1973) and Civil Aeromedical Research Institute Reports (1961-1963) is presented as a quick reference for those engaged in aviation medicine and related activities.
This study was initiated to find solutions to problems of inadequate lamp life in luminaires located on the state's bridges and overpasses. Since the problem was known to be caused by excess traffic vibration reaching the bulbs, an investigation of the nature and extent of this vibration as well as possible methods of suppression was begun.Vibratio
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Presents the conclusions and recommendations of the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council regarding the present status of bus transit service throughout Connecticut; operational and funding issues; status of bus transit elsewhere in the U. S. and seeks to build support for tax support for continuation and expansion of bus services to all the urban
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Since its construction in the early 1950's, the mile-long reinforced concrete causeway structure which connects Padre Island with the Texas mainland has developed significant permanent deformation or sag in most of the 30-foot-long simply supported pan girder type spans that compose the 26-footwide roadway. The resulting profile tends to cause truc
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Nationwide, about five cents of each highway construction dollar isspent on culverts. In Iowa, average annual construction costs on theinterstate, primary, and federal-aid secondary systems are about$120,000,000. Assuming the national figure applies to Iowa, about$6,000,000 are spent on culvert construction annually. For each one percentreduction i
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Our work to date has involved working with aggregate gradations to minimize the voids and with different combinations of monomers, catalysts and promoters to achieve suitable strengths and workability. At present, tests are being made to evaluate the bond strength between cured concrete and the polymer concrete overlay for different polymers and fo
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The aim of this research project was to develop a permeable, yet stable, hot mix asphaltic drainage system for a typical pavement section. Development of such systems should provide the Department with effective means of draining water from highway bases and subbases and thus prolong the lives of those highways.Previous research indicates that a mu
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A pilot study of certain pavement distress problems is discussed in this report. Road roughness measurements made with the Surface Dynamics Road Profilometer (SDP) and pavement condition survey data have been analyzed by statistical methods to demonstrate approaches to these problems, and, within the scope of a pilot study, to obtain results. The p
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