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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Rail transit represents a family of modes ranging from light rail to regional rapid transit systems and it can be utilized in a number of different cities and types of applications. Many European cities of medium size employ very successfully light rail mode for gradual upgrading of transit service into partially or fully separated high speed, reli
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This report gives the documentation of the computer program FPS-11 used for implementation of the flexible pavement design system. This documentation is also in machine readable form to make possible a continuing documentation system for updates and improvements in the Flexible Pavement System (FPS) series of computer programs. Included in this rep
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Live tests of emergency evacuation of transport aircraft are becoming increasingly expensive as the planes grow to a size seating hundreds of passengers. Repeated tests, to cope with random variations, increase these costs, as well as risks of injuries to participants. A method of simulating such repeated tests, by use of computer models based on s
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Laboratory studies have shown that the human binaural auditory system can extract signals from noise more effectively when the signals (or the noise) are presented in one of several interaurally disparate configurations. Questions arise as to whether these laboratory studies in anechoic or semi-anechoic spaces can be generalized to more reverberant
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Terra Tee pneumatic and Geonor vibrating wire earth pressure cells are used to measure the lateral earth pressures acting on a typical cantilever retaining wall. Accurate measurements of the lateral movements of the wall are made during and after backfilling. Data are presented for both pressure measurements and wall movements covering a period of
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A study of the wet weather characteristics of four different pavements and eight different tires is presented. The pavements studied were a portland cement concrete, a bituminous surface treatment, a hot mix asphalt and a jennite surface. The tires studied were several bias ply tires with different tread depths, a wide tire and a test standard tire
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One objective of this study was to determine what correlation existed between the modulus of subgrade reaction as determined by the Plate Bearing Test and the deflection determined by the first snsor of the Lane Wells "Dynaflect". The Research and Development Section of the Louisiana Department of Highways has used the Lane Wells "Dynaflect" and is
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The need for study of behavioral difficulties resulting from exposure to pesticides is based upon reports of behavioral difficulties in aerial applicators following organophosphate poisoning and is underscored by a recent plane crash of a cropduster pilot in which prior exposure to several organophosphate pesticides was implicated.The present study
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The Columbus Laboratories of Battelle Memorial Institute is currently conducting a study of the effect of cement on moisture migration in concrete as related to the problem of D-cracking of portland cement concrete pavements. The study began on December 31, 1970, and is planned as a 3-year program. The work plan, approved by the policy committee of
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A finite element method is presented for the analysis of bridge decks treated as shell-type structures. The method can be used successfully for the analysis of a wide variety of highway bridges such as slab-type bridges, beam slab bridges, box girder bridges, and curved bridges. The deck is discretized as an assemblage of flat triangular elements.
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This report summarizes the work in Research Project 3-5-63-56 which has been conducted by the Center for Highway Research. The project staff has produced 27 research reports dealing with the analysis and design of structural members including beam columns, grid-beam systems, slabs, and slabs on foundation. This report summarizes the portions of the
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Two AASHO H-20 highway bridges in the Texas Highway Department system have received experimental resurfacing overlays of portland cement concrete. This paper describes the overlay operations, performance, and costs of the two installations. One deck, Colorado River bridge, was on a two-lane bridge with a 28 ft roadway 480 ft long (13,440 sq ft). Th
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Delamination is probably the most serious form of deterioration which is commonly found in bridge decks. It ultimately results in large scale spalling necessitating costly repairs. This type of failure is believed to be caused chiefly from salt induced corrosion of the reinforcing steel. An instrument designed to detect delamination, and tests cond
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This report describes a feasibility study which has led to the development of a "first generation" instrument system for measuring transient pavement deflections. Accelerometers embedded in the pavement structure are employed to sense the basic motion. Dual analog integration is utilized to obtain and record output indications proportional to displ
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A system is presented which can be used for the structural design of stabilized pavement layers. The basis for the system is primarily the prevention of tensile failures in the surface and subbase layers of a three-layer pavement structure and can be applied to take full advantage of those highway materials which possess cohesion, or tensile streng
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This report describes a practical method of conducting the indirect tensile test and a method of analyzing the test results to determine the tensile properties of all types of stabilized materials except cohesionless materials. The test methods are reported in two parts. The first describes the relatively simple equipment and test procedures requir
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The major emphasis in this report is to illustrate the distribution methods and patterns of Hard Red Spring and Durum Wheat from North Dakota origins. In addition, trends in shipments by months are identified. The patterns of distribution and monthly shipments for 1970-1971 are compared to previous years' data.
This report is the product of Task I of the financial accounting and reporting elements (FARE) project sponsored by UMTA under project IT-06-0034. The primary objective of Project FARE (Financial Accounting and Reporting Elements) is to develop and test a candidate reporting system which will accumulate transit industry financial and operating resu
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The primary purpose of this report is to illustrate the distribution methods and patterns of barley and oats. Basic data regarding this activity for rye and flax are also reported.
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