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 report evaluates the effectiveness of Level of Service (LOS) as a metric for roadway improvements. The study examines alternative measures, such as Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) or Vehicle Hours Traveled (VHT) and other Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) to assess roadway performance beyond traditional peak-hour analyses. By analyzing practices fr
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This report evaluates the effectiveness of Level of Service (LOS) as a metric for roadway improvements. The study examines alternative measures, such as Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) or Vehicle Hours Traveled (VHT) and other Measures of Effectiveness (MOE) to assess roadway performance beyond traditional peak-hour analyses. By analyzing practices fr
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This research examines the safety challenges faced by Transportation Maintenance Technicians (TMTs) at the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT). By analyzing extensive injury data from 2009 to 2024, along with insights from surveys and interactions with ALDOT personnel, this effort highlights significant trends and relationships among injur
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Existing network criticality assessments, often biased towards heavily used highways in populous areas by incorporating traffic and sociodemographic attributes, can lead to an underestimation of the vital role of rural infrastructure. Consequently, rural highways, particularly low-volume roads, often receive less consideration despite their critica
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This report proposes a new research agenda for transportation sustainability. This agenda emerges from TRACtion: Transformative Research and Collaboration, a new approach to community-researcher collaboration that seeks to match UCLA’s academic expertise with the wisdom and perspectives of community groups and advocacy organizations. It is a partne
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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) relies on data to make informed decisions regarding its vehicle fleet, which totals approximately 4,800 units. Recognizing the environmental impact of its operations, MDOT is exploring alternative fuel and electric vehicle technologies to meet its diverse needs. This research, conducted by Hatch, an
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This research study developed and evaluated prefabricated steel bridges made continuous for live load utilizing accelerated bridge construction (ABC). The project created a steel ABC transverse connection detail at the bridge piers that allows the structure to behave as simply supported for dead load and continuous for live load. This detail is rel
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Research Project SD2022-02 used the Maintenance Decision Support System (MDSS) to simulate the effect of five treatment materials on South Dakota highways and determine the most cost-effective treatment material options in each of the 25 maintenance units in the state. This document reports the results of the simulations and data analyses.
This report details the development and evaluation of an innovative component in a traffic management system that can enhance road safety during severe weather conditions. Severe weather conditions, such as dense fog, heavy rain, and snow, significantly hinder road safety by reducing visibility and increasing the risk of collisions, particularly fo
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Service-life based designs of highway bridges have gained significant interest from state DOTs in recent years. The primary purpose of these efforts is to provide durability-based designs for bridges and bridge elements that require minimal maintenance during the targeted service life of the structure. This is achieved by defining different target
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This report presents the results of the project sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), “Risk-Based Methodology for Structural Evaluation of Bridge-Sized Culverts”. The goal of this project was to develop general methodology to (a) quantify uncertainty, especially live load uncertainty, unique to bridge-sized RC box culverts and (b)
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Electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming attractive to consumers due to their ability to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, lower operating costs, and benefit from government incentives. Yet a barrier to EV adoption is the lack of direct current fast charging (DCFC) stations, which contributes to range anxiety. Studies also show that DCFC stations
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This project aims to develop, assess, and optimize control strategies for ramp metering and local signal synchronization in Maryland's Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) 1 system (I-70 corridor east of Baltimore, MD). The methodology and mesoscopic simulation model can be generally applicable to other networks and TSMO systems.
The purpose of this study was to determine how well short concrete barriers work to reduce noise from passing cars. The goal was to give the State Highway Administration (SHA) information so they could determine if these barriers could be utilized to reduce traffic noise.
The primary goal of this study is to finalize the IDIP system’s development so that CHART can reliably project the impacts of a detected incident, from detection to clearance, on its target freeway and neighboring local networks. With all essential functions developed in this phase for IDIP, CHART’s incident response team can conveniently estimate
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The common distresses in bridge decks are the loss of surface texture due to traffic and poor construction practices that result in cracks and spalls because of the reinforcement corroding. The common repair procedure for such distresses is removing the top surface of the deteriorated concrete and placing a low-permeability concrete overlay. Someti
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This report details the Missouri Department of Transportation’s activities within the Federal Highway Administration’s Climate Challenge program. The purpose of the program was three-fold, 1) to increase knowledge of environmental product declarations (EPDs) within the Missouri asphalt and concrete industry, 2) to assess the current state of Missou
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This report details the Missouri Department of Transportation’s activities within the Federal Highway Administration’s Climate Challenge program. The purpose of the program was three-fold, 1) to increase knowledge of environmental product declarations (EPDs) within the Missouri asphalt and concrete industry, 2) to assess the current state of Missou
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Due to the increasing interest in the use of recycled concrete as a base course aggregate, the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) identified the need for an in-depth research investigate the clogging potential of the geotextile used in highway edge drains if crushed hydraulic cement concrete (CHCC) is placed adjacent to the drainage fabri
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Current equipment to measure faulting of jointed concrete pavements at the network level is ineffective and inefficient. One the one hand, joint detection at high speeds is challenging. On the other hand, the actual measurement is not accurate and fails to capture the transverse variability of faulting. In this project, a high- definition, high-spe
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