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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When many urban highway projects were built several decades ago, thriving communities were physically divided and negatively impacted. As social awareness and urban design have evolved, some areas have developed strategies for repairing and revitalizing these communities by redesigning right of way (ROW) areas along highway corridors.
Snowplow operators work in difficult, often low-visibility conditions. A new system assists drivers in knowing their lane position and warns of approaching obstacles. After operators tested the system over two winters, researchers gathered feedback, revised the system and readied it for the next step in statewide deployment.
This research aimed to develop decision support tools for transportation systems resilience planning pertaining to three vulnerable populations—older adults, ethnic minority groups, and rural populations. Also, it provided resilience policy and planning recommendations for transportation systems to improve the outcomes for vulnerable communities an
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Connected vehicles (CV) are the future. To be safe, modern CVs must communicate with the infrastructure around them. Therefore, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) needs to establish requirements for CV applications used in conjunction with roadside equipment (RSE) like signal controllers.
Reinforced concrete inverted-T bridge caps (ITBCs) have been widely used in Texas and the United States bridges. They are aesthetically pleasing, offer a practical means to increase vertical clearance, and have practical applications to address landscaping requirements. The ITBCs in Texas are designed using the traditional empirical procedures outl
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Objectives: Reduce the testing burden • Use less materials • Produce mix design results faster • Use with materials for both plant and road mix projects • Harmonize mix design approach, to the extent reasonable, across stabilizer types
The existing foundations of a bridge can sometimes be reused. This may occur when a completely new bridge is built but also in bridge or superstructure widening projects. Reuse of existing foundations not only eliminates the costs associated with demolishing and disposing of old foundations, but also reduces the costs of the design and construction
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The first prestressed concrete bridge in the United States was built in the early 1950s. Since then, several typical sections have been developed for use in bridge construction including I-beams, deck slabs, box beams, double tees, and so forth. In bridges under aggressive environments, corrosion deterioration of prestressing strands and stirrups h
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This project sought to identify factors that impact crashes involving vulnerable road users and evaluate countermeasures that are most effective at managing speed on multi-lane arterials.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are being used nationwide in an effort to improve safety, increase efficiency, increase quality, and reduce costs. A previous New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) research project tested UAS technology to ascertain the ability to assist NHDOT with operations, development, and the execution of transporta
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2023-08-01
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Domestic Airline Fares Consumer Report
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Each month the Department of Transportation releases an Air Travel Consumer Report that includes information about various service quality elements, including flight delays, mishandled baggage, over sales, and a variety of other types of consumer complaints. In response to an increasing number of inquiries from consumers about domestic airline pric
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2023-08-01
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In 2021 there were 7,489 people 65 and older killed in traffic crashes in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of all traffic fatalities. From 2020 to 2021 there was a 14-percent increase in the number of people 65 and older killed in traffic crashes. In 2021 there were 55.8 million people—17 percent of the total U.S. population—who were 65
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2023-08-01
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In 2021 there were 2,116 young drivers who died in traffic crashes, an 11-percent increase from 1,899 in 2020. The number of licensed young drivers increased by 1.3 percent from 2020 to 2021. In 2021 there were an estimated 203,256 young drivers injured in traffic crashes, an increase of 7 percent from 189,959 in 2020. Young drivers accounted for 8
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2023-08-01
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This report is prepared in response to a requirement in House Report 117-99 (p. 61) that accompanies the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022 (Public Law 117-103), requesting information on what challenges States are facing with improving their traffic safety coordination. This report examines challenges States face improving traffic safety inform
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2023-08-01
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Use of DOT-compliant motorcycle helmets was 66.5 percent in 2022, not statistically different at the 0.05 level from 64.9 percent in 2021. This result is from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), the only survey that provides nationwide, probability-based, observed data on motorcycle helmet use in the United States. The 2022 data co
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Hydroplaning occurs because of a series of unfortunate events that result from a combination of driver behavior, vehicle characteristics, and roadway features. Surface geometry and roadway texture are two variables within the control of the managing agency. This study identified hydroplaning vulnerable areas using mobile light detecting and ranging
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The properties of geomaterials usually vary from one location to another within the same site, in both the vertical and horizontal directions. The variability of soil properties is a complex phenomenon that results from several sources of uncertainties, including inherited spatial variability, measurement error, statistical error, and model bias er
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MnDOT evaluated five pieces of new winter maintenance equipment: two slurry spreaders, an underbody scraper, a true-float wing plow and a two-way reversible plow. For Winter 1 of the evaluation program, all equipment was acquired, installed, and field-tested in MnDOT District 2. For Winter 2, a data collection program was developed to capture quant
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This research study aimed at developing a correlation of rut depths measured with Louisiana Transportation Research Center's (LTRC’s) profiler with a 5-point laser system and Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) Pavement Management System's (PMS’s) profiler with a scanning laser system. For this purpose, the transverse profile data c
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