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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The Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (MSCR) test can characterize polymer-modified asphalt binders and correlates well with the mixture rutting parameters. The MSCR is able to complement a suite of additional binder tests, namely Dynamic Modulus, Phase Angle, and “PG-Plus” tests. A recently-completed MSCR study conducted by the LTRC recommended that
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2022-10-01
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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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The advanced material properties and superior durability of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC) provide an opportunity for significant design and construction benefits for Texas bridges. However, several challenges have slowed the application of UHPC in the precast industry, such as the high cost of proprietary UHPC mixtures, slower production d
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This guidebook will outline the design, development, and deployment of an SP experiment alongside an entire RP-SP survey to best harness the information provided by respondents on behaviors, attitudes, and reactions to both the future and past, the hypothetical and real. Once the RP-SP survey has been designed and deployed, responses have been coll
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Transportation asset management needs timely information collection to inform relevant maintenance practices (e.g., resource planning). Traditional data collection methods in transportation asset management require either manual operation or support of unique equipment (e.g., Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)), which could be labor-intensive or c
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Pedestrian safety is a growing concern for transportation planners and safety engineers within North Carolina and across the country. Pedestrians are extremely vulnerable users of the transportation system and are particularly subject to serious injuries and fatalities in the event of a crash. For example, while pedestrians are involved in just 1%
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The objectives of this research will be achieved through conducting an engineering strength analysis on the four proposed retrofit designs considered for this project in accordance with AASHTO LRFD Section 13 Specifications for MASH Test Level 4 impact conditions.
Alternative Intersection and Interchange (AII) designs provide an innovative approach to the geometric and control features at intersections. Nevertheless, most of the AII designs have unconventional ways to maneuver through the intersection such as restriction of movements, crossover of traffic to the opposite side of the road, separating left tur
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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) started deploying queue warning trucks ahead of interstate work zonestoalert motorists of queued traffic. Along with visually alerting the motorists, digital alerts were integrated with navigational applications such as Apple Maps, Waze, and the in-vehicle infotainment system of Stellantis vehicles.
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Distracted driving is one of the main causes of injuries and fatalities in the United States. 3,142 people were killed, and 324,000 were injured because of distracted driving in 2020. According to previous studies, cell phone use is one of the main sources of distraction while driving. The percentage of young drivers who never text and drive under
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The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) uses a wide range of data to support business functions across the enterprise. While data is not always available, accessible, or reliable, it is critical for developing products that meet the needs of the Department’s customers and supporting DOT business operations. The Department recognizes the urgency
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Activity-based household travel surveys (HTS) are one of primary data sources for many research fields at Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT). Traditional HTS methods are often costly, time-consuming, less scalable, and difficult to achieve high quality and accuracy. Recent years have witnessed a fast-growing interest in conducting HTS th
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Subsurface investigations currently rely on conventional soil borings with the aid of cone penetrometer test (CPT)soundings. However, these geotechnical explorations can be expensive and information is not provided between bore holes. Geophysical methods can aid in providing some information between the boreholes at a lower cost for the Louisiana D
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Roadway fatalities are a major priority in the transportation sector. UDOT has noted that fatalities increased in 2020 with the leading cause, by a substantial margin, being rural roadway departures. Knowledge about the specific characteristics of rural roadway departure crashes can help UDOT to develop proper mitigation strategies. This research w
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This research project investigated the impacts of traffic signal progression strategy on the safety of pedestrians and bicyclists. The CUTR team used historical (crash, traffic, and roadway) data, cross-sectional study designs, and random parameter negative binomial models to estimate the effects of signal progression design on pedestrian and bicyc
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Public engagement is an important and required element of the transportation planning process. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, public engagement has shifted dramatically. Agencies of all sizes accelerated their transition to virtual engagement in 2020 to comply with shelter-in-place orders and social distancing guidelines. Social media an
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Within the state of Indiana, there are approximately 9,000 structures with unsupported span lengths that range from 4 ft to 20ft that the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is responsible for maintaining. These structures are referred to as large culverts by INDOT. The agency recognized the need to improve culvert inspection procedures so
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The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) is divided into six districts, with district offices located in LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Crawfordsville, Greenfield, Vincennes, and Seymour. Each district has a Technical Services Department responsible for (with support from INDOT Central Office staff) managing the INDOT assets within the district and p
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University of Alabama. Center for Transportation Operations, Planning and Safety
2022-10-01
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Research Project 931-050, Research the Application of GeoGIS in Support of ALDOT Geo-Referenced Documents was a continuation of the GeoGIS project initiated and led by ALDOT Materials and Test. After transitioning GeoGIS to ALDOT in a previous project, Project 931-050 continued to populate documents in GeoGIS, improve user satisfaction with GeoGIS,
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The design of laterally loaded piles is often done in practice using the p-y method with API p-y curves representing the behavior of soil at discretized points along the pile length. To account for pile-soil-pile interaction in pile groups, AASHTO (2020) proposes the use of p-multipliers to modify the p-y curves. In this research, we explored, in d
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