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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A pilot routine in-service performance evaluation (ISPE) was undertaken for cable barrier following the process outlined in NCHRP 22-33. Barrier breach, rollover, vehicle mix, and secondary impacts on the roadside and roadway were evaluated as performance measures using data sourced from the Crash Location & Analysis System (CLAS) database and the
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The addition of macro or structural fibers into concrete enhances its post-cracking performance. The objective of this study was to conduct a laboratory investigation to determine the influence of structural fibers on the fresh concrete test parameters (Super air meter (SAM) number, V-Kelly index, and Box test rating) recommended for the performanc
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Research was conducted to inform decisions related to the system of public rest area facilities owned by the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT). The initial steps of the research included collection of data related to the NDOT highway network (including road segment information, traffic volumes, and crashes), NDOT rest areas (including rest
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The research uses publicly available data to develop deep learning models to predict river gauge heights at unmonitored locations in Missouri. The geospatial and rainfall data for 20 different catchment areas of Missouri is used in tandem with the clustering and ensemble deep learning approaches to develop a high-performance deep learning model tha
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Over the last two decades, an increasing number of highway construction and maintenance projects in the United States have been completed at night to avoid or alleviate traffic congestion delays. Working at night entails several advantages, including lower traffic volumes, less impact on local businesses, cooler temperatures for equipment and mater
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This toolbox is one of the deliverables for the culmination of several phases of a project, which evaluated driver behavior in work zones using the SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data. The toolbox summarizes information about work zone traffic control devices, countermeasures, and work zone features that have a demonstrated impact on speed
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The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the Montana Department of Transportation, installed cameras and large-scale particle image velocimetry (LSPIV) recording equipment at four sites where the U.S. Geological Survey and Montana Department of Transportation are monitoring bridge scour using other methods. Determination of stream velocities
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High field density is desired for improving the durability of asphalt pavements. This research aims to develop Superpave 5 mixtures (more compactable than traditional Superpave mixtures) by using locally available materials to improve the field density in Minnesota. First, previous projects in Minnesota were investigated. The mean and standard devi
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This report is one of the deliverables for the culmination of several phases of a project, which evaluated driver behavior in work zones using the SHRP2 Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) data. This study utilized SHRP2 NDS to evaluate the impact of traffic control devices in reducing driver speed in work zones. The main advantage to the SHPR 2 NDS d
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Laser scanning of transportation aggregate materials provides a means to identify aggregate types, sources, and quality in near real-time. The Transportation Pooled Fund (TPF) effort described in this report began as a sequel to a TRB IDEA Program proof of concept laboratory study in 2012, and culminated in the development of the first commercial l
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High-quality safety training is critical for educating employees in the highway construction and maintenance industry about workplace hazards and giving them tools to remove and/or minimize associated risks. But researchers and state transportation agencies have not committed enough resources to develop safety trainings that address the unique need
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The objective of this project is to assist Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) in the identification of regionally sourced agricultural co- or by-product deicer additives that will enhance corrosion protection and provide added deicing performance and longevity to road surfaces. A literature review provides a summary of agriculturally deri
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Mandated by multiple federal executive orders and the Clean Water Act, native seeds must be used, when available, to prevent erosion following construction activities on highway rights-of-ways. Historically, native seeds have resulted in marginal performance across much of the state, and there have been insufficient commercially available native se
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Ski areas and departments of transportation routinely use a variety of explosives-based and gas-based systems to generate overpressures resulting in loads sufficient to initiate snow avalanches. Various investigators including Johnson, Gubler, Miller and Simione, explored phenomenon such as effect of blast height on snowpack response, snowpack acce
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This project pursued a large-scale effort to deploy non-invasive sensors adjacent to invasive sensors (embedded in the pavement) located at existing road weather information system (RWIS) stations and to consider agency suitability between the different sensors. While some RWIS stations may have multiple invasive sensors measuring pavement temperat
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Current Florida Department of Transportation specifications allow the use of Superpave (SP)-12.5/Friction Course (FC)-12.5 mixtures in heavy traffic levels (e.g., level E), but not SP-9.5/FC-9.5 mixtures. The main goal of this project is to compare the performance of SP-9.5/FC-9.5 to SP-12.5/FC-12.5 Superpave asphalt mixtures and then determine if
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FHWA is proposing regulations to guide minimum pavement marking retroreflectivity levels, which poses a potential challenge to MassDOT, as the current practice of visual inspection is labor intensive, and the results can be subjective. To address the identified challenges and needs from MassDOT, the objective of this research is twofold: (1) to ser
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The main objective of this research study is to explore methods and techniques to accurately determine the capacity of in-place piles for in-service bridge structures, especially for those that are under severe scour conditions. Many existing scour critical bridges were built decades ago, and pile setup phenomenon is significant. Proposed methodolo
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Winter road maintenance accounts for approximately 20% of state departments of transportation’s maintenance budgets; states and local highway agencies spend an average of $2.3 billion on winter operations every year. Nevertheless, over 5 million vehicle crashes occur in the U.S. each year, and approximately 21% of these crashes happen in the presen
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There are over 400 buried concrete barrier ends on Washington state routes. While buried concretebarrier ends are no longer included in standard plans, it is not well understood how vehicles are interacting with these structures. An inventory of buried concrete barrier ends was matched with crash data sourced from the WSDOT Engineering Crash Datama
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