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 Texas A&M Transportation Institute conducted the development and validation of alkali-silica reaction (ASR) testing as well as the approach for formulating ASR-resistant concrete mixtures in Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Projects 0-6656 (ASR Testing: A New Approach to Aggregate Classification and Mix Design Verification) and 0-6656
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With the increasing number of people killed by distracted driving, drivers' attention has become a fundamental challenge recently. Performing non-driving-related tasks can make drivers manually, visually, and cognitively distracted. Therefore, there are various definitions and categories for distraction based on the distraction source. Yet, detecti
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This report describes research efforts to: • Investigate the issues affecting temporary barrier deployment in work zones with constrained cross sections. • Identify and evaluate available options to potentially address those issues. • Develop improved guidelines regarding barrier deployment on Texas freeways. Efforts included: • A review of literat
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An extensive literature review on cold in-place recycling (CIR) mixture designs and requirements along with laboratory testing and pavement performance prediction was conducted in this project. Based on the findings and results from prior tasks, this document shows the recommended CIR mixture design requirements, and the recommended mixture testing
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Practices for constructing and repairing catch basins and manholes vary across Minnesota municipalities and counties. There are a variety of products available for building a catch basin or manhole, sealing structure joints, and helping reduce infiltration and intrusion. Currently, there is very little documentation on the local experience with cat
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The Research, Development & Technology Transfer office at the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities (DOT&PF) hosted a virtual research peer exchange to discuss the fundamentals of FHWA’s Experimental Features Program, implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion in research practices and project selection, and the best practices
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The scope of this research is to use the compaction monitoring system to obtain a real-time and post-construction assessment of breakdown roller compaction effectiveness. This method includes procedures for determining compaction index (CI) using a compaction monitoring system (CMS). This method is not to be used for pay factor or acceptance decisi
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Emergency Response Management (ERM) necessitates the use of models capable of predicting the spatial-temporal likelihood of incident occurrence. These models are used for proactive stationing in order to reduce overall response time. Traditional methods simply aggregate past incidents over space and time; such approaches fail to make useful short-t
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This project focused on the collection of new data to add to the NCDOT School Traffic Calculator (STC), with a specific focus on estimates generated for vehicular rates and queue length. School travel data was collected at schools across North Carolina. This sample included schools of various types in varied geographic areas. Schools continue to be
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The scope of this study was to obtain a density profile of an asphalt paving project using ground penetrating radar (GPR). This document includes procedures for general system calibration, calibration of the GPR to the specific asphalt mixture, data collection, analysis procedures, and report summary.
The Autonomous Maintenance Technology Pooled Fund, TPF 5(380) contracted with All Clear Emergency Management Group to develop, facilitate, and evaluate a Pooled Fund wide tabletop exercise involving the Autonomous Traffic Mobile Attenuator (ATMA)/Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle (AIPV) crash. The scope of this summary report includes the design
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Posted speed limits (PSLs) are a highly complex issue involving engineering, human factors, and political and societal concerns. On a national level, recent research and calls to change how speed limit are set, especially for city streets, have generated extensive discussion of future speed-limit-setting procedures. Within this Texas Department of
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Public transit vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists share roads in urban, suburban, and rural environments in Texas. Signalized intersections in urban areas are complex shared spaces where crashes involving transit vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians can occur. This research explored the potential of automated and connected vehicle (AV/CV) techn
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Observed data from 100 rainfall-runoff events on 54 watersheds in Maryland and Delaware were used to investigate two watershed characteristics: the dimensionless unit hydrograph (DUH) and time of concentration (Tc). Streamflow hydrograph data were obtained from US Geological Survey gaging stations. Event hyetographs were generated from US Weather S
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Work zones in Texas experience significant numbers of end-of-queue crashes. Research was needed to identify and evaluate countermeasures for these crashes. The objective of this research project was to identify and evaluate strategies to mitigate end-of-queue crashes at flagging stations on two-lane roads.
For the purpose of safety and liability, transit buses nowadays usually have cameras installed to observe the environment around the buses, together with some other sensors like GPS and IMU. Such data sources are undoubtedly valuable to the ambitions of a resilient and intelligent transportation system. For example, these live data streams can be a
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Transportation communication towers facilitate telecommunications that are essential for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications in advancing transportation safety and mobility operations. State DOTs and other agencies spend considerable amount of dollars annually to maintain towers as they are an integral part of their assets.
Sea level rise (SLR) and more frequent extreme weather events are an emerging concern for transportation infrastructures in coastal areas. In particular, the livelihoods and transportation safety of vulnerable populations such as indigenous rural communities may be at higher risk to sea-level rise and exacerbated coastal flooding due to their heavy
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This project’s ultimate deliverable is a functional Vulnerable User Density Dashboard (https://mti.umd.edu/sdi) for the state of Maryland. The dashboard uses mobile device location data and electric scooter volume data to reflect pedestrian, bicycle, and electric scooter travel volumes and their exposure to roadway safety risk across all roadways i
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