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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School bus routing across multiple districts requires the coordination of many resources. In this project, the authors plan to understand the challenges in current school bus routing in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and improve the mobility of students via decision analytical models and deployment of information technology tools. The main focus i
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This project has combined tools from geospatial analysis, mathematical optimization theory, and computational geometry to study a routing paradigm that we call sidekick routing. A sidekick routing scheme is a logistical framework in which a large vehicle, such as a truck or van, serves as a mobile base for a fleet of small vehicles (the “sidekicks”
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The Mount Evans Highway (SH 5) has been severely damaged by permafrost degradation and freeze-thaw processes. We assessed the effects of the current roadway configuration on the permafrost, hydrologic processes, vegetation, and soils of the Summit Lake Park wetland complex. We also reviewed and synthesized available literature to develop design rec
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Regional assessments of potential landsliding are useful means of mitigating loss of life, property, and infrastructure, especially when exacerbated by rainfall and seismic events. Susceptibility maps are useful tools for characterizing hazard and risk tied to potential landslides. The method presented herein enables characterization of the area, v
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Public transit ridership in California declined in the five years before the pandemic of 2020–21 and dropped significantly further after the pandemic began. A sharp downward step in the level of transit boarding occurred after February 2020, and continues to the date of this report as a result of the public-health guidance on social distancing, exp
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Dock-less, electric bike-share services offer cities a new transportation option with the potential to improve environmental, social, and health outcomes. But these benefits accrue only if bike-share use replaces car travel. The purpose of this study is to examine factors influencing whether bike-share substitutes for driving and the degree to whic
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Public transit services in Massachusetts typically operate fixed routes with a published schedule. Fixed routes are not cost effective for serving low density, dispersed demand. The first part of this study is to conduct a theoretical analysis of the various forms of flexible transit service, ranging from deviating routes and schedules to fully dem
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The availability of connected vehicle (CV) data, even at lower market penetrations, can be sufficient to support critical transportation performance measurement and management functions. This study developed a framework, methods, and algorithms for using CV data to estimate measures to support agency processes. As such, the study investigated the u
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Compacted and highly disturbed urban soils are a pervasive feature of modern constructed landscapes. This research advances the integration of cost-effective practices that improve soil structure, restore infiltration, and reduce stormwater runoff to support soil decompaction and amendment as an approved stormwater best management practice (BMP) in
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The study addressed practical concerns and questions regarding QCP and PFP specifications, which reveal the following key outcomes: Contractors have more experience working with QCP projects. Training of contractors on PWL computations used in the PFP specification is warranted. Although pay incentives (PF>100%) are only possible in the PFP specifi
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The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) is currently using the 1972 AASHTO Pavement Design Guide in which the damage caused by traveling vehicles in the pavement’s design life is defined in terms of equivalent single axle load (ESAL). The last updates of truck ESAL factors in Georgia were made in 1984. Thus, there is a need to update ESAL f
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Maintenance of roadside ditches is important to avoid localized flooding and premature failure of pavements. Scheduling effective preventative maintenance requires mapping of the ditch profile to identify areas requiring excavation of long-term sediment accumulation. High-resolution, high-quality point clouds collected by mobile LiDAR mapping syste
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This report provides research findings from the second year of a two-year research project on patterns of local policymaking in California to support transit-oriented development (TOD), transit, and active transport. Through survey research and case studies, the project assessed motivations, perceived obstacles, and priorities for development near
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Quality assurance procedure is adopted to ensure hot mix asphalts meet design performance. Robustness of QA reports, however, were challenged during 2017 and 2018 data reviews conducted on projects constructed over several previous years by the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). To further investiga
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The District 7 Structures Maintenance Office sought to take the existing monitoring components on the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and create a centralized monitoring system available via a web interface and capable of providing alerts for anomalous bridge response data. This project included the selection of a web development contractor, the design of a
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The focus of this project was to explore the possibility of ICM in Suffolk County, NY. ICM is considered one of the key strategies of Transportation Systems Management and Operation (TSMO), which involves multimodal and multijurisdictional efforts in managing congestion caused by incidents along major commute corridors. As part of this research eff
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The Texas Department of Transportation commissioned a study to analyze the feasibility and effectiveness of lightweight noise barriers on Interstate Highway 30, near downtown Dallas. The highway segment in question, an elevated structure next to a creek, had presented noise problems for the adjacent neighborhood ever since its expansion in the earl
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This study investigates the performance benefits of synthetic structural fibers in mitigating distresses in thin concrete pavements and overlays. In this study, two ultra-thin (3 and 4 inches thick) and four thin (5 and 6 inches thick) concrete pavements placed on a gravel base along with two thin unbonded concrete overlay cells (5 inches thick) pl
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2021-07-01
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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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Automated, Connected, Electric, and Shared (ACES) technologies are rapidly evolving and will continue to impact development of vehicles, infrastructure, communities, commerce, and the economy. With rapidly evolving technology, it is difficult yet critical to maintain coordination and increase collaboration among research, development, testing, depl
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