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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This study helps understand how the anticipated emergence of autonomous vehicles will affect various aspects of society and transportation, including travel demand, vehicle miles traveled, energy consumption, and emissions of greenhouse gases and other pollutants. The study begins with a literature review on connected and automated vehicle (CAV) te
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Since 2001, Texas has designed and constructed perpetual pavements on heavily trafficked highways. The perpetual pavement takes into account the increased structural demands due to heavy truck traffic, where cumulative one-direction traffic loading of more than 30 million 18-kip equivalent single axle loads (ESALs) over a 20–30 year design life is
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This project focused on determining the potential impacts of various geometric and operational parameters on gap-acceptance behavior for approaches to roundabouts in the metro-Atlanta area. Twelve roundabouts were selected to provide a range of different conditions in terms of number of legs, number of circulating lanes, conflicting volumes, presen
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This study developed a user-friendly pavement performance and remaining service life prediction tool that local agencies can use to help make better informed performance-based pavement infrastructure planning decisions by prioritizing preservation and rehabilitation needs for their pavement assets.
Phase II of TxDOT 0-6837 investigated nine strategy/technology (S/T) areas recommended by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) at the end of Phase I. Researchers used the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 750: Volume 3 Systematic Technology Reconnaissance, Evaluation, and Adoption Methodology (STREAM) evaluation method
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Re-rounding is a technique for remediating excess deflection in a thermoplastic pipe using a pneumatic device vibrating along the vertical axis and pushing against the inside crown and invert to restore the original pipe shape and redistribute the surrounding backfill. Since the process has not been evaluated on HDPE pipe outside a couple older rep
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Transportation has been linked to several adverse health impacts, with a large, but modifiable, burden of disease. In this work, researchers conceptualized and documented the linkages between transportation and health. Following that, the researchers quantified the impacts of transportation on health in a case study in Houston, Texas, that focused
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Most of the airports in the United States are non-towered airports. Utah is not an exception to this rule. As a result, these airports fall behind in terms of aircraft operation count and identification. On the other hand, image detection and recognition have long been assisting different industrial areas in shifting towards automation in performin
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Soils containing inorganic compounds are frequently encountered by transportation agencies during construction within the right-of-way, and they pose a threat to human health and the environment. As a result, construction activities may experience project delays and increased costs associated with management of inorganic compounds containing soils
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Part of a long-term collaboration between the University of Washington (UW) and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), this project contained two studies: (1) longitudinal changes in active school transport (AST) rates and (2) impacts of Safe Routes to School (SRTS) projects on AST rates. (1) The average rate of AST for the 241 scho
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Safety performance functions (SPFs) are the main building blocks in understanding the relationships between crash risk factors and crash frequencies. Many research efforts have focused on high-volume roadways that typically experience more crashes. A few studies have documented SPFs for non-federal aid system (NFAS) roads including rural minor coll
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The reinforced concrete infrastructure in Texas has been plagued by various durability-related issues over the years, including deterioration from alkali-silica reaction (ASR), delayed ettringite formation (DEF), and corrosion of reinforcing steel. For many of these durability problems, fly ash has been the remedy of choice; however, with changes i
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Segregation in asphalt pavement can manifest either as variation in the gradation of the aggregate in the asphalt mix (gradation segregation) or as variation in the temperature (thermal segregation), and both may occur together. Perhaps the primary cause of segregation is improper handling during mixing, transportation, and placement of the asphalt
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) have generated great excitement for the future of transportation. Not only are self-driving cars already being piloted, but there is also significant interest and investment in shared automated transportation services by companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Voyage (Isaac, 2017). Despite the excitement, there is much uncertain
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Electric Roadways (ERs) or Dynamic Wireless Charging (DWC) lanes offer an alternative dynamic and wireless charging method that has the potential of giving electric vehicles (EV) limitless range while they are moving. Heavy-duty vehicles (HDVs) are expected to be early adopters of the DWC technology due to the higher benefits offered to these vehic
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Vehicle technology has progressed significantly over the past 20 years to the point where automated systems can now take on different aspects of a vehicle’s control. While drivers play a central role in the effective and appropriate use of these technologies, these systems do not affect the drivers of such vehicles alone. Other road users must inte
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Previous crash testing determined that the conventional Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) single-post skid-mounted sign support did not satisfy guidelines included in the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH). Modifications were made to the system to improve impact pe
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This study evaluates the microtransit pilot program in East Gainesville and provides recommendations to achieve long-term stability of services. We used the following methods in this research: geospatial analysis of existing transit and microtransit services in East Gainesville and their use during 2020, interviews with public officials and communi
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The State of Ohio faces both opportunities and challenges with regards to future transportation systems. Advanced Air Mobility is a concept of air transportation that moves people and cargo between places not conveniently served by surface transportation or underserved by aviation. Driven by the economic and societal promise of AAM, the Ohio Depart
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