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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Demands for use of the curb space (curbside lanes and the adjacent sidewalk space) are evolving quickly across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as municipalities of all sizes juggle the competing needs of pedestrians, cyclists, transit, transportation network companies (TNCs), in addition to conventional uses for parking, goods delivery, and emerg
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Industrial soil contamination is frequently unearthed by transportation agencies during construction within the right-of-way. As a result, transportation agencies may experience construction delays. Soils co-contaminated with high-molecular-weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HMW-PAHs) and metals are commonly encountered in Illinois and exhibi
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This report documents the Ohio Department of Transportation’s effort to improve the reliability of safety decision-making through the development of planning-level and project design-level safety performance functions (SPFs). Planning-level SPFs will replace calibrated versions of national SPFs in Safety Analyst to support network screening. Projec
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Kentucky’s Division of Driver Licensing maintains the driver history records for all licensed drivers in Kentucky. It serves as the state driver licensing agency and is the locus for meeting the federal CDL requirements under 49 CFR 384. Kentucky relies on FMCSA’s Commercial Driver’s License Program Implementation (CDLPI) grant funding to subsidize
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This project was performed to evaluate the performance of recycled aggregates and large stones used in the aggregate base/subbase layers of pavement systems and provide recommendations regarding pavement design and material selection. As part of this project, eleven test cells were built at MnROAD to evaluate the impact of recycled aggregates and l
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The increased use of softer binders in Illinois over the past decade is primarily attributed to the increased use of recycled materials in asphalt pavement construction. The shift in demand of using PG 58-28 over PG 64-22 has resulted in potential alternative methods to produce softer binders more economically using proprietary products. However, t
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Where analytical tools such as the Highway Capacity Software™ (HCS), SYNCHRO®, etc. do not adequately represent traffic operations within a study area, or do not provide the necessary performance metric(s) required for the analysis, detailed simulation or similar approaches may be required. In such cases, the Georgia Department of Transportation (G
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Advances in both scientific computing and machine learning (ML) have led to techniques to improve, replace, or speed up methods to solve problems in the physical sciences. For many nonlinear systems, traditional methods of calculation often carry a heavy computational burden due to complex dynamics, physical constraints, or multi-scale behavior. Th
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Bridge structures experience significant vibrations and repeated stress variations during their lifecycle. These conditions are the bases for fatigue analysis to identify fatigue cracking, which can be used to accurately establish the remaining fatigue life of the structures (i.e., the number of stress cycles before fatigue failure). This is typica
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Pre-wetting is an important tool in the toolbox of winter road maintenance (WRM) operations. This research project collected all available and recent information regarding pre-wetting practices through a comprehensive literature review, an online survey of WRM practitioners, interviews and case studies of nine selected agencies, and outreach to six
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This project provides the Texas Department of Transportation with a mechanism to conduct high-priority, limited-scope evaluations of traffic control devices. Work conducted and concluded during the 2020 fiscal year included: (1) review of retroreflective raised pavement marker practices; (2) review of optical speed bar practices in horizontal curve
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A growing number of state departments of transportation (DOTs) are introducing conservation mowing programs that aim to reduce the frequency of roadside mowing while expanding the footprint of pollinator habitat. Wanting to get a better handle on the utility conservation mowing, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) funded this study to explor
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The authors analyze what ridehail drivers do when out of service between paid trips. The authors use a dataset of 5.3 million trips in San Francisco and partition each out of service trip into cruising, repositioning, and parking segments. The authors find that repositioning accounts for nearly two-thirds (63%) of the time between trips, with cruis
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MnDOT’s commitment to offer opportunities for meaningful input and to advance equity in transportation. Disruptive events such as the COVID-19 pandemic that limit or cut off in-person engagement present challenges to MnDOT’s efforts to continue its commitment to public engagement. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted MnDOT to explore new ways to engage w
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Research shows that even with the continuous development of coating technology, coating systems are still susceptible to deterioration and thus unable to provide protection for the long-term designed bridge service life. Recent advancement on data analytics offers an opportunity to leverage the wealth of historical data processed by State Departmen
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The magnetic flux leakage (MFL) method has been identified as a promising non-destructive testing technique for detecting metal loss in external post-tensioned tendons and stay-cables. However, for internal tendons, the interfering signals from secondary ferromagnetic materials, such as mild reinforcement, can generate complicated signals and may l
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Accelerated bridge construction (ABC) utilizes precast members to minimize on-site construction time, making it an appealing alternative to conventional cast-in-place (CIP) construction. The connections between these precast members are crucial as they must maintain structural integrity, and in regions of moderate and high seismic activity, ensure
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The transportation studies literature recognizes the relationship between accessibility and active travel. However, there is limited research on the specific impact of walking and cycling accessibility to multi-use paths on active travel behavior. Combined with the culture of automobile dependency in the US, this knowledge gap has been making it di
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Major events are a significant source of traffic congestion, especially in large metropolitan areas. We conduct a case study of football games played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; a venue located near downtown Los Angeles with a capacity of about 80,000. Two teams play home games at the Coliseum, the Los Angeles Rams, and the University of
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This report presents a statistical analysis of the Regulated Substances Library (RSL) developed by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The RSL is comprised of surficial soil chemistry data obtained from rights-of-way subsurface soil sampling conducted for routine preliminary site investigations. The 3.7-million-record RSL database is compare
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