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.
Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_ust or https://doi.org/10.21949/1530857.
This study evaluates environmental justice implications of roadway topography. Most MPOs and transportation agencies use a fixed buffer of 200 meters to identify the population that is at-risk of unsafe exposure to mobile emissions near roadways. Current analysis methodologies are unable to account for the impact that road grade has on emission qua
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As cities strive for more sustainable transportation systems, many are considering renewable fuels for fleets. Biogas has several advantages as an alternative fuel. Composed primarily of methane, it can be cleaned for use in natural gas vehicles, or burned in a turbine/engine to generate electricity for electric vehicles. Biogas can reduce air poll
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The research tested the performance of concrete-embedded strain sensors. The strain sensors are to use in a long-term pre-stress loss monitoring system of decked bulb-tee girders. Based on the measured total strain for 120 days, it was evaluated that the total strain can reach 3,000με over 5 years. Three types of vibrating wire strain gauges (VWSGs
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Floodplains perform many functions of value to society, including conveyance and storage of floodwaters for reduced downstream impacts, sediment and nutrient deposition to support soil formation, and maintenance of pulsed overbank flows to support diverse habitats. When constructed along Vermont’s river valleys in the mid-to-late 1800s, railroads o
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The authors study moves into and away from rail station neighborhoods in Los Angeles. While the literature has focused on whether rail transit stations are sites of low-income residential displacement, very little research has studied whether places persons move to and from when moving into or out of rail transit station areas are less well-resourc
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The archive contains the following: 1. Code for the app - MisplacedWheels 2. Code for viewing the submitted reports: MisparkedRepo 3. The backup of the database, which can be used to set it up.
Roadway lighting is a conventional roadway infrastructure to ensure nighttime safety and security for multimodal road users (motorists, pedestrians, cyclists, and transit passengers). To cost-effectively maintain a roadway lighting system, key tasks in infrastructure management include periodically measuring roadway lighting levels, diagnosing ligh
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This report summarizes the results of a 3-month project aimed at coupling artificial intelligence (AI)-based routing and scheduling technology with machine learning to demonstrate an initial solution to the problem of remote delivery of school meals to students in need, and jumpstarting research in this area. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic
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The authors build a quantitative general equilibrium model of residence and employment choices under municipal density limits. Developers decide where to build, businesses decide where to offer jobs, and workers decide where to live and work given exogenous location characteristics, transport infrastructure, and zoning restrictions. The authors use
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Safety is one of the key issues for rail transportation. Nowadays, rails are exposed to constantly increasing traffic with heavy loads and high-speed trains. Increasing the efficiency, frequency, and speed of rail defect detection can reduce maintenance costs and improve operational safety. The non-contact eddy current system can be operated in hig
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Ground-borne vibrations in structures due to passing trains are an ongoing issue in the rail industry. While in extreme cases such vibrations can lead to structural fatigue and failure, occupant comfort is usually the controlling factor. With the advent of higher-speed rail as well as the increasing value of urban real estate near train tracks, acc
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Intermodal hubs play an important role in the operation of railway networks. Intermodal freight is a primary revenue stream for Class I railroads in the United States. Intermodal traffic volume has increased approximately 10 percent since 2011 and reached new all-time record volumes during the summer of 2017. This growth combined with shifts in tra
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In this paper, finite element (FE) structural dynamics algorithms are used along with multibody systems (MBS) techniques to develop detailed railroad track substructure models to analyze the differential settlement in the ballast due to dynamic cyclic loading conditions. A cap plasticity material model is used in order to capture the geotechnical b
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Five transportation equity questions were developed for this assessment. Question 1 addressed EMS response in urban and rural areas. People with a bachelor’s degree or higher thought slightly more that rural response is worse. Rural residents believed it is worse and half of urban residents agreed. CSET minority respondents thought that rural respo
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This research supported Caltrans Office of Land Surveys’ (OLS) update of Chapter 15 of the Caltrans Survey Manual and creation of the Caltrans MTLS Guidelines document. In addition, the research contributed to firmware/software updates on both the Trimble MX8 and Riegl VMX1HA MTLS systems, the integration of a Ladybug 5+ 360-degree camera to the MX
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The use of curbs along roads is often required for certain functions such as drainage control, right-of-way reduction and sidewalk separation. However, curbs along roadways can adversely affect the interaction of errant vehicles with roadside barriers. Curbs placed near guardrail systems increase the propensity for vehicle override, vehicle underri
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The goal of this project was to focus on understanding driver attention and decision-making behavior at short-storage highway-rail grade crossings (HRGCs) compared to non-short storage HRGCs. While rail safety has improved from the mid-1990s to 2010 (Yeh & Multer, 2008), the decreasing trend has flattened over the last 10 years (Tey, et al., 2013).
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Despite the abundance of research that has aimed to understand the effects of highway work zones, very little definitive information is available concerning the determination of work zone length (WZL). Quantitative studies that holistically model WZL are very rare. To fill this gap, this study identifies critical factors affecting WZL and develops
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The ubiquity of sensors and increasing computational resources has enabled monitoring driver, vehicle, and roadway surroundings. A key objective of this research is to extract useful information from multi-dimensional data streams coming in from sensors. The has developed a framework for obtaining, processing, and analyzing high-frequency multi-dim
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Disruptive events lead to capacity degradation of transportation infrastructure, and a good restoration plan can minimize the aftermath impacts during the recovery period. This is considered one aspect of resiliency for transportation systems. Although unmet demand has been proposed as one measure of resilience for freight transportation, it has ra
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