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 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides specific guidelines and requirements that must be met in terms of accessibility. However, in the case of unpaved trails, the requirements are less defined. An ADA trail must be firm, stable and slip resistant. Some compacted aggregate material may meet this definition, but degrade over time and can
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Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) technologies are being adopted by the state departments of transportation. ABC increases public’s and worker’s safety by lowering exposure to construction activities and also increases mobility and economic opportunities by reducing traffic interruptions and delays. As an alternative to Ultra-High Performance C
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With the development of wearable technologies, an increasing number of research studies have been exploring the feasibility of using wearable sensors to send alarms to construction workers. The advancement of virtual reality (VR) enabled researchers to simulate potentially dangerous situations (e.g., speeding vehicles) in work zones without putting
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There are many situations where tacit communication between drivers and pedestrians governs and enhances safety. The goal of this study was to formalize this communication and apply it to the driving strategy of an autonomous vehicle. Toward this, we performed a field study of the interaction between drivers and pedestrians. Vehicles were instrumen
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The goal of this project was to aid winter maintenance managers in better understanding the performance and impacts of alternative methods for deicing, which may be non-chloride based deicers, blends of deicing products, or methods that reduce the number of applications or application rates of deicers. To achieve this, a literature review, survey,
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In 2015, South Carolina ranked third in the nation in pedestrian fatalities per 100,000 population. Out of 979 total motor vehicle fatalities, 123 involved pedestrians, accounting for over 12% of all road user fatalities in South Carolina. While some individuals make conscious choices to walk and dwell in transit-oriented or mixed-use walkable comm
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In recent years, the asphalt industry has seen an increase in using reclaimed asphalt pavements (RAP) and recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) in new asphalt concrete pavements. Rejuvenating additives are incorporated into asphalt mixes to neutralize the effects of using higher percentages of RAP and RAS in new asphalt concrete pavements. The implementa
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A new 3-D full waveform inversion (FWI) method was developed, optimized, and verified using synthetic and field test data. The goal was to overcome some of the limitations of a previously developed 2-D approach. Particularly, it was expected that the 3-D FWI method could detect out-of-line voids and 3-D features (pinnacles, zones, etc.), be easier
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One of the biggest highly automated vehicle (HAV) market barriers may be a lack of user trust in the automated driving system itself. Research has shown that this lack of faith in the system primarily stems from a lack of system transparency while the vehicle is in motion—users are not informed how the car will react in an upcoming scenario—and not
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The research aims at developing a resilient framework to be applied to transportation systems using connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). This innovation potentially responds to accident rates often related to inefficient communication systems, supported by a variety of state-of-the-art safety applications. A Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is
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Transit agencies across the country are turning to zero-emission electric buses at a much faster rate than school districts. This technical memorandum summarizes transit agency experiences with the purchase, operation, and support of electric buses. These experiences can help identify potential concerns for school districts planning for the use of
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will challenge cities in many ways that are critical to address before widescale adoption. In particular, AVs may upset municipal budgets as they upend traditional auto-related funding streams like registration fees and parking revenues. This research begins to quantify the potential financial impacts of AVs by analyzing c
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Despite the emergence of many new mobility options in cities around the world, fixed route transit is still the most efficient means of mass transport. Transit efficiency, however, is well known to be interdependent with ridership demand and network design. As a result of this interdependency, bus operations are subject to vicious and virtuous cycl
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Unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or drones, have become increasingly utilized for a myriad of applications in the vicinity of the roadway and can offer a low-cost alternative to many labor-intensive data collection techniques, including infrastructure inspection, roadway marking data collection, and more. To collect much of this data with a desired d
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Although raised pavement markers (RPMs) have been widely applied by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), there have been multiple cases where snowplowing activities have damaged pavements as well as the raised pavement markers on INDOT’s roadway assets. Dislodged raised pavement markers could reduce the design life of pavements because
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The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) tasked the Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) with conducting this literature review and industry scan of electric school buses to proactively assist school districts in their efforts toward researching and/or implementing electric school bus use. The memo begins with an overview of the current f
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In this study, a damage assessment approach was developed to calculate the monetary consumption caused by overweight permitted vehicles on bridges and pavements in Florida. The damage assessment analysis for the bridges was conducted based on the fatigue damage measured by the equivalent bending moment on a representative bridge in Florida. Results
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Bonded concrete overlay of asphalt (BCOA) pavements, also known as whitetopping, can help enhance the structural capacity and rideability of existing asphalt pavement. In this report, the generic term “BCOA” is used to describe all overlays that are between 3-inchesand 7-inches thick and placed on an asphalt layer a minimum of 3-inches thick. BCOA
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This manual presents and illustrates the South Carolina Synthetic Unit Hydrograph Method (identified as the “SC UH Method”). A key parameter is peak rate factor (PRF) that relates to UH shape and proportion of runoff volume under the rising limb. PRF varies among watersheds and land use. A table with land use specific PRF values recommended for use
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To explore their potential for seismic retrofitting of seismically deficient RC columns using titanium alloy bars (TiABs), experimental tests were undertaken in the laboratory using full-scale specimens. The specimens were designed to have vintage details and proportions that are widely recognized as being seismically deficient. Some specimens were
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