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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With on-board sensors such as camera, radar, and Lidar, connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can sense the surrounding environment and be driven autonomously and safely by themselves without colliding into other objects on the road. CAVs are also able to communicate with each other and roadside infrastructure via vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-t
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The main objective of this research is to evaluate the feasibility of using high-volume recycled materials for concrete production in rigid pavement. The goal was to replace 50% of the solids with recycled materials and industrial by-products. The performance of concrete mixtures made with different fine and coarse recycled concrete aggregate (RCA)
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University of Florida researchers evaluated ATSC operation on several corridors in Florida, before and after installation of ATSC, documenting advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and implementations.
Researchers discovered strong evidence of damage to Livingston Parish’s inundated roadway system during the flood of August 2016. LTRC conducted a comprehensive structural assessment of inundated roadways in Livingston Parish, Louisiana with the falling weight deflectometer (FWD). Treated (inundated) versus non-treated (non-inundated) statistical m
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Hydraulic conductivity (permeability) is a fundamental hydromechanical parameter quantifying the resistance of a permeable medium to water flow. Of interest to Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is especially the vertical hydraulic conductivity of the soil underlying stormwater retention ponds, which determines the quickness of stormwater
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of producing sustainable concrete materials for rigidpavement construction using high volume of recycled materials. The goal was to replace 50% of all solid materials inthe concrete with recycled materials and industrial by-products. This included the replacement of cement with at least50%
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We estimated the off-street parking supply of the seven most economically productive cities in Santa Clara County, California, better known as Silicon Valley. Using assessor data, municipal zoning data, and visual inspection with aerial imagery, we estimated that about 14 percent of the land area in these cities is devoted to parking, and that over
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This report presents the development of a finite element (FE) model updating scheme of a highway bridge. In this process, the FE model, based on the original drawing of the bridge, generates a numerical data set that is used to build regression surfaces between the models’ parameters and the model’s response represented by the natural frequencies a
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The 2007 Great Recession is widely considered the worst economic downturn in recent United States History. In Indiana, the unemployment rate reached 10.6%, and took nearly seven years to return to pre-recession levels. However, employment data from this period shows that the change in total employment at the county level ranged from -20% to +5%, in
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Polyepoxy and polyisocyanate resins are currently in use for protecting concrete and especially steel structural elements in concrete from water-induced corrosive processes. The newest class of materials consists of polyepoxy/polyisocyanate composite resins. The underlying paradigm of using these composite materials is that they show structural syn
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This is a report of research and technology transfer activities carried out by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation through the Part B research portion of the State Planning and Research Program of the Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation. The report describes activities during Federal Fiscal Year 2020, covering O
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Georgia. Department of Transportation. Office of Performance-Based Management & Research
2020-01-01
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This Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) virtual peer exchange was conducted around the topic of research staff training and skillsets. This report highlights the objectives of the peer exchange, the participating panelists, and individual agencies’ program overview and training practices, and key takeaways from each. An analysis of the tra
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The last century brought a shift in rail propulsion from the (typically) coal-powered steam engine to a combination of the diesel-electric locomotive and the electrified locomotive running under electrified overhead lines. While, no doubt, an advance over the earlier technology, the two incumbent technologies are not without their shortcomings. In
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LTRC has conducted an extensive research project to determine the seasonal variation in the subgrade MR from 14 sites throughout Louisiana. The study (1) conducted FWD testing on the 14 sites seasonal for a period of at least 3 years; (2) developed an online web application to determine the soil types throughout Louisiana based upon NCHRP soil unit
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An important part of the pavement friction management (PFM) process is the selection of the most appropriate friction measuring equipment. In this project, the capabilities of the Grip Tester, a type of continuous friction measurement (CFME) device, and its ability to provide information to support PFM programs were evaluated based on comprehensive
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Pedestrian impact testing of the U.S. vehicle fleet by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has provided snapshots of the performance of evolving technologies that protect a pedestrian’s head in head-to-hood impacts. One of the recent evolving technologies is the introduction of active hood systems that pop up upon contact with a pede
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The primary objectives of this research are to monitor the short-term (during the construction) and long-term behavior and performance of geosynthetic Load Transfer Platform (LTP) in the state of Louisiana; evaluate and verify (and maybe modify) important design factors and parameters for geosynthetic LTP: load distribution (between piles, geogrid,
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Assessing the impacts of new and disruptive technologies on automobile usage and the modal split is emerging as a key issue for transportation planners and policymakers. This study offers a new approach to quantifying the impact of transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft on vehicle‐miles traveled (VMT). The approach is based o
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As a result of a changing climate that is believed to produce more frequent extreme events witnessed in the United States, thousands of roadway lane miles had been inundated in recent years during various storms and hurricanes. Flood-induced damage to roadways is well recognized and documented in both local and national media as well as in the lite
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NDOT materials engineers observed during pavement repairs (PR) that tie-bars placed with non-shrink grout exhibited poor strength when pulled M&R engineers launched an investigation into the strength of non-shrink grout and epoxy anchored tie-bars in PR projects. The purpose of this investigation was to verify whether or not non-shrink grout provid
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