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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Previous research demonstrated the ability of snow fences to significantly lower both public and private costs related to the control of blowing and drifting snow. Follow-up research specifically addressed the knowledge of MnDOT staff and attitudes and practices related to the promotion and implementation of snow control measures. These efforts ide
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GeoGIS is a web-based geotechnical database management system that is being developed for the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT). The purpose of GeoGIS is to facilitate the efficient storage and retrieval of geotechnical documents for ALDOT. The website utilizes a web-based map to search for documents based on the location of the project
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Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) will inevitably occupy commercial airspace in increasing numbers to provide a range of government and private services. UAS are cyber-physical systems and will therefore be subject to cyberattacks. Hardware, software, communications and data must be protected. To promote cyber risk management, this study examined past
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Alaska. Department of Transportation and Public Facilities
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2019-12-01
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This project monitored high friction surface treatment (HFST) at 30 locations throughout Central Alaska between 2016 and 2019. Monitoring indicates a loss of friction at all locations. There is a greater loss of friction associated with higher annual average daily traffic (AADT) per lane, high speeds and in curves. Overall, the friction loss in the
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Accurate prediction of the shear strength of swelling clays is critical for the design of infrastructure. Damage caused to U.S. infrastructure by swelling clays is estimated to be about $13 billion per year. Overestimation of strength can lead to failures, and underestimation can lead to an increase in project cost. Due to the small size of the cla
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Rapid proliferation of drones creates serious challenges to transportation facilities and the traveling public. Designed to expand and update the results of the Phase I Counter-Unmanned Aircraft System (CUAS) study, the Phase II study presented herein was conducted to review the current technologies available to detect, track, and identify small UA
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Connected vehicle technology is expected to reduce crashes and improve roadway safety overall despite its effect being dependent on the content of crash scenarios. The reason behind this is that the heterogeneity between crash scenarios may cause variation in a driver’s perception and interpretation of the crash scenarios. Further, the heterogeneit
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Motion discomfort in highly automated vehicles and in simulators represents a persistent problem that might be mitigated if it can be monitored. In driving simulators, motion discomfort can compromise data collection. In highly automated vehicles, motion discomfort can discourage people from riding in such vehicles, undermining the potential safety
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University of California, Davis. Institute of Transportation Studies
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2019-12-01
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This study explores the potential to promote lower-emissions air travel by providing consumers with information about the carbon emissions of alternative flight choices in the context of online flight search and booking. Researchers surveyed over 450 UC Davis faculty, researchers, and staff, asking them to choose among hypothetical flight options f
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The data was determined in 2017 in Texas A&M Transportation Institute using Texas Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design and Analysis (TxME) program. It presents the pavement damage such as rutting and cracking development with time. Three scenarios were compared: regular traffic, Automated vehicles (AV) which keeps narrow wandering within the lane,
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Questionnaires are valuable data collection instruments in public health research, and can serve to pre-screen respondents for suitability in future studies. Survey non-response leads to reduced effective sample sizes and can decrease representativeness of the study population, so high response rates are needed to minimize the risk of bias. Here we
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Limited access to fresh food sources—ones within reasonable distances with reliable, affordable transportation—has become a public health concern. The negative associations between a lack of fresh food consumption and health are well known. Because certain demographic groups are disproportionately affected by the absence of stores selling healthy a
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Travel demand models enable us to forecast the state of the transportation system under different scenarios such as changes to demand, transportation infrastructure and policies. By using a wide array of performance measures, planners can evaluate scenarios and compare their performance including but not limited to regarding cost, mobility, and emi
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The confluence of vehicle electrification, sharing and pooling, and automation alters petroleum-fueled, human-piloted, and privately-owned and operated vehicles for personal mobility in ways that raises such questions as, "Are such systems safe and secure?" and, "Who is being kept safe and secure from what (or whom)?" Answers are implied by filling
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Over the last several years, the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones, has increased significantly. This report outlines the findings of a study to explore the benefits of UAS technology when deployed at the SCDOT, specifically focused on the areas of land surveying and bridge inspection. The results of a drone-bas
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The Kearney East Bypass bridge is the first project that implements the newly developed precast concrete deck system (known as 2nd generation NUDECK). The new system consists of full-depth full-width precast prestressed concrete deck panels that are 12 ft (3.66 m) long each. The panels have covered shear pockets at 4 ft (1.22 m) spacing on each gir
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Expansive clays, which are common throughout Texas, may cause severe damage to pavements and other lightweight structures. Methods of direct quantification of soil swelling potential may be time-consuming, while indirect methods based on correlations to soil index parameters (e.g., plasticity and grain size distribution) rely on relatively scant em
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Concrete pavements exhibiting severe distresses which require patching are commonly observed in the concrete pavement in Nebraska. Due to the requirements of opening pavement to traffic after placing the rapid patching materials, it is essential for that concrete to achieve high early strength. To ensure this, a high cement content and chloride-bas
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Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) are becoming widely available in the new vehicle landscape, increasing of both vehicle occupants’ and other road users’ safety. In some vehicles, longitudinal and lateral positioning under certain conditions can be maintained, designating them as having either SAE level 1 (L1) or level 2 (L2) automated feat
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A transect of 20 radar streamflow gages has been installed on TxDOT bridges located on or near Interstate Highway 10, with gages located from west of San Antonio to the Louisiana border. The highest concentration of gages is east of Houston where I-10 is particularly flood prone. A cloud-based big data system is used to combine streamflow data from
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