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 2010 Highway Safety Manual (HSM) developed by AASHTO provides predictive equations for quantifying the safety effects of planning and designing roadway alternatives. These equations have been developed based on data sets that are nearly 20 years old from a small number of states, so they must be calibrated to conditions in a specific state in o
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This study examines data from the California EMS Information System (CEMSIS) to identify factors that influence prehospital time for EMS events related to motor vehicle collisions. While only 19 percent of the United States population resides in rural areas, over half of all traffic fatalities involve rural motor vehicle collisions. Relative inacce
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The third effort (Travel Patterns using GPS Waypoint Data) of this project explored the use of INRIX trip trace data to determine the patterns of origin-destination distributions and developed forty decision rules to define the origin-destination patterns. The research team used three separate databases to perform the analysis: Maryland INRIX waypo
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These data represent monthly average weekday and weekend bicycle counts and count index values at specific points locations across eight cities in Texas: Allen, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, North Richland Hills, Plano, and San Antonio. The bicycle counts were produced from permanent counters with complete sets of 15-minute counts per day. T
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Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a valuable data collection method that is increasingly being utilized within transportation agencies to replace traditional geospatial data collection methods for infrastructure with increased accuracy and better cost- and time-efficiency. This study will identify current and potential uses for LiDAR at SDDOT,
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The data represent one week of selected hourly weekday and weekend pedestrian counts at two intersections in Austin, Texas. The pedestrian counts were produced from manually reducing video files from Miovision’s TrafficLink Multimodal Detection and Counts system. Eighty hours of video were gathered at each intersection between June 18 and July 14,
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With rapid advances in data analytic tools, machine learning techniques are increasingly being used to study large transportation crash data sets. The objective of such approaches is to reveal underlying and potentially unknown patterns of influence between driver and pedestrian characteristics, environment factors, vehicle attributes and crash fat
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Many studies have reported associations between respiratory symptoms and resident proximity to roadway traffic. However, only a few have documented the relationship between traffic volume and air quality in local areas. This study investigates the impact of traffic volume on air quality at different geographical locations in the state of South Caro
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Culverts and pipes installed under roadways several decades ago are reaching the end of their service life. Excavation and replacement of these buried structures will cause disruption to their service and require significant funding. Trenchless methods (e.g., sliplining) have been increasingly used to rehabilitate deteriorated buried structures (e.
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Previous research indicates that air quality in the cabs of heavy-duty diesel equipment may exceed recommended exposure limits for certain pollutants. The objective of this case study was to collect and analyze air pollutant data near the cabs of heavy-duty diesel equipment while performing real-world activities. Using state-of-the-art instrumentat
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Steel trapezoidal box girders, generally referred to as tub girders, have been widely used on a number of bridges throughout the State of Texas. The smooth profile of the girder systems provides an aesthetically appealing bridge that also possesses several structural advantages compared to other girder types. Due to the significant torsional stiffn
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Self-driving cars won’t work until we change our roads,” wrote Andrew Ng, chief of research at Chinese tech giant Baidu.1 Though Ng may exaggerate, autonomous vehicles (AVs) do benefit greatly from “smart infrastructure.” Witnessing AVs’ rise, American governments have eagerly begun smart infrastructure projects, but few have developed stable metho
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California’s freight transportation system is a vital part of the state’s economy but is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and generates an even higher portion of regional and local air pollution. The state’s primary strategy for reducing emissions from the on-road freight sector relies on deploying new vehicle and fuel technolo
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Improving travel time reliability is at the core of battling traffic congestion. This report summarizes the findings from a multi-institutional effort for analyzing and improving freeway travel time reliability. It first investigates the effect of incidents on freeway segment capacity, enabling the calibration and validation of the emergent travel
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The rapid emergence of direct-to-home delivery models has quickly changed the spatial and temporal distribution of both individual travelers’ trips and of urban goods movements. A growing number of household and consumer products are now being delivered directly to homes rather than being picked up in retail stores. For commercial carriers, this ne
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Due to ineffective ballast materials and techniques, temporary signs may easily be knocked down and become invisible to the traveling public, increasing the risk of tort liability. Signs in construction zones must be properly secured to prevent wind from blowing them off posts, and the conditions should be checked periodically to ensure specificati
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Aircraft noise can disturb the sleep of residents living near airports. To investigate potential effects of aircraft noise on sleep, recruitment surveys for a pilot field study were mailed to households around Atlanta International Airport. Survey items included questions about sleep quality, sleep disturbance by noise, noise annoyance, coping beha
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The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) allows contractors to utilize RAP in various asphalt mixtures throughout the state. The standard specifications for roads and bridges added the following statement regarding the storing of RAP, “Keep reclaimed asphalt pavement separate from other materials at the plant in such a mann
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California’s freight transportation system is a vital part of the state’s economy, but generates a high portion of local pollution in parts of the state with poor air quality. In recognition of these challenges, Executive Order B-32-15 encourages adoption of advanced vehicle technologies and infrastructure, as well as the use of alternative energy
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The Indiana Department of Transportation maintains 17 rest area locations with 28 separate rest area facilities located on interstates for driver safety and convenience. Although the rest areas provide many benefits to the traveling public, the rest areas do not earn direct profits. Moreover, the Indiana Department of Transportation is increasingly
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