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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Geotechnical Asset Management (GAM) involves geotechnical features that can affect the performance of a transportation system and includes the design and construction of road embankments to achieve lowest possible life-cycle asset costs. Road embankments constructed on ice-rich permafrost must promote a thermally stable subgrade in order to minimiz
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An updated AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specification introduces a new provision for the design of anchors that borrows from the American Concrete Institute Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete (ACI 318-14). Unfortunately, the ACI 318-14 adhesive anchor design provisions are very conservative by not taking the compressive confinement eff
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Identification and prioritization of bridge replacement projects is one of the most critical aspects of an effective Bridge Management System. Currently, North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) uses a Priority Replacement Index (PRI) that has developed as an ad-hoc ranking scale that lacks transparency between performance measures and p
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The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) was an early stakeholder in support of the Federal Highway Administrations (FHWA) Towards Zero Death (TZD) concept, a vision of eliminating roadway fatalities and serious injuries nationwide. As a part of its TZD efforts, MDOT sponsored research to review and evaluate the engineering-related element
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Communities are complex systems subject to a variety of hazards that can result in significant disruption to critical functions. Community resilience assessment is gaining popularity as a means to help communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption. Sustainable resilience, a recently developed concept, requires communities
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The “Final 50 Feet of the Urban Goods Delivery System: Pilot Testing Innovative Improvement Strategies” project will provide new data-based knowledge and insights about the effects of truck parking strategies proposed in the City of Seattle, before they are broadly implemented. Goals of the project are reduction in dwell time, the time a truck is p
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The Personalized Trip Planner for Seniors project has this year produced a completer dialog agent that functions in real time over the phone called GetGoing. The goal of the project has been to create a transportation information system that is usable by seniors. GetGoing takes into consideration changes in cognition as we age in order to make the
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Connected vehicle technologies have been tested and deployed for several types of applications. One category is related to communications among vehicles and fixed infrastructure of roadside units to enhance road safety by avoiding crashes or mitigating the severity of accidents. On the other hand, non safety-critical applications may range from mob
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Work under this project identified the specific opportunities to capitalize on the state’s managed lane network as early experimental and deployment sites for connected automated vehicles. The managed lanes are important in this context because they provide a means of concentrating equipped vehicles in close proximity to each other, with some degre
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Scour at bridge substructure units can cause undermining of footings and exposure of piles, which can lead to bridge failure. Monitoring of the stream bed elevations around a scour critical bridge to identify whether or not scour is occurring during a high-flow event is critical. Working on or near the water may be dangerous during these events. Th
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The Connecticut Pedestrian Safety Guide (PSG) is aimed at providing a comprehensive framework for reducing pedestrian-involved collisions on all public roads. The PSG addresses state-specific pedestrian issues identified from yearlong observations and analysis of pedestrian behaviors at intersections. The PSG establishes targeted statewide goals, o
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This project extended research that was conducted for the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) in collaboration with the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act Next Generation Equipment Committee on the development of specifications for the next generation of passenger rail cars. The FRA research project conducted a preliminary spatial anal
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Ride sharing platforms have quickly become a widespread phenomenon. However, mismatches between supply and demand at peak times (temporal mismatch) or in some locations (spatial mismatch) motivate the design of incentive systems to align the behaviors of riders and drivers. This project proposes a novel economic mechanism that leverages new technol
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Lawrence County, Pennsylvania is primarily a rural area, with local employees living across a wide geographic radius. An estimated 40% of commuters leave the County during their daily work-related commute. An important opportunity to reduce the costs of travel lies in technological solutions to better connect commuters and promote shared modes of t
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This research project builds on North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) RP 2015-18 (“Reduction in Railroad Right-of-Way Incidents”) and 2017-15 (“Rail Corridor Trespass Severity Assessment”). This effort focused on the development of a working prototype train-mounted camera system that will capture trespassing events in the nearby vicin
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The Performance Measurement and Evaluation Support Plan for the Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program Phase 2, Tampa Hillsborough Expressway Authority, outlines the goals and objectives for the Pilot as well as the performance metrics. The document addresses the issues, operational needs, and the targeted improvements for the Pilot focus areas
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Caltrans Division of Rail and Mass Transportation (DRMT) administers several public transportation programs in California from the state as well as federal funding sources. There is a need for DRMT management and staff to be able to analyze expenditures on projects that it administers for the state and federal public transportation programs. In ord
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There are three potential options to reduce end stresses in prestressed concrete bridge girders: drape strands, debond strands, or a combination of the two. In the draping option, a portion of the strands are raised from harp points within the girder to reduce the strand eccentricity at the girder ends. Large vertical reactions are required at the
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This project focuses on establishing driving etiquette based on naturalistic driving behavior of human drivers to serve as the basis for the design of autonomous vehicles to drive "like safe human drivers." The project queried a large amount of naturalistic driving data from the Ann Arbor, Michigan connected vehicle deployment. The data were used t
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Bridge pier columns are critical load carrying elements and are often positioned in a fashion where it is neither possible nor economically feasible to place protective devices around them. Pier columns could be under-designed for commercial vehicle impacts and additional events that could occur, such as blast. The project is focusing on improving
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