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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Although the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) now provides empirical tools for predicting the safety consequences of highway engineering decisions, these tools represent the prevailing driver and vehicle conditions in the United States during the last few decades. As automated vehicles improve in capability and increase in market share, these conditions
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This research evaluated the performance of asphalt emulsion tack coat used in Wisconsin to provide recommendations that make tack coat usage more efficient and effective. The study focused on measuring curing as measured by moisture loss, tracking as measured by a bond strength test and a wheel tracking device in the lab, and Interlayer Shear Stren
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University of Florida researchers developed a method to measure the UHPC tensile stress-strain relationship. They also developed a specification for material acceptance of field-cast UHPC.
Florida International University researchers developed a plan for extending the Florida Intelligent Transportation System Evaluation Tool (FITSEVAL) with measurements and forecasting abilities that take advantage of state-of-the-art models, methods, and data from multiple sources to incorporate emerging technologies. This update primarily corrects
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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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This report describes Phase II of a research project to develop a structural health monitoring system for highway bridges subjected to overweight trucks. Two field tests were conducted. The Laramie River bridge, located at mile post (MP) 312.33, on Interstate-80 (I-80), in Laramie, Wyoming, was tested to evaluate bridge behavior and to develop a pr
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Quantifying disaster recovery is important to be able to match resources to needs. The research explores the use of survey data, FEMA assessment data, aerial photographs and LIDAR data in the context of recovery from 2012 Hurricane Sandy in Sea Bright, New Jersey. The data cover the period 2010 to 2015. Each of the data sources differ in terms of c
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The goal of this research project is to provide the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) with the state of art methodologies for identifying the most pertinent behavioral and engineering variables relating to reportable crashes. In this regard, an extensive literature review has been performed to summarize the latest progress in crash mo
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In Kentucky, salvage titles are issued when a vehicle has been wrecked, destroyed, or damaged and the cost of repairs exceeds 75 percent of the vehicle’s fair market value. Once a vehicle is repaired to roadworthy condition it is issued a rebuilt title. Kentucky issued 110,000 rebuilt and salvage titles in 2018. Over the 2014 to 2018 period, the nu
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This study evaluates the seismic performance of circular concrete-filled tube (CCFT) columns in accelerated bridge construction (ABC) projects. CCFT components are considered of interest for bridges subjected to seismic forces due to their efficient structural behavior under combined axial and bending loads: lateral stiffness of the steel tube is i
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This study focuses on the current strength evaluation policies for strength assessment of corroded steel girders and investigates potential improvements based on real corrosion data. The research work included in this report has three phases. First, the current deterioration condition of steel bridges is studied through MassDOT inspection reports o
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The current Superpave asphalt binder specifications do not address durability issues and do not adequately address fatigue. Several approaches have been proposed by different researchers to address both these durability issues. Some of the proposed refinements are quite complex, but one, ΔTc (delta Tc), is gaining favor because it is computationall
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Alternative energy generating assets, such as solar, piezoelectric, electrostatic and electrodynamic generators and wind turbines in and along the highways can capture and convert otherwise wasted ambient energy, which may provide an opportunity to reduce cost, prepare for future needs and even generate revenue. In this Phase-1 project, a review of
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University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), researchers determined the structural coefficient for asphalt concrete mixes manufactured with a high polymer (HP) modified asphalt binder that contains approximately 7.5% Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene (SBS) polymer.
Cities are increasingly wanting to assess the impacts new development has on all modes in the transportation system. Many communities are requiring site-level transportation impact analysis to examine travel outcomes. The historical focus on developing data and methods exclusively for the automobile, such as the Institute of Transportation Engineer
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Fourteen Thin-Lift Treatments (TLTs) in UDOT’s Region 2 were evaluated over a five-year period in order to assess their performance. Surface distress data was quantified using Pavement Condition Indices (PCIs) and Remaining Service Life (RSL) were estimated following procedures utilized by UDOT. With the first 5 years’ evaluation, 2 TLTs sections h
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The Teen Driver Support System (TDSS) is a smartphone application designed to provide real-time, in-vehicle feedback to novice drivers about their driving behavior to help them make safer driving decisions. The app provides warnings to the driver using in-phone sensors and maps to determine when the driver engages in in risky behavior. TDSS was eva
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The roadside area where fixed-object hazards are explicitly minimized is called the clear zone, which became standard design practice soon after the 1966 Congressional hearings on road and automobile safety. Mounting evidence, however, is beginning to cast doubt on what we think we know about the impact of roadside clear zones on actual safety outc
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Perennial energy crops like switchgrass that are used for biofuel production have the potential to generate various water quality benefits such as reduced nitrogen runoff. Yet the current expected returns to switchgrass are not profitable enough for these crops to be widely adopted by U.S. farmers due to relatively unstable yields, volatile revenue
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University of Central Florida researchers continued a project to increase the effectiveness of FYA signals by developing hardware that can interface with a wide variety of controllers and software to automatically select left-turn modes, in real time, based on gaps in opposing traffic and using existing sensors.
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