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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Recent growth in ecommerce has quickly impacted the distribution of parcel deliveries in urban areas, with residential deliveries accounting for a rapidly growing share of freight movement. Through field observation and development of a simulation model, this study aims to investigate the characteristics of parcel delivery activity in a heavily res
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United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. National Center for Statistics and Analysis
2019-06-01
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For this fact sheet, rural and urban boundaries are determined by the State highway departments and approved by the Federal Highway Administration. The State highway departments use the boundaries decided by the Census Bureau. In this fact sheet for 2017, the information about rural and urban traffic fatalities is presented as follows: Overview; En
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This report presents the results of field evaluation of an adaptive signal‐control technology (ASCT) system—SynchroGreen—deployed on the Neil Street corridor in Champaign, Illinois. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) was interested in field evaluation of an ASCT on a corridor, in terms of traffic safety and operational efficiency. Syn
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The Georgia Department of Transportation maintains an inventory of approximately 15,000 bridges and culverts across the state. These bridges and culverts have been inspected biennially since 1992, yielding over 25 years of bridge condition rating (CR) data from the National Bridge Inventory (NBI). Condition ratings are assigned on a discrete 0-9 sc
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NHTSA developed a seating procedure for the THOR 50th percentile male dummy (THOR-50M). The original procedure was released with a December 2015 Request for Comments (RFC), and some updates were presented at a public meeting at NHTSA’s Vehicle Research and Test Center in August 2016. This report discusses the changes to the seating procedure since
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This project established protocols and specifications for the direct determination of cement composition by Quantitative X-ray Diffraction (QXRD). The main objectives of this research were: 1) developing protocols for routinely performing QXRD testing, 2) testing the effectiveness of the protocols using commercial cement samples, and 3) documenting
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When a vehicle drives over a bridge, each bridge girder carries a portion of the vehicle's weight. This load causes strain in the bottom of the bridge girders. However, depending on where the vehicle is located on the bridge, some bridge girders carry a higher percentage of the vehicle's load. This study investigated the amount of strain typical ve
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Over the last decade, globalized supply chains, restructured logistics and freight transportation practices, and exploding online shopping have influenced how goods are produced, transported, stored, and sold. All these changes have resulted in substantial shifts in the spatial distribution of freight activity, as well as vehicles crashes that invo
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Automated vehicles (AVs) have the potential to disrupt the current transportation system and culture. While experts debate the exact timeline, the question is likely a matter of when, not if. Therefore, communities of all kinds need to prepare for this future. Small urban and rural communities, in particular, could benefit from the development of t
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Adaptive signal control technology (ASCT) systems are to respond (adapt) to real-time traffic demand and patterns to provide more efficient and safer operation at signalized intersections. The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) wanted to conduct a field evaluation of an ASCT system by deploying one on a corridor and assessing its performa
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Traffic congestion is an inevitable part of urban transportation networks and its mitigation requires expertise (of Traffic Management Center operators) and proper detection coverage of the network. The traffic information is often collected with high temporal and spatial resolutions and retrieved from multiple sources. This project focuses on retr
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations
2019-06-01
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The Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), as part of the ENTERPRISE Pooled Fund Study, is implementing a Smarter Work Zone Technology Application that utilizes real-time work zone activity information to improve situational awareness for operators to monitor traffic operations and automatically create lane closure notifications for the pu
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The purpose of the testing reported herein was to assess the performance of the free-standing single slope concrete barrier (SSCB) with cross-bolt connections according to the safety-performance evaluation guidelines included in American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials’ Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) for Test
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This study examines the potential for replacing the standard intersection design at two-way stop control (TWSC) and all-way stop control (AWSC) intersections along rural highways with a roundabout or a restricted crossing u-turn (RCUT) facility. The geometry of the RCUT design prohibits left and through movements from the side road, and provides a
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In all pavement structures, one or more support layers separate the pavement from the subgrade. In addition to offering structural support, these layers have several important functions, which include: providing a stable and uniform construction platform, facilitating drainage, mitigating pumping of the subgrade fines, and protecting the pavement f
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University of Florida researchers were tasked with testing cores from locations across the state to characterize the material properties, develop a strength envelope, and provide bearing capacity equations for shallow foundation design.
The use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) has the potential to reduce costs and increase safety for transportation operations ranging from bridge inspections to construction monitoring. The overall objective of this project focused on evaluating UAS technology for a broad range of case studies relating to the specific needs of the New Hampshire De
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Bridges represent a significant subpopulation of our civil infrastructure. Majority of them are deteriorating fast and in need of replacement or rehabilitation. The first step of those replacement/rehabilitation projects is typically to either entirely or partly demolish the existing structure. Therefore, proactive planning for controlled demolitio
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
2019-05-31
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This project included the “Living Bridge” group efforts to create a benchmark example of a self-diagnosing, self-reporting, “smart infrastructure” at the Memorial Bridge (Portsmouth, NH, and Kittery, ME) to further advance a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded project, the “Living Bridge Project (LBP)”, seeking to promote infrastructure sustai
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Sediment basins with outlet orifice skimmers are one of forty erosion prevention and sediment control (EPSC) devices that the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) utilizes to meet regulatory runoff quality permitting requirements at their highway construction sites. Regulations set in place by the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA
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