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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A variety of structural supports exist to mount signs along highways. One type of support is a truss that spans the width of the highway that allows for the placement of overhead signs. These trusses are subject primarily to wind and gravity loads. The connections between the chords and the diagonals are typical fillet welded. Fillet welds are a fa
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This study addresses the assessment and repair of damaged prestressed bridge girders due to either accidental impact by over-height vehicles on the bottom of the girder, or damage to the top flange of the girder during deck removal operations. Both strength and serviceability limit states are considered. Procedures are developed to calculate change
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This Phase 2 report continues research investigating the effects that installation and removal of sheet pile walls (SPWs) have on driven piles founded in granular soils. The method of analysis employed in Task 5 of Phase 1 of this project is extended to model systems involving a driven pile in proximity to two SPWs forming the corner of a closed re
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The Interstate 10 (I-10) western connected freight corridor extends from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in California to the Port of Beaumont in Texas. Collaborating through a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) pooled fund study, the state departments of transportation in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas (the I-10 Corridor Coa
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Most state highway agencies do not perform routine fatigue inspections on highway signs, luminaires, and traffic signals, thereby increasing the potential for unnoticed fatigue cracking. The Kansas Highway System utilizes over 450 sign trusses, most of which have been in service for 30–45 years. In addition to aging support structures, the structur
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The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) contracted with the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) in 2012 to install, instrument, and monitor three pavement test sections at the NCAT Test Track. These sections were subjected to approximately 20 million 18-kip equivalent single axle loads between 2012 and 2017. Pavement instrumentat
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A study was conducted to evaluate the applicability of two cracking tests for low- and intermediate temperature performance for the purpose of creating a balanced hot-mix asphalt mix. For the low-temperature performance, the Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR) test on mixtures based on AASHTO TP-125-16 protocols was studied. For intermediate-temperature p
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The purpose of this research project was to identify the extent that concrete resistivity measurements (bulk and/or surface) can be used as a performance based lab test to improve the quality of concrete in Utah bridge decks. By allowing UDOT to specify a required resistivity, concrete bridge deck quality will increase and future maintenance costs
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The largest safety impact of connected vehicle (CV) technology will occur only when a critical mass of vehicles and infrastructure is connected. This will require significant market penetration and improvements to our infrastructure, and it is occurring at a relatively slow pace compared to autonomous vehicle technology. Until CVs are ubiquitous, s
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This study estimates households’ willingness to pay for single-family houses and condominiums/townhouses located within 2 miles of Warm Springs (WS) BART Station in Fremont, CA. The study finds that, compared to the houses sold in the referent category (2 to 5 miles away and sold during the pre-project-announcement period of 2000-2001), an average-
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The objective of this research was to evaluate driver behavior when approaching a school zone and the effectiveness of a new combination of road signage and pavement markings. The strategy behind the use of new traffic control devices (TCDs) in the driving simulator was to evaluate their effectiveness in controlling drivers’ speeds. Two school zone
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This report describes the methodology and results of development of biofidelity response corridors based on data for axial loading through the heel of 12 small female post mortem human surrogates (PMHS) lower extremities, and 2 additional small female PMHS. These biofidelity response corridors were based on anticipated measurement capabilities of t
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This report summarizes the efforts and results of the research project “Large Truck Crash Analysis for Freight Mobility and Safety Enhancement in Florida”, which was intended to gain more understanding of the patterns and contributing factors of large truck crashes in Florida, to recommend practical countermeasures to reduce crashes involving freig
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Stone matrix asphalt (SMA) is a gap-graded hot mix asphalt with a high percentage of coarse aggregate and a high asphalt content. SMA is the typical gap-graded mixture used in Virginia that is intended to maximize rutting resistance and durability with a stable stone-on-stone skeleton held together by a rich mixture of asphalt binder. The field per
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Track geometry data exhibits classical big data attributes: value, volume, velocity, veracity and variety. Track Quality Indices-TQI are used to obtain average-based assessment of track segments and schedule track maintenance. TQI is expressed in terms of track parameters like gage, cross level, etc. Though each of these parameters is objectively i
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Investigations to develop a full depth durable concrete mixture (15 year life) to be used for pavement with four hour cure time and 4000 psi compressive strength that will minimize cracking were carried out. Current high early strength concrete mixtures have natural cracking and shrinkage problems due to the high content of cementitious material or
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ODOT maintains approximately 43,000 lane miles of roadside ditches creating significant constraints on budgets and labor. The aim of this research is to develop a more versatile and efficient process of cleaning/maintaining roadside ditches by increasing safety, optimizing labor hours, increasing flexibility of ditching process, and minimizing dama
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) noticed a decline in skid trailer numbers on concrete pavements shortly after grinding operations. The engineers at the time suspected that the coarse aggregate led to decline of skid trailer numbers and the resulting conclusion led to a ban of carbonate aggregates
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Conventional intersection designs are known to be problematic and unreliable when handling the complexity associated with the heavy traffic volume and travel demand on today’s roadways. Therefore, transportation agencies have been searching for more innovative and safer intersection design solutions in order to address these complex problems. One s
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The Interstate 10 (I-10) western connected freight corridor extends from the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles in California to the Port of Beaumont in Texas. Collaborating through a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) pooled fund study, the state departments of transportation in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas (the I-10 Corridor Coa
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