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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Distress has recently been observed in the joints of some concrete pavements, primarily in the wet-freeze states. This distress often begins in longitudinal joints, followed by transverse joints and results in the significant loss of material from the joint area. Although it may only affect approximately 10% of the concrete pavements system-wide, i
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As many within the current transportation workforce approach retirement and the industry transitions into the 21st century, there are two notable challenges: 1) the incredible wealth of institutional knowledge that will be leaving the workforce, and 2) the continued increase in the application of new technologies, skills, and knowledge of the enter
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The main objective of this report was to characterize asphalt containing warm mix technologies at various levels of field aging and laboratory conditioning in terms of mixture and binder properties encompassing the temperature range expected in Mississippi. The primary data sets collected for this overall body of work are from full-scale constructe
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Wildlife accommodations are features designed and implemented into a transportation facility to moderate the effects of the infrastructure on wildlife and their habitat. The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) recognized there is not a defined procedure for addressing wildlife accommodations within their project development process. To date,
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This project seeks to build on the sparse national and non-Portland regional, past, transit-related research with youth to create and evaluate communication messaging that foster more positive attitudes, intentions, and behaviors related to transit and other non-car transportation options among Portland youth. The theory of planned behavior was app
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Buffalograss (Buchloë dactyloides [Nutt.] Engelm.) is a native low maintenance turfgrass species that is well adapted for lawns, parks, athletic fields, roadsides, and golf courses in the transition zone of the Midwestern United States. Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) has also been used in many states as perennial roadside vegetation. Blending
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Traffic incidents in US roadways cause 25 percent of all delays experienced by users. The resulting congestion may lead to secondary crashes, increasing economic costs and further risking the lives of travelers. Traffic Incident Management is a process that detects, responds to, and clears traffic incidents as quickly as possible so that traffic fl
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Highway project selection and scheduling are traditionally treated as two separate problems in the literature. It is critical to investigate how to select and schedule M&R projects in a way that can maximize their benefit or effectiveness while minimizing the traffic impacts of work zones across project development phases. There is a pressing need
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Mitigating traffic congestion and reducing transportation emissions are among the leading goals of most local, regional, national, and international agencies. Several guidelines rely primarily on strategies that support the following: 1) mixed land-use and transit-oriented developments, 2) multimodal transportation systems, and 3) design of active
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Determine the effectiveness of the SCI100GM in a mainline application. The SCI100GM is a fully redirective, speed-dependent, non-gating, bi-directional crash attenuator with a reverse-tapered design to eliminate side panel stress during a collapse. In addition it has a low angle of exit on side impacts (<1°) to keep vehicles from rebounding back in
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This report’s primary objective was to provide complimentary and supporting reference information for field aging of asphalt concrete in Mississippi. The primary data sets collected for this overall body of work are from full-scale constructed test sections where cores were collected over time (Volume 2), and from plant mixed asphalt containing war
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Go Buffalo Niagara is an initiative to replicate and scale up to the regional level the transportation demand management (TDM) services that have advanced at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (BNMC) under the GO BNMC program. Go Buffalo Niagara partners—including the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA), the Greater Buffalo Niagara Reg
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The objective of the Phase III of this project is to validate and calibrate the MEPDG for the concrete pavement design in Oklahoma. Both jointed plain concrete pavement (JPCP) and continuously reinforced concrete pavement (JPCP) were considered. Seven LTPP segments and 50 PMS pavement segments, including 30 JPCPs and 20 CRCPs, were selected and use
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The goal of this study was to understand driver response to a range of auditory characteristic levels, specifically to identify characteristics of a crash warning auditory interface that are measurable and have the potential to provide safety benefits. Drivers were exposed to driving scenarios with potential crash threats in a medium-fidelity drivi
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The Federal Highway Administration's Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) program issues a quarterly newsletter to inform you about the progress and activities of the program. Brief updates on progress in important program activities are provided, including data collection, data releases, new products and publications, and data analysis.
As a part of an effort to improve safety and evaluate optimal levels of investment in trooper patrols, Alaska’s Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) and Alaska State Troopers (AST) with the coordination of the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) College of Engineering commenced a study to develop a relationship between highw
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Driven by the necessity to meet changing public expectations in the wake of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, the structural engineering community is moving towards more rational, risk-informed, and transparent approaches to structural design, amidst which probabilistic performance-based seismic design (PBSD) has emerged as the most scientifi
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The objectives of this study are to identify, assess, and validate best practices that are crucial for the successful completion of Flash Track projects. Five Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) projects and three Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) projects are used as case studies. These cases were carefully studied to validate e
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This study evaluated the approach-level safety performance of left-turn phases including permissive, protected-permissive (PPLT), and protected indications, and the more recent flashing yellow arrow (FYA). Extensive data collection efforts included identification of suitable locations changing from a traditional to a FYA phase, exact date of such c
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The Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) began installing median cable barriers in 2003 along highway medians for all roadways that were narrower than 59 ft. The central goal of this work was to prevent cross-median crashes (CMCs) that raised a concern due to their frequencies and severe injuries they caused when they occurred. Cross-median cra
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