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As online shopping nears its third decade, it is clear that its impacts on urban goods flow are profound. Increased freight traffic and related negative externalities such as greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution can impede sustainability goals. In response, e-retailers are exploring innovative distribution strategies to enhance last-mil
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Precast concrete (PC) is manufactured in a controlled environment to provide desired quality, durability and efficiency to build transportation assets that address significant infrastructure challenges faced by the nation. Quality deficiencies during any lifecycle phase can easily off set the expected benefits, leading to premature failures and exc
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The objective of the control system is to run the deicing system efficiently and effectively under different winter weather conditions. The system can be operated for bridge deicing in heat pump or bypass mode. The heat pump mode involves all four heat pumps and the GLHE during bridge deicing, while the bypass mode only relies on GLHE to heat the b
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Bridges structures deteriorate over time due to various factors. Understanding the factors that affect bridge deterioration rates is necessary for state agencies to maintain the safety and functionality of bridges during their design service life. To improve deterioration modeling in Montana, significant factors affecting bridge deterioration were
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Short-span bridge superstructures are commonly made of precast concrete elements, and those elements are proportioned according to the properties of conventional concrete. The emergence of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC), and the release of the AASHTO Guide Specification for Structural Design with UHPC, creates new possibilities for the rede
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The objective of this project was to examine and document liquid deicing storage and pump systems currently being used by departments of transportation and public works agencies across the country and best practices for managing and maintaining these systems. Using information gathered from surveys and interviews with transportation agencies and ve
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While pedestrian safety is found in many Strategic Highway Safety Plans across the country, there may be potentially competing values and beliefs that influence the deployment of effective pedestrian safety strategies. Understanding shared values and beliefs among transportation stakeholders about pedestrian safety is critical to growing a positive
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Tall highway noise barriers have served as an effective noise abatement strategy. However, it comes with the high cost and limited adoption in diverse environments. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility and reasonableness of short safety barriers as a highway noise abatement strategy. Through purposeful selection, five out of
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One critical aspect of a proactive approach to improving the safety of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) involves how to communicate with CMV drivers safely and effectively through an electronic notification system (ENS). The objectives of this project are to: 1) conduct a review of existing ENS methods in use by CMV drivers, trucking companies, and
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The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has implemented High Friction Surface Treatment (HFST) in various locations across the state to reduce roadway departure crashes by improving pavement friction. To prevent premature failure and to ensure that the HFST performs adequately throughout the design life, this study evaluates the pavement
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One critical aspect of a proactive approach to improving the safety of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) involves how to communicate with CMV drivers safely and effectively through an electronic notification system (ENS). The objectives of this project are to: 1) conduct a review of existing ENS methods in use by CMV drivers, trucking companies, and
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The TITAN project, now in its second phase, is a cutting-edge, interactive web-based framework designed for the warehousing, integration, analytics, and visualization of transportation data. This phase has successfully implemented resilient and scalable database architectures, enabling rapid storage and retrieval of massive datasets, which are crit
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The Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) has implemented High Friction Surface Treatment (HFST) in various locations across the state to reduce roadway departure crashes by improving pavement friction. To prevent premature failure and to ensure that the HFST performs adequately throughout the design life, this study evaluates the pavement
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The TITAN project, now in its second phase, is a cutting-edge, interactive web-based framework designed for the warehousing, integration, analytics, and visualization of transportation data. This phase has successfully implemented resilient and scalable database architectures, enabling rapid storage and retrieval of massive datasets, which are crit
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The ability for agencies to notify vehicles that they are approaching a work zone has the potential to reduce crashes by increasing motorists’ awareness of the conditions. A critical element of this ability involves providing accurate work zone information and reducing the potential for false alerts that motorist ignore, which can be accomplished t
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The ability for agencies to notify vehicles that they are approaching a work zone has the potential to reduce crashes by increasing motorists’ awareness of the conditions. A critical element of this ability involves providing accurate work zone information and reducing the potential for false alerts that motorist ignore, which can be accomplished t
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The accumulation of sediments at culverts is a chronic operational issue, frequently occurring at multi-barrel culverts located in erosion-prone watersheds. Sediment deposits can develop rapidly, impairing the culvert’s capacity to convey design flows and potentially leading to damage to both transportation infrastructure (e.g., road and culvert ov
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The concept of self-enforcing roadways (SER) has been proposed as a speed management strategy to achieve harmony in drivers’ speed selection and to address safety issues associated with excessive speeding. While numerous examples of SER implementation exist outside of the United States (particularly in European countries), this concept is fairly ne
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Bridge load-rating analysis is typically used to assess the safe load-carrying capacity of bridges. However, in many cases, this analytical approach was proven to be too conservative, which leads to unnecessary bridge postings and road restrictions. In such cases, field testing is sought as a more reliable method for assessing the structural condit
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We propose a pilot program to initialize the UAS-based bridge inspection program in component level to enhance the bridge inspection practice in New Mexico State. In the proposed program, UAS-based bridge inspection strategies, data interpretation frameworks, and implementation software for individual NBI classified bridge components will be develo
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