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United States. Dept. of Transportation. Office of the Secretary
2018-04-01
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) is the Federal steward of the Nation's transportation system. U.S. DOT consists of multiple modal operating administrations (OAs) that carry out mission-related research, development, and technology (RD&T) programs in support of their goals. U.S. DOT's Technology Transfer (T2) Program, which is house
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The inspection and evaluation of bridges in Indiana is critical to ensure their safety to better serve the citizens of the state. Part of this evaluation includes bridge load rating. Bridge load rating, which is a measure of the safe load capacity of the bridge, is a logical process that is typically conducted by utilizing critical information that
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An earlier study (SPR-3702) indicated that INDOT’s practice of grouping (or bundling) projects into multiple-project contracts (MPCs) usually resulted in lower unit costs. This follow-up study (SPR-4156) takes advantage of INDOT’s increased use of project bundling and the data that have been assembled since the conduct of SPR-3702. The principal fi
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The project goal was to better understand the extent of air-cooled blast furnace slag (ACBFS) usage for completed INDOT projects, factors that can influence slag leaching, review remediation strategies, and identify applications where future usage restrictions or sitting criteria are needed. A literature review of government documents, peer-review,
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The New England Transportation Consortium (NETC) is a cooperative effort of the transportation agencies of the six New England States, the six New England state land grant universities, and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Through the Consortium, the states pool professional, academic, and financial resources for transportation research l
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NHDOT installed fiberglass grid reinforcement systems at several locations in an effort to address pavement deterioration, in particular fatigue and reflective cracking. Previous to this investigation, nondestructive testing using a falling weight deflectometer was performed on six test sections, two control and four sections where fiberglass grid
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The objective of this report is to determine the most effective method for bridge deck overlay construction and repair by assessing current practices; examining new products and technologies; and reviewing NCHRP (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) guidelines, state standard specifications, ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) infr
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Pothole repairs continue to be a major maintenance problem for many highway agencies. There is a critical need for finding long-lasting, cost-effective materials and construction technologies for repairing potholes. This research effort investigates critical components associated with pothole formation and pothole repair and proposes solutions to r
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Retirements and other staff changes have led to a loss of institutional knowledge across public agencies. These changing workforce dynamics have highlighted the study of knowledge management, and how organizations can best retain their core knowledge bases. Key to understanding knowledge management is how organizations have approached the issue and
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The Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) engaged Dye Management Group, Inc. (DMG) to evaluate risk-based asset management processes and systems for potential implementation at WSDOT. DMG summarized WSDOT’s existing asset management-related processes, systems, and data in the Current State Report. Taking into consideration WSDOT’s current
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Alkali-silica reaction (ASR) is an expansive reaction between the alkalis in the cement and reactive silica in the aggregates. Arkansas is currently witnessing the detrimental effects of ASR at various locations in Arkansas. There has been a significant amount of research conducted using accelerated mortar bar tests (ASTM C1260 and AASHTO T303) and
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The U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (MARAD) and Maryland Department of Transportation Maryland Port Administration (MDOT MPA), through a cooperative agreement, provided funding for the Integrated Algal Flow-Way, Digester, and Fuel Cell Demonstration Project (demonstration project) at Dundalk Marine Terminal (DMT) in Baltim
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Amy L. Stuart (ORCID # 0000-0003-1229-493)The objective of this study was to model the potential impacts of alternative transit-oriented urban design scenarios on community exposures to roadway air pollution. We used a modeling framework developed previously for the study area that includes activity-based travel demand modeling (Tampa Bay ABM), a d
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The effectiveness of interventions to improve pedestrian safety, whether involving engineering, education, or enforcement, is limited by the behavior of the public in response to the interventions. It is not difficult to imagine that the behavioral response of an individual to engineering and educational road safety interventions may be at least pa
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This study involved the development of safety performance functions (SPFs) for rural road segments and intersections in the state of Michigan. The facility types included two-lane and four-lane state trunklines (divided and undivided), rural county roadways(paved and gravel), signalized intersections, and minor-road stop controlled intersections. D
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The chloride-induced corrosion is one of the main forms of deterioration in the transportation system of Tennessee. The main goal of this research is to determine the critical chloride level that causes de-passivation of both reinforcing and prestressing steel in typical TDOT concrete mixes under various exposure conditions. It was found that steel
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MnDOT Office of Transportation System Management (OTSM) desires to reduce the cycle time for collecting road data updates from county sources and, opportunistically, capture additional data about road and ancillary uses, e.g. bicycle access. Specifically, this project researched free or low-cost aerial or spatial data from government and other sour
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A STEM outreach program was designed to target local elementary and junior high/middle school students to introduce students to many technical aspects of the railroad industry. A series of railroad operations and associated challenges was presented to the participants. Wooden track pieces and small wooden rail cars were used to design and build a v
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With the widespread installation of location-enabled devices on public transportation, a large amount of bus trajectory data is being generated. Using the location data of the Los Angeles Metro bus system, along with publicly available bus schedule data, a set of data processing and analyses were performed to measure the performance of the public t
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The objective of this research project was to model the traffic performance networks in which travelers have heterogeneous preferences for aspects of their trip. In real networks, drivers make choices of which route to use based on many criteria including the travel time and the variability of travel time. This research project focused on developin
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