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Changhyun Kwon (ORCID ID 0000-0001-8455-6396)This project considers network regulation problems to minimize the risk of hazmat accidents and potential damages to the environment, while considering bounded rationality of drivers. We consider government interventions such as road pricing, roadbans, and curfews for hazmat traffic and/or regular non-ha
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Garmin’s aviation GPS products support both surface and airborne applications. Garmin produces FAA certified and non-certified equipment for the General Aviation market, including both fixed-wing and rotorcraft platforms. Aside from instrument approach procedures, Garmin’s non-certified aviation products perform the same operations as our certified
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The amount of steel reinforcement in drilled shaft foundations has increased over the past several decades to account for anticipated seismic hazards. Increased reinforcement may lead to a higher frequency of anomalies within shafts due to the increased difficulty for concrete to flow through reduced clearance between the reinforcement. High-streng
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Scour and flooding are the leading causes of bridge failures in the United States and therefore should be monitored. New applications of tools and technologies are being developed, tested, and implemented to reduce bridge scour risk. The National Cooperative Highway Research Program’s Domestic Scan 15-02, on Bridge Scour Risk Management, had its ac
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The Caltrans Division of Maintenance is conducting a trial evaluation of the Viking-Cives TowPlow trailer to determine if this equipment could potentially improve the level of service and reduce the cost of their winter snow fighting operations. This report documents the configuration modifications and the deployment activities necessary to deploy
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Cracking is a common failure mechanism in asphalt concrete pavement structures. It is one of the main reasons for large road maintenance and rehabilitation expenditures, as well as reduced user comfort and increased fuel consumption due to high road roughness. The resistance of the pavement to this distress mechanism is dependent upon the ductility
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The Smart City Demonstration Program is intended to improve access through expanded mobility options in major job centers, enhance visitor experience by better connecting visitors to transportation options, stimulate regional economic prosperity and compete globally through smart logistics, better connect Columbus residents to safe, reliable transp
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This report summarizes the analytical studies on the seismic performance of typical Colorado concrete bridges, particularly those with curved and skewed configurations. A set of bridge models with different geometric configurations derived from a prototype bridge selected in Denver area were studied. Some discussions about the connection modeling a
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Concerted, well-coordinated, and performance-driven efforts are needed by state and local agencies to achieve North Carolina’s strategic safety goals since pedestrians and bicyclists continue to experience a high injury and fatality rate in traffic crashes. This report summarizes the development of the North Carolina Pedestrian and Bicycle Road Saf
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Background: Modifying the task load of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel may mitigate fatigue, sleep quality and fatigue related risks. A review of the literature addressing task load interventions may benefit EMS administrators as they craft policies related to mitigating fatigue. We conducted a systematic review of the peer-reviewed lite
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This paper presents a probabilistic approach to reconstruct vehicle trajectories from GPS probe data on arterials. By combining car-following concepts with machine learning algorithms, we overcome the drawbacks of pure statistical modeling to investigate the question of adequate probe penetration levels on single-lane roads. Although the parameters
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Public engagement is an important part of transportation project development, but measuring its effectiveness is typically piecemealed. Performance measurement—described by the Urban Institute as the measurement on a regular basis of the results (outcomes) and efficiency of services or programs—is already widely used in the transportation field. Th
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The resilient modulus is a critical engineering property used to characterize the unbound and subgrade materials in the AASHTO Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) where a hierarchical approach is followed. Three levels of input are specified in the AASHTOWare Pavement ME design software. This includes direct measurement from the lab
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Warehousing activities generate substantial externalities that affect surrounding neighborhoods. Using data for four major metropolitan areas in California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento, this study tests the relationship between the spatial distribution of warehouses and disadvantaged neighborhoods. The results show that war
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Passive sensing technologies have emerged to supplement the traffic performance measurement recently. One successful is the travel time estimation based on in-vehicle Bluetooth Media Access Control (MAC) address capturing and matching at different locations. In this paper, we present a novel approach to measuring the traffic performance on highways
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The field of traffic accident analysis has long been dominated by traditional statistical analysis. With the recent advances in data collection, storage and archival methods, the size of accident datasets has grown significantly. This in turn has motivated research on applying data mining and Machine Learning algorithms, which are specifically desi
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The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Fellowships are post-graduate research and developmental opportunities at the U.S. Department of Transportation in Washington, DC. The BTS’ Fellowship program is in it’s first rotation with five Fellows in the fields of librarianship, geographic information system (GIS), and cartography. Funding is pro
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Transportation modeling and simulation play an important role in the planning and management of emergency evacuation. It is often indispensable for the preparedness and timely response to extreme events occurring in highly populated areas. Reliable and robust agent-based evacuation models are of great importance to support evacuation decision makin
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Bicycling comes with physical and environmental benefits and is an activity that is well-suited for children. Bicycling also has inherent risks and bicycling injuries pose a large health burden among school-age children. Increasing child bicycle safety education is an important piece to increasing child bicycle safety. There are numerous child bicy
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Warehousing activities generate substantial externalities that affect surrounding neighborhoods. Using data for four major metropolitan areas in California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Sacramento, this study tests the relationship between the spatial distribution of warehouses and disadvantaged neighborhoods. The results show that war
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