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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State agencies have developed warrants and guidelines for the identification of on-ramps for metering. However, these warrants only consider recurrent traffic conditions in the vicinity of each on-ramp without considering the need to meter multiple ramps to mitigate the impacts of downstream system bottlenecks. The goal of this project was to devel
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Visions of self-driving vehicles abound in popular science and entertainment. Many programs are at work to make a reality catch of this imagination. Vehicle automation has progressed rapidly in recent years, from simple driver assistance technologies like cruise control and in-vehicle wireless, to production-line vehicles that park themselves or st
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Ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) has mechanical and durability properties that far exceed those of conventional concrete. Particularly, UHPC has compressive and post-cracking tensile strengths of around 20 ksi and 0.72 ksi, respectively. Thus, elements made with UHPC are thinner/lighter than elements made with conventional concrete. The enhan
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In late 2016/early 2017 the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) conducted an operational pilot of the Road Usage Charge (RUC) concept as a possible transportation funding replacement to the state gas tax. The Colorado Road Usage Charge Pilot Program (RUCPP) involved a total of 147 participating vehicles that used one of three mileage-repor
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Transportation planners constantly examine traffic flows to see if current roadway layouts are serving traffic needs. For freight hauling, this presents one issue on the open road, but a much different issue as these large vehicles approach their destination - usually a loading dock - which can be difficult to access through urban streets. This cre
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The implementation of high-speed railways in India are in their early phases and vast studies are being conducted for the effective implementation of the system. Maintaining the traction required for efficient operation of trains at high speeds requires the net minimum frictional coefficient to be maintained at the wheel-rail interface, across the
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The fatigue design of the mast arm structures and connections vary significantly based on the Category of Importance factor adopted and the load cases for fatigue design loads. Consideration should include the cost and size of the structures for both urban and rural applications, and the type of vibration mitigation devices to be adopted for use on
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Traffic incidents have long been recognized as the main contributor to congestion in highway networks. Thus, contending with non-recurrent congestion has been a priority task for most highway agencies over the past decades. Under most incident scenarios, if proper diversion plans can be implemented in time, motorists can circumvent the congested se
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The Governor’s Office requested an annual financial analysis of the INDOT Research Program to determine the return on the research investment (ROI). The current financial analysis is for research projects that completed in FY 2016. Analyses on previous year's projects is necessary primarily due to the time it takes some project outcomes to be imple
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Stormwater runoff from the Woodbridge neighborhood of Shoreview had previously been drained to Lake Owasso. City of Shoreview built the Woodbridge neighborhood’s local roads using pervious concrete pavements in 2009. Pervious concrete pavements exhibit high hydraulic conductivity and sound absorption ability. To evaluate the functional performance
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The objective of this research was to evaluate the influence of using the ACBFS aggregate (slag aggregate) as a replacement for natural aggregates on the properties of pavement concrete designed to meet the standard specifications of the Indiana Department of Transportation. A total of eight different concrete mixtures, four containing air-cooled b
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For the incident response operations to be appreciated by the general public, it is essential that responsible highway agencies be capable of providing the estimated clearance duration of a detected incident at the level sufficiently reliable for motorists to make proper decisions such as selecting a detour route. Depending on the estimated clearan
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Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) forces undertake routine and sometimes extensive maintenance of roadside ditches that impact the performance and safety of roadway drainage. Unfortunately, county crews have limited options to solve maintenance problems related to paved gutter deterioration and ditch erosion. This research project evaluates
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Successes in Stewardship is a Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) bimonthly newsletter highlighting current best practices in stewardship and environmental review from around the country.
The annual migration of the monarch butterfly is perhaps one of the most spectacular events on the planet. Each year, beginning in March, hundreds of millions of monarchs begin their journey of hundreds to thousands of miles, flying from roosts in Mexico to their summer homes in Canada and the United States. Millions of butterflies come to Florida
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This report outlines the design, fabrication, and testing of a 3-D magnetic mapping system used to locate reinforcing steel in concrete pavements developed at Kansas State University (KSU) in 2006. The magnetic sensing functionality is based on the principles of magnetic tomography which use time-varying magnetic fields to induce magnetic returns f
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Real Estate Services
2017-12-01
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The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Real Estate Services Newsletter is a resource which is intended to provide right-of-way professionals with the latest best practices, research results, training information, and information on policy and regulatory updates to ensure that Federal, State and local right-of-way program delivery is
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The purpose of this guidebook is to provide local agency staff with a best practice approach to addressing citizen’s common requests for traffic safety concerns (i.e. signing and pavement markings, not larger scale infrastructure or planning projects). This guidebook focuses on the importance of communication with citizens when responding to traffi
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This research project developed three types of products for study: woolen erosion control blankets (ECBs), wool incorporated into wood fiber compost at a 40:1 ratio (compost to wool, by weight), and wool incorporated into silt fence. The project, supported by Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) and the Center for Environmentally Sustainable
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Real Estate Services
2017-12-01
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The purpose of this report is to explore how and when Federal agencies and State DOT's can best take advantage of real estate option techniques for real property acquisitions afforded under the of Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21) amendments to the Uniform Act.
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