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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Investing in winter transportation operations is essential and beneficial to the public and the economy. The U.S. economy cannot afford the cost of shutting down highways, airports, etc., during winter weather. In the northern U.S. and other cold-climate areas, winter maintenance operations are essential to ensure the safety, mobility, and producti
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To extend the National Advanced Driving Simulator’s research program into distracted driving and drug-influenced driving, our group studied the effects of a frequently prescribed combination of sedating drugs: hydrocodone/acetaminophen (an opioid pain-relieving medication) and alprazolam (a benzodiazepine useful for muscle relaxation and sedation).
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M Mahdi Rezapour Mashhadi (ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0774-737X); Promothes Saha, Ph.D., P.E. (ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3298-8327); Trenna Terrill (ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5239-6380); Khaled Ksaibati, Ph.D., P.E. (ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3532-6839)Wyoming has one of the highest large truck crash rates in the country. This is due to a variety of reasons which include:
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Managing a growing population of deteriorated transportation infrastructuresystems (i.e. bridges, railways, tunnels) is one of biggest challenges faced by the nation.Traditional inspection and monitoring techniques (e.g., visual inspection, mechanicalsounding, rebound hammer, cover meter, electrical potential measurements, ultrasound,ground penetra
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Portable concrete barrier (PCB) systems are often used to redirect errant vehicles through a combination of inertial resistance, lateral friction loads, and tensile loads developed from the mass and friction of the barrier segments. State departments of transportation (DOTs) and other end users may wish to utilize minimal length PCB installations t
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In summer 2012 Caltrans replaced a set of six fluid viscous dampers at the Santiago Creek bridge after the earlier set installed in 1997 were reported to be leaking fluid. The recovered dampers were subsequently sent to UCSD for further testing and evaluation for durability and wear. This study extends an earlier examination of de-installed leaking
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Three full-scale vehicle crash tests were conducted according to the Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) Test Level 3 (TL-3) safety performance criteria on a transition between the Midwest Guardrail System (MGS) and a portable concrete barrier (PCB) system. The transition system utilized for test nos. MGSPCB-1 through MGSPCB-3 consisted of
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This project investigated bridge deck expansion joint maintenance and replacement strategies and developed many novel ideas from others for improvement.
This document is the final report for the Clear Roads project entitled Snow Removal Performance Metrics. Theproject team was led by researchers at Washington State University on behalf of Clear Roads, an ongoing pooledfund research effort focused on winter maintenance materials, equipment, and methods. Clear Roads researchprojects are managed and a
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This study was in two parts. The first part established and demonstrated a framework for pavement data integration. This is critical for fulfilling QC/QA needs of INDOT’s pavement management system, because the precision of the physical location references is aprerequisite for the reliable collection and interpretation of pavement data. Such consis
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The primary goal of this project was to demonstrate that smartphone travel activity monitoring systems that collect second-by-second data are capable of providing more reliable freeway and arterial travel time data than machine vision systems that collect spot-speed data. The report outlines project coordination with state agencies, app functions,
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The primary goal of this project was to demonstrate that smartphone travel activity monitoring systems that collect second-by-second data are capable of providing more reliable freeway and arterial travel time data than machine vision systems that collect spot-speed data. The report outlines project coordination with state agencies, app functions,
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To improve pedestrian/bicyclist safety, the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (MDOT SHA) has identified several high-frequency pedestrian/bicyclist crash locations through the Pedestrian Roadway Safety Audit (PRSA) Program. Recognizing an over-representation of pedestrian crashes related to illegal mid-block crossin
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As the emphasis placed on cycling as a means of transportation is increasing in the United States, so is the need for adequate facilities that provide cyclists with a comfortable and connected facility. In order for these facilities to be built and encourage community residents to cycle, the city planners and engineers need to understand what type
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Robust bicycle and pedestrian data on a national scale would serve numerous purposes. Access to a centralized nonmotorized traffic countarchive can open the door for innovation through research, design and planning; provide safety researchers with a measure of exposure; providefundamental performance metrics for planning and funding decisions; and
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Bicycle crashes are a major traffic safety concern in Florida. In 2014, Florida led the nation with 139 bicyclist fatalities, representing approximately 20% of the nation’s total. This project aims to improve bicycle safety on Florida’s state roads by conducting a comprehensive study focusing on both statewide and site-specific analyses. The specif
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This research effort estimated the amount, characteristics, costs, and safety implications of tire debris on Texas highways. The metrics developed by this research are based on several sources of data, including a statewide survey of debris removal practices, field data from a probability sample of Texas roads, Texas Department of Transportation cr
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The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of Phase 1 of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s Silver Line on the broad regional transportation system, and specifically on the road network operated by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). All of the data used in this study were aggregate and were provided by trans
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In response to the successful 2008 and 2012 Trespasser Workshops, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) sponsored the 2015 Right-of-Way (ROW) Fatality and Trespass Prevention workshop to keep up the momentum that had been previously established. The FRA Administrator (who was Acting Administrator at the time), gave the keynote speech, which was fol
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The work reported here is for a study that aimed to: (1) evaluate the concordance between internally observable variable (IOV) based and externally observable variable (EOV) based predictors of engine power demand; (2) develop predictive models for vehicle energy use and emissions (EU&E) based on IOVs; (3) evaluate models for vehicle EU&E based on
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