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Methods for Improving Consistency Between Statewide and Regional Planning Models

Description: "This research provides insight into the current practices of statewide modelling across the USA and presents methods to not only to quantify the inconsistencies, but reduce them" (p. i).
Date: December 2017
Creator: Boyles, Stephen David, 1982-; Bhat, Chandra R. (Chandrasekhar R.), 1964-; Duthie, Jennifer Clare; Jiang, Nan; Dias, Felipe; Jafari, Ehsan et al.

Equipment Replacement Optimization

Description: "The objective of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) Research Project 7-4941 is to; determine the best optimization methodology; evaluate commercial fleet management systems; develop the model if this cost-effective relative to purchasing a commercial model; and validate the new model as needed using data available on TxDOT's current fleet."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Fan, Wei; Brown, Leonard; Patterson, Casey; Winkler, Mike; Schminkey, Justin; Western, Kevin et al.

Literature review of current practices in dealing with fluctuations of maintenance budgets

Description: Report discussing a literature review of current budget cutting strategies used in routine roadway maintenance planning, including methods and techniques that are employed by other state and international transportation organizations (DOT's). It also reviewed methodologies developed from previous research and identified the most effect risk management techniques.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Gonzales, Epigmenio.; Li, Wenxing; Murphy, Mike; O'Connor, James T.; Bhat, Chandra R. & Yildirim, Yetkin

Megaregion Freight Planning: A Synopsis

Description: "Megaregion interest has grown strongly in the last decade and is now seen be a growing number of planners as offering effective contributions to problems such as modal congestion, development disparity, and air pollution that individual metropolitan areas or cities cannot resolve individually. Megaregion planning presents an alternative way of mitigating metropolitan problems of large-scale transportation systems, green infrastructure, and economic development and has attracted a number of tr… more
Date: March 2012
Creator: Harrison, Robert; Johnson, Donovan; Loftus-Otway, Lisa; Hutson, Nathan; Seedah, Dan; Zhang, Ming et al.

Implementing a project and portfolio management system for TxDOT project development

Description: "Beginning in the summer of 1999, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) started developing the framework for implementing a sophisticated new system to manage its large and diverse portfolio of projects during their development phase. This was followed by the implementation itself for managing project schedules, project and portfolio resources and costs during their development cycle. This unique and challenging implementation across TxDOT encompassed all functional areas involved in the p… more
Date: October 2011
Creator: Khwaja, Nabeel

Materials selection for concrete overlays : information survey review and evaluation of existing concrete overlays in Texas

Description: "A comprehensive search and review of the use of concrete overlays by the TxDOT districts as well as other DOTs was conducted, with special emphasis focused on gathering information about the constituent materials and mixture proportioning used in the concrete overlays. This review also included new materials such as fibers used in previous studies and new types of fibers currently available. Publications and articles covering the various overlay rehabilitations were used as the background this… more
Date: April 2011
Creator: Kim, Dong Hyun; Trevino, Manuel; Whitney, David P. & Ferron, Raissa

Design and application of accessible land-use modeling tools for Texas regions

Description: "This report consists of two parts. The first summarizes key details of the Suitability Analysis (SA) model, while the second illustrates the implementation details of the Gravity Land-Use Model (G-LUM). Both modeling approaches have been applied to the Austin region of Texas, but for different case study examples."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Kockelman, Kara; Anjomani, Ardeshir; Paul, Binny M.; Nostikasai, Dian; Tayyebi, Ali & Kharel, Gehandra

Estimating Texas motor vehicle operating costs : final report

Description: "This report and its appendices summarize the findings of a 2-year extension to the TxDOT-sponsored study 0-5974 entitled "Estimating Texas Motor Vehicle Costs" undertaken by a Center for Transportation Research (CTR) team of mechanical engineers and economists at The University of Texas at Austin."
Date: November 2011
Creator: Matthews, Ronald; Seedah, Dan; Ates, Murat; Kim, Kyung Jin; Anderson, Garrett; Vaughn, James et al.

The Texas rigid pavement database annual report, 1999

Description: "This report analyzes and evaluates new information collected in 1998 for the jointed concrete pavement (JCP) database, which currently comprises information on 137 test sections. This report demonstrates the relevance of maintaining the rigid pavement database (RPDB)."
Date: November 2003
Creator: Medina, Cesar; Dossey, Terry & McCullough, B. Frank

Texas Roundabout Guidelines: Final Report

Description: "This report contains best practices for choosing appropriate locations and design concepts for Texas roundabouts. This research effort is comprised of the following components: synthesis of available literature and analysis methods, development of capacity analysis methods, validation and enhancement of existing tools, and a spreadsheet tool to aid in roundabout planning and implementation."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Mills, Alison; Duthie, Jen; Machemehl, Randy B.; Ferguson, Erin; Waller, Travis; Sun, Dazhi et al.

Traffic Operations and Safety Benefits of Active Traffic Strategies on TxDOT Freeways

Description: Report discussing a project, which developed a series of interdependent models and a simulation framework to evaluate the traffic operations and safety benefits of ATM strategies. Four ATM scenarios were evaluated in this study: variable speed limits (VSL), peak-period shoulder use, VSL and shoulder use, and ramp metering.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Nezamuddin, N.; Jiang, Nan (Writer on transportation); Zhang, Ti; Waller, S. Travis & Sun, Dazhi

Proposed TxDOT strategic research program

Description: "This report documents the results of the work conducted by the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), and The Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation (TechMRT) at Texas Tech University, to assist TxDOT in developing the elements of the SRP."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Persad, Khali (Khali Ram), 1956-; Gilliland, Cynthia A. Weatherby; Nash, Phil; Machemehl, Randy B.; Stockton, Bill & Cleveland, Theodore

Implementation of Database for TxDOT ARRA Projects

Description: Report discussing projects initiated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), a fiscal stimulus package signed by President Obama on March 6, 2009. State agencies like the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) who received ARRA funds had to report, on a monthly basis, various data on each project in the ARRA program, including staff numbers, hours worked, and payroll. TxDOT asked the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) to identify and isolate specific elements … more
Date: August 2011
Creator: Persad, Khali R. & Suri, Jasjyot S.
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