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Performance measures for metropolitan planning organizations

Description: "The aim of this project is to consolidate available knowledge and provide guidance to transportation agencies, specifically MPOs, to help them incorporate performance measurement relating to transportation planning and operations. This research includes a survey of agency practices and agency needs, development of guidance on effective performance measurement and allied issues of strategic planning, goal setting, and data collection."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Moore, Devin; Ramni, Tara; Norboge, Nicolas & Turnbull, Katherine
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Managed lane travelers: do they pay for travel as they claimed they would?

Description: "This study examined if travelers are paying for travel on managed lanes (MLs) as they indicated that they would in a 2008 survey. To achieve the objectives, an Internet-based stated preferences (SP) survey of Houston's Katy Freeway travelers was conducted in 2010. Three survey design methodologies-Db-efficent, random level generation, and adaptive random-were tested in this survey."
Date: May 2011
Creator: Devarasetty, Prem Chand; Shaw, W. Douglass & Burris, Mark
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transportation for humanity: meeting the needs in the colonias

Description: "The goal of the research was to access the current transportation challenges facing residents of the colonias and determine the feasibility of vehicle procurement through donations or at-cost purchases from a variety of entities and/or individuals to support the program, and recommendations for alternative funding mechanisms to support the local community centers in their efforts to provide transportation to the colonias population."
Date: September 2010
Creator: Storey, Beverly B. & Jasek, Debbie
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Comparison of Fatigue Analysis Approaches for Hot-Mix Asphalt to Ensure a State of Good Repair

Description: This project focused on comparing stiffness and fatigue life output from two approaches for hot-mix asphalt: the Modified Calibrated Mechanistic with Surface Energy (CSME*) approach and the Push-Pull Viscoelastic Continuum Damage (PP-VECD) approach.
Date: October 2013
Creator: Texas A & M Transportation Institute
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

A Transportation Corridor Analysis Toolkit

Description: "The methodology described herein can be used in other multistate corridors and serve as an initial assessment of the condition and performance of the national freight network" (p. i).
Date: October 2013
Creator: Seedah, Dan P. K.; Walthall, Rydell D.; Fullerton, Garrett; Owens, Travis D. & Harrison, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

U in the Driver Seat - A Peer-To-Peer Pilot Program for Decreasing Car Crashes by College Students

Description: This is the report of a project done by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute on gaining a better understanding of risk awareness, success of P2P messaging, increased understanding of safety messaging and design elements, and improve the program model.
Date: September 2013
Creator: Tisdale, Stacey M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Decision-Support Framework for Quantifying the Most Economical Incentive/Disincentive Dollar Amounts for Critical Highway Pavement Rehabilitation Projects

Description: This is a study done by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute as a way of reducing construction duration is to reward contractors with and early completion incentive bonus and levy fines for delays.
Date: November 2013
Creator: Choi, Kunhee; Park, Eun Sug & Bae, Junseo
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sustainability of Bridge Foundations Using Electrical Resistivity Imaging and Induced Polarization to Support Transportation Safety

Description: This is a report by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute on the sustainability of bridge foundations. Research explored the feasibility and effectiveness of induced polarization and electrical resistivity imaging for determining the depth of unknown foundations.
Date: April 2014
Creator: Hurlebaus, Stefan; Briaud, Jean-Louis & Tucker, Stacey
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Development of reliable pavement models

Description: "The current report proposes a framework for estimating the reliability of a given pavement structure as analyzed by the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG). The methodology proposes using a previously fit response surface, in place of the time-demanding implicit limit state functions used within the MEPDG, in combination with an analytical approach to estimating reliability using First-Order and Second-Order Reliability Methods (FORM and SORM). Additionally, in order to assess … more
Date: May 2011
Creator: Prozzi, Jorge Alberto & Aguiar-Moya, José Pablo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

U.S. and Texas international trade and transportation

Description: "This report examines various aspects of international trade, transportation, and foreign practices implemented to facilitate and fund transport-related infrastructure. The report is composed of six chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the U.S. international trade outlook. The second chapter describes the roles played by air cargo transport, ports and ocean carriers, railroads, and the motor carrier industry in U.S. international trade. The third and fourth chapters focus on Texa… more
Date: July 2011
Creator: Anazia, Larry K. & Boske, Leigh B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Robust pricing of transportation networks under uncertainty

Description: "This project will develop these models, which will be suitable either to determine the best pricing policies to maximize revenue or minimize congestion, or to evaluate alternative toll policies according to these metrics."
Date: September 2010
Creator: Gardner, Lauren Marie; Waller, S. Travis & Boyles, Stephen D.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Impacts of pending federal greenhouse gas legislation on the Texas transportation sector

Description: Report on a study to assess current regulatory attempts to mitigate climate change and how such proposed action would impact the Texas transportation sector economically and provides recommendations for how policymakers can build consensus in Texas to address carbon emissions.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Woodward, James T. & Boske, Leigh B.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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