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Comparing Perceptions and Measures of Congestion

Description: This report attempts to connect the relationship between perceived congestion as determined by IBM's Commuter Pain Survey results and measured congestion from the Urban Mobility Report (UMR) in 10 cities across the United States.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Le, Minh; Turner, Shawn; Wikander, John & Poe, Chris
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The Transportation Economy : Just in Time

Description: This document discusses a "project to produce a short educational video, targeted at middle school and high school students, illustrating the critical role transportation plays in our modern economy. This report documents the production of 6.5-minute video that provides students with a glimpse of how transportation has become an integral part of the modern economy." (p. 7).
Date: July 2012
Creator: Cole, Richard G. & Dennis, David
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Algorithms for Routing Vehicles and Their Application to the Paratransit Vehicle Scheduling Problem

Description: "As the demand for paratransit services increases, there is a constant pressure to maintain the quality of service provided to the customers while minimizing the cost of operation: this is especially important as the availability of public funding for paratransit services has been on the decline. Key tasks in accomplishing this objective are efficiently allocating vehicles to service trips and adjusting the schedules of vehicles dynamically in response to calls received by the service providers… more
Date: March 2012
Creator: Park, Myoungkuk; Oberlin, Paul; Rathinam, Sivakumar; Quadrifoglio, Luca & Darbha, Swaroop
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Use of Performance Measurement to Include Air Quality and Energy Into Mileage-Based User Fees

Description: "This research project is aimed at establishing a framework for levying MBUFs designed to achieve various air quality improvement policy objectives. This research presents the first step toward a pricing framework based on the concept of performance measurement that systematically defines and incorporates potential air quality goals. The process of developing the proposed framework included defining the interactive role of user fees and pricing in roadway transportation operations and identif… more
Date: March 2012
Creator: Farzaneh, Reza; Novak, Kristen; Baker, Richard T. & Goodin, Ginger
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Effect of climate change on crop production patterns with implications to transport flows and inland waterways

Description: "This report analyzed the demand for transportation capacity and changes in transportation flows on inland waterways due to shifts in crop production patterns induced by climate change."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Vedenov, Dmitry V.; Fuller, Stephen W.; McCarl, Cruce A.; Attavanich, Witsanu & Ahmedov, Zafarbek
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Texas transit leadership initiative

Description: Report on the Texas Transit Leadership Initiative which researched national leadership development programs and developed a longterm leadership development program for use by the transit industry in Texas.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Cherrington, Linda Kay; Arndt, Jeffrey C.; Edrington, Suzie & Taylor, Ryan
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Biofuels energy policy and grain transportation flows: implications for inland waterways and short sea shipping

Description: "This project develops a foundation for analysis of the effects of U.S. bio-fuel energy policy on domestic and international grain flows and patterns."
Date: September 2010
Creator: Vedenov, Dmitry V.; Fuller, Stephen W.; Power, Gabriel; Ahmedov, Zafarbek; Vadali, Sharada & Burris, Mark
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Valuing public sector risk exposure in transportation public-private partnerships

Description: "This report presents a methodological framework to evaluate public sector financial risk exposure when delivering transportation infrastructure through public-private partnership (PPP) agreements in the United States (U.S.)."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Bujanda, Arturo & Valdez-Ceniceros, Gabriel Alejandro
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Refining the Real-Timed Urban Mobility Report

Description: This report describes a methodological improvement in the Urban Mobility Report (UMR) arterial street congestion calculations, including a change in the definition of "free-flow speed," which is used for delay calculations on arterial streets.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Lomax, Tim; Turner, Shawn; Eisele, Bill; Schrank, David; Geng, Lauren & Shollar, Brian
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Multi-Vehicle Mobility Allowance Shuttle Transit (MAST) System: An Analytical Model to Select the Fleet Size and a Scheduling Heuristic

Description: This report discusses the mobility allowance shuttle transit [MAST] system which is a hybrid transit system in which vehicles are allowed to deviate from a fixed rout to serve flexible demand. The mixed interfere programming formulation analyzed the impacts of time headways between consecutive transit vehicles on the performance of a two-vehicle MAST system.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Quadrifoglio, Luca & Lu, Wei
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Examining Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices for Addressing Rural Mobility and Economic Development Under SAFETEA-LU's Coordinated Planning and Human Services Framework

Description: This report evaluates the recently developed coordinated transit and human services plan both the processes that have been adopted throughout the state as well as they types of outcomes that have emerged.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Martin, June; Giusti, Ceclia; Dumbaugh, Eric & Cherrington, Linda
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Evaluating the Use of Transfers for Improving Rural Public Transportation Systems

Description: "In this report researchers consider a variation of the regular demand responsive transit system that adopts the transfer practice to reduce operating costs.Researchers evaluated the effect of different transfer operating policies by developing a simulation model of several plausible scenarios. The results indicate that zoning with transfer can provide significant benefits paratransit operations that are managing zoning structure."
Date: August 2011
Creator: Quadrifoglio, Luca; Shen, Chung-Wei & Edrington, Suzie
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Statistical Analysis of Vessel Waiting Time and Lockage Times on the Upper Mississippi River

Description: "The purpose of this report is to identify and evaluate non-structural alternatives those not requiring construction, but rather procedural or policy changes, for instance, congestion fee, excess lockage time charges, helper boats, switch boats, deck winches, and moorings that might be employed to offer nearby congestion relief."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Wu, Ximing; Chang, Meng-Shiuh; Fuller, Steven & Zhang, Yu Yvette
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The Short-Run Impact of Gas Prices on Toll Road Use

Description: Report on the results of a study examining the elasticity of travel with respect to gas price by examining how recent changes in gas prices have impacted travel on specific facilities: toll facilities. This study developed models that account for the many other exogenous factors influencing toll road use (such as local economy, population, and toll rates), and provide an elasticity of toll road demand with respect to gas price independent of those other factors.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Burris, Mark & Huang, Chao
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Creating the Next Generation of Transportation Professionals

Description: Report on a project that investigated new methods for conducting educational outreach activities for kindergarten through twelfth grade students to introduce students to transportation engineering and other technology careers, and compare the effectiveness of various implementation methods.
Date: November 2011
Creator: Finley, Melisa D. & Jasek, Debbie
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The 2011 Mileage-Based User Fee Symposium

Description: Report on Mileage-Based User Fees from the third annual two-day Symposium on Mileage-Based User Fees. Three main topics are addressed in the report: the most likely way to implement mileage-based user fees, state-level research and implementation on mileage-based user fees, and public acceptance of mileage-based user fees.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Goodin, Ginger; Wood, Nicholas & Baker, Richard T.
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