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Development of warrants for installation of dual right-turn lanes at signalized intersections

Description: "Right-turn lanes provide space for the deceleration and storage of right-turn vehicle, and separate turning vehicles from through movements. Dual right-turn lanes are increasingly used at urban intersections primarily for two reason: (1) to accommodate high right-turn demands and avoid turn-pocket overflows, and/or (2) to prevent right-turn vehicles that exit from a nearby upstream freeway off-ramp (on the left of the roadway) from abruptly changing too many lanes toward the right-turn lane a… more
Date: April 2012
Creator: Chen, Xiaoming & Li, Da
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fracture Properties and Fatigue Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Binders

Description: "The main objective of this study was to evaluate the inherent fatigue cracking resistance of asphalt binders in the form of a matrix with rigid particle inclusions. The underlying rational for this approach was to subject the binders to a state of stress that is similar to the one in a full asphalt mixture."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Bhasin, Amit; Izadi, Anoosha & Motamed, Arash
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compendium of student papers: 2011 undergraduate transportation scholars program.

Description: Report compiling the research papers written by students participating in the 2011 Undergraduate Transportation Scholars Program. The papers in this compendium report on the following topics: evaluating the impact of nighttime work zone lighting characteristics n motorists; late night roadway visibility; investigation of the use and pricing of the I-15 express lanes in San Diego; intercity passenger rail access to airports: a case study at the Milwaukee airport; development of a background comp… more
Date: May 2012
Creator: Desorcie, Felicia; Jian, Ruoxin; Kelly, Pete; Larson, Shawn; Rasulo, Marcus; Rivera, Joshua et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Laboratory evaluation of friction loss and compactability of asphalt mixtures

Description: "This study aimed to develop prediction models for friction loss and laboratory compaction of asphalt mixtures. In addition, the study evaluated the effect of compaction level and compaction method of skid resistance and the internal structure of asphalt mixtures."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Kassem, Emad Abdel-Rahman; Masad, Eyad; Awed, Ahmed & Little, Dallas
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Design of a Comprehensive Microsimulator of Household Vehicle Fleet Composition, Utilization, and Evolution

Description: Report on a comprehensive vehicle fleet composition, utilization, and evolution simulator that can be used to forecast household vehicle ownership and mileage by type of vehicle over time.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Paleti, Rajesh; Eluru, Naveen; Bhat, Chandra R.; Pendyala, Ram M.; Adler, Thomas J. & Goulias, Konstadinos G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Predicting damage in concrete due to expansive aggregates : modeling to enable sustainable material design

Description: "A poroelastic model is developed that can predict stress and strain distributions and, thus, ostensibly damage likelihood in concrete under freezing conditions caused by aggregates with undesirable combinations of geometry and constitutive properties.Sensitivity of the stress distributions to the aggregate and matrix constitutive parameters are assessed to allow improved concrete design."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Grasley, Zachary Charles & Rahman, Syeda
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reviewing, analyzing and updating marketing strategies to increase public transit ridership

Description: This report explains that with the fuel prices increasing and environmental impact getting special attention, it is important to increase our knowledge of the best marketing practices to attract riders to public transits. In order to move people to public transit a deeper analysis of the decision variables and a strategy to promote public transit is required.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Lewis, Carol Abek
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

International air cargo operations and gateways: their emerging importance to the state of Texas

Description: "This report examines the potential of Texas-based airports, especially Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport and the Houston Airport System, to emerge as international gateways for global trade in general and trans-Pacific trade in particular. The period covered is 2001 to 2006."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Cho, Hee Deok & Boske, Leigh B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Impact of performance goals on the needs of highway infrastructure maintenance

Description: "This report proposes a methodological framework that is aimed at assisting highway agencies with the problem of objectively analyzing policy decisions in terms of the performance goals for their highway networks that would minimize the total transport costs to the society."
Date: July 2011
Creator: Zhang, Zhanmin & Jaipuria, Sunny
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
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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The light-duty-vehicle fleet's evolution: anticipating Plug-In-Electric-Vehicle adoption and greenhouse gas emissions across the U.S. fleet

Description: "The first part of this report relies on stated and revealed preference survey results across a sample of U.S. households to first ascertain vehicle acquisition, disposal, and use patterns, and then simulate these for a synthetic population over time. The second part of this report relies on data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) to estimate the welfare impacts of carbon taxes and household-level capping of emission (with carbon-credit trading allowed)."
Date: May 2011
Creator: Kockelman, Kara; Musti, Sashank & Paul, Binny
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Compendium of student papers: 2010 undergraduate transportation scholars program

Description: Report presenting the research papers written by students participating in the 2010 Undergraduate Transportation Scholars Program. The papers are titled "Estimation of Carriers/Truckers Value of Time Due to Congestion," "Evaluation of Retroreflectivity Measurement Techniques for Profiled and Rumble Stripe Pavement Markings," "Analysis of Retroreflectivity and Color Degradation in Sign Sheeting," "Evaluating the Effectiveness of LED Enhanced Stop Paddles for School Crossing Guard Use," "Incorpor… more
Date: June 2011
Creator: Hawkins, H. Gene; Almy, Isaac; Ballard, Lance; Brimley, Bradford; Huff, William; Larson, Gregory et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Urban Triangle: Creating a Spatial Decision Support System for Mobility Policy and Investments That Shape the Sustainable Growth of Texas

Description: Report on a project examining the Texas Urban Triangle to identify issues that arise with the rapid growth of the area and develop a tool, Spatial Decision Support System, to assist local municipalities in making policy decisions.
Date: November 2010
Creator: Bright, Elise M.; Morgan, Curtis Alan & Neuman, Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Managing commodity risks in highway contracts: quantifying premiums, accounting for correlations among risk factors, and designing optimal price-adjustment contracts

Description: Report on a study investigating the impact of commodity price risk on construction cost and the optimal risk hedging of such risks using price adjustment clauses.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Damnjanovic, Ivan & Zhou, Xue
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Investigate existing Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) technologies for port cargo inspections

Description: "The goal of this research was to identify the most effective and efficient combination of NII technologies for inspecting cargo arriving at U.S. ports. For this purpose, a discrete-event simulation model was developed to simulate the cargo inspection procedure. By simulating the operations of different combinations of NII technologies, the effectiveness and efficiency of the various combinations were evaluated."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Salehi, Yasamin & Wang, Yubian
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Developing infrastructure for interconnecting transportation network and electric grid

Description: "This report is primarily focused on the development of mathematical models that can be used to support decisions regarding a charging station location and installation problem. The major parts of developing the models included identification of the problem, development of mathematical models in the form of bi-level and stochastic programming problems, and development of a solution approach using a meta-heuristic method."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Damnjanovic, Ivan & Kim, Seok
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The potential for improving rail international intermodal services in Texas and the Southwest region of the United States

Description: "The report covers a period of great significance for railroading in the U.S as it contains a number of milestones now shaping the future performance of the industry. The specific subject is improving inter-modal service so that it can support state and regional highway planning, now facing severe financial cut-backs as revenue sources become fully committed to bond servicing, user taxes, loose purchasing power and fuel consumption begins to fall."
Date: June 2011
Creator: Blaze, James R. & Harrison, Robert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hybrid distribution trucks: costs and benefits

Description: Report of a project evaluating the costs of using a hybrid truck for package delivery trucks, beverage delivery trucks, and refuse trucks, determining that the additional cost (with current prices) of the hybrid refuse truck was justified, but not for the other two trucks.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Harrison, Robert & Anderson, Garrett
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automated generation of virtual scenarios in driving simulator from highway design data

Description: "The current project explored ways to create custom roadway segments for use in the TTI driving simulator. The project initially attempted to use AutoCAD Civil 3D roadway drawings and export them for use in the simulator."
Date: September 2010
Creator: Zhao, Xi; Nelson, Alicia A.; Chrysler, Susan & Zhang, Yunlong
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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