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2012 Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals

Description: This report focuses on the mission and objectives of transportation security professionals and introduces a pre-selected group of high school students to the various career opportunities within the profession.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Godazi, Khosro; Goodwin, Ronald E. & Miller, Alexandra (Writer on transportation)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Prioritization of highway maintenance functions using multi-attribute decision making with fuzzy pairwise comparison

Description: Report on a methodological framework to help highway agencies develop maintenance plans that are minimally impacted by budget fluctuations. It includes a case study testing the effectiveness of the methodology using data from the Texas Department of Transportation.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Zhang, Zhanmin & Liu, Wenxing
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Getting the Parking Right for Transit-Oriented Development

Description: "The main objective of this study is to report the state-of-the-knowledge on parking regulations and practice influencing the planning, design, and implementation of TOD. The report first offers a narrative review of the published works on TOD-Parking. Based on the review findings it then presents a matrix of best parking practices for TOD."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Zhang, Ming; Mulholland, Katie; Zhang, Jane & Gomez-Sanchez, Ana J.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Opportunities and challenges for high-speed rail corridors in Texas

Description: "This thesis seeks to clarify the potential for passenger rail specifically in Texas through comparison and contrast with other regions and nations in the midst of new national-level knowledge and the changing transportation opportunities and challenges facing the state."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Carroll, Todd
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Export growth, energy costs, and sustainable supply chains

Description: "The report examines sustainable supply chains in North America and the role played by rail inter-modal operations in lowering ten-mile fuel and emission costs. It examines whether current systems favor imports over exports - a current complaint from some shippers - and whether the development of inland inter-modal ports offers a solution to moving future freight into and out of large metropolitan areas."
Date: November 2010
Creator: Harrison, Rob & Seedah, Dan
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Taxiway aircraft traffic analysis at George Bush Intercontinental Airport

Description: Report assessing the congestion at George Bush International Airport (IAH) by analyzing taxi times and flight data during different hours of the day. The capacity of IAH is investigated by examining the number of departing flights on the ground. The report shows that IAH is operating close to the capacity most of the time.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Yin, Kai; Tian, Chunyu; Wang, Bruce X. & Quadrifoglio, Luca
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Responses of trucking operations to road pricing in central Texas

Description: "The purpose of this study is to identify and quantify how the different segments of the trucking industry would respond to road pricing applications, including traditional toll rads, variably priced toll roads, mixed-use express lane facilities, and truck-only tolled facilities."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Walton, C. Michael & Rutzen, Beatriz
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Quantitative characterization of microstructure of asphalt mixtures

Description: "The main objective of this study was to quantitatively characterize the three dimensional micro-structure of the asphalt binder withing the fine aggregate matrix of an asphalt mixture and compare the influence of binder content, coarse aggregate gradation, and fine aggregate gradation on this micro-structure."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Badgekar, Swapneel; Bhasin, Amit & Izadi, Anoosha
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Examining the Role of Trip Length in Commuter Decisions to Use Public Transportation

Description: Report that examines traveler trip lengths across transit modes, work trip duration frequency distributions and mode share distributions in 7 major cities, 8 Combined Statistical Areas and one Metropolitan Statisical Area and found the effects of increasing population and transit mdoe gvariety on work trip travel time and travel distance.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Yu, Yao & Machemehl, Randy
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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