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National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Testing of Sites 41LT56, 41LT310, 41LT387, 41LT397, 41LT415, 41LT422, 41LT424, 41LT425, and 41RT413 in Luminant's Kosse Mine, Limestone and Robertson Counties, Texas (open access)

National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Testing of Sites 41LT56, 41LT310, 41LT387, 41LT397, 41LT415, 41LT422, 41LT424, 41LT425, and 41RT413 in Luminant's Kosse Mine, Limestone and Robertson Counties, Texas

Report on the results of archaeological investigations at nine sites at Luminant's Kosse Mine in Limestone and Robertson Counties, Texas, to determine whether the sites were eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Atkins North America, Inc.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Providing for Backyard Wildlife, A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Feeders, Houses and Plants (open access)

Providing for Backyard Wildlife, A Do-It-Yourself Guide for Feeders, Houses and Plants

Brochure containing information "to assist people wanting to create habitat and features that will attract wildlife to their backyards" (About the Author). The table of contents lists sections for: platform bird feeder, platform butterfly feeder, simple squirrel and dove feeder, suet feeder, solitary bees, pollinator box, general use nesting box, nesting platform, butterfly attracting plants, and hummingbird plants for Texas.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Brown, Walter
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Short-Run Impact of Gas Prices on Toll Road Use (open access)

The Short-Run Impact of Gas Prices on Toll Road Use

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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Financial Report: 2011 (open access)

Capital Area Council of Governments Annual Financial Report: 2011

Annual financial report of the Capital Area Council of Governments including summaries and statements for relevant funds, as well as supplementary information.
Date: September 30, 2011
Creator: Capital Area Council of Governments (Austin, Tex.)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Understanding emerging commuting trends in a weekly travel decision frame: implications for mega-region transportation planning (open access)

Understanding emerging commuting trends in a weekly travel decision frame: implications for mega-region transportation planning

"This study analyzed LDC/TRC using national datasets available in the U.S."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Chen, Binbin & Zhang, Ming
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Come and Get it (open access)

Come and Get it

Pamphlet providing information on unclaimed property in Texas, including facts about Texas unclaimed property, how to claim it, and the Texas Match the Promise Foundation.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $483 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $483 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $483 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: September 8, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts Tax (open access)

Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts Tax

Flyer summarizing the Mixed Beverage Gross Receipts Tax and providing examples of general disclosure statements.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Comptroller's Tobacco Enforcement Program (open access)

Texas Comptroller's Tobacco Enforcement Program

This documents provides information about the Texas Comptroller's Tobacco Enforcement Program.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unclaimed Property: Quick Start Reporting Guide, 2011 (open access)

Unclaimed Property: Quick Start Reporting Guide, 2011

Pamphlet describing how to report unclaimed property in Texas, including who is required to report unclaimed property and reporting methods.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Developing infrastructure for interconnecting transportation network and electric grid (open access)

Developing infrastructure for interconnecting transportation network and electric grid

"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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Managing commodity risks in highway contracts: quantifying premiums, accounting for correlations among risk factors, and designing optimal price-adjustment contracts (open access)

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

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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Water Development Board Report September 2011 UTBEST3D Hydrodynamic Model Verification of Corpus Christi Bay (open access)

Texas Water Development Board Report September 2011 UTBEST3D Hydrodynamic Model Verification of Corpus Christi Bay

Report discussing a recent application of the UTBEST3D (University of Texas Bay and Estuary 3D) simulator which uses the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method defined on unstructured prismatic meshes. The project aimed to produce a calibrated model of Corpus Christi Bay and compared the simulated results to real-world data to test the accuracy of the simulator.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Dawson, Clinton N.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Riparian Productivity in Relation to Stream Dynamics Along Two Rivers: San Antonio and Brazos, in Central/South Texas, Final Report (open access)

Riparian Productivity in Relation to Stream Dynamics Along Two Rivers: San Antonio and Brazos, in Central/South Texas, Final Report

"The purpose of this study is to characterize the riparian zone along two central Texas Rivers (San Antonio River and Brazos River) to determine their connectivity to stream dynamics. It will also examine tree basal growth in response to river flow in the riparian forest along each of the rivers."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Duke, Jacquelyn R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Your ERS Connection, Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 2011 (open access)

Your ERS Connection, Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 2011

Newsletter of the Employees Retirement System of Texas discussing news, policy changes, and other information about retirement and benefits.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Employees Retirement System of Texas
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Modern traffic control devices to improve safety at rural intersections (open access)

Modern traffic control devices to improve safety at rural intersections

"The goal of this project was to obtain a better understanding of modern TCD capabilities. Researchers conducted the following tasks literature review, crash data examination, TxDOT district survey, laboratory survey, field study, and development of principles for selecting TCDs."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Fitzpatrick, Kay; Chrysler, Susan T.; Sunkari, Srivivasa R.; Cooper, Joel; Park, Byung-Jung & Higgins, Laura
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Newsletter of Texas State Representative John Frullo: September 2011 (open access)

Newsletter of Texas State Representative John Frullo: September 2011

Newsletter of John Frullo for his constituents in district 84 discussing news, activities, and various updates related to work in the Texas legislature. It focuses on Alicia's Law (HB 3746), key conservative initiatives, support for veterans, the 2nd Amendment, tier-one status for Texas Tech University, government efficiency, and the House budget; it also includes a voters guide and information on legislation that Frullo was involved in.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Frullo, John Michael
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Literature review of current practices in dealing with fluctuations of maintenance budgets (open access)

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

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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The 2011 Mileage-Based User Fee Symposium (open access)

The 2011 Mileage-Based User Fee Symposium

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.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Senior automobile crashes and fatalities in Texas : are older Texas drivers safe? (open access)

Senior automobile crashes and fatalities in Texas : are older Texas drivers safe?

Report on a study examining data from Texas Department of Transportation's accident records during 2003-2008 to determine if enacting Katie's law resulted in a decrease in senior fatalities. The study also looks at additional senior friendly transportation initiatives.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Goodwin, Gwendolyn C. & Price, Anthony
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Megaregion freight movements : a case study of the Texas triangle (open access)

Megaregion freight movements : a case study of the Texas triangle

"U.S. population growth is predicted to substantially increase over the next 40 years, particularly in areas with large regional economies forecasted to contain over two-thirds of the national economic activity. In Texas, population growth from 200 to 2040 is predicted to increase around 72% and produce a diverse population of some 36 million. This will comprise 12% rural and 88% urban, much of it in the 26 metropolitan areas. These population and economic estimates stimulated the exploration of appropriate planning strategies to address the needs of serving such growth, including a macro approach encapsulated in the term mega-regions. Although some planners are skeptical about whether this concept enhances traditional planning, it does merit examination in the freight transportation sector, which tends to get less emphasis in community and regional planning. Texas has at least one mega-region, and the largest-The Texas Triangle, comprising Dallas/Fort Worth-San Antonio-Houston-generates over 60% of the gross stat product. The project will consider the Texas Triangle with an emphasis on maintaining efficient future freight movement and will offer multimodel solutions to moving freight to , between, and within the metropolitan economies of the mega-region to 2050."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Harrison, Robert & Seedah, Dan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Testing information to improve communication with communities and decision makers (open access)

Testing information to improve communication with communities and decision makers

"This work focuses on important concepts in making information available to decision makers and the public, specifically focused on the Transportation Industry. The emphasis is on the PowerPoint presentation and enhancing the message through this medium. Critical elements include adhering to the assigned time limit, incorporating animation, font size, including images, techniques, and preparation. While much information is available on-line about presentations, audiences at too many transportation meetings view substandard presentations, which likely negatively affect understanding and decision-making. Blending available information, focus group feedback and observations yield a foundation for transportation planners in improving presentations to constituents."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Lewis, Carol Abek & Hall, Kadijah
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Harvest Trends: 2010 (open access)

Harvest Trends: 2010

Annual report documenting compiled statistics on the volume of timber harvested, timber values, production of wood products, and forest management activities.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Li, Yanshu; Edgar, Chris & Carraway, Burl
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Analysis of roadway departure crashes on two-lane rural roads in Texas (open access)

Analysis of roadway departure crashes on two-lane rural roads in Texas

"This three-year research effort was undertaken to identify factors that influence the number and severity of roadway departure crashes on rural two-lane highways in Texas and provide engineering countermeasures to reduce this type of crash. The study objectives were accomplished by analyzing crash, traffic flow, and geometric data between 2003 and 2008 and conducting site visits at 20 sites having the highest crash rates at four TxDOT districts."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Lord, Dominique; Brewer, Marcus A.; Fitzpatrick, Kay; Greedipally, Srinivas R. & Peng, Yichuan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History