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Inmate Monthly Report: February 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: February 2012

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Thinking Ahead, My Way, My Choice, My Life at the End (open access)

Thinking Ahead, My Way, My Choice, My Life at the End

This workbook "provides a way to advocate for what you want in life support treatment and other end-of-life choices" (p. 1).
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Aging and Disability Services.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brazos River Basin and Bay Expert Science Team Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations Report (open access)

Brazos River Basin and Bay Expert Science Team Environmental Flow Regime Recommendations Report

This report from the Brazos River Basin and Associated Bay and Estuary System Science Team (Brazos BBEST) is part of Texas Legislature Senate Bill 3 that created a process to set environmental flow standards for river basin and bay systems in Texas. This report gives recommendations for an environmental flow regime for the Brazos Basin and associated areas." (p. 1-1).
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Tax Exemptions & Tax Incidence (open access)

Tax Exemptions & Tax Incidence

"This report estimates the value of each exemption, exclusion, discount, deduction, special accounting method, credit, refund, and special appraisal available under Texas' sales, franchise, gasoline, and motor vehicle sale taxes, as well as under the property tax levied by Texas school districts." (A Message From The Comptroller)
Date: March 7, 2013
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: February 2013 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: February 2013

Monthly report issued by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice providing statistical information about numbers and categories of inmates held in various locations across Texas.
Date: March 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foundation School Program Fiscal and Policy Studies. (open access)

Foundation School Program Fiscal and Policy Studies.

This report provides information on foundation school programs for fiscal and policy studies.
Date: March 2009
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Economic and Workforce Impacts of Hurricane Katrina, Demographic and Related Changes on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Shuttle Program: Findings and Recommendations (open access)

Economic and Workforce Impacts of Hurricane Katrina, Demographic and Related Changes on National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Space Shuttle Program: Findings and Recommendations

This report assesses factors that adversely affect the NASA's ability to fly up to sixteen missions between late 2006 and 2010, which include Hurricane Katrina and the aging of the shuttle program workforce. The report also offers findings and recommends strategies for consideration by NASA and its major contractors. (p. 1).
Date: March 30, 2007
Creator: King, Christopher T.; Smith, Tara; Anderson, MaryAnn; Hadley, Bryan; Kellison, J. B.; Evans, Eliza et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Peace Officer's Guide to the Alcoholic Beverage Code (open access)

Texas Peace Officer's Guide to the Alcoholic Beverage Code

Book detailing Texas's Alcoholic Beverage Code, focusing on the aspects most pertinent to peace officers. This version contains revisions to the Alcoholic Beverage Code resulting from the 84th Texas Legislature Session.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of traffic control devices : year 3 (open access)

Evaluation of traffic control devices : year 3

Report summarizing the research activities that were conducted between September 2010 and August 2011. The five primary activities were evaluating nighttime visibility along rural highways with bright signs, continuing the evaluation of lead-free thermoplastic pavement markings, evaluating contrast pavement marking layouts, continuing the evaluation of accelerated pavement marking test decks, and providing district support for hurricane evacuation routing.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Carlson, Paul J.; Pike, Adam M.; Miles, Jeff D.; Ullman, Brooke R. & Borchardt, Darrel W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementation of technology for rapid field detection of sulfate and organic content in soils (open access)

Implementation of technology for rapid field detection of sulfate and organic content in soils

This report discusses a protocol using the Veris 3150 for determination of sulfate-rich soils, which has been implemented to two full-scale projects in Dallas and Paris Districts.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Shon, Chang-Seon; Sebesta, Stephen & Scullion, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Megaregion Freight Planning: A Synopsis (open access)

Megaregion Freight Planning: A Synopsis

"Megaregion interest has grown strongly in the last decade and is now seen be a growing number of planners as offering effective contributions to problems such as modal congestion, development disparity, and air pollution that individual metropolitan areas or cities cannot resolve individually. Megaregion planning presents an alternative way of mitigating metropolitan problems of large-scale transportation systems, green infrastructure, and economic development and has attracted a number of transportation advocates since 2000."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Harrison, Robert; Johnson, Donovan; Loftus-Otway, Lisa; Hutson, Nathan; Seedah, Dan; Zhang, Ming et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Algorithms for Routing Vehicles and Their Application to the Paratransit Vehicle Scheduling Problem (open access)

Algorithms for Routing Vehicles and Their Application to the Paratransit Vehicle Scheduling Problem

"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 from the customers on the day of the service."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Park, Myoungkuk; Oberlin, Paul; Rathinam, Sivakumar; Quadrifoglio, Luca & Darbha, Swaroop
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use of Performance Measurement to Include Air Quality and Energy Into Mileage-Based User Fees (open access)

Use of Performance Measurement to Include Air Quality and Energy Into Mileage-Based User Fees

"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 identifying air quality performance measures for determining the appropriate vehicle mileage fee price."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Farzaneh, Reza; Novak, Kristen; Baker, Richard T. & Goodin, Ginger
System: The Portal to Texas History
Getting the Parking Right for Transit-Oriented Development (open access)

Getting the Parking Right for Transit-Oriented Development

"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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development and validation of a testing protocol for carbon sequestration using a controlled environment (open access)

Development and validation of a testing protocol for carbon sequestration using a controlled environment

"This project conducted initial testing to develop a method for quantifying plant and soil carbon sequestration capabilities under the controlled conditions of the Texas Transportation Institute's Environmental and Emissions Research Facility (EERF)."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Storey, Beverly B.; Foster, Derrold; Johnson, Jeremy & McFalls, Jett
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fracture Properties and Fatigue Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Binders (open access)

Fracture Properties and Fatigue Cracking Resistance of Asphalt Binders

"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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prototype Design for a Predictive Model to Improve Evacuation Operations: Technical Report (open access)

Prototype Design for a Predictive Model to Improve Evacuation Operations: Technical Report

"This project focused primarily on the specific issue of developing a new technical tool to help TxDOT and other key operating agencies/stakeholders better predict when major elements of evacuation operations should be implemented."
Date: March 2011
Creator: Henk, Russell H.; Songchitruksa, Praprut; Venglar, Steven & Lim, Gino
System: The Portal to Texas History
Collision Loads on Bridge Piers: Phase 2. Report of Guidelines for Designing Bridge Piers and Abutments for Vehicle Collisions (open access)

Collision Loads on Bridge Piers: Phase 2. Report of Guidelines for Designing Bridge Piers and Abutments for Vehicle Collisions

"An instrumented, simulated bridge pier was constructed, and two full-scale collisions with an 80,000-lb van-type tractor-trailer were performed on it. The trailer was ballasted with bags of sand on pallets. The simulated pier was 36 inches in diameter and was supported in the longitudinal direction by two load cells. Force-versus-time data were obtained from the load cells."
Date: March 2011
Creator: Buth, Eugene; Brackin, Michael S.; Williams, William F. & Fry, Gary T.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transportation planning, policy and climate change: making the long-term connection (open access)

Transportation planning, policy and climate change: making the long-term connection

"This UTCM project develops a greater understanding of decision and policy processes in regard to climate change and adaptation."
Date: March 2011
Creator: Lindquist, Eric
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 1996 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 1996

Quarterly publication of the Texas Comptroller's Office regarding sales and use tax in the state of Texas, including an analysis by county, analysis by industry, and related notes.
Date: March 25, 1997
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 1997 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 1997

Quarterly publication of the Texas Comptroller's Office regarding sales and use tax in the state of Texas, including an analysis by county, analysis by industry, and related notes.
Date: March 25, 1997
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 1998 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 1998

Quarterly publication of the Texas Comptroller's Office regarding sales and use tax in the state of Texas, including an analysis by county, analysis by industry, and related notes.
Date: March 10, 1999
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 2001 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 2001

Quarterly publication of the Texas Comptroller's Office regarding sales and use tax in the state of Texas, including an analysis by county, analysis by industry, and related notes.
Date: March 18, 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 2002 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Third Quarter, 2002

Quarterly publication of the Texas Comptroller's Office regarding sales and use tax in the state of Texas, including an analysis by county, analysis by industry, and related notes.
Date: March 17, 2003
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History