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Inmate Monthly Report: April 2013 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: April 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: May 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Eighty-first Legislature: Text of Conference Committee Report, Senate Bill No. 1, Regular Session (General Appropriations Act) (open access)

Eighty-first Legislature: Text of Conference Committee Report, Senate Bill No. 1, Regular Session (General Appropriations Act)

This report provides information on the Conference Committee Senate Bill No. 1 report.
Date: May 26, 2009
Creator: Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: April 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: April 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: May 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Aerial Assessment of Aquatic and Riparian Habitat in the Brazos River and Blanco River, Texas (open access)

Aerial Assessment of Aquatic and Riparian Habitat in the Brazos River and Blanco River, Texas

This report's purpose is "to evaluate the use of unmanned aerial vehicle (UVA) to acquire high resolution multispectral aerial imagery from Texas rivers supporting natural resource management objectives" (p. 2).
Date: May 6, 2012
Creator: Hardy, Thomas B.; Kollaus, Kristy; Tolman, Kristina; Heard, Thomas & Tennant, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) 3D Hydrodynamic Model Comparison (open access)

Finite Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) 3D Hydrodynamic Model Comparison

This document compares the performance of various hydrodynamic models on a common benchmark problem, The Corpus Christi Bay benchmark, designed by Texas Water Development Board (TWDB). The benchmark problem includes a data-set for calibration of the model and another data-set for verification of the model. The application of the Finite-Volume Coastal Ocean Model (FVCOM) to this benchmark problem enabled TWDB to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the model for use in predicting the three-dimensional circulation and salinity transport in bay and estuary systems on the Texas coast. (p. 2).
Date: May 3, 2011
Creator: Huang, Haosheng
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bell/Williamson Regional Water Supply Facility Plan (open access)

Bell/Williamson Regional Water Supply Facility Plan

This document contains the "Jarrel Schwertner Water Supply Corporation (JSWSC)final report for the Regional Water Supply Facility Planning Grant and their response to the Texas Development Boards (TWDB) draft report comment letter."
Date: May 3, 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Technical support -- Inter-model comparison for Corpus Christi Bay testbed: Final Report for Project (open access)

Technical support -- Inter-model comparison for Corpus Christi Bay testbed: Final Report for Project

Report on specific tasks in a coastal project including "results for Corpus Christi Bay circulation using OHSU's SELFE model (Zhang and Baptista 2008), as a part of the inter-model comparison exercise" (p. 1).
Date: May 2010
Creator: Zhang, Y. Joseph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Examining the Design and Developmental Factors Associated with Crashes Involving Pedestrians, Cyclists, and Motorists in Urban Environments (open access)

Examining the Design and Developmental Factors Associated with Crashes Involving Pedestrians, Cyclists, and Motorists in Urban Environments

This report study examines how urban form-related variables affect the incidence of crashes involving pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorists.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Dumbaugh, Eric; Li, Wenhao & Joh, Kenneth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Water System Map :  The Compilation of a Statewide Geodataset and Digital Maps of Water Service Area Boundaries (open access)

Texas Water System Map : The Compilation of a Statewide Geodataset and Digital Maps of Water Service Area Boundaries

This technical report describes the creation of a geodatabase of water system providers and the areas they serve (p. 1).
Date: May 16, 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alternative Methods of Flexible Base Compaction Acceptance (open access)

Alternative Methods of Flexible Base Compaction Acceptance

"This report summarizes the concerns expressed with the current Texas Department of Transportation(TxDOT) methods, presents approaches some TxDOT districts have taken to overcome problems, and summarizes the current status of other agencies' efforts at mechanistic based acceptance for flexible base. Also this report presents results and findings from a full-scale compaction experiment."
Date: May 2012
Creator: Sebesta, Stephen; Taylor, Ross & Frazier, James
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of an Early-Stage Toll Revenue Estimation Model (open access)

Development of an Early-Stage Toll Revenue Estimation Model

This report contains a standalone, spreadsheet-based model that prepares early-stage traffic and toll revenue estimates.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Beaty, Curtis & Lieu, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rational Use of terminal Achorages in Portland Cement Concrete Pavements (open access)

Rational Use of terminal Achorages in Portland Cement Concrete Pavements

Report describing the results of a study to look at various systems used to protect bridges from expansion of Portland cement concrete (PCC) due to changes in temperatures. It includes background information on the problem, identifies particular bridges that have concerns, a literature review on the topic, results of field experimentation, collection and analysis of data, and conclusions and recommendations, with supplementary references and appendices.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Jaiswal, Harshita; Ryu, Sungwoo; Choi, Pangil; Choi, Seongcheol; Jayawickrama, Priyantha; Senadheera, Sanjaya et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compendium of student papers: 2011 undergraduate transportation scholars program. (open access)

Compendium of student papers: 2011 undergraduate transportation scholars program.

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 complexity assessment tool; identifying pavement preservation treatments suitable for performance-related specifications; and arsenic content and retro-reflectivity of glass beads used in pavement markings.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Desorcie, Felicia; Jian, Ruoxin; Kelly, Pete; Larson, Shawn; Rasulo, Marcus; Rivera, Joshua et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of reliable pavement models (open access)

Development of reliable pavement models

"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 the accuracy of the FORM and SORM reliability estimates, Monte Carlo simulations are also performed."
Date: May 2011
Creator: Prozzi, Jorge Alberto & Aguiar-Moya, José Pablo
System: The Portal to Texas History
Managed lane travelers: do they pay for travel as they claimed they would? (open access)

Managed lane travelers: do they pay for travel as they claimed they would?

"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
System: The Portal to Texas History
The light-duty-vehicle fleet's evolution: anticipating Plug-In-Electric-Vehicle adoption and greenhouse gas emissions across the U.S. fleet (open access)

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

"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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Investigating the effect of freeway congestion thresholds on decision-making inputs (open access)

Investigating the effect of freeway congestion thresholds on decision-making inputs

Report on a study researching the differences inherent in the threshold choices using detailed freeway data from seven metropolitan areas in Texas.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Qu, Tongbin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Optimal infrastructure maintenance scheduling problem under budget uncertainty (open access)

Optimal infrastructure maintenance scheduling problem under budget uncertainty

Report on research exploring a general class of infrastructure asset management problems due to the uncertainty of the maintenance budget from year to year and to develop a programming model to address the problem.
Date: May 2011
Creator: Zhang, Zhanmin & Gao, Lu
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Bond Review Board Local Government Annual Report: 2011 (open access)

Texas Bond Review Board Local Government Annual Report: 2011

Annual report of local government debt in Texas, broken down by areas and categories, with statistics and other relevant information.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Texas Bond Review Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Quality in the Blaine Aquifer of Texas (open access)

Water Quality in the Blaine Aquifer of Texas

"The purpose of this report is to describe the water quality of the Blaine Aquifer, particularly as compared with public drinking water standards, and to analyze, if possible, any changes in water quality over time."
Date: May 2011
Creator: Hopkins, Janie & Muller, Chris
System: The Portal to Texas History
Impacts of pending federal greenhouse gas legislation on the Texas transportation sector (open access)

Impacts of pending federal greenhouse gas legislation on the Texas transportation sector

Report on a study to assess current regulatory attempts to mitigate climate change and how such proposed action would impact the Texas transportation sector economically and provides recommendations for how policymakers can build consensus in Texas to address carbon emissions.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Woodward, James T. & Boske, Leigh B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Fourth Quarter, 1997 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Fourth 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: May 20, 1998
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Fourth Quarter, 1998 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Fourth 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: May 26, 1999
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Fourth Quarter, 1999 (open access)

State Sales and Use Tax Analysis Report: Fourth Quarter, 1999

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: May 31, 2000
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History