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Highlights of the 80th Texas Legislature: A Summary of Significant Legislation (open access)

Highlights of the 80th Texas Legislature: A Summary of Significant Legislation

Report providing summaries of significant legislative actions conducted by the 80th Texas Legislature, broken down by topical categories.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Research Center.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Geologic Characterization of and Data Collection in the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District and Surrounding Counties (open access)

Geologic Characterization of and Data Collection in the Corpus Christi Aquifer Storage and Recovery Conservation District and Surrounding Counties

This report describes the methodology of data collection and analysis, and examples of maps that can be created with the database information.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Meyer, John E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Desal Project: Final Report To the Texas Water Development Board (open access)

Texas Desal Project: Final Report To the Texas Water Development Board

Final report of the Texas Desal Project, "a science-based forum where environmental and permitting issues associated with the construction and operation of a full-scale seawater desalination facility may be identified and solutions integrated into the design process" (p. 1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: NRS Consulting Engineers, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake (open access)

Water Supply Facility Planning, New Terrell City Lake

This report began discusses action began "in May of 2010 when Freese and Nichols (FNI) was retained by the City of Terrell, Texas in cooperation with Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) to assess, alternative uses of New Terrell City Lake (CITY Lake) and perform a dam condition assessment. The City of Terrell no longer uses the water supply from New Terrell City Lake and would like to find alternative uses for this supply." (p. ES-1).
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report to the Governor: Public Water System Capacity Development Program (open access)

Report to the Governor: Public Water System Capacity Development Program

This report accounts for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality 's (TCEQ) implementation and enforcement authority for the drinking water program.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
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.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature: House Committee on State Affairs (open access)

Interim Report to the 82nd Texas Legislature: House Committee on State Affairs

Report from the Texas House Committee on State Affairs describing the group's goals, activities, accomplishments, and other information, for review by the 82nd Texas Legislature.
Date: September 27, 2010
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives. State Affairs Committee.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Wastewater Treatment evaluation (open access)

Regional Wastewater Treatment evaluation

This document reports a study conducted by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) on the condition and treatment capabilities of Kint's Creek Wastewater Treatment Plan (WWTP), located in the City of Terrell. The study helped to identify areas of need at the treatment facility and the ability of the facility to meet future requirements that are Anticipated in the December 2012 Texas Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) permit. (p. ES-1.)
Date: September 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: August 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: August 2011

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: September 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Multistate Survey on the Regulation of Equine Performance-Enhancing Drugs (open access)

Multistate Survey on the Regulation of Equine Performance-Enhancing Drugs

This report "contains information on state regulations relating to performance-enhancing drug testing of racehorses, performance horses, and show horses in California, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas" (Introduction).
Date: September 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: August 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: August 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: September 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Determination of Freshwater Inflow Volume from Trinity River into Galveston Bay, May 2014-August 2015 (open access)

Determination of Freshwater Inflow Volume from Trinity River into Galveston Bay, May 2014-August 2015

Report estimating inflows into Galveston Bay from the Trinity River.
Date: September 2015
Creator: United States. Department of the Interior.
System: The Portal to Texas History
City of Conroe Flood Protection Plan (open access)

City of Conroe Flood Protection Plan

Report examining the causes of flooding and presenting cost-effective measures to prevent flooding in Conroe, Texas.
Date: September 2016
Creator: LJA Engineering, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Report to the 85th Texas Legislature: Senate Committee on Education (open access)

Report to the 85th Texas Legislature: Senate Committee on Education

Report of the Senate Committee on Education to the 85th Texas Legislature listing the objectives of the committee and the committee's policy recommendations for each issue addressed.
Date: September 2016
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Education.
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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prioritization of highway maintenance functions using multi-attribute decision making with fuzzy pairwise comparison (open access)

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

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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Statewide implementation of PAVE-IR in the Texas Department of Transportation (open access)

Statewide implementation of PAVE-IR in the Texas Department of Transportation

Report on demonstrations of Pave-IR thermal profiling on eight construction projects around Texas.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Scullion, Thomas & Scullion, Tom
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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Investigate existing Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) technologies for port cargo inspections (open access)

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

"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
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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Peer grouping and performance measurement to improve rural and urban transit in Texas (open access)

Peer grouping and performance measurement to improve rural and urban transit in Texas

"Rural and small urban transit systems in Texas will become even more important with predicted changes in population trends. Rural demographic trends indicate growth in the number of persons age 65 and over coupled with a decrease in population density. Small urban area trends indicate substantial population growth and broadened geographic boundaries, yet resources to provide rural and small urban transit are limited. Therefore, transit managers find it is increasingly important to maximize service efficiency and effectiveness. The purpose of this research was to identify peer groups, performance benchmarks, and strategies used by successful transit providers to achieve high performance. The research project identifies peer groups based on the transit environment within which each agency operates, so that agencies can be compared to other operators who face similar environments. Peer group effectiveness and efficiency performance are examined within and between rural and urban peer groups, and high performers are identified for case studies. Through the case studies, key attributes are identified for achieving high operating efficiency and/or effectiveness. Performance strategies are categorized to provide transit providers with transferrable information to improve performance and increase the return on transit investment."
Date: September 2010
Creator: Arndt, Jeffrey C.; Edrington, Suzie; Sandidge, Matthew; Quadrifoglio, Luca & Perkins, Judy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automated generation of virtual scenarios in driving simulator from highway design data (open access)

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

"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
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use of Intelligent Transportation Systems in rural work zones (open access)

Use of Intelligent Transportation Systems in rural work zones

"This project defined an approach to integrating data collected and traveler information displayed in a work zone with a regional transportation management center and/or other state websites. The project conducted a literature review to define the state of the practice in work zone Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS; smart work zones) and worked with the Texas Department of Transportation traffic managers to identify their safety and nobility needs in a work zone and where ITS can play a role."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Middleton, Daniel R.; Brydia, Robert; Pesti, Geza; Songchitruksa, Praprut; Balke, Kevin N. & Ullman, Gerald
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
System: The Portal to Texas History