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Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study (open access)

Medina County, Community of D'Hanis Flood Protection Study

The report discuses the Medina Count-D'Hanis Flood Protection Study, which evaluates the flooding problems in the D'Hanis area within Medina County and develop cost effective flood reduction alternatives considering public safety and welfare. (Ex Summ I).
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Diesel Exhaust and School Bus Idling, What You Should Know (open access)

Diesel Exhaust and School Bus Idling, What You Should Know

This pamphlet provides information about upgrading diesel vehicles and recommendations to reduce exposure to diesel exhaust.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
They've Gotta Be 18 to Buy Tobacco: Texas Guidelines for Retail Tobacco Sales (open access)

They've Gotta Be 18 to Buy Tobacco: Texas Guidelines for Retail Tobacco Sales

This pamphlet provides information on Texas's guidelines for retail tobacco sales.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Parks need your help (open access)

Texas State Parks need your help

This pamphlet provides information on Texas's State Parks and its need for contributions.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Late Filling Penalties (open access)

Late Filling Penalties

This document provides information about $50 penalty fee that will be charged to certain taxpayers.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $606 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $606 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $606 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: August 10, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: July 2011 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: July 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: August 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
State and Federal Law Governing Redistricting in Texas (open access)

State and Federal Law Governing Redistricting in Texas

"This publication is intended to assist the Texas Legislature in carrying out its redistricting responsibilities and to provide information about Texas legislative redistricting to the public and other interested persons." (p. 2).
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Winning, August/September 2011 (open access)

Winning, August/September 2011

Pamphlet containing information about Texas Lottery winners, scratch-off prizes, new games, and more.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices (open access)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Area & Regional Offices

This document provides information on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) area and regional office locations.
Date: August 12, 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementation of Database for TxDOT ARRA Projects (open access)

Implementation of Database for TxDOT ARRA Projects

Report discussing projects initiated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), a fiscal stimulus package signed by President Obama on March 6, 2009. State agencies like the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) who received ARRA funds had to report, on a monthly basis, various data on each project in the ARRA program, including staff numbers, hours worked, and payroll. TxDOT asked the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) to identify and isolate specific elements of the 0-6592 database that TxDOT's Construction Division (CST) can implement into an existing TxDot database. This report describes the implementation of the database and procedures for updating it.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Persad, Khali R. & Suri, Jasjyot S.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Economic Efficiency of Allowing Longer Combination Vehicles in Texas (open access)

The Economic Efficiency of Allowing Longer Combination Vehicles in Texas

Paper discussing the economic efficiency of allowing longer combination vehicles to operate in Texas.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Bienkowski, Bridget N.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use of dowel bars at longitudinal construction joints (open access)

Use of dowel bars at longitudinal construction joints

Report discussing the primary objective of this research project, whcih was to develop rational guidelines on the use of dowel bars in longitudinal construction joints (LCJs) for better-performing concrete pavements without potential longitudinal cracking problems.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Ha, Soojun; Cobos, Luis; Choi, Cheol Choi; Yeon, Jungheum; Cho, Byounghooi & Won, Moon C.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mobility and economic effects of system investments in Texas: 2010 to 2020 (open access)

Mobility and economic effects of system investments in Texas: 2010 to 2020

"The report summarizes estimates of the consequences of current funding levels and a range of greater and lesser funding amounts. The report describes the population, travel, system extent and expenditure data and analyses used to develop the mobility and economic effect analyses. An associated study by the Center for Transportation Research analyzed pavement maintenance spending and condition. Both the mobility and pavement studies were used as part of the March 2011 Texas 2030 Committee report."
Date: August 2011
Creator: Lomaz, Tim
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Proposed Texas Department of Transporation Strategic Research Program: Second Year Report (open access)

Proposed Texas Department of Transporation Strategic Research Program: Second Year Report

In February 2010, The Texas Department of Transportation (TcDOT) contracted with the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at The University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), and The Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation (TechMRT) at Texas Tech University, to assist TxDot in developing a Strategic Research Program (SRP). This report documents the work conducted from September 2010 to August 2011.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Persad, Khali; Machemehl, Randy; Nash, Phillip T.; Cleveland, Theodore G.; Weatherby, Cynthia & Stockton, William
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Measuring access to transit service in rural transit systems : feedback from the workshops and recommendations for improving the Demand Response Transit accessibility tool (open access)

Measuring access to transit service in rural transit systems : feedback from the workshops and recommendations for improving the Demand Response Transit accessibility tool

Report on the application of a paratransit microsimulation patron accessibility analysis tool in four rural transit agencies in workshops. The workshops provided an overview of the Demand Response Transit [DRT] accessibility tool developed by the research team, obtained feedback on the results predicted by the DRT tool, and identified ways to improve the DRT tool.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Vyas, Gaurav; Bhat, Chandra R. & Ferdous, Zazneen
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
High speed rail : a study of international best practices and identification of opportunities in the United States (open access)

High speed rail : a study of international best practices and identification of opportunities in the United States

Report on a study examining how several European and East Asian counties have successfully developed passenger rail systems and to identify the key factors to their successful implementation.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Ruutzen, Beatriz
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Historically Underutilized Business Program Education and Outreach Report, 2011 (open access)

Historically Underutilized Business Program Education and Outreach Report, 2011

"This report describes educational and outreach activities conducted in the past year to increase HUB certification and educate minority and woman-owned businesses about the state's procurement process to create more opportunities for HUBs."
Date: August 2011
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Horizontal cracking in Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements (open access)

Horizontal cracking in Continuously Reinforced Concrete Pavements

Report of the findings on a study to identify the mechanism of horizontal cracking (HC) in continuously reinforced concrete pavements (CRCP) due to environmental loading (temperature and moisture variations).
Date: August 2011
Creator: Won, Moon-Cheol & Choi, Seong Cheol
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comparative study of mechanical and corrosion resistance properties of bridge post-tensioning strands (open access)

Comparative study of mechanical and corrosion resistance properties of bridge post-tensioning strands

This report summarized the exploration of new methods of protection for the strands used in post-tensioning of concrete bridges.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Mac Lean, Sean Anthony; Breen, J. E. & Kalina, R. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of mobile source greenhouse gas emissions for assessment of traffic management strategies (open access)

Evaluation of mobile source greenhouse gas emissions for assessment of traffic management strategies

"This research is intended to evaluate mobile source GHG emissions for traffic management strategies, in which a Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS) is used to collect the vehicle's real-world emission and activity data, and Vehicle Specific Power (VSP) based modeling approach is used as the basis for emission estimation."
Date: August 2011
Creator: Yu, Lei & Shi, Qinyi
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An investigation of the effects of reading and writing text-based messages while driving (open access)

An investigation of the effects of reading and writing text-based messages while driving

"Previous research, using driving simulation, crash data, and naturalistic methods, has begun to shed light on the dangers of texting while driving."
Date: August 2011
Creator: Yager, Christine; Chrysler, Susan T. & Cooper, Susan T.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Taxiway aircraft traffic analysis at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (open access)

Taxiway aircraft traffic analysis at George Bush Intercontinental Airport

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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Operational and vehicular strategies for reducing fuel consumption and Green House Gas emissions from trucking (open access)

Operational and vehicular strategies for reducing fuel consumption and Green House Gas emissions from trucking

"Reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is becoming increasingly important in the United States, and new legislation can be expected in the near future that will affect trucks either directly or indirectly. This work is a qualitative examination of operational strategies for reducing fuel consumption from freight trucking, and also compares them with vehicular strategies. A focus is placed on who implements, benefits from, and pays for each strategy, and what type of trucking each strategy is applicable to."
Date: August 2011
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Thompson, Melissa Renee
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History