City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: First Quarter 2012 (open access)

City Mixed Beverage Comparison Summary: First Quarter 2012

Quarterly report outlining tax revenues and remittances for alcoholic beverages, listed by city for January-March 2012. It also compares the statistics to the same period for the previous year.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Community Design and the Incidence of Crashes Involving Pedestrians and Motorists Aged 75 and Older (open access)

Community Design and the Incidence of Crashes Involving Pedestrians and Motorists Aged 75 and Older

"This report studies a series of negative binomial regression models to understand how urban form may affect the incidence of total and killed-or-severely-injured (KSI) crashes involving older drivers and pedestrians."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Dumbaugh, Eric; Zhang, Yi & Li, Wenhao
System: The Portal to Texas History
Compilation of Results of Aquifer Tests in Texas (open access)

Compilation of Results of Aquifer Tests in Texas

"The mission of the Texas Water Development Board's (TWDB) Groundwater Resources Division is to collect, interpret, and provide accurate, objective information on the groundwater resources of Texas. In support of this mission, the TWDB has undertaken a long-term process of mapping and characterizing the aquifers of Texas."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Wuerch, David Robert & Christian, Brent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comprehensive evaluation of compaction of asphalt pavements and development of compaction monitoring system (open access)

Comprehensive evaluation of compaction of asphalt pavements and development of compaction monitoring system

"This report aimed to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of compaction of asphalt pavements and develop software for monitoring field compaction in real time.The results were used to determine the effects of compaction temperature, compaction method, mixture design, and base type on the compactability of asphalt mixtures.Also in this report researchers developed a system for monitoring and documenting the compaction process of asphalt mixtures called compaction monitoring system (CMS)."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Kassem, Emad Abdel-Rahman, 1979-; Scullion, Tom; Masad, Eyad; Chowdhury, Arif; Liu, Wenting; Estakhri, Cindy K. et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Decentralized Wastewater Treatment in the City of Sugar Land and Sugar Land's Extra Territorial Jurisdictions (open access)

Decentralized Wastewater Treatment in the City of Sugar Land and Sugar Land's Extra Territorial Jurisdictions

The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of using 0.05 and 100,000 gpd wastewater treatment plants as a source of reclaimed water for irrigation and industrial users.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Jones, Kyle J.; Ravichandran, Ambarish & Rolen, Michael J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of warrants for installation of dual right-turn lanes at signalized intersections (open access)

Development of warrants for installation of dual right-turn lanes at signalized intersections

"Right-turn lanes provide space for the deceleration and storage of right-turn vehicle, and separate turning vehicles from through movements. Dual right-turn lanes are increasingly used at urban intersections primarily for two reason: (1) to accommodate high right-turn demands and avoid turn-pocket overflows, and/or (2) to prevent right-turn vehicles that exit from a nearby upstream freeway off-ramp (on the left of the roadway) from abruptly changing too many lanes toward the right-turn lane at intersection."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Chen, Xiaoming & Li, Da
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementation of the Soil Compactor Analyzer Into Test Method TEX-113-E : Technical Report (open access)

Implementation of the Soil Compactor Analyzer Into Test Method TEX-113-E : Technical Report

This report describes a study showing that the Soil Compactor Analyzer(SCA) enables excellent precision precision of total statistics of test method Tex-113-E.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Sebesta, Stephen & Taylor, Ross
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: March 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: March 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: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Instream Flow-Habitat Relationships in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin (open access)

Instream Flow-Habitat Relationships in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin

This report discusses the instream flow-habitat relationships in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin, including analysis to develop predictive relationships in a habitat model.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Laboratory evaluation of friction loss and compactability of asphalt mixtures (open access)

Laboratory evaluation of friction loss and compactability of asphalt mixtures

"This study aimed to develop prediction models for friction loss and laboratory compaction of asphalt mixtures. In addition, the study evaluated the effect of compaction level and compaction method of skid resistance and the internal structure of asphalt mixtures."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Kassem, Emad Abdel-Rahman; Masad, Eyad; Awed, Ahmed & Little, Dallas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance measures for metropolitan planning organizations (open access)

Performance measures for metropolitan planning organizations

"The aim of this project is to consolidate available knowledge and provide guidance to transportation agencies, specifically MPOs, to help them incorporate performance measurement relating to transportation planning and operations. This research includes a survey of agency practices and agency needs, development of guidance on effective performance measurement and allied issues of strategic planning, goal setting, and data collection."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Moore, Devin; Ramni, Tara; Norboge, Nicolas & Turnbull, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance monitoring pavements with thermal segregation in Texas (open access)

Performance monitoring pavements with thermal segregation in Texas

This report investigated the performance of asphalt surface mixtures that exhibited thermal segregation during construction from 2004 to 2009. The results do not show that thermally segregated locations will fail within three to seven years but they do show that instances of thermal segregation may continue to be anomalous locations in the layer that could lead to failures in the pavement structure.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Sebesta, Stephen & Scullion, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Predicting damage in concrete due to expansive aggregates : modeling to enable sustainable material design (open access)

Predicting damage in concrete due to expansive aggregates : modeling to enable sustainable material design

"A poroelastic model is developed that can predict stress and strain distributions and, thus, ostensibly damage likelihood in concrete under freezing conditions caused by aggregates with undesirable combinations of geometry and constitutive properties.Sensitivity of the stress distributions to the aggregate and matrix constitutive parameters are assessed to allow improved concrete design."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Grasley, Zachary Charles & Rahman, Syeda
System: The Portal to Texas History
Research and recommendations for a statewide sign retroreflectivity maintenance program (open access)

Research and recommendations for a statewide sign retroreflectivity maintenance program

"This report evaluated Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) current sign retroreflectivity maintenance practices, assessed their effectiveness, and recommended statewide sign retroreflectivity maintenance practices that could be easily and effectively implemented to ensure that TxDOT would be in compliance with the new Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) language related to minimum sign retroreflectivity."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Carlson, Paul J.; Higgins, Laura L. & Re, Jonathan M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Safe Prisons Program Fiscal Year 2011 (open access)

Safe Prisons Program Fiscal Year 2011

Report on the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Safe Prisons Program which outlines the program's regulations and presents statistics tracked in the program.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Legislative Budget Board, Annual Report on Major State Investment Funds: Fiscal Year 2012 (open access)

Texas Legislative Budget Board, Annual Report on Major State Investment Funds: Fiscal Year 2012

Annual report for the fiscal year 2011 presenting the financial performance for Texas' major investment funds.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas M-E flexible pavement design system : literature review and proposed framework (open access)

Texas M-E flexible pavement design system : literature review and proposed framework

"This report discusses the framework proposed for the Texas Mechanistic-Empirical (TxME) flexible pavement design system, including pavement structure, material properties, traffic, climate, design reliability, and user interfaces."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Hu, Sheng; Zhou, Fujie & Scullion, Tom
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unknown Foundation Determination for Scour (open access)

Unknown Foundation Determination for Scour

This report describes a project to develop a global approach that would reduce the level of uncertainty associated with unknown foundations.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Briaud, Jean-Louis; Medina-Cetina, Zenon; Hurlebaus, Stefan; Everett, Mark; Tucker, Stacey; Yousefpour, Negin et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Upflow Calcite Contractor Study (open access)

Upflow Calcite Contractor Study

This document reports "four experiments [that] were conducted in four phases to determine design criteria for reverse osmosis permeate stabilization. The first three phases of experiments involved varying one of three design parameters (calcite particle size, calcite purity, and EBCT) and holding for these parameters to validate the design criteria values developed using the results of the first three experiments." (p. 3).
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
System: The Portal to Texas History
Youth education on rainwater harvesting and agricultural irrigation training for small acreage landowners (open access)

Youth education on rainwater harvesting and agricultural irrigation training for small acreage landowners

This report promotes water conservation through educational programs by targeting youth and small acreage landowners to change their water-use habits
Date: April 2012
Creator: Porter, Dana & Clayton, Brent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Expenditures by County: 2011 (open access)

Texas State Expenditures by County: 2011

The report contains the Texas state expenditures by county for fiscal year 2011.
Date: April 23, 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History