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Feasibility of Solar Powered Traffic Signs in Houston: A Step Toward Sustainable Control Devices (open access)

Feasibility of Solar Powered Traffic Signs in Houston: A Step Toward Sustainable Control Devices

This report provides information on retrofitting the signalized traffic intersections and retrofitting the signals to solar energy and switching to light emitting diodes (LED) the city will see major energy and cost savings, as well as a significant decrease in maintenance cost and time due to longer lifespan of the LEDs and solar panels.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Miller, Alexandra (Writer on transportation); Goodwin, Ronald E. & Godazi, Khosro
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas School Recycling Guide (open access)

Texas School Recycling Guide

This manual is designed to help develop recycling programs in schools.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inventory of Texas Felony Offenses by Category (open access)

Inventory of Texas Felony Offenses by Category

This report contain information on offenses in Texas statutory law punishable as felonies.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Inmate Monthly Report: July 2012 (open access)

Inmate Monthly Report: July 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: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Nanotechnology-Based System for Damage-Resistant Concrete Pavements (open access)

Nanotechnology-Based System for Damage-Resistant Concrete Pavements

This report's focus was to explore the use of nanotechnology-based nanofilaments, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and nanofibers (CNFs), as reinforcement for improving the mechanical properties of Portland cement paste and creating multifunctional and sensing concrete. (p. 1).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Abu Al-Rub, Rashid K.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Restrictions on Sunday Off-Premises Liquor Sales in Non-Control States (open access)

Restrictions on Sunday Off-Premises Liquor Sales in Non-Control States

"This map and table provide information regarding state restrictions on Sunday sales of liquor for off-premises consumption in certain states." The tables include details on the "states' laws or rules addressing Sunday off-premises liquor sales and a hyper-linked citation of the relevant provision." (p. [2]).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative: Information for Prospective Participants (open access)

Sanitary Sewer Overflow Initiative: Information for Prospective Participants

This document provides information on sanitary sewer overflow initiative Information for prospective participants.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Field Operations Support Division.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Moving the Concept of Megaregions into Transportation Planning: Workshop Proceedings (open access)

Moving the Concept of Megaregions into Transportation Planning: Workshop Proceedings

Report on the possibility of adding a study of megaregions to the transportation considerations made in Texas.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Lewis, Carol Abel; Land, Sara & Afefayane, Bethelhem
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $632 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $632 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document contains information on sales tax revenue and allocation in Texas counties as well as related data charts.
Date: August 8, 2012
Creator: Willis, Lauren
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
2012 Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals (open access)

2012 Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals

This report focuses on the mission and objectives of transportation security professionals and introduces a pre-selected group of high school students to the various career opportunities within the profession.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Godazi, Khosro; Goodwin, Ronald E. & Miller, Alexandra (Writer on transportation)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automating the Process for Locating No-Passing Zones Using Georeferencing Data (open access)

Automating the Process for Locating No-Passing Zones Using Georeferencing Data

This research created a method of using global positioning system (GPS) coordinates to identify the location of no-passing zones in two-lane highways.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Azimi, Mehdi & Hawkings, H. Gene
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Investigating and Reporting Releases from Petroleum Storage Tanks (open access)

Investigating and Reporting Releases from Petroleum Storage Tanks

This document pertains to the requirements for investigating and reporting releases from underground and aboveground storage tanks.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Remediation Division.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Free-Floating Carsharing Systems: Innovations in Membersip Predication, Mode Share, and Vehicle Allocation Optimication Methodologies (open access)

Free-Floating Carsharing Systems: Innovations in Membersip Predication, Mode Share, and Vehicle Allocation Optimication Methodologies

This report provides methodologies for some of the challenges facing both free-floating and traditional carsharing programs.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Kortum, Katherine & Machemehl, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Final: Groundwater Availability Model Report for the Rustler Aquifer (open access)

Final: Groundwater Availability Model Report for the Rustler Aquifer

This report documents the development of a three-dimensional groundwater model for the Rustler Aquifer.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Ewing, John E.; Kelley, Van A.; Jones, Toya L.; Yan, Tingting; Singh, Abhishek; Powers, Dennis W. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground Water Recharge Model : Calibration and Validation for Remotely-Sensed Dual Coefficient (RDC) GMA8 ET Estimation (open access)

Ground Water Recharge Model : Calibration and Validation for Remotely-Sensed Dual Coefficient (RDC) GMA8 ET Estimation

This report provides information on a groundwater recharge (GWr) model for a 50-year period, 1960 to 1009, that was developed for Texas Groundwater Management Area 8 (GMA8) through solving a simple water balance that yielded GWr as a residual from calibrated inputs.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Kirk, Alexandra; Groeneveld, David; Barz, Dave; Herring, Koanna & Murray, Scott
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Using Real Time Traveler Demand Data to Optimize Commuter Rail Feeder Systems (open access)

Using Real Time Traveler Demand Data to Optimize Commuter Rail Feeder Systems

This report focuses on real time optimization of the Commuter Rail Circulator Route Network Design Problem (CRCNDP).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Yu, Yao & Machemehl, Randy
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refresh Recharge Return (open access)

Refresh Recharge Return

This pamphlet provides information on Take Time Texas, "a challenge to caregivers to take some to for themselves and reach out for information support and assistance" (p. 2).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Take Time Texas
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
An eCertificate Program in Transportation Planning: Final Report (open access)

An eCertificate Program in Transportation Planning: Final Report

This report researches developed proposals to extend the delivery of the recently developed Graduate Certificate in Transportation Planning at Texas A & M University (TAMU) to a wider audience via distance education (online or eCertificate).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Ndubisi, Foster & Joh, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transit Agency Strategies that Encourage Mixed Use around Stations (open access)

Transit Agency Strategies that Encourage Mixed Use around Stations

This report focuses specifically on the role of the transit agency in encouraging development proximate to transit and investigates selected transit authorities within the United States to determine what strategies and steps they are taking to facilitate proximate desirable development around their stations. (p. 1).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Lewis, Carol Abel; Onyejekwe, Sandra; Collins, Darlene & McGaughay, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Estimating Sediment and Nutrient loads of Texas Coastal Watersheds with SWAT : A case study of Galveston Bay and Matagorda Bay (open access)

Estimating Sediment and Nutrient loads of Texas Coastal Watersheds with SWAT : A case study of Galveston Bay and Matagorda Bay

This report provides information on the results of the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model that was used to estimate terrestrial sediment and nutrients loads to the Galveston and Matagorda bays from their contributing watersheds. (p. 3).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Omani, Nina; Lee, Taesoo & Srinivasan, Raghavan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Compliance Commitment (C2) Program (open access)

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Compliance Commitment (C2) Program

This pamphlet provides information on the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) compliance commitment (C2) program.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Take Care of Texas (Campaign)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guidelines for Dealers Operating Unmanned Compressed Natural Gas Refueling Stations (open access)

Guidelines for Dealers Operating Unmanned Compressed Natural Gas Refueling Stations

This publication provides information to dealers who sell compressed natural gas (CNG)into the fuel supply tank of motor vehicles at unmanned retail locations.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plug Into Electronics Recycling (open access)

Plug Into Electronics Recycling

This pamphlet provides information on how to recycle televisions and computers.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Take Care of Texas (Campaign)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 3, August 2012 (open access)

OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 19, Number 3, August 2012

Quarterly newsletter for the Office of the Texas State Chemist, containing news about the activities of the agency as well as other related information
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Chemist.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History