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Texas Historically Underutilized Business Program Annual Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas Historically Underutilized Business Program Annual Report: 2012

Annual report for the Texas Statewide Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Program, which documents minority- and woman-owned businesses. It discusses HUB status and information about the program as well as expenditures and spending trends for fiscal year 2012 and previous years for comparison.
Date: October 1, 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Bond Review Board Annual Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas Bond Review Board Annual Report: 2012

Annual report of the Texas Bond Review Board describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 2012.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Texas Bond Review Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Overlay Tester : A Sensitivity Study to Improve Repeatability and Minimize Variability in the Test Results (open access)

The Overlay Tester : A Sensitivity Study to Improve Repeatability and Minimize Variability in the Test Results

"This report presents a comprehensive sensitivity evaluation of the critical steps of the Overlay Tester (OT) test procedure in an attempt to optimize the OT repeatability and minimize variability in the test results."
Date: February 2012
Creator: Walubita, Lubinda F.; Faruk, Abu N.; Das, Gautam; Tanvir, Hossain A.; Zhang, Jun & Scullion, Tom
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Subbase and Subgrade Performance Investigation and Design Guidelines for Concrete Pavement (open access)

Subbase and Subgrade Performance Investigation and Design Guidelines for Concrete Pavement

Report regarding research into cheaper alternatives for the construction of pavement subbases that maintains adequate pavement performance.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Jung, Youn su; Zollinger, Dan G.; Cho, Byoung Hooi; Won, Mooncheol & Wimsatt, Andrew James, 1964-
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fatigue failure and cracking in high mast poles (open access)

Fatigue failure and cracking in high mast poles

Report presenting the findings of a research project to investigate the fatigue cracking and failure of galvanized high mast illumination poles used by the Texas Department of Transportation.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Goyal, Raka; Dhonde, Hemant B. & Dawood, Mina
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Effects of bending and heat on the ductility and fracture toughness of flange plate (open access)

Effects of bending and heat on the ductility and fracture toughness of flange plate

"This report documents the findings of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT)sponsored research project that investigated the possible causes of the cracking and developed recommendations to prevent the occurrence of such cracking."
Date: May 2012
Creator: Keating, Peter B. & Christian, Lee C.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
TxDOT uses of real-time commercial traffic data :  opportunity matrix (open access)

TxDOT uses of real-time commercial traffic data : opportunity matrix

Based on a TxDOT survey, a review of other state DOTs, and researcher understanding of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) needs, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) team developed a comprehensive list of opportunities for TxDOT to consider pertaining to future use of private sector (PS) data. Specific opportunities for applying private data were reviewed in light of accuracy of the data, coverage areas, data availability, cost, and control of the data stream.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Middleton, Dan; Brydia, Robert; Kraus, Edgar; Cheu, Kelvin; Rajbhandari, Rajat, 1973-; Songchitruksa, Praprut et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Flexible Pavements and Overlays: Year 1 Report -- Test Sections, Data Collection, Analyses, and Data Storage System (open access)

Texas Flexible Pavements and Overlays: Year 1 Report -- Test Sections, Data Collection, Analyses, and Data Storage System

"This report provides a documentation of the work completed in Year 1 of the project including the following: 1) Literature review; 2) development of data collection and analysis plans, and 3) field test sections."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Walubita, Lubinda F.; Das, Gautam; Espinoza, Elida; Oh, Jeongho; Lee, Sang Ick; Scullion, Tom et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Energy Developments and the Transportation Infrastructure in Texas: Impacts and Strategies (open access)

Energy Developments and the Transportation Infrastructure in Texas: Impacts and Strategies

"This report describes the work completed to measure the impact of increased level of energy-related activities on the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) right-of-way and infrastructure, as well as develop recommendations to reduce and manage TxDOT's exposure and risk resulting from those activities."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Quiroga, César A.; Fernando, E. G. & Oh, Jeongho
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Recommendations for design, construction, and maintenance of bridge approach slabs (open access)

Recommendations for design, construction, and maintenance of bridge approach slabs

Report regarding treatment methods for controlling settlements of approach slabs of new bridge construction. The report is presented in two parts, with the first part concerns the compiling and presentation of documented information while the second part deals with field evaluation of methods to reduce settlement.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Puppala, Anand J.; Archeewa, Ekarut; Saride, Sireesh; Hoyos, Laureano R., 1972- & Nazarian, Soheil, 1955-
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Develop Mechanistic-Empirical Design for CRCP (open access)

Develop Mechanistic-Empirical Design for CRCP

This report explains why a mechanistic-empirical (ME) based pavement design method will allow Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to optimize pavement structures to best utilize the limited financial resources available.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Ha, Soojun; Yeon, Jungheum; Choi, Byounghooi; Jung, Youn su; Zollinger, Dan G.; Wimsatt, Andrew James, 1964- et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Twelfth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas Twelfth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012

Annual Financial Report of the Twelfth Court of Appeals in Tyler, Texas, including statements and reports for various funds, with accompanying notes.
Date: 2012-09~
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (12th)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
HeatWurx patching at two locations in San Antonio (open access)

HeatWurx patching at two locations in San Antonio

"This report documents the placing, cost, and performance of the HeatWurx pavement patching process, which uses infrared heating to make the pavement soft enough to mill and scarify so that it can be mixed with a rejuvenator and pavement millings to form a patch that stays bonded to the surrounding material."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Freeman, Thomas J. & Epps, Jon A.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Program Annual Report: 2011 (open access)

Texas Nonpoint Source Pollution Management Program Annual Report: 2011

Annual report about managing nonpoint source pollution in Texas providing an overview of the issue and discussing progress in water quality improvement and in meeting the goals of the program, updates from specific committees and projects, plans to protect watersheds in Texas, and other related activities during 2011.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas WIC News, Volume 21, Number 2, March/April 2012 (open access)

Texas WIC News, Volume 21, Number 2, March/April 2012

Bimonthly newsletter of the Texas Department of State Health Services about topics related to the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. WIC is a nutritional program that provides education and councelling, nutritious foods, and help accessing health care to low-income women, infants, and children.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas. Bureau of WIC Nutrition.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Natural Outlook, March 2012 (open access)

Natural Outlook, March 2012

Newsletter discussing environmental issues and policies in Texas. This issue outlines changes to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's emergency response structure.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Natural Outlook, February 2012 (open access)

Natural Outlook, February 2012

Newsletter discussing environmental issues and policies in Texas. This issue provides an overview of the Texas Environmental Enforcement Task Force and the process of prosecuting environmental crimes.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Natural Outlook, January 2012 (open access)

Natural Outlook, January 2012

Newsletter discussing environmental issues and policies in Texas. This issue examines the different ways whole effluent toxicity testing is conducted at the state and federal levels and the effects of the different agency's interpretation of testing results.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Natural Outlook, August 2012 (open access)

Natural Outlook, August 2012

Newsletter discussing environmental issues and policies in Texas. This issue examines the economic and environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in Texas.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Natural Outlook, May 2012 (open access)

Natural Outlook, May 2012

Newsletter discussing environmental issues and policies in Texas. This issue discusses the international delegations interested in shale production hosted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in the early 2010s.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012

Annual financial report of the Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston, Texas documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2012.
Date: Autumn 2012
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (14th)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History