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
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The TCEQ Border Initiative (open access)

The TCEQ Border Initiative

This document describes how the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to increase cooperation and exchange knowledge, experience, and technology related to the environment. The TCEQ mission is to maximize the efforts to improve the environment of the U.S. Mexico border region.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Object Type: Pamphlet
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
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
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.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Synergy, 2011 (open access)

Synergy, 2011

Annual magazine published by the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth documenting articles and notes about research conducted on the campus in various academic fields.
Date: April 2011
Creator: University of North Texas. Health Science Center at Fort Worth.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Portable Emission Measurement System-Based Approach to Developing and Evaluating Driving Cycles for Air Quality Assessment (open access)

Portable Emission Measurement System-Based Approach to Developing and Evaluating Driving Cycles for Air Quality Assessment

"The first objective is to develop driving cycles for classified roads incorporating both a vehicle's driving activities and its emission characteristics, using the data collected by Portable Emission Measurement System (PEMS), which was neither available nor has ever been used in developing driving cycles. A comprehensive database is established for the collected data and a sophisticated computer program is developed to generate the specific driving cycles. The second objective is to develop an evaluation approach of driving cycles in which Vehicle Specific Power (VSP), a parameter that can readily connect the driving modes with emissions, is used to evaluate how well the driving cycles can represent the driving and emission characteristics on real roads."
Date: April 2010
Creator: Wang, Ziqianli; Shi, Qinyi & Yu, Lei
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, April/May 2011 (open access)

Round Up, April/May 2011

Magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: April 2011
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, April 2012/May 2012 (open access)

Round Up, April 2012/May 2012

Magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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.
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
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
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
Materials selection for concrete overlays :  information survey review and evaluation of existing concrete overlays in Texas (open access)

Materials selection for concrete overlays : information survey review and evaluation of existing concrete overlays in Texas

"A comprehensive search and review of the use of concrete overlays by the TxDOT districts as well as other DOTs was conducted, with special emphasis focused on gathering information about the constituent materials and mixture proportioning used in the concrete overlays. This review also included new materials such as fibers used in previous studies and new types of fibers currently available. Publications and articles covering the various overlay rehabilitations were used as the background this project, as well as the several studies and implementation projects have been conducted for TxDOT."
Date: April 2011
Creator: Kim, Dong Hyun; Trevino, Manuel; Whitney, David P. & Ferron, Raissa
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Children with Special Health Care Needs: Newsletter for Families, April 2012 (open access)

Children with Special Health Care Needs: Newsletter for Families, April 2012

Bilingual newsletter from the Texas Department of State Health Services providing information on health care for children with special needs, including resources for medical help and community services.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Health.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Texas guide to adult guardianship (open access)

A Texas guide to adult guardianship

This booklet provides information about guardianship and frequently asked questions that pertain to the "ins and outs of guardianship."
Date: April 2011
Creator: Texas. Department of Aging and Disability Services. Guardianship Services.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cross Section, Volume 58, Number 4, April 2012 (open access)

The Cross Section, Volume 58, Number 4, April 2012

Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.
Date: April 2012
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cross Section, Volume 59, Number 4, April 2013 (open access)

The Cross Section, Volume 59, Number 4, April 2013

Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.
Date: April 2013
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History