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Pavement Preservation and System Optimization Task Force (open access)

Pavement Preservation and System Optimization Task Force

"This report provides: an overview of a proposed three-tier system, preliminary results from a state department of transportation (DOT) survey, initial estimates of required funding, ideas of UTP Category 1 Formula, and an overview of the status of mobility."
Date: January 2011
Creator: Lomax, Timothy J.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of effective treatments to improve driver and worker safety at short-term work zones (open access)

Catalog of effective treatments to improve driver and worker safety at short-term work zones

"This report catalogs several devices that were found to be effective at improving driver and worker safety at short-term work zones. The services include are: fluorescent yellow-green worker vests and hard hat covers, portable variable message signs, speed display trailers, fluorescent orange roll-up signs, radar drones, and retroreflective magnetic strips for work vehicles. The catalog provides a brief description of each treatment, along with a summary of the treatment's effectiveness, and recommendations for its use at short-term work zones."
Date: January 2001
Creator: Fontaine, Michael D. & Hawkins, H. Gene
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Steel Fiber Replacement of Mild Steel in Prestressed Concrete Beams (open access)

Steel Fiber Replacement of Mild Steel in Prestressed Concrete Beams

Technical report on replacing mild steel with steel fiber in prestressed concrete beams.
Date: January 2011
Creator: Tadepalli, Padmanabha R.; Hoffman, Norman; Mo, Y. L. & Hsu, Thomas T. C. (Thomas Tseng Chuang), 1933-
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History