Effect of climate change on crop production patterns with implications to transport flows and inland waterways (open access)

Effect of climate change on crop production patterns with implications to transport flows and inland waterways

"This report analyzed the demand for transportation capacity and changes in transportation flows on inland waterways due to shifts in crop production patterns induced by climate change."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Vedenov, Dmitry V.; Fuller, Stephen W.; McCarl, Cruce A.; Attavanich, Witsanu & Ahmedov, Zafarbek
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the Impact of Overweight Load Routing on Buried Utility Facilities [Report 2] (open access)

Evaluating the Impact of Overweight Load Routing on Buried Utility Facilities [Report 2]

"The objectives of this project were to (a) provide a review of technical design and engineering requirements for utility accommodation in Texas, (b) provide an assessment of potential impact of overweight loads on buried utilities, (c) provide recommendations for a business process for TxDOT overweight routing coordination, (d) provide recommendations for changes to TxDOT manuals, (e) provide an assessment of UAR adequacy to deal with overweight loads on buried utilities, and (f) provide recommendations for changes to the UAR" (abstract, para. 2).
Date: December 2011
Creator: Kraus, Edgar; Oh, Jeong Ho; Fernando, Emmanuel; Li, Yingfeng; Quiroga, Cesar & Koncz, Nicholas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Field Evaluation of Asphalt Mixture Skid Resistance and Its Relationship to Aggregate Characteristics (open access)

Field Evaluation of Asphalt Mixture Skid Resistance and Its Relationship to Aggregate Characteristics

Report documenting the findings from the research that was carried out as part of Phase II of Texas Department of Transportation Project 0-5627. The research included measurements and analysis of mechanical and physical properties of aggregates used in surface mixes in the state of Texas.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Masad, Eyad; Rezaei, Arash; Chowdhury, Arif & Freeman, Thomas J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance Measures for Public Transit Mobility Management (open access)

Performance Measures for Public Transit Mobility Management

Report that looks at the state of mobility management practice throughout Texas, as well as national best practices in mobility management. Additionally, this research provides an overview of the varying roles of state departments of transportation in public transit mobility management efforts. The research also presents applied mobility management for agencies seeking to implement mobility management programs as well as a menu of performance measures that can be utilized based on the type and level of program implemented.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Sen, Lalita; Majumdar, Sarmistha R.; Highsmith, Meredith; Cherrington, Linda K. & Gilliland, Cynthia A. Weatherby
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of a MASH TL-2 guardrail-to-bridge rail transition compatible with 31-inch guardrail (open access)

Development of a MASH TL-2 guardrail-to-bridge rail transition compatible with 31-inch guardrail

Report discussing the development of a transition roadway rail that is suitable on lower-speed roadways and that is suitable for implementation.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Bligh, Roger P.; Arrington, Dusty R. & Menges, Wanda L.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Applying the Systems Engineering Approach to Video Over IP Projects (open access)

Applying the Systems Engineering Approach to Video Over IP Projects

Abstract: In 2009, the Texas Transportation Institute produced for the Texas Department of Transportation a document called Video over IP Design Guidebook. This report summarized an implementation of that project in the form of a workshop. The workshop was developed and presented as a pilot in Austin in 2010 and taught an additional four times in 2011 in Fort Worth, Lubbock, Houston, and San Antonio.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Thomas, Gary B.
System: The Portal to Texas History