State of Technology of Water Reuse: Final Report (open access)

State of Technology of Water Reuse: Final Report

This report reviews the state of technology associated with implementation of water reuse projects. (p. 2).
Date: August 2010
Creator: Alan Plummer Associates, Inc.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Suitability Analysis Guidebook/Training Materials: Manual for Application of Suitability Analysis for a Selected Region in Texas (open access)

Suitability Analysis Guidebook/Training Materials: Manual for Application of Suitability Analysis for a Selected Region in Texas

"This report is part of Task 2 of implementation project 5-5667, which focuses on the development of a prototype application of the Suitability Analysis model using GIS for a selected region in Texas. It is organized in two sections. Section I provides a description of study area and background information on data collection and analysis process. section II introduces a prototype model with a step-by-step process to run it."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Anjomani, Ardeshir; Tayebi, Ali; Nostikasari, Dian & Kharel, Gehendra
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas transit leadership initiative (open access)

Texas transit leadership initiative

Report on the Texas Transit Leadership Initiative which researched national leadership development programs and developed a longterm leadership development program for use by the transit industry in Texas.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Cherrington, Linda Kay; Arndt, Jeffrey C.; Edrington, Suzie & Taylor, Ryan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Network methods for project selection based on optimizing environmental impact (open access)

Network methods for project selection based on optimizing environmental impact

"Traditionally, transportation road networks have been designed for minimal congestion. Unfortunately, such approaches do not guarantee minimal vehicle emissions. Given the negative impacts of vehicle pollutants as well as tighter national air quality standards, it is critical for regions to be able to identify capacity modifications to road networks such that vehicle emission are minimal. This ability combined with land use changes and opportunities for non-auto travel are paramount in helping regions improve air quality."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Duthie, Jennifer Clare; Waller, S. Travis & Ferguson, Erin M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Landside freight access to airports : findings and case studies (open access)

Landside freight access to airports : findings and case studies

Report identifying the issues, and infrastructure needs concerning access to airports in Texas for both travel and freight shipping purposes and proposing solutions to the identified problems.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Frawley, William E.; Borowiec, Jefferey D.; Protopapa, Annie A.; Morgan, Curtis Alan & Warner, Jeffery E.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design and application of accessible land-use modeling tools for Texas regions (open access)

Design and application of accessible land-use modeling tools for Texas regions

"This report consists of two parts. The first summarizes key details of the Suitability Analysis (SA) model, while the second illustrates the implementation details of the Gravity Land-Use Model (G-LUM). Both modeling approaches have been applied to the Austin region of Texas, but for different case study examples."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Kockelman, Kara; Anjomani, Ardeshir; Paul, Binny M.; Nostikasai, Dian; Tayyebi, Ali & Kharel, Gehandra
System: The Portal to Texas History
Predicting the Incremental Effects on Transit Ridership Due to Bus-on-Shoulder Operations (open access)

Predicting the Incremental Effects on Transit Ridership Due to Bus-on-Shoulder Operations

Report exploring how the residents of Austin, Texas would respond to a Bus-on-Shoulder operation on local freeways, which allows buses to use the freeway shoulder as a passing lane.
Date: August 2010
Creator: Machemehl, Randy B. & Pappas, Elani
System: The Portal to Texas History
Examining the influence of tolls on commute departure and route choice behavior in the Chicago region (open access)

Examining the influence of tolls on commute departure and route choice behavior in the Chicago region

"The current study contributes toward understanding the influence of congestion pricing on commuter behavior by specifically examining what dimensions of commute travel behavior are affected as a response to congestion pricing."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Paleti, Rajesh; Bhat, Chandra R. & Eluru, Naveen
System: The Portal to Texas History
Performance analysis of the "zoning" strategies for Americans with Disabilities Act paratransit services (open access)

Performance analysis of the "zoning" strategies for Americans with Disabilities Act paratransit services

"The objective of this research is to provide a more in-depth evaluation and comparison between centralized and decentralized zoning strategies for the city of Houston, Texas, by developing a simulation model to evaluate the effect of zoning strategies on the productivity and service quality for the ADA paratransit service."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Shen, Chung-Wei & Quadrifoglio, Luca
System: The Portal to Texas History
Recreation Grants Branch, Environmentally Responsible Activities: Recommendations (open access)

Recreation Grants Branch, Environmentally Responsible Activities: Recommendations

"The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has been awarding grants to local units of government for park acquisition and development for over forty years and has been a proud partner in over 2000 park projects throughout Texas. The projects are as divers as the state's population but they all have one thing in common; they provide essential public land and recreation opportunities for the State's ever increasing population."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History
A comprehensive examination of heavy vehicle emissions factors (open access)

A comprehensive examination of heavy vehicle emissions factors

"This report summarized the findings from reviewing the literature on several topics that are related to heavy vehicle emissions including engine and fuel types, vehicle technologies that can be used to reduce or mitigate vehicle emission, the factors that affect vehicle emission, vehicle emissions modeling, and current and future policy requiring accurate accounting of heavy vehicle emission."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Thompson, Melissa Renee; Unnikrishnan, Avinash; Conway, Alison J. & Walton, C. Michael
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Road Pricing Methodology for Infrastructure Cost Recovery (open access)

A Road Pricing Methodology for Infrastructure Cost Recovery

"The purpose of this research is to provide a theoretical framework for future commercial vehicle user-charging using real-time vehicle weight and configuration information collected using weigh-in-motion systems" (p. i).
Date: August 2010
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Conway, Alison J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
State commercial vehicle security enforcement: operations, technologies, and barriers (open access)

State commercial vehicle security enforcement: operations, technologies, and barriers

"This report details the results of a survey of state enforcement agencies concerning past, present, and future enforcement practices and advanced technology use for commercial vehicle security, as well as recommendations for future improvements."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Conway, Alison J.
System: The Portal to Texas History