Use of Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for roadside condition assessment (open access)

Use of Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for roadside condition assessment

"Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (MUAVs) that are equipped with digital imaging systems and global positioning systems provide a potential opportunity for improving the effectiveness and safety of roadside condition and inventory surveys. This study provides an assessment of the effectiveness of MUAVs as a tool for collecting condition data for roadside infrastructure assets using three field experiments."
Date: December 2010
Creator: Gharaibeh, Nasir G. & Hart, William Scott
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Quantitative characterization of microstructure of asphalt mixtures (open access)

Quantitative characterization of microstructure of asphalt mixtures

"The main objective of this study was to quantitatively characterize the three dimensional micro-structure of the asphalt binder withing the fine aggregate matrix of an asphalt mixture and compare the influence of binder content, coarse aggregate gradation, and fine aggregate gradation on this micro-structure."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Badgekar, Swapneel; Bhasin, Amit & Izadi, Anoosha
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Examining the Role of Trip Length in Commuter Decisions to Use Public Transportation (open access)

Examining the Role of Trip Length in Commuter Decisions to Use Public Transportation

Report that examines traveler trip lengths across transit modes, work trip duration frequency distributions and mode share distributions in 7 major cities, 8 Combined Statistical Areas and one Metropolitan Statisical Area and found the effects of increasing population and transit mdoe gvariety on work trip travel time and travel distance.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Yu, Yao & Machemehl, Randy
Object Type: Report
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
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware test 3-10 on 31-inch W-beam guardrail with standard offset blocks (open access)

Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware test 3-10 on 31-inch W-beam guardrail with standard offset blocks

"The test reported herein corresponds to American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Manual for Assessing Safety Hardware (MASH) test 3-10. This is primarily a severity test that assesses risk of injury to the vehicle occupants."
Date: November 2010
Creator: Abu-Odeh, Akram Y.; Menges, Wanda L. & Bligh, Roger P.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Incorporating sustainability into Texas Department of Transportation's transportation decision making : summary of work performed, methods used and results achieved (open access)

Incorporating sustainability into Texas Department of Transportation's transportation decision making : summary of work performed, methods used and results achieved

"This report summarized the work performed in Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 and 2010 under TxDOT Implementation Project 5-5541-01-"Regional Workshops on Sustainability Enhancement Tool."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Zietsman, Josias; Eisele, William L. & Ramani, Tara L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Delivery of workshops on corridor management and preservation in Texas (open access)

Delivery of workshops on corridor management and preservation in Texas

"This report summarizes the delivery and outcome of a series of workshops conducted at 23 Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) districts across the state on corridor management and preservation in Texas. The workshops served as follow-up implementation work for research project 0-5606, "Creating Partnerships with Local Communities to Manage and Preserve Corridors." The report provides an overview of the project and documents the dates, locations, and attendance of workshops implemented during the three-year project period."
Date: September 2010
Creator: Bochner, Brian S. & Hard, Edwin N.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Connecting the Dots: School Spending and Student Progress, [Part] 2. School District Listings (open access)

Connecting the Dots: School Spending and Student Progress, [Part] 2. School District Listings

Second part of the Financial Allocation Study for Texas (FAST), a project to study school districts and campuses to find better ways of allocating resources. This section contains a summary and rating for each school district in Texas to document academic progress and spending.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 7, June 2010 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 7, June 2010

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases.
Date: June 2010
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 89, Number 1, November 2010 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 89, Number 1, November 2010

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases.
Date: November 2010
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 89, Number 2, December 2010 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 89, Number 2, December 2010

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases. Topics covered in this issue are regulatory arbitrage, Criminal Law Theory, death penalty provisions of the Model Penal Code, report to the ALI concerning Capital Punishment, and fixing the False Marking Statute.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 4, March 2010 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 4, March 2010

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases. Topics in this issue cover risk and regulation in a digital age, compact clause, rules clause and ethics proceedings, perjury-trap myth, and reducing multifetal pregnancies in the United States
Date: March 2010
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 5, April 2010 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 5, April 2010

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases. Topics in this issue covers putting tort back on track pedagogically and theoretically, the lose of power held by public companies, shaping Habeas procedures, child pornography and the first amendment, and Islamic fiance.
Date: April 2010
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 6, May 2010 (open access)

Texas Law Review, Volume 88, Number 6, May 2010

Journal containing articles, notes, book reviews, and other analyses of law and legal cases.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Texas Law Review Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

University of North Texas Alumni Directory, 2010

Directory containing alphabetical and geographic lists of all known alumni of University of North Texas through May 2010. Married women are listed with their maiden names in parentheses.
Date: 2010
Creator: University of North Texas
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Getting Help is Easy Just Call 9-1-1: Cell Phone Sally and Friends Show You How (open access)

Getting Help is Easy Just Call 9-1-1: Cell Phone Sally and Friends Show You How

A booklet for kids about why and how to call 9-1-1 explained by cartoon characters.
Date: 2010
Creator: Texas. Commission on State Emergency Communications.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
On the Coast, Spring 2010 (open access)

On the Coast, Spring 2010

Newsletter of the Texas General Land Office Coastal Resources Program describing current events, news, initiatives to protect or restore shorelines, and other information related to Texas coasts.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
2010 Continuing Education Course for Appraisal Review Board Members (open access)

2010 Continuing Education Course for Appraisal Review Board Members

The material in this manual go over the complex and constantly changing property tax law.
Date: 2010
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, October 2010 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, October 2010

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy, Volume 16, Spring 2010 (open access)

Texas Hispanic Journal of Law & Policy, Volume 16, Spring 2010

Annual journal containing legal articles and notes, articles, biographical sketches, and other written pieces that discuss legal issues that affect Latinos.
Date: Spring 2010
Creator: University of Texas at Austin. School of Law.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, February 2010 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, February 2010

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: February 2010
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, December 2010 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, December 2010

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: December 2010
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Travel Log, April 2010 (open access)

Texas Travel Log, April 2010

Newsletter dedicated to traveling in Texas, including information about news, locations, and events of interest to visitors as well as statistics and summaries of travel in the state.
Date: April 2010
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Angelo State University, 2010-2011, Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Angelo State University, 2010-2011, Graduate

Catalog of graduate courses offered by Angelo State University for the year 2010-2011, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: ~2010
Creator: Angelo State University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History