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University of Texas System Annual Financial Report: 2012 (open access)

University of Texas System Annual Financial Report: 2012

Combined annual financial report of the entire University of Texas System for fiscal year 2012, including information about system-level administration and financial statements as well as reports from the institutions within the larger system.
Date: August 31, 2012
Creator: University of Texas System
System: The Portal to Texas History
Condition of Texas Pavements: Pavement Management Information Systems Annual Report, 2009-2012 (open access)

Condition of Texas Pavements: Pavement Management Information Systems Annual Report, 2009-2012

Annual report describing the condition of Texas pavements based on distress ratings and ride quality measurements from the Pavement Management Information System (PMIS) during fiscal years 2009-2012. "This report describes the condition of Texas pavements in Fiscal Year 2012 and during the four-year FY 2009-2012 period, based on analysis of Pavement Management Information System (PMIS) distress ratings and ride quality measurements. The report includes the percentage of lane miles in 'Good' or better condition, trends for the major highway systems (IH, US, SH, and FM) and pavement types (ACP, CRCP, and JCP), trends for pavement distress types and maintenance level of service information" (p. ii).
Date: August 29, 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015 (open access)

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2014 and 2015

Report submitted by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality containing background information on the commission, and summaries of requests for appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal years 2014 and 2015 with supporting documentation.
Date: August 23, 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Operating Budget: 2013 (open access)

University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Operating Budget: 2013

Operating budget for the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for fiscal year 2013, including information about budget rules and procedures, and summaries for expected income and expenses for various funds.
Date: August 23, 2012
Creator: University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground Water Recharge Model : Calibration and Validation for Remotely-Sensed Dual Coefficient (RDC) GMA8 ET Estimation (open access)

Ground Water Recharge Model : Calibration and Validation for Remotely-Sensed Dual Coefficient (RDC) GMA8 ET Estimation

This report provides information on a groundwater recharge (GWr) model for a 50-year period, 1960 to 1009, that was developed for Texas Groundwater Management Area 8 (GMA8) through solving a simple water balance that yielded GWr as a residual from calibrated inputs.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Kirk, Alexandra; Groeneveld, David; Barz, Dave; Herring, Koanna & Murray, Scott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $632 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $632 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document contains information on sales tax revenue and allocation in Texas counties as well as related data charts.
Date: August 8, 2012
Creator: Willis, Lauren
System: The Portal to Texas History
2012 Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals (open access)

2012 Transportation Security Institute: Recruiting Next Generation Professionals

This report focuses on the mission and objectives of transportation security professionals and introduces a pre-selected group of high school students to the various career opportunities within the profession.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Godazi, Khosro; Goodwin, Ronald E. & Miller, Alexandra (Writer on transportation)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Archival and Archeological Research: Camino Real de los Tejas and Texas State Parks (open access)

Archival and Archeological Research: Camino Real de los Tejas and Texas State Parks

Report on the route of El Camino Real as it extends through four Texas State Parks.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Weddle, Robert S.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automating the Process for Locating No-Passing Zones Using Georeferencing Data (open access)

Automating the Process for Locating No-Passing Zones Using Georeferencing Data

This research created a method of using global positioning system (GPS) coordinates to identify the location of no-passing zones in two-lane highways.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Azimi, Mehdi & Hawkings, H. Gene
System: The Portal to Texas History
Best Practices for TxDOT on Handling Wildfires (open access)

Best Practices for TxDOT on Handling Wildfires

This is a report on the record setting wildfires in 2011 in the State of Texas. The research in the report follows lessons learned in responding to wildfires and the application of those lessons toward establishing best practices.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Nash, Phillip T.; Senadheera, Sanjaya; Beierle, Micah; Kurnfer, Wesley & Wilson, Dannia
System: The Portal to Texas History
Binder Rheology and Performance in Warm Mix Asphalt : Interim Report (open access)

Binder Rheology and Performance in Warm Mix Asphalt : Interim Report

This report presents the preliminary findings from a study conducted to investigate the influence of chemical warm mix asphalt (WMA) additives and reduced aging on the viscosity, stiffness, susceptibility to permanent deformation, fracture resistance, and thermal cracking resistance of asphalt binders.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Arega, Zelalem & Bhasin, Amit
System: The Portal to Texas History
Calibration of HERS-ST for Estimating Traffic Impact on Pavement Deterioration in Texas (open access)

Calibration of HERS-ST for Estimating Traffic Impact on Pavement Deterioration in Texas

This report focuses on disaggregating the pavement deterioration model used by the Highway Economic Requirements System-State Version (HERS-ST) to better understand its process with particular emphasis on traffic characteristics.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Prozzi, Jorge
System: The Portal to Texas History
Developing a Testing Device for Total Pavements Acceptance: Third Year Report (open access)

Developing a Testing Device for Total Pavements Acceptance: Third Year Report

A report on the progress of the Total Pavement Acceptance Device in its third year of development.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Stokoe, Kenneth H., II; Lee, Jung-Su; Nam, Boo H.; Lewis, Mike; Hayes, Richard; Scullion, Thomas et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Developing a Testing Device for Total Pavements Acceptance : Third Year Report (open access)

Developing a Testing Device for Total Pavements Acceptance : Third Year Report

This report provides information on the third year of the Project 0-6005 test progress towards building the Total Pavement Acceptance Device (TPAD).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Lee, Jung-Su; Nam, Boo H.; Lewis, Mike; Hayes, Richard; Scullion, Thomas & Liu, Wenting
System: The Portal to Texas History
An eCertificate Program in Transportation Planning: Final Report (open access)

An eCertificate Program in Transportation Planning: Final Report

This report researches developed proposals to extend the delivery of the recently developed Graduate Certificate in Transportation Planning at Texas A & M University (TAMU) to a wider audience via distance education (online or eCertificate).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Ndubisi, Foster & Joh, Kenneth
System: The Portal to Texas History
Estimating Sediment and Nutrient loads of Texas Coastal Watersheds with SWAT : A case study of Galveston Bay and Matagorda Bay (open access)

Estimating Sediment and Nutrient loads of Texas Coastal Watersheds with SWAT : A case study of Galveston Bay and Matagorda Bay

This report provides information on the results of the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model that was used to estimate terrestrial sediment and nutrients loads to the Galveston and Matagorda bays from their contributing watersheds. (p. 3).
Date: August 2012
Creator: Omani, Nina; Lee, Taesoo & Srinivasan, Raghavan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Bexar Metropolitan Water District: Response to Senate Bill 341 (open access)

Evaluation of Bexar Metropolitan Water District: Response to Senate Bill 341

This report is the evaluation of the Bexar metropolitan water district. Senate Bill 341 of the 82nd Regular Session of the Texas Legislature required the TCEQ to conduct the evaluation.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Feasibility of Solar Powered Traffic Signs in Houston: A Step Toward Sustainable Control Devices (open access)

Feasibility of Solar Powered Traffic Signs in Houston: A Step Toward Sustainable Control Devices

This report provides information on retrofitting the signalized traffic intersections and retrofitting the signals to solar energy and switching to light emitting diodes (LED) the city will see major energy and cost savings, as well as a significant decrease in maintenance cost and time due to longer lifespan of the LEDs and solar panels.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Miller, Alexandra (Writer on transportation); Goodwin, Ronald E. & Godazi, Khosro
System: The Portal to Texas History
Final: Groundwater Availability Model Report for the Rustler Aquifer (open access)

Final: Groundwater Availability Model Report for the Rustler Aquifer

This report documents the development of a three-dimensional groundwater model for the Rustler Aquifer.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Ewing, John E.; Kelley, Van A.; Jones, Toya L.; Yan, Tingting; Singh, Abhishek; Powers, Dennis W. et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Final Report: Binder Rheology and Performance in Warm Mix Asphalt (open access)

Final Report: Binder Rheology and Performance in Warm Mix Asphalt

This report presents the findings from a study conducted to investigate the influence of chemical WMA additives and reduced short-term aging on the properties of asphalt binders, mortars, and mixtures.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Arega, Zelalem & Bhasin, Amit
System: The Portal to Texas History
Free-Floating Carsharing Systems: Innovations in Membership Prediction, Mode Share, and Vehicle Allocation Optimization Methodologies (open access)

Free-Floating Carsharing Systems: Innovations in Membership Prediction, Mode Share, and Vehicle Allocation Optimization Methodologies

This report provides methodologies for some of the challenges facing both free-floating and traditional carsharing programs.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Kortum, Katherine & Machemehl, Randy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Free-Floating Carsharing Systems: Innovations in Membersip Predication, Mode Share, and Vehicle Allocation Optimication Methodologies (open access)

Free-Floating Carsharing Systems: Innovations in Membersip Predication, Mode Share, and Vehicle Allocation Optimication Methodologies

This report provides methodologies for some of the challenges facing both free-floating and traditional carsharing programs.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Kortum, Katherine & Machemehl, Randy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gapps Bayou Existing Conditions Watershed Study (open access)

Gapps Bayou Existing Conditions Watershed Study

Report on the Gapps Bayou Existing Conditions Watershed Study which assessed the flooding risks in Fort Bend County, Texas. The report lists several areas at higher risks of flood damage and recommends that the study continues to explore ways of reduce losses to flooding in the area.
Date: August 2012
Creator: R.G. Miller Engineers
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvements of Full Depth Repair Practices for CRCP Distresses (open access)

Improvements of Full Depth Repair Practices for CRCP Distresses

This report describes the full-depth repair process (FDR) for reinforced concrete roads and methods of improving it.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Ryu, Sungwoo; Choi, Pangil; Zhou, Wujun; Saraf, Sureel & Won, Moon C.
System: The Portal to Texas History