Texas Sixth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas Sixth Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012

Annual financial report of the Sixth Court of Appeals documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2012.
Date: October 1, 2012
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (6th)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas First Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas First Court of Appeals Annual Financial Report: 2012

Report containing the annual financial report of the Texas First District Court of Appeals, including revenues, expenditures, assets, and debts.
Date: October 1, 2012
Creator: Texas. Court of Appeals (1st)
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending Annual Financial Report: 2012 (open access)

Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending Annual Financial Report: 2012

Report containing the annual financial report of the Texas Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending, including revenues, expenditures, assets, and debts.
Date: October 1, 2012
Creator: Texas. Department of Savings and Mortgage Lending.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Expenditures by County: 2011 (open access)

Texas State Expenditures by County: 2011

The report contains the Texas state expenditures by county for fiscal year 2011.
Date: April 23, 2012
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Bond Review Board Local Government Annual Report: 2011 (open access)

Texas Bond Review Board Local Government Annual Report: 2011

Annual report of local government debt in Texas, broken down by areas and categories, with statistics and other relevant information.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Texas Bond Review Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program Annual Report, 2011 (open access)

Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program Annual Report, 2011

The annual report for the Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program for the fiscal year August 31, 2011.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Texas Prepaid Higher Education Tuition Program
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Equity evaluation of vehicle miles traveled fees in Texas (open access)

Equity evaluation of vehicle miles traveled fees in Texas

"This report used 2009 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) Texas data to consider the equity impacts surrounding four vehicle miles traveled (VMT) scenarios. Results indicate that all of the VMT fee scenarios are essentially as equally vertically equitable as the current state gas tax system."
Date: March 2012
Creator: Burris, Mark; Larsen, Lisa. & Whitty, James M.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Refining the Real-Timed Urban Mobility Report (open access)

Refining the Real-Timed Urban Mobility Report

This report describes a methodological improvement in the Urban Mobility Report (UMR) arterial street congestion calculations, including a change in the definition of "free-flow speed," which is used for delay calculations on arterial streets.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Lomax, Tim; Turner, Shawn; Eisele, Bill; Schrank, David; Geng, Lauren & Shollar, Brian
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Assessing Public Benefits and Costs of Freight Transportation Projects: Measuring Shippers' Value of Delay on the Freight System (open access)

Assessing Public Benefits and Costs of Freight Transportation Projects: Measuring Shippers' Value of Delay on the Freight System

This report gauges the economic impact of freight delay due to highway congestion, this project focuses on estimating shippers' value of delay (VOD).
Date: July 2012
Creator: Gong, Qi; Miao, Qing; Wang, Bruce X. & Adams, Teresa M.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Multi-Vehicle Mobility Allowance Shuttle Transit (MAST) System: An Analytical Model to Select the Fleet Size and a Scheduling Heuristic (open access)

Multi-Vehicle Mobility Allowance Shuttle Transit (MAST) System: An Analytical Model to Select the Fleet Size and a Scheduling Heuristic

This report discusses the mobility allowance shuttle transit [MAST] system which is a hybrid transit system in which vehicles are allowed to deviate from a fixed rout to serve flexible demand. The mixed interfere programming formulation analyzed the impacts of time headways between consecutive transit vehicles on the performance of a two-vehicle MAST system.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Quadrifoglio, Luca & Lu, Wei
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transit Management Certificate Program (open access)

Transit Management Certificate Program

"In this report Texas Transportation Institute(TTI) worked closely with the Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning Department (LAUP) of Texas A&M University (TAMU) to develop a transit management certificate focus for the current Graduate Certificate in Transportation Planning (CTP) housed in the College of Architecture at TAMU. This program is the first step in the development of future educational opportunities in public transportation in Texas."
Date: July 2012
Creator: Cherrington, Linda; Sandidge, Matt & Joh, Ken
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Value of Public Transportation for Improving the Quality of Life for the Rural Elderly (open access)

The Value of Public Transportation for Improving the Quality of Life for the Rural Elderly

"This report focuses on non-medical transportation; medical transportation is addressed in the literature and is more widely available to the elderly. Because expanded rural transportation systems likely will be funded by taxpayers, an understanding of their preferences and willingness-to-pay for non-medical transportation options is essential."
Date: July 2012
Creator: Mjelde, James W.; Dudensing, Rebekka; Cherrington, Linda Kay; Yanhong, Jin; Israel, Alicia A. & Chen, Junyi
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conference on Performance Measures for Transportation and Livable Communities: Summary of Work Performed (open access)

Conference on Performance Measures for Transportation and Livable Communities: Summary of Work Performed

"This report summarizes the work performed and results achieved in planning and implementing this conference. The aim of this project was to plan and conduct a workshop or conference on transportation and livability performance measures, involving researchers and transportation practitioners from different agencies in the U.S."
Date: June 2012
Creator: Ramani, Tara L. & Turnbull, Katherine F.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Teen Driver Cell Phone Blocker (open access)

Teen Driver Cell Phone Blocker

"In this report a study that was a randomized control intervention that measures the effectiveness of a cellular phone control device that communicates whit the vehicles of teen drivers to deny them access to their phone while driving for the purpose of reducing distraction=related negative driving events."
Date: February 2012
Creator: Benden, Mark; Fink, Rainer & Stafford, James
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Laboratory and field performance measurements to support the implementation of warm mix asphalt in Texas (open access)

Laboratory and field performance measurements to support the implementation of warm mix asphalt in Texas

An objective of this study was to monitor the performance of more than 10 warm mix asphalt (WMA) projects in the state. Several WMA technologies were included in the study (foaming, Advera, Evotherm, Rediset, Sasobit) and it was determined that performance of the warm mix was comparable to hot mix. In addition, mix from two warm mix projects were subjected to different curing times and temperatures and then evaluated for mixture volumetrics and performance properties. Results from this study lend support to the current procedures the Texas Department of Transportation has adopted.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Estakhri, Cindy K.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Full-depth reclamation : new test procedures and recommended updates to specifications (open access)

Full-depth reclamation : new test procedures and recommended updates to specifications

Rehabilitating an old pavement by pulverizing and stabilizing the existing pavement is a process referred to as Full Depth Reclamation (FDR). The stabilized layer becomes either the base or sub-base of the new pavement structure. This process has been used widely for over 20 years in Texas to strengthen and widen structurally inadequate pavement sections. This project developed guidelines on successful FDR practices, developed training materials, and identified areas where improvements to current practices are required. To improve the FDR process, this report includes the following enhancements: (1) As current laboratory testing to select the optimal type and amount of stabilizer takes too long and requires too much material, continue to run parallel testing with the small sample test protocols proposed in this report; (2) Use the falling weight deflectometer (FWD) during construction to validate that the design assumptions are being met; (3) Implement the proposed bond test to select the optimum prime material and amount needed to effectively bond the base to the surfacing materials; (4) Modify the specifications to avoid working in freezing conditions; and (5) Consider implementing the other modifications to specifications proposed in this report.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Scullion, Thomas; Sebesta, Stephen; Estakhri, Cindy K.; Harris, Pat; Shon, Chang-Seon; Harvey, Omar et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Low Cost Wireless Network Camera Sensors for Traffic Monitoring (open access)

Low Cost Wireless Network Camera Sensors for Traffic Monitoring

Report on a study investigating the ways new video and wireless technology can be implemented into Texas Department of Transportation video monitoring systems to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Huang, Yan & Buckles, Bill P.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guidance on extracting value from Texas Department of Transportation's land holdings (open access)

Guidance on extracting value from Texas Department of Transportation's land holdings

"In this report the Center of Transportation Research at The University of Texas at Austin undertook a comprehensive research study to identify and determine when, where, and under what circumstances Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) should pursue the implementation of Value Extraction Applications (VEA), and how to effectively recognize and involve key stakeholders."
Date: July 2012
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Paes, Thiago; Loftus-Otway, Lisa & Caldas, Carlos
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Materials selection for concrete overlays : the final report (open access)

Materials selection for concrete overlays : the final report

Report on the existing concrete overlays in Texas and the results of laboratory research on the material selection and construction of concrete overlays.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Kim, Dong H.; Fowler, David W.; Ferron, Raissa P.; Trevino, Manuel M. & Whitney, David P.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transportation and Tourism: Final Report (open access)

Transportation and Tourism: Final Report

Report exploring the link between transportation and tourism in Texas. A session on transit and tourism was organized and conducted as part of the 2012 Texas Transit Conference. Session participants discussed additional research needs, outreach activities, and possible demonstration projects.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Turnbull, Katherine F. & Griffin, Greg P.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, February/March 2012 (open access)

Round Up, February/March 2012

Magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, April 2012/May 2012 (open access)

Round Up, April 2012/May 2012

Magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, October/November 2012 (open access)

Round Up, October/November 2012

Magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Round Up, August/September 2012 (open access)

Round Up, August/September 2012

Magazine for Texas Lottery retailers that contains news, retailer spotlights, and a list of lottery winners.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Texas Lottery Commission
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History