Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1991 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1991

Statistics related to motor vehicle traffic accidents in Texas, for the year 1991.
Date: 1991
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1992 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1992

Repot on statistics related to motor vehicle traffic accidents in Texas during 1992.
Date: 1993
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1993 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1993

Report discussing statistics related to motor vehicle traffic accidents in Texas during 1993.
Date: 1994
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1994 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1994

Statistics related to motor vehicle traffic accidents in Texas, for the year 1994.
Date: 1994
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1995 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1995

Statistics related to motor vehicle traffic accidents in Texas, for the year 1995.
Date: 1995
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1998 (open access)

Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents: 1998

A report on motor vehicle accidents in Texas for 1998 detailing statistics related to deaths, injuries, locations of accidents, times of accidents, vehicle types involved in accidents, and causes of accidents.
Date: 1998
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Shear strengthening of reinforced and prestressed concrete beams using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) sheets and anchors (open access)

Shear strengthening of reinforced and prestressed concrete beams using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) sheets and anchors

This report presents experimental results, installation procedures for CFRP sheets and anchors, specifications for fabrication and installation of CFRP anchors, and anchored CFRP shear design guidelines.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Kim, Yungon.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Validation of field test methods for use of tire bales (open access)

Validation of field test methods for use of tire bales

Report discussing an implementation project that validates field test methods for checking he conformity of tire bales used in transportation applications.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Zornber, Jorge C.; Freilich, Brian J. & Guzman, Carlos
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
An Assessment and Framework of Management Science Applications for TxDOT (open access)

An Assessment and Framework of Management Science Applications for TxDOT

Report discussing the results of a project in which researchers implemented a systematic approach to identify the domains within the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) where Operations Research and Management Science (OR/MS) techniques could lead to substantial improvements.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Waller, S. Travis; Walewski, John; Chang, Carlos; Fajardo, David; Lasdon, Leon; Montes, Edith et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Energy Sector: Past and Future (open access)

Texas Energy Sector: Past and Future

"The objectives of this research study were to (a) illustrate and quantify the impacts imposed by the energy sector on Texas's transportation system and (b) identify key energy demand indicators by energy source that TxDOT can track in an effort to anticipate the associated future transportation impacts on Texas's transportation system."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Dumais, Ashley; Cline, Mike; Loftus-Otway, Lisa & Seaborne, Eleanor
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traffic Operations and Safety Benefits of Active Traffic Strategies on TxDOT Freeways (open access)

Traffic Operations and Safety Benefits of Active Traffic Strategies on TxDOT Freeways

Report discussing a project, which developed a series of interdependent models and a simulation framework to evaluate the traffic operations and safety benefits of ATM strategies. Four ATM scenarios were evaluated in this study: variable speed limits (VSL), peak-period shoulder use, VSL and shoulder use, and ramp metering.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Nezamuddin, N.; Jiang, Nan (Writer on transportation); Zhang, Ti; Waller, S. Travis & Sun, Dazhi
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementation of Database for TxDOT ARRA Projects (open access)

Implementation of Database for TxDOT ARRA Projects

Report discussing projects initiated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), a fiscal stimulus package signed by President Obama on March 6, 2009. State agencies like the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) who received ARRA funds had to report, on a monthly basis, various data on each project in the ARRA program, including staff numbers, hours worked, and payroll. TxDOT asked the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) to identify and isolate specific elements of the 0-6592 database that TxDOT's Construction Division (CST) can implement into an existing TxDot database. This report describes the implementation of the database and procedures for updating it.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Persad, Khali R. & Suri, Jasjyot S.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluation of Corrosion Resistance of Improved Post-Tensioning Materials After Long-Term Exposure Testing (open access)

Evaluation of Corrosion Resistance of Improved Post-Tensioning Materials After Long-Term Exposure Testing

Technical report on the results of a study evaluating the corrosion resistance of post-tensioned beams after four years of aggressive cyclic ponded saltwater exposure.
Date: October 2011
Creator: McCool, G. E.; Ahern, M. E.; Breen, J. E. & Wood, S. L.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Application guide and specifications for geotextiles in roadway applications (open access)

Application guide and specifications for geotextiles in roadway applications

Abstract: "Geotextiles, one among the different geosynthetic products, can be used for a number of functions or applications in pavement design. The benefits of using geotextiles in pavements and other transportation applications have triggered a proliferation of products. While this abundance of new products has led to reduction in costs, it has also made it difficult for TxDOT personnel to choose appropriate products based on their engineering properties. Consequently, this report provides the basis for (i) guidelines for proper use and selection of geotextiles in pavements, (ii) material specifications for geotextiles in pavement applications, and (iii) draft construction specifications."
Date: February 2012
Creator: Zornberg, Jorge G. & Thompson, Nathan
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Training Manual for Pavement Concrete Proportioning Method (open access)

Training Manual for Pavement Concrete Proportioning Method

"This manual presents a method to proportion concrete paving mixtures made with manufactured sands and increased micro-fines percentages in a step-by-step manner. This method was adapted from Koehler's (2007) proportioning method for self-consolidating concrete" (p. 1).
Date: February 2010
Creator: McLeroy, Meredith; Fowler, David; Won, Moon & Whitney, David
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Literature review of current practices in dealing with fluctuations of maintenance budgets (open access)

Literature review of current practices in dealing with fluctuations of maintenance budgets

Report discussing a literature review of current budget cutting strategies used in routine roadway maintenance planning, including methods and techniques that are employed by other state and international transportation organizations (DOT's). It also reviewed methodologies developed from previous research and identified the most effect risk management techniques.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Gonzales, Epigmenio.; Li, Wenxing; Murphy, Mike; O'Connor, James T.; Bhat, Chandra R. & Yildirim, Yetkin
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Prioritization of highway maintenance functions using multi-attribute decision making with fuzzy pairwise comparison (open access)

Prioritization of highway maintenance functions using multi-attribute decision making with fuzzy pairwise comparison

Report on a methodological framework to help highway agencies develop maintenance plans that are minimally impacted by budget fluctuations. It includes a case study testing the effectiveness of the methodology using data from the Texas Department of Transportation.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Zhang, Zhanmin & Liu, Wenxing
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Economic Efficiency of Allowing Longer Combination Vehicles in Texas (open access)

The Economic Efficiency of Allowing Longer Combination Vehicles in Texas

Paper discussing the economic efficiency of allowing longer combination vehicles to operate in Texas.
Date: August 2011
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Bienkowski, Bridget N.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Evaluating the effect of street network connectivity on first/last mile transit performance (open access)

Evaluating the effect of street network connectivity on first/last mile transit performance

"This study defines a novel connectivity indicator (CI) to predict transit performance by identifying the role that street network connectivity plays in influencing the service quality of demand responsive feeder transit services."
Date: November 2011
Creator: Chandra, Shailesh. & Quadrifoglio, Luca
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Implementation of the Soil Compactor Analyzer Into Test Method TEX-113-E : Technical Report (open access)

Implementation of the Soil Compactor Analyzer Into Test Method TEX-113-E : Technical Report

This report describes a study showing that the Soil Compactor Analyzer(SCA) enables excellent precision precision of total statistics of test method Tex-113-E.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Sebesta, Stephen & Taylor, Ross
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unknown Foundation Determination for Scour (open access)

Unknown Foundation Determination for Scour

This report describes a project to develop a global approach that would reduce the level of uncertainty associated with unknown foundations.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Briaud, Jean-Louis; Medina-Cetina, Zenon; Hurlebaus, Stefan; Everett, Mark; Tucker, Stacey; Yousefpour, Negin et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alternative Methods of Flexible Base Compaction Acceptance (open access)

Alternative Methods of Flexible Base Compaction Acceptance

"This report summarizes the concerns expressed with the current Texas Department of Transportation(TxDOT) methods, presents approaches some TxDOT districts have taken to overcome problems, and summarizes the current status of other agencies' efforts at mechanistic based acceptance for flexible base. Also this report presents results and findings from a full-scale compaction experiment."
Date: May 2012
Creator: Sebesta, Stephen; Taylor, Ross & Frazier, James
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Community Design and the Incidence of Crashes Involving Pedestrians and Motorists Aged 75 and Older (open access)

Community Design and the Incidence of Crashes Involving Pedestrians and Motorists Aged 75 and Older

"This report studies a series of negative binomial regression models to understand how urban form may affect the incidence of total and killed-or-severely-injured (KSI) crashes involving older drivers and pedestrians."
Date: April 2012
Creator: Dumbaugh, Eric; Zhang, Yi & Li, Wenhao
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Development of an Early-Stage Toll Revenue Estimation Model (open access)

Development of an Early-Stage Toll Revenue Estimation Model

This report contains a standalone, spreadsheet-based model that prepares early-stage traffic and toll revenue estimates.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Beaty, Curtis & Lieu, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History