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Effect of climate change on crop production patterns with implications to transport flows and inland waterways

Description: "This report analyzed the demand for transportation capacity and changes in transportation flows on inland waterways due to shifts in crop production patterns induced by climate change."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Vedenov, Dmitry V.; Fuller, Stephen W.; McCarl, Cruce A.; Attavanich, Witsanu & Ahmedov, Zafarbek
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Urban Triangle: Creating a Spatial Decision Support System for Mobility Policy and Investments That Shape the Sustainable Growth of Texas

Description: Report on a project examining the Texas Urban Triangle to identify issues that arise with the rapid growth of the area and develop a tool, Spatial Decision Support System, to assist local municipalities in making policy decisions.
Date: November 2010
Creator: Bright, Elise M.; Morgan, Curtis Alan & Neuman, Michael
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Texas transit leadership initiative

Description: 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
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Promoting Workforce Development for the Transportation Profession Through a Multi-University/Agency Partnership: Final Report

Description: "The objective of this multi-university/agency partnership between Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), and Texas A&M University (TAMU) is to build on the progress made through the UTCM seed funding to produce high-quality transportation professionals from underrepresented groups through research and other real-world experiences."
Date: December 15, 2010
Creator: Kommalapati, Raghava; Perkins, Judy; Jasek, Deborah; Stockton, William & Benz, Robert J. (Robert Joseph)
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Biofuels energy policy and grain transportation flows: implications for inland waterways and short sea shipping

Description: "This project develops a foundation for analysis of the effects of U.S. bio-fuel energy policy on domestic and international grain flows and patterns."
Date: September 2010
Creator: Vedenov, Dmitry V.; Fuller, Stephen W.; Power, Gabriel; Ahmedov, Zafarbek; Vadali, Sharada & Burris, Mark
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Valuing public sector risk exposure in transportation public-private partnerships

Description: "This report presents a methodological framework to evaluate public sector financial risk exposure when delivering transportation infrastructure through public-private partnership (PPP) agreements in the United States (U.S.)."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Bujanda, Arturo & Valdez-Ceniceros, Gabriel Alejandro
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Examining Challenges, Opportunities, and Best Practices for Addressing Rural Mobility and Economic Development Under SAFETEA-LU's Coordinated Planning and Human Services Framework

Description: This report evaluates the recently developed coordinated transit and human services plan both the processes that have been adopted throughout the state as well as they types of outcomes that have emerged.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Martin, June; Giusti, Ceclia; Dumbaugh, Eric & Cherrington, Linda
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Evaluating the Use of Transfers for Improving Rural Public Transportation Systems

Description: "In this report researchers consider a variation of the regular demand responsive transit system that adopts the transfer practice to reduce operating costs.Researchers evaluated the effect of different transfer operating policies by developing a simulation model of several plausible scenarios. The results indicate that zoning with transfer can provide significant benefits paratransit operations that are managing zoning structure."
Date: August 2011
Creator: Quadrifoglio, Luca; Shen, Chung-Wei & Edrington, Suzie
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Statistical Analysis of Vessel Waiting Time and Lockage Times on the Upper Mississippi River

Description: "The purpose of this report is to identify and evaluate non-structural alternatives those not requiring construction, but rather procedural or policy changes, for instance, congestion fee, excess lockage time charges, helper boats, switch boats, deck winches, and moorings that might be employed to offer nearby congestion relief."
Date: September 2011
Creator: Wu, Ximing; Chang, Meng-Shiuh; Fuller, Steven & Zhang, Yu Yvette
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Short-Run Impact of Gas Prices on Toll Road Use

Description: Report on the results of a study examining the elasticity of travel with respect to gas price by examining how recent changes in gas prices have impacted travel on specific facilities: toll facilities. This study developed models that account for the many other exogenous factors influencing toll road use (such as local economy, population, and toll rates), and provide an elasticity of toll road demand with respect to gas price independent of those other factors.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Burris, Mark & Huang, Chao
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The 2011 Mileage-Based User Fee Symposium

Description: Report on Mileage-Based User Fees from the third annual two-day Symposium on Mileage-Based User Fees. Three main topics are addressed in the report: the most likely way to implement mileage-based user fees, state-level research and implementation on mileage-based user fees, and public acceptance of mileage-based user fees.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Goodin, Ginger; Wood, Nicholas & Baker, Richard T.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Development of a Special Topics Course on Civil Engineering Project Finance for the Zachry Department of Civil Engineering of Texas A&M University

Description: A project finance course integrated into the core curriculum for graduate civil engineering students. Even fewer programs treat project finance as a truly interdisciplinary topic. In fact, the topic of project finance often constitutes only a small part of the structured finance curricula. The purpose of this project was to bridge this gap by developing educational and teaching materials for an interdisciplinary course in project finance. This course communicates the implications of financ… more
Date: May 2011
Creator: Damnjanovic, Ivan & Aslan, Zafer
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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

Description: "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
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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

Description: "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.
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Teen Driver Cell Phone Blocker

Description: "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
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Best Practices and Outreach for Active Traffic Management: Final Report

Description: "This report includes a literature review related to active traffic management (ATM), an inventory of ATM deployments both overseas and in the United States, a summary of best practices and general guidelines for the deployment of ATM, information of the development of an ATM website, and the delivery of a webinar to present the project results to increase the awareness of ATM within the transportation profession."
Date: December 2011
Creator: Levecq, Charles; Kuhn, Beverly & Jasek, Deborah
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Development of Statistical Models to Forecast Crossing Times of Commercial Vehicles

Description: In this report statistical models were developed to predict crossing times of trucks over a short range of time. The statistical prediction models use historic data and take into account empirical relationships between border-crossing-related parameters and truck crossing times.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Kang, Dong Hun; Ochoa, Cesar; Rajbhandari, Rajat & Garcia, Francisco
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transportation Workforce Development : Sustaining and Expanding High School Outreach Programs and Multi-agency Partnerships: Final Report

Description: This document reports on a multi-university partnered project that focuses on producing high-quality transportation professionals from underrepresented groups. This project redesigned and expanded the Summer Transportation Institute (STI) Scholars program created with previous funding from this sponsor; its goal is to motivate students to take an interest in civil engineering and transportation careers."(p. 1).
Date: July 2012
Creator: Kommalapati, Raghava Rao; Ramalingam, Radhakrishnan & Stockton, William R.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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