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The rigid pavement database: overview and data collection plan

Description: "In order to keep the rigid pavement (RP) database current and statistically representative of Texas' pavements, periodic reassessments of the database must be made in order to obtain updated sampling plans and new recommendations for future data collection. This report documents a study of the twenty-four-year database, examines the past and current demographics of the data, and identifies the need for improvement in critical areas."
Date: June 1998
Creator: Turen, Tracy; McCullough, B. Frank & Dossey, Terry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

RTI Special Studies for TxDOT Administration in FY 2011

Description: Abstract: This research project was established by TxDOT's Research and Technology Implementation Office to address special studies required by the department's Administration during FY 2011. Three short-term, quick-turnaround tasks were completed and are documented.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Persad, Khali; Zhang, Zhanmin; Qazi, Abds; Harrison, Robert; Trevino, Manuel & Khwaja, Nabeel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Impacts of energy developments on the Texas Transportation System infrastructure

Description: "Texas energy sector has a critical impact-historically and currently-on both the state economy and the Texas transportation system. The stat's various transportation modes, including rail, highways, pipelines, and ports, form a system that supports the energy sector in a number of ways."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Grebenschikov, Sergey; Banerjee, Ambarish & Prozzi, Jorge Alberto
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Assessing the environmental justice impacts of toll road projects

Description: "The objective of this study was to extend the work that was conducted under TxDOT Research Project 0-5208 by (a) reviewing the ability of available tools and analysis techniques to quantify and qualitatively describe the (environmental justice) EJ impacts associated with toll road projects and toll road systems through an evaluation of state-of-the-practice applications, and (b) recommending a suitable approach to assess the EJ impacts of toll roads and toll road systems on EJ communities."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Carroll, Lindsey; Loftus-Otway, Lisa Dawn; Bhat, Chandra; Paleti, Rajesh & McCray, Talia M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Megaregion Freight Planning: A Synopsis

Description: "Megaregion interest has grown strongly in the last decade and is now seen be a growing number of planners as offering effective contributions to problems such as modal congestion, development disparity, and air pollution that individual metropolitan areas or cities cannot resolve individually. Megaregion planning presents an alternative way of mitigating metropolitan problems of large-scale transportation systems, green infrastructure, and economic development and has attracted a number of tr… more
Date: March 2012
Creator: Harrison, Robert; Johnson, Donovan; Loftus-Otway, Lisa; Hutson, Nathan; Seedah, Dan; Zhang, Ming et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Estimating Texas motor vehicle operating costs : final report

Description: "This report and its appendices summarize the findings of a 2-year extension to the TxDOT-sponsored study 0-5974 entitled "Estimating Texas Motor Vehicle Costs" undertaken by a Center for Transportation Research (CTR) team of mechanical engineers and economists at The University of Texas at Austin."
Date: November 2011
Creator: Matthews, Ronald; Seedah, Dan; Ates, Murat; Kim, Kyung Jin; Anderson, Garrett; Vaughn, James et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Texas rigid pavement database annual report, 1999

Description: "This report analyzes and evaluates new information collected in 1998 for the jointed concrete pavement (JCP) database, which currently comprises information on 137 test sections. This report demonstrates the relevance of maintaining the rigid pavement database (RPDB)."
Date: November 2003
Creator: Medina, Cesar; Dossey, Terry & McCullough, B. Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Validation and implementation of the structural condition index (SCI) for network-level pavement evaluation

Description: "The objective of this research is to validate the pavement Structural Condition Index (SCI) developed under a previous Research Project, 0-4322, and to develop guidelines for implementing the SCI at the network level."
Date: June 2011
Creator: Murphy, Michael; Zhang, Zhanmin & Peddibhotla, Sree Sravya Sruthi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Peer state assessment of TxDOT maintenance program and practices: workshop and road rally findings

Description: "The goal of the project was to conduct a workshop at CTR and in the Austin District that would educate the visiting peers on TxDOT"s maintenance practices and invite their feedback."
Date: January 2011
Creator: Gao, Lu; Chi, Seokho; Prozzi, Jorge Alberto; Yildirim, Yetkin; Zhang, Zhanmin; Centurion, Claudia et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Energy Sector: Past and Future

Description: "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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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

Description: "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
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Proposed TxDOT strategic research program

Description: "This report documents the results of the work conducted by the Center for Transportation Research (CTR) at the University of Texas at Austin, the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), and The Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation (TechMRT) at Texas Tech University, to assist TxDOT in developing the elements of the SRP."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Persad, Khali (Khali Ram), 1956-; Gilliland, Cynthia A. Weatherby; Nash, Phil; Machemehl, Randy B.; Stockton, Bill & Cleveland, Theodore
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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