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      <title>National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) and Special Projects Support</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:10:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Research and Education 2010</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This issue contains 6 papers on the following aspects of research and education:  student understanding of sight distance in geometric design; learning styles in an engineering laboratory; design of transportation curriculum materials with examples; traffic control game for teaching high school students; outsourcing decision making in a department of transportation; and performance measures for road infrastructure research programs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:56:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Information Infrastructure for Research Collaboration in Land Use, Transportation, and Environmental Planning</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This paper presents the framework and implementation of a flexible, loosely coupled information infrastructure to facilitate collaborative research on land use, transportation, and environment (LUTE) modeling. The framework combines off-the-shelf open source applications such as Apache, PostgreSQL, MapServer, OpenSSL, and MediaWiki, with proprietary tools such as ArcGIS Server and Flex, and uses minimal custom code to provide web services for distributed modeling and realistic evolution of data, models, and research. The approach has been developed to assist research collaboration for the transportation systems focus areas of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology–Portugal program, but it can be appropriate for other collaborative efforts that could benefit from federated systems for LUTE modeling across local and regional agencies and university partners.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:14:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Methodology for Evaluating Department of Transportation Research Programs: Case Study of Wyoming Department of Transportation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This study examined multiple aspects of the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) Research program.  It provides numerous observations of the overall program and the research investment portfolio as well as guidance for developing a strategic research agenda which was requested by the WYDOT research program management and executive leadership.  The study provides insight into various categories of research projects by analyzing data across all projects and detailed case studies for a select group of projects. The overall program is very efficiently managed.  From proposing projects to the Research Advisory Committee (RAC), to executing projects with sponsors, to fulfilling administrative requirements, WYDOT’s research program has minimal decision layers, is efficient, can respond quickly and is not afraid to support research that falls “outside the box”.  That stated, there are significant opportunities to improve program effectiveness and this paper provides numerous recommendations, tools and aids to accomplish this. The study provides a process for developing an agenda for working with programs to solicit research opportunities to execute the research agenda.  Linking research to WYDOT’s Balanced Scorecard (BSC) targets is not a recommendation for completely abandoning current Research program philosophy.  A key strength of the program is the fact that on a quarterly basis WYDOT provides an open forum where with program sponsorship, an idea can be proposed to the RAC and based upon merit receive significant funding within three weeks.  What is recommended is that WYDOT find and maintain balance between a strategic research agenda and pursuit of real-time, high potential research and development opportunities. The study defines performance measures for improving program effectiveness.  The ten performance measures selected by WYDOT, in aggregate, comprise the proposed balanced scorecard for the research program.  These measures are comprehensive and coherent.  They link research to the strategic plan through a research agenda and focus on outcomes (effectiveness) while also addressing process (efficiency).  The measures provide WYDOT with a framework for continuous improvement, i.e. measure-monitor-manage-measure.  The measures are quantifiable, and trends in these measures should be communicated through the Annual Research Work Program report. In addition to a performance measurement system, the study provides the research program with other tools and aids such as a proposal evaluation checklist, supplemental guidance for researchers for proposal development and a researcher survey for gathering feedback and continuous improvement.  Although focused on WYDOT, the results of this study and the tools, aids and methods provided to improve research program effectiveness should be applicable and useful to other state transportation agencies.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 07:49:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>State Research Practices and Issues</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Research practices and related issues at state levels are explored through a survey of transportation professionals involved in research. The survey was focused on state practices in formulating problem statements, development of experiment designs, and review and evaluation processes for in-house and contract research. Typical research areas and related use of tools and techniques to address research needs, and resources utilized to address analytical issues were also investigated. The outcomes of the survey will be utilized to develop guidelines in effective experimental design and data analysis that will also include comprehensive examples in applied research.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 07:49:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New England Transportation Consortium: A Model for Management of a Multistate Cooperative Research Program</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Six New England state transportation agencies are cooperating with six New England state land grant universities and FHWA in a program of transportation research. This joint venture is called the New England Transportation Consortium (NETC). NETC was formed as a regional approach to address transportation research needs of mutual concern to the New England states. Its purpose is to pool the region’s financial, professional, and academic resources and to use them to research and develop improved methods of dealing with common problems in the planning, construction, maintenance, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and operation of transportation systems in the participating states. This paper discusses the following issues regarding NETC: description, funding, history, establishment and start-up, organization and management, project selection process, award of funding, strengths, and challenges. This paper also provides recommendations and guidelines for the establishment, operation, and sustained growth of an intergovernmental, multistate cooperative research program.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:15:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NHTSA's National Advanced Driving Simulator Research Program</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since its completion, the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS) has been used for a variety of NHTSA research projects. NHTSA-sponsored research using the NADS has spanned a variety of topics including driver distraction, drivers’ responses to vehicle component failures, and the effects of alcohol impairment on driving performance. The validity of the NADS has also been verified empirically. The NADS provides the computational capabilities and fidelity necessary to create complex driving situations with varying task demands with high repeatability. The use of the NADS also allows the inclusion of conflict situations that cannot safely be created in on-road experiments. NHTSA research utilizes these unique capabilities of NADS to address questions that cannot be addressed with on-road or test-track experimentation. This paper highlights NADS capabilities through descriptions of NHTSA research programs.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:04:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FFY 2006 Annual Report for the Montana Department of Transportation Research Programs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) conducts research to discover, develop, or extend knowledge needed to operate, maintain, and improve the statewide multimodal transportation system. Specific goals include: evaluation and advancement of new technologies, materials, and methods; development of design and analysis techniques; and study of current transportation challenges. The purpose of this report is to give an overall description of research, development, and technology transfer activities for federal fiscal year (FFY) 2006 within the Research Programs of the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT). Through these activities, the Research Programs enhances MDT’s ability to deliver efficient and effective transportation services. MDT's mission is to serve the public by providing a transportation system and services that emphasize quality, safety, cost effectiveness, economic vitality, and sensitivity to the environment. MDT’s Research Programs impacts each and every part of MDT’s mission. Research projects completed in FFY 2006 yielded results that when fully implemented will improve: efficiency and effectiveness of MDT operations and technology transfer, including improving ride on Montana’s roads; economic vitality; sensitivity to the environment, including decreasing vehicle-wildlife collisions, improving design for safety, and improving revegetation of roadsides; safety, by decreasing roadside hazards, decreasing young driver accidents, and through training and technology transfer; and quality of what we do and how we do it, including bridge design and inspection, use of the most efficient materials and technology, and materials testing and acceptance.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:39:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Transportation Research: Opportunities for Improving the Oversight of DOT's Research Programs and User Satisfaction with Transportation Statistics</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Department of Transportation’s (DOT) research, development, and technology (RD&T) budget totaled $1.1 billion in fiscal year 2005. DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA)—which includes the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS)— oversees DOT’s RD&T activities. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) examined (1) how RITA’s responsibilities for overseeing DOT’s RD&T activities differ from those of its predecessor, the Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA); (2) RITA’s practices for coordinating, facilitating, and reviewing RD&T activities; (3) the progress DOT has made in implementing GAO’s 2003 recommendations on how to improve the coordination and evaluation of RD&T activities; and (4) how BTS identifies and monitors how well it serves its users. To address these issues, GAO reviewed relevant documentation and interviewed officials from RITA, BTS, and three operating administrations. In 2005, RITA took over RSPA’s responsibilities for overseeing DOT’s RD&T activities when RSPA was dissolved. While RITA’s mission and strategic objectives are similar to those RSPA had, RITA differs from RSPA in a number of ways. For example, RITA proposed a $2 million increase in its fiscal year 2007 budget request for the oversight of DOT’s RD&T activities through its proposed Transportation Futures and Applied Technology Program, which, among other things, would provide access to technical experts to RITA on a contract basis. Additionally, RITA’s responsibility for evaluation is less clearly defined than RSPA’s. RITA, unlike RSPA, is not required to measure the results or evaluate the effectiveness of RD&T activities. However, RITA is not explicitly prevented from evaluating such activities. RITA coordinates, facilitates, and reviews DOT’s RD&T activities through various practices. For example, RITA has two coordinating bodies—the RD&T Planning Council and the RD&T Planning Team—and conducts budget reviews, among other practices. RITA has not, however, established performance goals, a clear implementing strategy, or an evaluation plan that delineates how its coordination, facilitation, and review practices will further DOT’s mission or ensure the effectiveness of its RD&T investment. Without such a strategic approach, it is difficult for RITA to ensure that DOT is making the most of its approximately $1 billion annual RD&T investment. RITA has partially implemented four of GAO's recommendations and has not implemented the other. For example, while RITA, through its two coordinating bodies, has taken some action to review RD&T activities for duplication and opportunities for joint efforts, RITA has not established the scope of RD&T activities to be reviewed, the methodology of the review, or how the results will be used to make decisions about future RD&T activities. BTS does not have a systematic process for identifying its primary users, soliciting ongoing feedback from those users, and determining whether or how that feedback should be incorporated. For example, rather than identify specific users of BTS data products and services, BTS considers its users to be those broad categories of intended users described in federal legislation. Further, rather than routinely soliciting user feedback on all data products and services, such as through a customer satisfaction survey, BTS only solicits limited feedback from some users of specific products through conferences, workshops, or other meetings. Finally, BTS relies on its program managers to evaluate and determine how best to address feedback from its users; however, the managers are not required to—and often do not—report the results of whether or how they considered user feedback. Without a systematic process for identifying its users, soliciting ongoing feedback, and determining whether or how that feedback should be incorporated, BTS is limited in its ability to consider feedback and use it to make improvements to data products. GAO makes several recommendations to DOT to enhance RITA’s ability to manage and ensure the effectiveness of RD&T activities. These include (1) developing performance goals, an implementing strategy, and an evaluation plan for RITA; and (2) developing a systematic process for BTS to identify its primary users and solicit and incorporate feedback from those users.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:15:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cooperative Research for Hazardous Materials Transportation: Defining the Need, Converging on Solutions</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This study examines the feasibility of a cooperative research program for hazardous materials transportation.  At the request of the Research and Special Programs Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, and the U.S. Coast Guard, the Transportation Research Board convened a committee of experts to offer advice on the need for such a research program and on ways to bring it about if desirable.  Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the report.  Chapter 2 provides an overview of the industry, describes the safety and other risks associated with hazardous materials transportation, and outlines the many roles and responsibilities of industry and government in managing these risks.  Chapter 3 describes the array of federal research programs related to hazardous materials transportation.  Chapter 4 reviews the kinds of problems that are candidates for cooperative research and offers example projects for illustration purposes.  Chapter 5 examines several existing cooperative research programs, both within and outside the transportation sector, the kinds of research they emphasize, and how they are financed, governed, and managed.  Chapter 6 examines options for structuring a hazardous materials transportation cooperative research program on the basis of insights gained from examining other cooperative research programs.  Finally, Chapter 7 presents the committee's conclusions about the need for cooperative research on hazardous materials transportation, its vision for how a national cooperative research program might be organized to help address this need, and recommended next steps in bringing about such a program.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2005 16:21:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THIRD INTERIM REPORT ON STATUS OF GAS TURBINE TRANSIT BUS DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/162417</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Progress in a program for demonstrating the use of gas turbines in city buses is reported. Five prototype gas turbine engines, Model GT-40404, manufactured by the Detroit Diesel Allison Division of General Motors Corporation, are being integrated into five RTS-II model transit coaches, manufactured by General Motors Corporation and supplied by the Mass Transit Administration (MTA) of Baltimore, Maryland. They will be acceptance tested at the Transportation Research Center proving grounds in Ohio, where one gas turbine coach will also be performance and mileage tested against a diesel RTS-II coach. The first diesel-to-turbine engine conversion is done. The second conversion is almost completed. The demonstration plan for the 5 gas turbine coaches has been finalized. (ERA citation 05:030836)]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IMPLICATIONS OF FUEL-EFFICIENT VEHICLES ON RIDE QUALITY AND PASSENGER ACCEPTANCE: WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS WOODS HOLE, MASSACHUSETTS, SEPTEMBER 6-8, 1978</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Four workshops were conducted under the auspices of the Transportation Research Board.  The topics of discussion included ride quality and passenger acceptance problems associated with enhanced fuel efficiency of automobiles (Group A) and aircraft (Group B); shifts in intermediate range (100-500 miles) travel for automobiles to public transit (Group C); and implications of increased size disparity for ground transport freight and passenger vehicles using shared guideways (Group D).  In each group, major problem areas were identified and strategies for conducting pertinent research were outlined.  A glossary of technical terms and a list of workshop participants are also included in the report.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>UNDERSTANDING DRIVER PERFORMANCE VARIABILITY AND PERCEPTION OF RISK: DRIVER HAZARD PERCEPTION RESEARCH PLAN</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The objectives of this research project were to develop a comprehensive and clearly defined research program to define, measure, and quantify driver perception of hazards as it relates to highway design, operations, and safety standards.  This was accomplished through a systematic research and development effort that defined six research projects.  The Driver Hazard Perception Research Program broadly addresses how drivers perceive, interpret, and react to potential hazards on the road, and how this influences risk related vehicle control decisions about time, speed, and space.  The results will provide input to human factors safety handbooks, such as the "Human Factors Highway Safety Handbook" for use by highway designers, and human performance driving models, such as the Driver Performance-Based Highway Design Module (DPB/HDM) that incorporates human factors data and driver behavior models.  The sequence of projects provides:  (1) a broad, empirically based understanding of the role of driver roadway hazard perception leading to driver action; (2) understanding of the safety consequences of these perceptions and actions; (3) identification of causal factors influencing driver hazard perception; and (4) proposed countermeasures to improve driver hazard perception for benefits in safety and traffic operations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>BRIDGING THE CENTURIES: MOVING VIRGINIA'S BRIDGE PROGRAM INTO THE 21ST CENTURY</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) has the enormous job of maintaining 90,000 km of highways, the third largest state-maintained highway system in the United States.  VDOT's system includes approximately 13,000 bridges meeting the requirements of the National Bridge Inspection Standards and another 8,000 smaller structures.  More than 30% of Virginia's bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.  To address the deficient bridges and maintain its other structures, VDOT must get the most for its bridge dollars.  A strong research program is part of the effort.  The Virginia Transportation Research Council (VTRC) is organized with four research teams: the Pavement and Structures Team; the Materials Team; the Socio-Economics, Environmental, and Transportation Systems Team; and the Safety Team.  For the bridge program, there is close coordination with VDOT's Structure and Bridge, Materials, Construction, and Maintenance divisions; the nine field districts; and the Federal Highway Administration through three key research advisory committees:  the bridge committee, the concrete committee, and the geotechnical committee.  The research and technology programs for VDOT encompass the rehabilitation and replacement of bridges as well as the design and construction of new structures.  VTRC's assistance ranges from the simple to the complex and addresses the assessment of the physical conditions of bridges and different methodologies for treatment.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>HIGHWAY SAFETY ACT 1995: A REPORT ON ACTIVITIES UNDER THE HIGHWAY SAFETY ACT OF 1966, AS AMENDED</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This report is divided into two parts: Part One on National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) activities, and Part Two on Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) activities. The part on NHTSA includes an Introduction; Statistical Summaries; Current Research Programs; Research Activities Completed; Enforcement Actions, Judicial Decisions; Settlements, or Pending Litigation; Effectiveness of Highway Safety Programs; and Glossary of Acronyms.  The FHWA section includes an Introduction; FHWA Section 402 Program; and FHWA's Safety Research Activities FY 1995.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 1998 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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