1992 TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING RESEARCH REPORTS. FINAL REPORT

The engineering research reports in this document resulted from the third year of the Undergraduate Transportation Engineering Fellows Program during the summer of 1992. The ten-week program, sponsored by the Advanced Institute program of the Southwest Region Unviersity Transportation Center (SWUTC), the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), and the Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, provides undergraduate students in Civil Engineering with the opportunity to learn more about transportation engineering through participation in a transportation research program. The program design allows the students to interact directly with a faculty member or TTI researcher in developing a research proposal, conducting appropriate research, and documenting the research results. This compendium contains reports on a wide variety of transportation research. Reports on transportation operations covered such current issues as analysis of the performance of vehicle detectors; incident detection using travel time information; effects of light rail transit being located in an arterial street system; and, an evaluation of the traffic operations at exit lane drops. Planning issues were addressed in reports on comparisons of observed and theoretical trip length frequency; the driver behavior impacts of freeway reconstruction; an investigation of the relationship between congestion and air quality; and, an analysis of the Houston Metro electronic information system. Research in the field of materials produced reports on lime stabilization of roadway subbase and microscopic analysis of fiber modified asphalt concrete. Driver and safety research is reflected in reports on mental workload in highway work zones, the effects of vehicle and road type in ran-off-road crashes, and the determination of driver capability in the detection and recognition of objects.

• Corporate Authors:

  Texas A&M University, College Station

  Transportation Engineering Program, Civil Engineering Department
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3136

  Southwest Region University Transportation Center

  Texas A&M University
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135
• Authors:
  • Collins, K M
  • Cronin, B P
  • DeSanta, J L
  • Hanks, G A
  • Kohls, A R
  • Krueger, G D
  • Lance, M T
  • Luszcz, M
  • Nowlin, R L
  • Picha, D L
  • Ricci, J
  • Thomason, T A
  • van Arendonk, J
  • WILLIAMS, D A
• Publication Date: 1994-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 170 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; Asphalt concrete; Behavior; Calcium oxide; Civil engineering; Cognition; College students; Construction sites; Drivers; Electronic equipment; Fiber reinforced concrete; Highway operations; Incident detection; Information systems; Light rail transit; Ran off road crashes; Research; Research reports; Soil stabilization; Subbase (Pavements); Traffic; Traffic congestion; Transportation; Transportation engineering; Trip length; Vehicle detectors; Vision; Workload
• Uncontrolled Terms: Fiber reinforcement; Mental workload; Subbase
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver vision; Electronic information systems; Exit lane drops; Transportation research
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Geotechnology; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00669062
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: SWUTC/94/712410-5
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1994 12:00AM