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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Interstate Highway System"”.
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A Methodology for Analysis of the Impact on Small Communities of the Construction of the Interstate Highway System
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Essays in labor economics
… The first chapter uses the advent of the US Interstate Highway System to examine the effect of reducing trade barriers on the relative demand for skilled labor. The Interstate Highway System was designed to connect major cities, to serve national defense, and to connect the US to Canada and …
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Newfound land : urban highway removal and planning the land it uncovers
When the interstate highway system was routed through urban centers during the 1950's and 1960's, few thought these elevated expressways would have a serious detrimental impact on the cities they served. These interstates were designed to bring a new ease to travel between cities. Unhappiness with …
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Analysis of concrete removal technologies in bridge rehabilitation
As construction of the nation’s interstate highway system nears completion, the emphasis must now be focussed on the rehabilitation of many of the older sections of the system which have undergone damage or deterioration. The efficiency and effectiveness of the concrete removal operation will …
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The Road to the New South: South Carolina and the Debate Over I-95
… examines how South Carolinians responded to Interstate-95, the principle north-south artery of the United States Interstate Highway System. Construction of I-95 commenced during the 1950s, a period when Southerners promoted a regional identity of cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the …
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Modeling Automated Highway System Guideway Operations
… characteristics of a Maglev-based Automated Highway System and how it would interact with freeway operations. The extension of traditional traffic flow phenomenon, including weaving, merging, and stopping distance, into the automated system is looked at. These are also extended into platoon …
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Shifting urban priorities : the removal of inner city freeways in the United States
The United States Interstate Highway System transformed the nation's cities and countryside, accelerating suburbanization and leading to unprecedented levels of motorized mobility. While the interstate highways brought undeniable benefits, they also imparted social, environmental and aesthetic …
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The realization of the Autostrada A1 in Poland: A discussion of spatial implications
The Autostrada A1 is a highway currently under construction in Poland. The Autostrada A1 will connect two major Polish ports on the Baltic Sea with industrial areas in the south of the country. Together with the construction of other major highways such as the A2, A3, and A4, it will form a network …
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Effect of Pavement Condition on Traffic Crash Frequency and Severity in Virginia
… and riding experience. Pavement Management System (PMS) databases include pavement properties for each segment of the road collected by the agencies. Understanding the impact of road characteristics on crash frequency is a key step to prevent crashes. Whereas other studies analyzed the …
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A Study on Road Users' Overall Perceptions of Highway Maintenance Service Quality and the Variables that Define the Highway Maintenance Service Quality Domain
… solutions was built in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, the legislation that authorized the construction of the Interstate Highway System. Better plans, transparent process, and public support are some of the benefits that road managers can obtain by educating and involving the …
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Ecological Infrastructure: A Framework for Planning and Design: "Addressing Landscape Connectivity and Wildlife Resources for Interstate Highway Systems"
… the modern American landscape. An unrivaled interstate highway system connects major metropolitan areas and is the basis of our transportation infrastructure. Unfortunately, many roadways were not planned or designed with wildlife in mind. As long linear features in the landscape, interstates …
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Essays on Inequality in Cities
… ambitious public works programs in the world—the Interstate highway system—on inequality across groups and the intergenerational outcomes of children. In my primary dissertation project described in chapters one and two, I quantify how interstate road infrastructure construction during the 1960s …
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Bobcat traps and other theories
… advent of neoliberalism, the construction of the Interstate Highway System, the consolidation of ecological destruction of agribusinesses, and the deindustrialization of the heartland—that we can then understand how whiteness and masculinity for the rural working-class have been parlayed into a …
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DATA-DRIVEN METHODS FOR REDUCING WRONG-WAY CRASHES ON FREEWAYS
… been a nagging traffic safety problem since the interstate highway system was founded in the 1950s. Despite four decades of highway striping and sign improvements at freeway interchanges, the problem persists. This paper is to determine the contributing factors to wrong-way driving on freeways …
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Quantitative sustainability assessment of pavement-vehicle interaction : from bench-top experiments to integrated road network analysis
… sustainable development of our nation's roadway system requires quantitative means to link infrastructure performance to lifecycle energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Beside surface texture and roughness-induced Pavement-Vehicle Interactions (PVI), we herein recognize that the …
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Development of Performance Warranties for Performance Based Road Maintenance Contracts
… (by issuing memorandums to be distributed to the Highway Agencies and State Departments of Transportation) the conversion of traditional contracts to performance based contracts to reach a goal of 80% of the service contracts and actions being performance based by the end of fiscal year 2004 …
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AHS Maglev System Architecture
… 1993-1998 a vision was presented of an Automated Highway System developed under a contract naming Virginia Tech one of the three ITS Research Centers of Excellence in the United States by the Federal Highway Administration. The AHS envisioned would consist of a guideway constructed in the …
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Evaluating Travelers Experience with Highway Advisory Radio (HAR) And Citizens Band Radio Advisory System (CBRAS) On Florida's Turnpike Enterprise Toll Roadways And Florida Interstate Highways
… thesis is to evaluate travelers' experience with Highway Advisory Radio (HAR) and Citizens' Band Radio Advisory System (CBRAS) technologies on both Florida Interstate Highway system (FIH) and the Florida Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) toll roads. To achieve this goal, two different survey tools were …
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Motorcars and magic highways: the automobile and communication in twentieth-century American literature and film
ABSTRACT Motorcars and Magic Highways examines the nexus between transportation and communication in the development of the automobile across the twentieth century. While early responses to the automobile emphasized its democratizing and liberating potential, the gradual integration of the …