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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"department of transportation (DOT)"”.
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Development and Initial Validation of the Managerial Success Factors Inventory: Transportation Version (MSFI: TV)
<p>The purpose of this study was to develop and initially validate the Managerial Success Factors Inventory: Transportation Version (MSFI: TV), a scale generated to more accurately assess managerial competence in transportation than general managerial competence and leadership scales. The …
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Moral machines : perception of moral judgment made by machines
While technological development of vehicular autonomy has been progressing rapidly, a parallel discussion has emerged with regard to the moral implications of a future wherein people hand over to autonomous machines the controls to a mode of transportation. These discussions have entered a new …
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Recycled material web map: connecting consumers and producers
… that connects producers and consumers of recyclable material was developed to assist engineers and contractors in the beneficial reuse of recycled materials in transportation projects. The Recycled Material Web Map is comprised of four core layers: producers, stockpiles, specifications, …
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Determination of the end of functional service life for concrete bridge components
The transportation engineering community of the United States faces a tremendous problem: the gradual deterioration of the nation's bridges. A major component of the overall bridge deterioration problem is the corrosion-induced deterioration of reinforced concrete bridge components that are exposed …
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Decision support model for the combined transportation and utility construction strategy
As an increasing number of highway projects are undertaken in highly congested metropolitan settings, many of such projects require that adjacent utilities be adjusted to accommodate new or expanded highway facilities. The adjustment of utilities prior to highway construction is a particularly …
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Fish Passage at UDOT Culverts: Prioritization and Assessment
State Departments of Transportation are becoming more involved in providing Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) at road-stream crossings. Department of Transportation (DOT) emphasis on AOP has been driven largely in response to endangered species listings, other agencies' initiatives, and the desire to …
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The museum as agent of participatory planning : the Queens Museum of Art engages an immigrant neighborhood
… true in neighborhoods with large populations of new immigrants, where residents do not only face language barriers, long working hours and a general unfamiliarity with local planning processes, but are also prone to face cultures of discrimination or self-induce exclusion for fear of legal …
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Effectiveness of Mandatory Driver Training Programs for Fire Service Drivers
… research attempts to measure the effectiveness of mandatory driver training programs for fire service drivers. Effectiveness is defined by a decrease in the number of crashes per number of runs. Two states were identified for comparison, one with mandatory driver training requirements, …
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A Compilation of Research on Self-Consolidating Concrete for Prestressed Bridge Girders
… such as the precast industry, where the benefits of the workability SCC delivers can be utilized to improve fabrication of prestressed girders. SCC has been used in the precast industry with a satisfactory performance. This was achieved by reducing fabrication time, decreasing health hazards due …
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Safety and feasibility of a cloud-based architecture for multi-vehicle system
… computing is widely adopted in industry sectors of finance, energy and transportation. Public cloud service providers are able to consistently deliver solutions that meet demanding needs of security, availability, scalability of mission-critical applications. The low cost of compute and storage, …
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Modeling and monitoring of the dynamic response of railroad bridges using wireless smart sensors
Railroad bridges form an integral part of railway infrastructure in the USA carrying approximately 40 % of the ton-miles of freight. The US Department of Transportation (DOT) forecasts current rail tonnage to increase up to 88 % by 2035. Within the railway network, a bridge occurs every 1.4 miles …
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Performance optimization of low-to-moderate temperature thermal systems: a multi-pronged investigation
Solar energy plays a vital role for the future of clean energy production due to its availability all year round. To harvest solar energy, solar collectors are used, where they can be classified into categories of concentrating and non-concentrating solar collectors. In this work, both …
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Time Dynamic Label-Constrained Shortest Path Problems with Application to TRANSIMS: A Transportation Planning System
TRANSIMS (Transportation Analysis Simulation System) is part of a multi-track Travel Model Improvement Program sponsored by the U. S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The main objective of this thesis is to enhance and implement a principal module …
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Integrating Geospatial Technologies into the Property Management Process of the Transportation Right-Of-Way
… Management, one functional area within Right-of-Way offices in state transportation agencies, is responsible for managing the property acquired for highway projects. These activities are data and document intensive and efficiency for performing them would be improved through the implementation …