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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"highway construction"”.
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Optimizing Lighting Conditions for Nighttime Highway Construction Operations
"First, a practical framework named Construction Visual Requirements Framework "" CONVISUAL"" is developed to establish objective lighting design criteria for nighttime highway construction in order to minimize the subjectivity and discrepancy in available lighting standards adopted by different …
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Optimizing work zone practices for highway construction projects
… trend of deaths and injuries in and around the highway construction areas with an average of 745 fatalities and 40,700 severe injuries per year. To control and minimize work zone fatalities and injuries, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), American Association of State Highway and …
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Multi-Objective Optimization for Large-Scale Highway Construction Projects
… to the advancement of current practice in highway construction planning and can lead to: (1) an increase in the efficiency of resource utilization in highway construction projects which can ultimately produce significant savings in public expenditures; (2) a reduction in the duration of …
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Extending the range of linear scheduling in highway construction
… projects involving repetitive activities. Highway construction projects are excellent examples of projects displaying repetitive characteristics. The research explores usefulness of linear scheduling in highway construction. The Linear Scheduling Method (LSM) was implemented in the field to …
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Highway construction cost model for sector planning in developing countries
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1981
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Research needs relating to performance of aggregates in highway construction
… which if successfully pursued would assist the highway materials engineer in development of procedures for the evaluation of aggregate properties and, in turn, would lead to the more efficient use of our aggregate supplies. A comprehensive series of statements of research problems was developed …
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Characteristics and causal factors of claims in michigan highway construction projects
<p>The US highway system is the largest road network system in the world. MDOT administers about 9,722 route-miles, (28,000 lane-miles) of roadway networks in Michigan. Every year, hundreds of projects worth millions of dollars are let by the State Transportation Agency (STA). </p> <p>Majority of …
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Evaluation of glare and lighting performance in nighttime highway construction projects
An increasing amount of highway repair and construction work is being performed during the off-peak nighttime hours. Nighttime construction is advocated as a way to mitigate the impact of construction operations on the traveling public, shorten the duration of construction operations, and reduce …
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Analysis of investment strategies in highway construction for low volume roads.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1972. M.S.
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A study of the foreman's status in the highway construction industry
… the status determining conditions in the highway construction industry. To evaluate these status determining conditions, the highway construction industry is first studied through existing library sources. To substantiate these findings, empirical research was then done in two highway …
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A Connected Work Zone Hazard Detection System for Highway Construction Work Zones
Roadway construction workers have to work in close proximity to construction equipment as well as high-speed traffic, exposing them to an elevated risk of collisions. This research aims to develop an innovative holistic solution to reduce the risk of collisions at roadway work zones. To this end, a …
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The Framework of a Multi-Level Database of Highway Construction Performance Times
… contract time is important to all aspects of a highway construction project. Unreasonably short contract times can raise the bid price, restrict qualified bidders from submitting bids, reduce the quality of the work, and increase the potential for legal disputes. Conversely, unreasonably long …
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The Development of Mathematical Models for Preliminary Prediction of Highway Construction Duration
Knowledge of construction duration is pertinent to a number of project planning functions prior to detailed design development. Funding, financing, and resource allocation decisions take place early in project design development and are significantly influenced by the construction duration. …
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Application of the AI-Enabled Unmanned Aerial Systems in Resolving Highway Construction Claims
… among the most concerning disturbances in the construction sector universally. Simply speaking, they arise from delayed procedures in answering inquiries, solving conflicts, and clarifying vague data to owners. Their development and delayed solution could pose many kinds of threats, like …
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Development of Fuzzy Hybrid Approaches to Project Delivery Method Selection in Highway Construction
… methods is a success factor in delivering highway construction projects because it has a substantial impact on the project performance, such as cost, time, and quality. Project delivery decision-making processes have been heavily relied on experts’ opinions and subjective judgements of …
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Application of Polyacrylamide-based Floc Logs for Turbidity Control at Highway Construction Sites
<p>Runoff waters generated on highway construction sites can have turbidities in excess of the proposed EPA regulatory standard of 280 NTU due to large areas of exposed soil. The objective of this research was to develop best management practices (BMPs) for the use of anionic polyacrylamide (PAM) …
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The role of technology in the productivity of highway construction in the United States.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering.
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