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| | | |  Annual Meeting Online Portal Access Now Available to Employees of TRB Sponsors and Annual Meeting Patrons
All employees of Year-Round TRB Sponsors and TRB 90th Annual Meeting Patrons now have access to the TRB Annual Meeting Online (AMOnline) portal. AMOnline provides access to the meeting's Compendium of Papers. By early March, the slides and posters of the more than 3,500 program presentations, and videos of more than 40 high-profile sessions will also be available. In one search, the AMOnline portal allows users to quickly find all available papers, visual aids, and recordings by session, presentation, author, subject area, and more. [More] | [Share]    
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| | | | | | | | |  Soil Mechanics 2010
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2186 contains 17 papers that explore estimating the resilient modulus of subgrade soils using the falling weight deflectometer, quality management of base materials with seismic methods, characterization of a two-layer soil system, performance-based design of deep foundation systems, analysis method for drilled shaft-stabilized slopes, standard penetration test hammers, and cone penetration test sounding and pile driving. [More] | [Share]
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| |  Bituminous Materials and Mixtures 2010, Volume 2
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2180 contains 18 papers that explore fracture characteristics of asphalt mixtures, temperature and shear susceptibility of a nonpetroleum binder, reclaimed asphalt pavement, workability and compactability of warm mix asphalt, influence of aggregate blending on asphalt mixture strength, and crumb rubber-modified binder. [More] | [Share]
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|  Bituminous Materials and Mixtures 2010, Volume 3
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2181 contains 13 papers that explore permanent deformation of asphalt mixtures, fatigue crack propagation model of asphalt concrete, predictions of dynamic modulus of asphalt concrete mixtures, prediction of mechanical behavior of asphalt mixtures, and a new test procedure for evaluating cracking resistance in bituminous mixtures. [More] | [Share]
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| | |  Human Performance, Simulation, and User Information Research
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2185 contains 10 papers that explore driver response to adaptive lane departure warning system, changes in spatial attention with dual-task driving, characterization of longitudinal driving behavior, characterizing individual driver response to yellow change interval at signalized intersections, driving simulator study of steering adaptation patterns, simulator fidelity and validity in a transfer-of-training context, effect of simulator motion cuing on steering control performance, safety effectiveness of advance street name signs, roadway guide signs at an international airport, and modeling travelers' responses to incident information provided by variable message signs. [More] | [Share]
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| Highway Safety: Behavior, Management, and Roundabouts
TRB's Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2182 contains 18 papers that explore ways to monitor drinking, technology to tell novice drivers how to drive, driving and crash histories of illegal street racing offenders, seat belt use on school buses, and speed enforcement cameras. [More] | [Share]
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|  Techniques for Effective Highway Construction Projects in Congested Urban Areas
TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 413: Techniques for Effective Highway Construction Projects in Congested Urban Areas explores a diverse set of techniques designed to address highway construction challenges in congested urban areas such as high-traffic volumes, utility conflicts, complex right-of-way acquisition issues, a diverse stakeholder base, and watchful news media. [More] | [Share]
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| | | | | | | | |  Airbag Performance in General Aviation Restraint Systems
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a report that examines the effectiveness of airbags in mitigating occupant injury in general aviation accidents, identifies unintended consequences of airbag deployments, and develops procedures to assist investigators in documenting airbag systems in future investigations. [More]
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| Amtrak Made Significant Improvements in its Long-Term Capital Planning Process
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General has released a report that explores Amtrak's five-year capital requirements and how they align with the company's business and strategic goals. [More]
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| | National Interoperability Field Operations Guide
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Emergency Communications has released an updated version of the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide as a reference guide for public safety radio technicians and communications planners. The pocket-sized guide contains radio regulations, tables of radio channels, and technical reference information. The guide is designed to help those establishing or repairing emergency communications in a disaster area. [More]
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| Air Travel Consumer Report: 2010
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics, a part of the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, has released a report that indicates that on-time performance of the nation's largest airlines improved in 2010 compared to the previous year. [More]
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| | |  Highway Safety Information System Brochure
The Federal Highway Administration has released a brochure that describes the Highway Safety Information System, which is a roadway-based system that provides data on accident, roadway, and traffic variables. The data are acquired annually from a select group of states, processed into a common computer format, documented, and prepared for analysis. HSIS is used in support of the FHWA safety research program and provides input for program policy decisions. [More]
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| | Safety Evaluation of the Safety Edge Treatment
The Federal Highway Administration has released a summary of a report that explores the safety impact of safety edge treatments. The treatments are designed to minimize pavement-shoulder drop-off crashes. [More]
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|  2009 Overview Traffic Safety Fact Sheet
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released a fact sheet that contains statistics on motor vehicle fatalities based on data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). The fact sheet covers occupant protection, alcohol-impaired driving, speeding, motorcyclist fatalities, large trucks, passenger vehicles, older population data, and more. [More]
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| | | | | | Development of a Framework for Evaluating Yellow Timing at Signalized Intersections
The Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, a partnership of the Virginia Department of Transportation and the University of Virginia, has released a report that characterizes driver behavior within an intersection's option/dilemma zone using data gathered in a controlled field environment. The report also examines a new procedure for estimating traffic signal yellow timings that explicitly accounts for the risk that drivers will be in a dilemma zone of an intersection. [More]
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| | | | | | | | | Casualty Crash Reductions from Reducing Various Levels of Speeding
The Centre for Automotive Safety Research at the University of Adelaide, Australia has released a report that explores potential casualty crash reductions from reducing various levels of speeding. [More]
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