TRR 2266
Public-Sector Aviation: Graduate Research Awards Papers, 2010-2011
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This issue contains 10 papers selected for awards in a nationwide competition under the 2010
to 2011 Graduate Research Award Program on Public-Sector Aviation Issues. Topics
addressed in these papers are as follows: high-speed rail and aviation interaction; prediction of
cracking failure in airfield rigid pavements; predictors of home-based trips for Atlanta, Georgia,
airport; using approximate dynamic programming for dynamic airspace configuration; higher fuel
costs for U.S. air transportation system; a parsimonious travel demand model and uncertainty
quantification for the California high-speed rail system; sustainable paving materials for airfields;
airline frequency competition in airport congestion pricing; bird strikes risk assessment; and
taxiway aircraft traffic analysis.
TRR 2268
Construction 2012
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01384363
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This issue contains 14 papers on the subject of construction as related to transportation.
Specific topics discussed in the papers fall within the following categories: construction
management and project delivery; quality assurance; portland cement concrete pavements;
asphalt pavements; and steel bridges.
TRR 2269
Freight Systems 2012: Modeling and Logistics
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01384365
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This issue contains 16 papers on the subject of modeling and logistics for freight systems.
Specific topics discussed include the following: analysis of freight distribution using the gravity
model and a genetic algorithm; network assignment problem of capacitated freight with
disruptions; multihub location problem for less-than-truckload industry; parametric and
nonparametric trade gravity models; shipping service network design for intermodal liners; road
closures and freight diversion; choice of commercial vehicular mode in urban areas; estimating
freight trip generation based on land use; scheduling deliveries with backhauls; failed home
deliveries; economic order quantity model for choice of freight shipment size; RUBMRIO model
for U.S. trade patterns; status quo of city logistics in scientific literature; parametric and
nonparametric hazard models for stop durations on urban tours with commercial vehicles; urban
freight road pricing in e-commerce environment; and simulating sustainable urban gateway
development.
TRR 2270
Environment 2012
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01448713
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This issue contains 22 papers on the subject of transportation and the environment. Specific
topics discussed include the following: laboratory tests of tire-pavement noise for hot mix
asphalt; temperature effects on onboard sound intensity measurement of tire-pavement noise;
annoyance of traffic noise on roads and rail; alternative uses of highway rights-of-way; wildlife
crossing structures location and design; use of MOVES and AERMOD emissions models for
conformity analysis; generating heavy-duty truck activity data for MOVES emissions model;
exposure of bicyclists to air pollution; engine idling emissions from nonroad diesel construction
equipment; air quality at bus stops; modeling roadway link PM2.5 emissions; environmentally
conscious design of crest vertical curves; carbon footprint of dedicated truck lanes on I-70;
predictive ecocruise control system; analysis of intersection emissions with MOVES emissions
model; vehicle emissions estimates using traffic microsimulation models; inclusion of regional
transit emissions in local greenhouse gas inventories; in-vehicle exposure to traffic-induced
emissions; environment-responsive traffic control impact on roadside particulate matter and
nitrogen oxides; decomposition analysis for carbon dioxide emissions from car travel; duty
cycles, fuels, and emission control technologies of heavy-duty trucks; and quantitative decisionmaking framework for evaluating environmental commitment tracking systems.
TRR 2271
Sustainable Practices, Performance Measures, and Management
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01379866
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This issue contains 7 papers concerned with sustainable practices, performance measures, and
management as related to transportation. Specific topics discussed include the following:
creating a legacy of sustainable transportation; institutionalizing sustainability at the level of
state departments of transportation; sustainable roads in the Federal Lands Highway Program;
barriers to sustainable intercity transportation; framework for aggregating highway asset
performance measures; the Freeway and Arterial System of Transportation (FAST) dashboard;
and achieving enterprise risk management in U.S. transportation agencies.
Maintenance Services and Surface Weather 2012
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01449086
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This issue contains 20 papers on the subject of maintenance services and surface weather as
related to transportation. Specific topics discussed include the following: warning lights in
nighttime work zone tapers; travel time reliability in work zones; forced-detour traffic in a rural
work zone; impact of monetary penalty on work zone speed; work zone speed-flow relationships;
lane closure computer tool based on a geographic information system; regional impact of
roadway construction on traffic operations; estimating delay and queue length of work zone
bottlenecks; truck-mounted changeable message signs for work zones; evaluation of ASTM
standard test method E2177; pavement markings condition assessment with image processing;
assessment of sign retroreflectivity compliance; driver visibility needs under wet night conditions;
pavement markings service life and maintenance; organic deicers for winter road maintenance;
automatic vehicle location and TowPlow for winter maintenance operations; anti-icing strategies;
time headway under good and adverse weather conditions; rural two-plus-one-lane highway in a
cold region; and the impact of inclement weather on freeway traffic speed.
TRR 2273
Marine Transportation, Marine Environment, and Port Terminal Operations 2012
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01449087
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This issue contains 16 papers concerned with marine transportation, the marine environment,
and port terminal operations. Specific topics discussed are as follows: scheduling of mutually
exclusive waterway projects; off-loading capabilities at inland waterway terminals during sudden
catastrophic closures; optimization model for liner ship fleet planning; implementation of port
community system; Panama Canal expansion impact on U.S. greenhouse gas emissions;
energy consumption and emissions from ships; economic impacts of sea level rise; Vessel
General Permit (VGP) challenges; drayage practices; dispatching automated guided vehicles for
serving tandem lift quay cranes; scheduling cyclically visiting feeders in container transshipment
hubs; terminal operations for roll-on–roll-off vessels; accidents in Singapore Strait; safety risk
assessment of China's maritime passages; risk assessment of marine crude oil transportation;
and maritime transport in the developing world.
TRR 2274
Transit 2012, Volume 1, Including 2012 Thomas B. Deen Distinguished Lecture
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01449088
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This issue contains the 2012 Thomas B. Deen distinguished lecture on the future of public
transportation and 20 other papers concerned with the following aspects of public transit: the
business plan approach of a transportation agency; distributing federal transit funds; Friday
exception in weekday schedules for urban transit; passenger incidence (station arrival) behavior;
extraboard performance; travel time impact of missed transit connections; small urban transit
marginal cost pricing and subsidy; London tube strikes impact on journey times; urban transit
guidelines; bus-holding control strategies; bus replacement age and total costs; quantifying the
reliability of transit service; bus dwell-time model of main urban route stops; measurement
system for public transport performance; transit line passenger transmission and productiveness
under high loads; travel path choice impact assessment using automatic fare collection system;
perceptions of transit service; effects of personal proenvironmental attitudes on mode choice
behavior; public policy objectives and urban transit; and passenger ferry service and economic
development in the New York City region.
TRR 2275
Transit 2012, Volume 2
Accession Number:
01447505
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This issue contains 14 papers that examine the following topics related to public transit: light rail
turf tracks; light rail crashes; streetcar dwell time; determinants of light rail mode choice; tramtrain systems in Europe; urban rail in China; rail transit travel time reliability and estimation of
passenger route choice behavior; proactive recovery from rail disruptions; optimization of rail
transit alignments; personal rapid transit as feeder-distributor to rail; sketch-level feasibility
analysis of commuter rail service; lessons learned from former electrified commuter railroads;
competences gap in European railways education; and commuter rail level boarding.
TRR 2276
Transit 2012, Volume 3
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01457893
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This issue contains 19 papers that examine the following topics related to public transit: world
transit research; optimal length of a transit network; location method for urban public transit
networks; dynamic transit accessibility; stop aggregation model; analyzing smart card data for
transit users' activities; creating bus timetables with multiple vehicle types; secondary benefits of
transit priority; impact of bus transit centers on property values; transit-induced neighborhood
change; transit stations catchment areas; transit station parking and transit-oriented design;
metro-bus transfers; park-and-ride facilities locations; bicycle transfer demand at metro stations;
light rail station locations impact on land values; mobility center optimal site selection; and
ridership effects of real-time bus information on rail transit.
TRR2277
Transit 2012, Volume 4
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01453431
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This issue contains 11 papers that examine the following topics related to public transit: M15
select bus service in New York City; comparison of emissions from bus rapid transit and
conventional bus systems in Beijing; automatic identification of vehicles with faulty automatic
vehicle location and control units in London iBus System; optimization of transit stop spacing;
passenger origin-destination flow matrices; survey of passengers using discount curbside bus
operators in U.S. cities; sharing human services transportation costs; taxicabs in Boston,
Massachusetts; user needs for urban car travel; evaluation of zoning design with transfers for
paratransit services; and the role of public transportation as job access mode for people with
disabilities.
TRR 2278
Freeway Operations; Regional Systems Management and Operations; Managed
Lanes 2012
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This issue contains 20 papers on the subjects of freeway operations, regional systems
management and operations, and managed lanes. Specific topics discussed include the
following: freeway ramp controls; travel time reliability and nonrecurrent congestion; the diverge
bottleneck; lane changes; automatic detection of freeway incidents; queue estimation algorithm;
the active management screening tool for congestion management; temporary hard shoulder
running; large-scale incidents on urban freeways; managed motorways; accident response time;
deploying freeway incident response units; route guidance; integrated corridor management;
major freeway closure for repair; variable bridge tolls; I-394 MnPASS express lanes
performance; traffic flow modeling on managed lane facility; cross-weave impact on freeways
with managed lanes; and traffic characteristics of high-occupancy vehicle facilities.
TRR 2279
Statistical Methods and Highway Safety Performance 2012
Accession Number:
01453432
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This issue contains 15 papers on the subject of statistical methods and highway safety
performance. Specific topics discussed include the following: rule-based traffic flow forecasting;
analysis of household automobile and motorcycle ownership; solving C-logit stochastic user
equilibrium assignment problem using path-based algorithms; analyzing effects of gasoline price
and miles traveled on fatal crashes involving intoxicated drivers; quantile effects of causal
factors on crash distributions; statistical test for 85th and 15th percentile speeds; using
computer vision to identify pedestrian behavior at urban intersections; crash modification factors;
sensitivity analysis of data set sizes for "Highway Safety Manual" calibration factors; new
models for rural two-lane two-way highways; international transferability of "Highway Safety
Manual" crash prediction algorithm; safety effectiveness of composite shoulders on rural twolane highways; relationship between freeway flow parameters and safety; and horizontal curves.
TRR 2281
Highway Safety 2012: Traffic Law Enforcement, Alcohol, Occupant Protection,
Motorcycles, and Trucks
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01450274
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This issue contains 16 papers on the following aspects of highway safety: effect of emergency
vehicle lighting on driver compliance with the Move Over Law; speed feedback signs; safety of
automated speed enforcement; risk of apprehension for speeding; effects of alcohol on
speeding of young drivers; influence of cannabis on fatal traffic crashes; child car restraints; the
Jordan Rollover System; knee, thigh, and hip injuries in frontal collisions; motorcycle
movements in motorcycle-only traffic flow; moped safety at intersections; injuries in motorcycleto-barrier collisions; stability control systems for tractor-semitrailers; wireless roadside
inspection of commercial vehicles; hours of service and driving patterns effects on motor carrier
crashes; and commercial driver factors in run-off-road crashes.
TRR 2282
Geology and Properties of Earth Materials 2012
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01450275
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This issue contains 10 papers on the subject of geology and properties of earth materials as
related to transportation. The papers in Part 1 are concerned with the following issues related to
road pavements: a Global Positioning System-inertial measurement unit for road alignment
surveying; a snow melting model for hydronically heated pavement; location and groundwater
impact on flexible airfield pavement thickness; and the structural response of urban subsurface
drainage systems. The papers in Part 2 examine the following issues related to low-volume road
pavements: road milling using diamond-enhanced or tungsten carbide teeth; the effect of natural
gas developments with increased truck traffic on highways; making paving decisions with cluster
and multicriteria analysis; and accelerated pavement testing of uncrushed aggregates in
unsurfaced road applications. The papers in Part 3 are concerned with emerging technological
approaches to analyzing rural highway projects and to the monitoring of greenhouse gas
emissions of highway projects.
TRR 2283
Network Modeling 2012, Volume 1
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01450929
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This issue contains 14 papers concerned with the following aspects of transportation network
modeling: heuristic scheme for heterogeneous vehicle routing problem; stochastic
multicommodity emergency inventory management model; path-constrained traffic assignment;
welfare effects of congestion pricing; stochastic model for estimation of time-varying arterial
travel time; algorithm for intermodal optimal multidestination tour; model to locate sensors for
estimation of static origin-destination volumes; optimization of school locations in rural areas;
predicting dynamic origin-destination matrices; distance-based dynamic pricing strategy for
managed toll lanes; demand and supply calibration of dynamic traffic assignment models;
minimum-cost dynamic routing policies in networks with link failures; dynamic traveling
salesman problem for search-and-rescue application; and the user equilibrium traffic
assignment problem.
TRR 2284
Network Modeling 2012, Volume 2
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01450276
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This issue contains 14 papers concerned with the following aspects of transportation network
modeling: generalized profitable tour problems for online activity routing system; combined
distribution-assignment model with applications; bilevel optimization approach to design of bike
lane network; network hyperpaths based on transit schedules; an intermodal path algorithm for
time-dependent auto network and scheduled transit service; transit network design algorithm;
model of passenger flow assignment for urban rail transit; cost functions for strategies in
schedule-based transit networks with limited vehicle capacities; gradient project method for
simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment; modeling routing behavior for vacant taxicabs;
estimating weights of times and transfers for hyperpath travelers; stochastic user equilibrium for
route choice model; resiliency of transportation networks after disasters; and link criticality for
day-to-day degradable transportation networks.
TRR 2285
Travel Survey Methods, Freight Data Systems, and Asset Management 2012
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01450277
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This issue contains 19 papers concerned with travel survey methods, freight data systems, and
asset management. Specific topics discussed are as follows: culvert asset management;
project-based roadway sustainability rating system; using level of service to estimate asset
deterioration and life expectancy; evaluating effectiveness of steel bridge weld fatigue retrofitting
by peening; transportation investment decisions considering project interdependencies; effect of
pavement roughness on user costs; cell phone samples for studies of walking activity; Internet
mobility survey sampling biases when measuring trip frequencies; multimodal trips in travel
surveys; Internet-based traveler intercept survey; transferring telephone-based National
Household Travel Survey to the Internet; measuring future vehicle preferences; key design
elements of long-distance survey of Front Range Travel Counts project; blog mining for
examination of tourist travel behavior; radio frequency identification system to measure crossing
and wait times of commercial vehicle border crossings; dashboard communication tool for
delays and delay costs at border crossings; freight generation modeling using aggregate data;
statewide freight flow assignment with Freight Analysis Framework; and the effect of projectbased learning on student learning in transportation engineering.
TRR 2286
Highway Capacity and Quality of Service 2012
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01450371
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This issue contains 14 papers which address the subject of highway capacity and quality of
service. Specific topics discussed include the following: the 2010 Highway Capacity Manual
operational analysis methodology for interchange ramp terminals; the operational impact of leftturn waiting areas at signalized intersections; implementing auxiliary through lanes; right-turnon-red capacity for dual right-turn lanes at signalized intersections; the effects of signal
countdown timers on queue discharge characteristics; distribution function of critical gaps at
unsignalized intersections; work zone capacity; drivers following on two-lane rural highways;
incorporating queue discharge flow into Highway Capacity Manual procedure for analysis of
freeway facilities; inclement weather impact on two capacity flows at recurring freeway
bottlenecks; speed-flow relationships for managed lane segments; the 2010 Highway Capacity
Manual capacity model for single-lane roundabouts; capacity drop in highway merging sections;
and deterministic approach to managed lane analysis on freeways.
TRR 2287
Energy and Global Climate Change 2012
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01450930
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This issue contains 21 papers concerned with energy and global climate change as related to
transportation. Specific topics discussed include the following: consumer perceptions and use of
driving distance of electric vehicles; charging choices for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; optimal
deployment of emission reduction technologies for large fleets; electric vehicles in rural states;
energy use by plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; high-coverage point-to-point transit; prospects for
energy usage and carbon dioxide that affect European transportation sector; second life for
plug-in vehicle batteries; spatially explicit projection of biofuel supply; carbon footprints of public
transportation agencies; achieving greenhouse gas reductions in a city's transportation sector;
transit policies and potential carbon dioxide emission impacts; Mexico City trends in transport
activity, energy use, and carbon footprint; transportation control measures impacts on travel
activity and emissions; light duty vehicles; proposed vehicle fuel economy standards in the
United States; fuel efficiency standards for pickup trucks; predicting power demand of electric
vehicles; policies concerning plug-in electric vehicles; public education on ecodriving; and lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of materials used in road construction.
TRR 2288
Freight Systems 2012
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01450931
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This issue contains 11 papers concerned with the following aspects of freight systems: traffic at
intermodal logistic hubs; varieties of logistics centers; commodity forecasting; urban cooperative
delivery and direct delivery strategies; public-private partnerships; impacts of freeway truck
traffic on residential property values; modular B-triples; road pricing effect on freight carrier
behavior; truck diversion routing using geographic information systems; benefit-cost and
economic impact analyses for freight rail projects; and shields for safe transport of explosives.
TRR 2289
Railways 2012
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This issue contains 20 papers on the following aspects of railways: advanced dispatching
measures for managing disrupted traffic flow; high speed rail versus air transportation; high
speed route improvement; a decision support system to optimize railway stopping patterns; risk
assessment of positive train control; dual-mode and new diesel locomotive developments; next
generation of intercity corridor bi-level equipment; portable emission measurement system; slab
track mass-spring system; track fastenings in high-speed and heavy-haul railroads; water
movement through ballast and subballast for dual-line railway track; ballast fouling; stochastic
railroad track wear model; asset condition assessment; standardizing trains for rail line capacity
analysis; forecasting short-term volumes of freight rail; value for railway capacity; taxonomy for
performance-shaping factors for railway operations; and causes of train derailment.
TRR 2290
Concrete Materials 2012
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This issue contains 21 papers concerned with the following aspects of concrete materials:
chemical admixtures; calcium hydroxide in hydrated pastes and mortars; predicting cementadmixture incompatibilities; surface resistivity measurements for quality assurance and
acceptance; precision statement for concrete surface resistivity; the durability of concrete made
with recycled concrete aggregates; drying shrinkage behavior of ternary blends; soy methyl
esters; deicing salt solutions effects on pavement concretes; freeze-thaw durability and salt
scaling resistance of composite pavements; slag cement performance in hydraulic cement
concrete; rapid-setting cementitious material; reducing clinker content of cement; recycled
concrete aggregate effect on mix design of structural concrete; reducing curing requirements for
pervious concrete; concrete incorporating stone industry waste; concretes modified with coarse
limestone powder; using limestone to reduce set retardation in high-volume fly ash mixtures;
and photocatalytic concrete pavement.
TRR 2291
Information Systems, Geographic Information Systems, and Advanced
Computing 2012
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01456593
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This issue contains 14 papers information systems, geographic information systems and
advanced computing related to transportation. Specific topics discussed include the following:
geographic information systems (GIS) for managing a major transportation program; using GIS
for mapping oversized and overweight truck routes; using statewide crash and lane closure
system data for work zone safety analysis; wireless communication simulation model for traffic
monitoring systems; monitoring travel time reliability using cloud computing; open source
framework for traffic and travel simulation; integrated spatial data for modeling annual average
daily traffic; inferring road maps from Global Positioning System traces; estimating spatial traffic
states with location-based data; automated identification and extraction of horizontal curve
information from GIS road maps; a road mask to improve vehicle detection and tracking in
airborne imagery; an add-on program for the National Household Travel Survey; integrating the
publishing, archiving, and indexing of technical literature into the research process; and a
decision tool for strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
TRR 2292
Maintenance and Preservation 2012
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This issue contains 20 papers concerned with the following aspects of maintenance and
preservation: carbon emissions of road maintenance; bid selection methods for road
maintenance contracts; maintenance costs of extreme weather events; life cycle of hot in-place
pavement recycling; prioritization of pavement preservation; life-cycle cost analysis for
pavement preservation; hot-mix asphalt overlay; life-cycle cost analysis of flexible pavement
preventive maintenance; climate impact on asphalt pavement preservation; micromilling; hot inplace recycled superpave mix; pervious concrete pavement maintenance; repair of deteriorated
precast deck-panel bridges; sonic methods to detect concrete bridge deck delamination;
integrating life-cycle cost analysis with bridge management systems; optimal resource allocation
for bridge maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction; remote sensing of bridge performance;
model for bridge maintenance evaluation; optimization of equipment replacement; and criteria
for fleet management.
TRR 2293
Asphalt Materials and Mixtures 2012, Volume 1
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01455808
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This issue contains 15 papers concerned with the following aspects of asphalt materials and
mixtures: interface between asphalt concrete pavements and steel bridge decks; damage and
thixotropy in asphalt mixtures; high-performance thin-lift overlays with reclaimed asphalt
pavement and warm-mix asphalt technology; 4.75 nominal maximum aggregate size superpave
overlay; relationship between binder and mixture damage resistance; fine-graded permeable
friction course; effect of binder types on porous asphalt concrete; impact of water on asphalt
aging; testing of crumb rubber–modified binder using dynamic shear rheometer; ultra-rapidsetting emulsion for tack coat applications; stiffness of asphalt treated with surfactant-based
warm-mix additive; effect of healing on fatigue law parameters of asphalt binders; emulsion
residue testing framework for chip seal performance; chromatic and rheological characteristics
of clear road binders; and porous asphalt pavement temperature effects.
TRR 2295
Asphalt Materials and Mixtures 2012, Volume 3
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01454859
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This issue contains 8 papers concerned with the following aspects of asphalt materials and
mixtures: the measurement of hydraulic conductivity in porous mixes; surface friction
performance of chip seals; asphalt pavement surface texture; moisture susceptibility testing of
warm-mix asphalt mixes; material characteristics of asphalt mixtures relationship to highway
noise; adhesion properties and moisture damage susceptibility of warm-mix asphalts; bonding
of hot-mix asphalt layers with different tack coat application rates; and open-graded friction
course mixtures.
TRR 2296
Asphalt Materials and Mixtures 2012, Volume 4
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This issue contains 15 papers concerned with the following aspects of asphalt materials and
mixtures: dynamic modulus master curves; self-healing capability of asphalt mixtures;
permanent deformation of asphalt concrete in compression; asphalt concrete fatigue analysis;
hot-mix asphalt permanent deformation; calibration and validation of overlay tester-based
fatigue cracking model; asphalt mixture performance tester evaluation; oxidative aging effect on
asphalt mixture properties; quantifying healing in asphalt composites; rutting of hot-mix asphalt
designed for high tire pressure aircraft; thermal stress in asphalt mixtures during hardening;
measuring fracture properties of asphalt mixtures; determining damage development in hot-mix
asphalt; measuring fatigue damage of asphalt mixes using scanning laser detection system; and
loading mode effect on asphalt concrete viscoelastic and damage properties.
TRR 2298
Traffic Control Devices, Visibility, and Highway–Rail Grade Crossings 2012
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01450372
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This issue contains 11 papers concerned with traffic control devices, visibility, and highway–rail
grade crossings. Specific topics discussed are as follows: timing yellow and red traffic signal
intervals; stop paddles with embedded lights for street crossing guards; mitigating the dilemma
zone problem; reducing crashes related to traffic signal change intervals; nonstandard symbol
signs; train arrival time impact on highway–railroad grade crossing crash frequency;
microsimulation model of railway level crossings; lighting conditions impact on urban arterial
operating speed; high-beam usage on low-volume rural roads; and relationship between
nighttime driving behavior and roadway visibility features.
TRR 2299
Pedestrians 2012
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01457870
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This issue contains 19 papers concerned with pedestrians. Specific topics discussed include the
following: pedestrian behavior; pedestrian travel to, from and within shopping districts; sampling
for pedestrian and bicycle surveys; modeling pedestrian crashes near the boundaries of traffic
analysis zones; shortest-path lengths for effective pedestrian routing in street networks;
accessibility and connectivity in a pedestrian network; pedestrian traffic signal perception by
pedestrians with varying levels of vision; pedestrian volume at intersections; pedestrian safety at
intersections; infrastructure-based countermeasures for pedestrian safety; automated
pedestrian data collection; midblock crossings; pedestrian travel analysis with static Bluetooth
sensors; bicycle and pedestrian studies using data from the National Household Travel Survey;
dedicated short-range communication system for pedestrians; and developing standard
pedestrian-equivalent factors.
TRR 2300
Aviation 2012
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This issue contains 18 papers on the following aspects of aviation: airport surface safety;
infection-spreading links in an air traffic network; intercity passenger rail access to airports; role
of air travel demand elasticities in reducing aviation's carbon dioxide emissions; valuation of
aviation noise; advanced parallel runway operations; minimizing air conflicts through speed
regulation; load transfer efficiency of rigid airfield pavement; taxi dispatching at high-volume
airports; taxi pickup operations at airports; considering airport workers in airport public transit
access planning; a revenue forecasting model for an air navigation services company; landing
fees; the implications of travel time trade-offs between air and surface modes for short-haul
passenger air travel; leveraging fuel cost differences in aircraft routing; accounting for
systematic influences on preference heterogeneity in air travel; and the importance of a resilient
air services network to remote, rural, and regional communities.
TRR 2301
Operational Effects of Geometrics and Access Management 2012
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01456616
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This issue contains 9 papers concerned with the operational effects of geometrics and access
management. Specific topics discussed include the following: motor vehicle speeds for urban
sustainability; sight distance in placement of concrete barriers on horizontal curves; neural
network modeling of 85th percentile speed of two-lane rural highways; cross-section width and
free-flow speed on two-lane rural highways; using centerline and shoulder rumble strips on highspeed two-lane rural highways; safety and operating characteristics of Texas Super 2 highways;
left-turn lane warrants for unsignalized intersections; impacts of converting two-way frontage
roads to one-way operation; and capacity comparison of one-way and two-way signalized street
networks.
TRR 2314
Bicycles 2012
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01469431
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This issue contains 16 papers concerned with the following aspects of bicycle travel: electric
bikes and transportation policy; flashing beacons at trail crossings; lateral placement of motor
vehicles when passing bicyclists; separated, on-street bicycle infrastructure; greenway quality;
bicycle level of service; traffic safety for electric bike riders; self-reported bicycling injuries and
perceived risk of cyclists; use of shared bicycle systems; bicycle mode choice; bicycle-vehicle
interactions on urban roadways; bicycle commuting; bicycle access to airports; and estimating
latent cycling trips.
TRR 2316
Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics 2012, Driver Behavior; Pedestrian and
Simulation Modeling, Volume 2
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01474809
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This issue contains 15 papers concerned with the subject of traffic flow theory and
characteristics. Specific topics discussed include the following: modeling gap acceptance
behavior of drivers turning left at signalized intersections; driving behavior in emergency
situations; modeling driver behavior; driver anticipation in car following; phase transition model
based on driver reaction time and sensitivity; integrated lane change model; model for
pedestrian-vehicle interactions at road crossings; calibration of pedestrian simulation model for
emergency doors by pedestrian type; influence of midblock pedestrian crossings on street
capacity; exit choice decisions during pedestrian evacuations of buildings; dynamic simulation
assignment model for pedestrian movements in crowded networks; microsimulation of
congestion effects on risk by experienced drivers; microsimulation of shared space zones (cars,
bicycles, pedestrians); microscopic traffic simulation model of signalized intersections for safety
assessment; and numerical analysis for adaptive traffic simulation.
TRR 2318
Safety Management, Emergency Management Systems, Operator Education,
School Transportation, and Older Drivers 2012
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01472277
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This issue contains 16 papers concerned with transportation safety management, emergency
management systems, operator education, school transportation, and older drivers. Among the
topics discussed are tools for road safety management; states' current practices in road safety
analysis; pricing for traffic safety; the federal Highway Safety Improvement Program; integrating
safety and planning at the level of the individual; macroscopic patterns of urbanization and
traffic safety; estimating the highway collision rate with consideration of traffic flow; traffic safety
and urban form; ranking unsignalized rural intersections for safety improvement; icy-curve
warning systems; emergency vehicle collisions; novice drivers compliance with road rules; Webbased parent support program to improve teens' home-based practice driving; parental attitudes
on children's active school commuting; "Your Speed" signs in school zones; and immobility
levels and mobility preferences of the elderly in the United States.
TRR 2321
Human Performance, User Information, and Simulation 2012
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01470176
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This issue contains 13 papers concerned with human performance, user information and
simulation in transportation. Specific topics discussed include the following: cell phone use;
texting; effect of external distractions on behavior and vehicle control; driver inattention;
overtaking of bicycles on rural roads; dynamic maximum speed limits; variable message signbased route guidance; processing spoken words while driving; developing simulator scenarios
for assessing novice drivers; low-cost data recorder to investigate adult and teen driver
differences; driver performance at high speeds; and driver response to flooded road signing.
TRR 2323
Travel Behavior 2012, Volume 2
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This issue contains 12 papers that address the following aspects of travel behavior:
understanding peoples' sense of place through the use of the mixed-method approach;
modeling traveler response to park-and-ride; automobility; elderly travel patterns; structural
equations model of land use patterns, location choice, and travel behavior; parental attitudes
toward children walking and bicycling to school; probit model of individuals' work arrangement
choices; modeling the effect of land use on activity spaces; built environment impact on travel
behavior; dynamics of automobile ownership under rapid growth; impacts of information and
communication technology on travel behavior; and rail passengers' time use and utility
assessment.