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  • The evolution of practical safety audits in the United States

    Creator:
    Houghton, Tegan Marie
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    This thesis evaluates pre-construction auditing procedures used in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand in order to help create post-construction auditing procedures for the state of Oregon. It was funded as part of the development of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) Safety Investigation Manual, and also evaluates content...
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    Evolution of Practical Safety Audits in the United States by Tegan Marie Houghton A THESIS

  • Optimal mixture of road network ownership

    Creator:
    Li, Mingxin
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    The present highway funding system, especially fuel taxes, may become less reliable revenue sources in the future, while the transportation public agencies do not have the sufficient financial resources needed to meet the increasing traffic demand. Regarding the socio-economic impact of road privatization, a wide range of approaches and models...
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    United States, 2004.............. 8 Figure 3-1 Flowchart of the Evolution Model

  • Bus accessibility for persons with sensory disabilities

    Creator:
    Hron, Martha
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    With the passage of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) it has become a civil rights violation to deny access to persons with disabilities to public transportation. The ADA requires transit agencies to provide accessible buses or equivalent services to persons with mobility, sensory or cognitive impairments. This study examines...
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    Act (ADA) there were 43 million people in the United States that had one or more disabilities. As

  • The review of PPP toll roads in the US and the simulation of the Chicago Skyway

    Creator:
    Xu, Wei
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    As the traffic demand increases at a faster rate than the upgrade and maintenance of transportation facilities through the traditional public financing methods in the United States, the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is becoming an important supplement to the public transportation infrastructure investment. There are already several existing PPP toll road...
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    IRR, the more private profit they must share with the public. In the United States, the Texas State

  • An evaluation of planning for water quality control in the Willamette River Basin

    Creator:
    Kirkpatrick, Kenton
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    It is no longer possible in any area of the United States to formulate water resources plans for single purpose projects as has been done in past years. No longer can one of our greatest natural resources, water, be used solely for navigation, power generation, irrigation, or controlled for reducing...
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    ' Proféssor) It is no longer possible in any area of the United States to form- ulate water resources

  • A portable geographic information system used to develop an integrated facility management support system for a military installation

    Creator:
    Kennedy, David R. (David Richard)
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    The combination of increased training tempo due to military base closures and the reduction in military budgets have placed a severe burden on the infrastructure at many military installations and emphasized the need for an integrated facility management support system. This research involved linking existing facility, environmental, and operational data...
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    :24,000 United States Geological Survey quadrangles (Whelan, 1996). Field Forms was used to input

  • A validation of the Oregon State University driving simulator

    Creator:
    Brown, Lacy S.
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    Driving simulation is widely accepted as a safe, effective, and economical alternative for investigating driver behavior in a variety of contexts. However, in order to apply simulator-based research results to real-world settings, the performance measures acquired through simulated driving experiments must first be validated. This research was aimed at validating...
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    in urban areas in the United States. Previous research efforts have indicated that while TWLTLs

  • Bridge Damage State Detection Based on Strain-Based Wireless Structural Health Monitoring

    Creator:
    Slaven, Kelli R.
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    The Pacific Northwest is at risk for significant seismic and tsunami events, which are capable of severely damaging lifeline transportation infrastructure, particularly bridges. As the bridges in the United States age and begin to show signs of fatigue, the risk for severe damage increases. Proper monitoring and inspection of bridges...
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    bridges. As the bridges in the United States age and begin to show signs of fatigue, the risk for severe

  • Calibrating the highway safety manual predictive methods for Oregon rural state highways

    Creator:
    Xie, Fei
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    The first edition of the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) provides a quantitative approach to predict the safety of transportation facilities based on the recently developed scientific methods. This approach, known as the predictive method, was developed for several states in the United States. Due to differences in driver population, weather...
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    methods. This approach, known as the predictive method, was developed for several states in the United

  • A Review of Current State Department of Transportation Practice for Promoting and Documenting the Safety of Field Employees

    Creator:
    Barlow, Zachary Wesley
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    State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) are the primary owners of roadway infrastructure in the United States. Many of the employees of state DOTs work on roadway work sites, putting them at disproportionately higher risks of injury or fatality. A review of the literature determined that a combination of policies, standards,...
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    roadway infrastructure in the United States. Many of the employees of state DOTs work on roadway work