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Studies and Projects Completed
in 1999

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Defense and Space

1999 Assessment of the Office of Naval Research's Air and Surface Weapons Technology Program

Balancing Scientific Openness and National Security Controls at the Nation's Nuclear Weapons Laboratories

Defense Manufacturing in 2010 and Beyond: Meeting the Changing Needs of National Defense

Gravitational Physics: Exploring the Structure of Space and Time

Oceanography and Mine Warfare

Protecting Nuclear Weapons Materials in Russia*

Radiation and the International Space Station: Recommendations to Reduce Risk

Realizing the Potential of C4I: Fundamental Challenges*

Reducing the Logistics Burden for the Army After Next: Doing More With Less

Review and Evaluation of Alternative Technologies for Demilitarization of Assembled Chemical Weapons

A Review of NASA's [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] 'Atmospheric Effects of Stratospheric Aircraft' Project

Review of NASA's Distributed Active Archive Centers

Review of the Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Disposal Program: Disposal of Chemical Agent Identification Sets

A Science Strategy for the Exploration of Europa

A Scientific Rationale for Mobility in Planetary Environments

Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition: Background Papers

Technology-Based Pilot Programs: Improving Future U.S. Military Reserve Forces

Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility: Update on National Research Council Recommendations

Upgrading the Space Shuttle


Education

Designing Mathematics or Science Curriculum Programs: A Guide for Using Mathematics and Science Education Standards

Embedding Questions: The Pursuit of a Common Measure in Uncommon Tests

Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives

Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2: Final Report

Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2: Interim Report

Final Report to the U.S. Department of Defense on the Defense Reinvestment Initiative

Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS [Third International Mathematics and Science Study] to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education

Global Perspectives for Local Action: Using TIMSS to Improve U.S. Mathematics and Science Education -- Professional Development Guide

How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice*

Improving Student Learning: A Strategic Plan for Education Research and Its Utilization*

Keeping Score

Meeting Research and Education Needs in Coastal Engineering

Myths and Tradeoffs: The Role of Tests in Undergraduate Admissions

Reporting District-Level NAEP [National Assessment of Educational Progress] Data -- Summary of a Workshop

Science and Technology for Children [elementary science curriculum units]: Catastrophic Events Energy, Machines, and Motion Human Body Systems Properties of Matter

Science and Technology for Children Discovery Deck [activity cards]: Ecosystems Land and Water Motion and Design The Technology of Paper

Selecting Instructional Materials: A Guide for K-12 Science

Serving the Needs of Pre-College Science and Mathematics Education: Impact of a Digital National Library on Teacher Education and Practice

Testing, Teaching, and Learning: A Guide for States and School Districts

Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology


Health, Safety, and Social Issues

Adolescent Decision Making: Implications for Prevention Programs -- Summary of a Workshop

Adolescent Development and the Biology of Puberty: Summary of a Workshop on New Research

Arsenic in Drinking Water*

Assessment of Two Cost-Effectiveness Studies on Cocaine Control Policy

Assuring Data Quality and Validity in Clinical Trials for Regulatory Decision Making -- Workshop Report

Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment, and Public Assistance

Collaboration Among Competing Managed Care Organizations for Quality Improvement

Committee on Military Nutrition Research: Activity Report 1994-1999

Data and Methodological Issues for Tracking Former Welfare Recipients -- A Workshop Summary

Definition of Serious and Complex Medical Conditions

Developing an Information Infrastructure for the Medicare+Choice Program -- Summary of a Workshop

Dietary Reference Intakes: A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Upper Intake Levels for Nutrients

Enhancing the Regulatory Decision-Making Approval Process for Direct Food Ingredient Technologies -- Workshop Summary

Ensuring Quality Cancer Care*

Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in an Era of Welfare Reform -- Summary of a Workshop

Evaluating Welfare Reform: A Framework and Review of Current Work -- Interim Report

Extending Medicare Coverage for Preventive and Other Services*

Extending Medicare Reimbursement in Clinical Trials*

The Five Series Study: Mortality of Military Participants in U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests

Fluid Resuscitation: State of the Science for Treating Combat Casualties and Civilian Injuries

Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America

Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health

Information for Women About the Safety of Silicone Breast Implants

Health Performance Measurement in the Public Sector: Principles and Policies for Implementing an Information Network

Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 -- Second Interim Report

Leading Health Indicators for Healthy People 2010 -- Final Report

Lesbian Health: Current Assessment and Directions for the Future

Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools

Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base*

Measuring a Changing Nation: Modern Methods for the 2000 Census

Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements -- Summary of a Workshop

Measuring the Quality of Health Care

The Medical Follow-up Agency: The First Fifty Years, 1946-1996

Military Strategies for Sustainment of Nutrition and Immune Function in the Field

National Center for Military Deployment Health Research

Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation: Practice and Protocols

Organ Procurement and Transplantation: Assessing Current Policies and the Potential Impact of the DHHS [Department of Health and Human Services] Final Rule*

Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review

Potential Radiation Exposure in Military Operations: Protecting the Soldier Before, During, and After

Preliminary Considerations Regarding Federal Investments in Vaccine Purchase and Immunization Services: Interim Report on Immunization Finance Policies and Practices

A Report on the Sponsors of Cancer Treatment Clinical Trials and Their Approval and Monitoring Mechanisms

Review of the Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Draft Final Report

Review of the U.S. Army's Health Risk Assessments for Oral Exposure to Six Chemical-Warfare Agents

Revisiting Home Visiting -- Summary of a Workshop

Risk-Based Waste Classification in California

Risks and Opportunities: Synthesis of Studies on Adolescence

The Role of Co-Occurring Substance Abuse and Mental Illness in Violence -- Workshop Summary

The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation's Elderly: Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population*

The Role of Protein and Amino Acids in Sustaining and Enhancing Performance

Safety of Silicone Breast Implants*

Small-Area Estimates of School-Age Children in Poverty: Interim Report 3, Evaluation of 1995 County and School District Estimates for Title I Allocations

Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Analytical Framework for Assessing Risks

Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Assessing Health Risks to Deployed U.S. Forces -- Workshop Proceedings

Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Force Protection and Decontamination

Strategies to Protect the Health of Deployed U.S. Forces: Medical Surveillance, Record Keeping, and Risk Reduction

To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System*

Toward Environmental Justice: Research, Education, and Health Policy Needs

Toxicity of Military Smokes and Obscurants, Vol. 2

Toxicity of Military Smokes and Obscurants, Vol. 3

The Unequal Burden of Cancer: An Assessment of NIH [National Institutes of Health] Research and Programs for Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved

Vaccines for the 21st Century: A Tool for Decisionmaking

Veterans and Agent Orange: Update 1998

Waste Incineration and Public Health

Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders -- Report, Workshop Summary, and Workshop Papers


Industry, Commerce, and Technology

Adequacy of Climate Observing Systems

Advanced Engineering Environments: Achieving the Vision, Phase 1

Applying Advanced Information Systems to Ports and Waterways Management

Assessment of Proposed Final Forms for Plutonium Disposition

Assessment of Technologies Deployed to Improve Aviation Security -- First Report

Being Fluent with Information Technology

Biobased Industrial Products: Priorities for Research and Commercialization

Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities

The Changing Nature of Work: Implications for Occupational Analysis

The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age*

Enhancing Access to NEXRAD [Next Generation Weather Radar] Data -- A Critical National Resource

Harnessing Science and Technology for America's Economic Future: National and Regional Priorities

Improving Surface Transportation Security: A Research and Development Strategy

Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Challenges and Opportunities*

Industrial Technology Assessments: An Evaluation of the Research Program of the Office of Industrial Technologies

Industry-Laboratory Partnerships: A Review of the Sandia Science and Technology Park Initiative

Interim Report for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Panel to Review the Spent-Fuel Standard for Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium

Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition

Measuring Functional Capacity and Work Requirements -- Summary of a Workshop

Recent Trends in U.S. Aeronautics Research and Technology

Research Agenda for Test Methods and Models to Simulate the Accelerated Aging of Infrastructure Materials -- Report of a Workshop

Review of the Need for a Large-Scale Test Facility for Research on the Effects of Extreme Winds on Structures

Review of the Research Program of the Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles -- Fifth Report

Review of the Research Strategy for Biomass-Derived Transportation Fuels

Securing America's Industrial Strength

Separation Technologies for the Industries of the Future

The Small Business Innovation Research Program: Challenges and Opportunities

Summary of a Workshop on Information Technology Research for Crisis Management

Toward a New National Weather Service: Review of the Draft Plan for the Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration

Trends and Challenges in Aerospace Offsets

U.S. Industry in 2000: Studies in Competitive Performance

A Vision for the National Weather Service: Road Map for the Future


International Affairs

Building Ocean Science Partnerships: The United States and Mexico Working Together

Cooperation in the Energy Futures of China and the United States

Emerging Global Water and Energy Initiatives: An Integrated Perspective

Engineering Tasks for the New Century: Japanese and U.S. Perspectives

Lighting the Way: Knowledge Assessment in Prince Edward Island

New Strategies for New Challenges: Corporate Innovation in the United States and Japan

New Vistas in Transatlantic Science and Technology Cooperation

The Pervasive Role of Science, Technology, and Health in Foreign Policy: Imperatives for the Department of State*

The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries -- Report of a Workshop

Transnational Organized Crime -- Summary of a Workshop


Natural Resources and the Environment

Alternative High-Level Waste Treatments at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory

Atmospheric Effects of Aviation: A Review of NASA's Subsonic Assessment Project

Carbon Filtration for Reducing Emissions from Chemical Agent Incineration

Downstream: Adaptive Management of the Glen Canyon Dam and the Colorado River Ecosystem

Ecological Indicators for the Nation

An End State Methodology for Identifying Technology Needs for Environmental Management, with an Example from the Hanford Site Tanks

From Monsoons to Microbes: Understanding the Ocean's Role in Human Health

The GEWEX Global Water Vapor Project (GVaP): U.S. Opportunities

Groundwater and Soil Cleanup: Improving Management of Persistent Contaminants

Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands*

Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment

Identifying Future Drinking Water Contaminants

The Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Framework for Loss Estimation

Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses

Making Climate Forecasts Matter

Meeting U.S. Energy Resource Needs: The Energy Resources Program of the U.S. Geological Survey

Mitigation Emerges as Major Strategy for Reducing Losses Caused by Natural Disasters

Nature's Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment

New Directions in Water Resources Planning for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Ocean Drilling Research: An Arctic Perspective

Our Common Journey: A Transition Toward Sustainability*

Ozone-Forming Potential of Reformulated Gasoline*

Perspectives on Biodiversity: Valuing Its Role in an Everchanging World

Review of DOE's [Department of Energy] Office of Fossil Energy's Research Plan for Fine Particulates

Spills of Nonfloating Oils: Risk and Response

The State of Development of Waste Forms for Mixed Wastes: U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management

Technologies for Environmental Management: The Department of Energy's Office of Science and Technology

Water for the Future: The West Bank and Gaza Strip, Israel, and Jordan*

Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply: Assessing New York City's Approach


The Scientific Enterprise

The Advanced Technology Program: Challenges and Opportunities

Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus*

An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Measurement and Standards Laboratories: Fiscal Year 1999

The Assessment of Science Meets the Science of Assessment -- Summary of a Workshop

Beyond Discovery series: Polymers and People Sounding Out the Ocean's Secrets When the Earth Moves: Seafloor Spreading and Plate Tectonics

Bridging Boundaries Through Regional Marine Research

Capitalizing on Investments in Science and Technology

Collaboratories: Improving Research Capabilities and Biomedical Sciences -- Proceedings of a Multi-site Electronic Workshop

Concerning Federally Sponsored Inducement Prizes in Engineering and Science

Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: Basic Research for Tomorrow's Technology

Cooperative Stewardship: Managing the Nation's Multidisciplinary User Facilities for Research with Synchrotron Radiation, Neutrons, and High Magnetic Fields

Decision Making in the U.S. Department of Energy's Environmental Management Office of Science and Technology

Distributed Geolibraries: Spatial Information Resources

Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: An Assessment of Waste Form Development and Characterization

Electrometallurgical Techniques for DOE Spent Fuel Treatment: Status Report on Argonne National Laboratory's R&D Activity as of Fall 1998

Evaluating Federal Research Programs: Research and the Government Performance and Results Act (page 20)*

Finding the Path: Issues of Access to Research Sources

Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading Edge Engineering From the 1998 NAE [National Academy of Engineering] Symposium on Frontiers of Engineering

Hydrologic Hazards Science at the U.S. Geological Survey

Hydrologic Science Priorities for the U.S. Global Change Research Program: An Initial Assessment

Impact of Advances in Computing and Communications Technologies on Chemical Science and Technology -- Report of a Workshop

Improving Project Management in the Department of Energy

International Benchmarking of U.S. Immunology Research

Materials in a New Era: Proceedings of the 1999 Solid State Sciences Committee Forum

Materials Science and Engineering: Forging Stronger Links to Users

Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the 1998 U.S./Japan Conference

Monoclonal Antibody Production

Nuclear Physics: The Core of Matter, The Fuel of Stars

Observations on the President's Fiscal Year 2000 Federal Science and Technology Budget

Overcoming Barriers to Collaborative Research -- Report of a Workshop

A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases*

Record Linkage Techniques, 1997: Proceedings of an International Workshop and Exposition

Research on Power-Frequency Fields Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992

Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter, II: Evaluating Research Progress and Updating the Portfolio

Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition

Science for Decisionmaking: Coastal and Marine Geology at the USGS [U.S. Geological Survey]

Size Limits of Very Small Microorganisms -- Proceedings of a Workshop

Sowing Seeds of Change: Informing Public Policy in the Economic Research Service of USDA [U.S. Department of Agriculture]

U.S. Research Institutes in the Mathematical Sciences: Assessment and Perspectives


Transportation

1997 Updates for the 1994 Highway Capacity Manual and CD-ROM

1998 Scanning Review of European Practice for Bridge Scour and Stream Instability Countermeasures

1998 TRB [Transportation Research Board] Distinguished Lecture (Part 1); Maintenance Challenges and Safety Issues (Part 2)

1998 Transportation Research Record CD-ROM

1999 TRB Distinguished Lecture (Part 1); Improving Transportation Data (Part 2)

Accessibility of Automated Fare Vending and Collection for Customers with Disabilities

Accessible Transportation and Mobility 1999

Advanced Traffic Management Systems

Air Transportation

Alternative Approaches to the Taxation of Heavy Vehicles

Alternative Approaches to the Taxation of Heavy Vehicles: Applications Manual

Applications of Emerging Technologies in Transportation

Asphalt Mixture Components

Asphalt Mixtures: Stiffness Characterization, Variables, and Performance

Asphalt Pavement Construction and Surface Mixtures

Assessment of Impacts of Bridge Deck Runoff Contaminants on Receiving Waters

Bar Coding in Mass Transit Operations and Maintenance -- Contractor's Guidebook

Best Management Practices for Environmental Issues Related to Highway and Street Maintenance

Bicycle and Pedestrian Research: 1998

Bituminous Materials Research Series (CD-ROM)

CAESAR [Cataloging and Expert Evaluation of Scour Risk and River Stability]: An Expert System for Evaluation of Scour and Stream Stability

Calibration of LRFD [Load and Resistance Factor Design] Bridge Design Code

Combating Impaired Driving in an Era of Diminished Resources and Shifting Priorities

Concrete in Construction

Concrete in Pavement and Structures

Cone Penetration Testing, Corrosion in Earth-Retaining Structures, and Other Emerging Technologies

Consequences of the Interstate Highway System for Transit: Summary of Findings

Construction Quality and Management

Construction: Pavement, Bridge, Quality Control/Quality Assurance, and Management

Consultants for DOT [Department of Transportation] Preconstruction Engineering Work

Continuing Examination of Successful Transit Ridership Initiatives

Continuing Project to Synthesize Information on Highway Problems (nos. 224 and 245)

Conversion of AASHTO [American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials] Documents to Metric Units

The Costs of Sprawl, Revisited

Criteria for Highway Routing of Hazardous Materials

Demonstration of Artificial Intelligence Technology for Transit Railcar Diagnostics

Design and Rehabilitation of Pavements: 1998

Designing Stone Matrix Asphalt Mixtures for Rut-Resistant Pavements: Summary of Research Results (Part 1); Mixture Design Method, Construction Guidelines, and Quality Control/Quality Assurance Procedures (Part 2)

Developing and Maintaining Partnerships for Multimodal Transportation Planning -- Contractor's Final Report and Case Studies

Developing Measures of Effectiveness for Truck Weight Enforcement Activities

Developing Measures of Effectiveness for Truck Weight Enforcement Activities -- Contractor's Final Report

Development of an HOV [High-Occupancy Vehicle] Systems Manual

Development of Training Material for Highway Construction Personnel

Driver and Vehicle Modeling

Durability of Precast Segmental Bridges -- Contractor's Final Report

Dynamic Impact Factors for Bridges

Economic Effects of Restricting Left Turns

Economic Trends and Multimodal Transportation Requirements

Emerging Models for Delivering Transportation Programs and Services: A Report of the Transportation Agency Organization and Management Scan Tour

Energy, Air Quality, and Fuels 1998

Energy, Air Quality, and Fuels 1999

Enforcement of Environmental Mitigation Commitments in Transportation Projects: A Survey of Federal and State Practice

Entry and Competition in the U.S. Airline Industry: Issues and Opportunities*

Environmental and Social Effects of Transportation

Evaluation of Unbonded Portland Cement Concrete Overlays

Fatigue-Resistant Design of Cantilevered Signal, Sign, and Light Supports

Fifty Years of TRB Bridge Committees

Forecasting, Travel Behavior, and Network Modeling

Freight Transportation: Planning, Motor Carrier Size and Weight Issues, International Trade, and Hazardous Materials Transport

Future Decisions in Roadside Safety

General Design and Roadside Safety Features

Geomaterials

Geotechnical Aspects of Pavements

Geotechnical-Related Development and Implementation of Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) Methods

Glossary of Highway Quality Assurance Terms

Guidebook for Evaluating, Selecting, and Implementing Fuel Choices for Transit Bus Operations

Guidebook to Highway Contracting for Innovation

A Guidebook for Marketing Transit Services to Business

Guidelines for Developing and Maintaining Successful Partnerships for Multimodal Transportation Projects

Guidelines for Enhancing Suburban Mobility Using Public Transportation

Guidelines for Longitudinal Pavement Profile Management

A Handbook for Measuring Customer Satisfaction and Service Quality

A Handbook of Proven Marketing Strategies for Public Transit

HDPE [High-Density Polyethylene] Pipe: Recommended Material Specifications and Design Requirements

HDPE Pipe: Recommended Material Specifications and Design Requirements -- Contractor's Final Report

High Load Multi-Rotational Bridge Bearings

Highlights of the Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual: First Edition

Highway and Traffic Safety, Enforcement, Older Person Mobility, and Women's Issues Research

Highway Capacity Issues: 1998

Highway Capacity, Quality of Service, and Traffic Flow and Characteristics

Highway Geometric Design and Operational Effects Issues

Highway Geometric Design Issues

Highway Infrastructure Damage Caused by the 1993 Upper Mississippi River Basin Flooding

Highway Safety Modeling, Analysis, and Design

Historic Highway Bridge Preservation Practices

Hot-Mix Asphalt Binders

Hot-Mix Asphalt Mixtures

HOV Systems Manual

Human Performance, User Information, and Highway Design

Impacts of Access Management Techniques

Implementation Plan for Automating Highway-Materials Testing

Improved Design Specifications for Horizontally Curved Steel Girder Highway Bridges

Improved Safety Information for Highway Design

Improved Safety Information to Support Highway Design

Improved Surface Drainage of Pavements -- Contractor's Final Report

In Situ Testing Devices and Strain Measurements

Inland Waterway Circular

Integrated Urban Models for Simulation of Transit and Land Use Policies: Guidelines for Implementation and Use

Integrated Urban Models for Simulation of Transit and Land-Use Policies -- Contractor's Final Report

Integrating School Bus and Public Transportation Services in Non-Urban Communities

Integrating School Bus and Public Transportation Services in Non-Urban Communities -- Contractor's Implementation Guide

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Automated Highway Systems, Traveler Information, and Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vehicle-Highway Automation, and Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent Transportation Systems: Advanced Traveler Information Systems and Safety Research

Interim Report on Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) Data Survey

Intermodal Transportation Education and Training

International Symposium on Highway Geometric Design Practices

International Transit Studies Program: Report on the Fall 1997 Mission; Applications of Intelligent Transportation Systems to Public Transit in Europe

International Transit Studies Program: Report on the Fall 1998 Mission (Australia/New Zealand)

International Transit Studies Program: Report on the Spring 1998 Mission -- Private Urban Transit Systems and Low-Cost Mobility Solutions in Major Latin American Cities

Issues in Design of New and Rehabilitated Pavements

Issues in Freight Transportation Analysis and Planning

Joint Operation of Light Rail Transit or Diesel Multiple Unit Vehicles with Railroads

Laboratory Determination of Resilient Modulus for Flexible Pavement Design -- Contractor's Final Report

Land Use and Transportation Planning and Programming Applications

Land Use Impacts of Transportation: A Guidebook

Light Rail Service: Vehicular and Pedestrian Safety

Liquefaction, Differential Settlement, and Foundation Engineering

LRFD Design Criteria for Cotton Duck Pad (CDP) Bridge Bearings -- Contractor's Final Report

Maintenance and Management of Bridge Structures

Maintenance Management and Winter Services

Maintenance QA [Quality Assurance] Program Implementation Manual

Major Investment Studies: Development of a Practitioner's Guidebook for Effective Study Design, Management, and Implementation

Management Toolkit for Rural and Small Urban Transportation Systems

Managing Product Liability to Achieve Highway Innovations

Managing Speed

Managing Technology Transfer: A Strategy for the Federal Highway Administration

Managing Urban Traffic Systems: Freeway Operations, High-Occupancy Vehicle Systems, and Traffic Signal Systems

Manual for Bridge Rating Through Load Testing

Marketing Transit Services to Business -- Contractor's Final Report

Measuring In-situ Mechanical Properties of Pavement Subgrade Soils

Methods to Achieve Rut-Resistant Durable Pavements

Metric Analysis Reference Guide: Supplement to 1997 Update of Special Report 209, Highway Capacity Manual

Metrication and Enhancement of MicroBENCOST Software Package

Mitigation of Nighttime Construction Noise, Vibrations, and Other Nuisances

Multimodal Transportation: Development of a Performance-Based Planning Process

Multipurpose Transit Payment Media

National Symposium on Contaminated Sediments: Coupling Risk Reduction with Sustainable Management and Reuse

Needs in Communicating the Economic Impacts of Transportation Investment

New Designs and Operating Experiences with Low-Floor Buses

New Paradigms for Local Public Transportation Organizations

Nonmotorized Transportation and Developing Country Research

Open-graded Friction Course: State of the Practice

Operational Guidelines for Longitudinal Pavement Profile Measurement

Paratransit Contracting and Service Delivery Methods

Passenger Counting Technologies and Procedures

Passenger Information Services: A Guidebook for Transit Systems

Pavement and Winter Maintenance

Pavement Management and Monitoring of Traffic and Pavements

Pavement Management Systems and Other Pavement Design Issues

Paving Fabric Interlayer as a Pavement Roadside Barrier

Pedestrian and Bicycle Research 1999

Pile Setup, Pile Load Tests, and Sheet Piles

Policy Options for Intermodal Freight Transportation

Ports/Waterways Marine Transportation

Potential Tort Liability for Transit Agencies Arising Out of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Practices in Assuring Employment Availability

Preventive Maintenance and Evaluation of Pavements and Structures

Progress in Transportation Data: 1998

Progress Report on Maintenance and Operations Personnel

Project Development Methodologies for Reconstruction of Urban Freeways and Expressways

Proposed Design Guidelines for Reducing Hydroplaning on New and Rehabilitated Pavements

Public Transit Planning, Management and Performance, and Marketing and Fare Policy

Quality Control and Acceptance of Superpave-Designed Hot Mix Asphalt

Railroad-Highway Grade Crossings Issues

Recent Pavement Research Issues

Relationship Between Pavement Surface Texture and Highway Traffic Noise

Report on Innovative Financing Techniques for Transit Agencies

Report on the 1997 Scanning Review of Asian Bridge Structures

Report on the 1998 Scanning Review of European Winter Service Technology

Research Directions for In-Vehicle Computing: Delivering an Integrated Suite of ITS [Intelligent Transportation Systems] Applications for Driver Assistance and Mobile Services & Information

Research Issues in Intercity Rail Passenger Systems and Railroad Track Structure Design

Research on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Human Factors, and Advanced Traveler Information Systems Design Research

Research on the Relationship Between Economic Development and Transportation Investment

Research Problem Statements on Intercity Passenger Rail

Review of Travel Assumptions Employed in Emission Factor Models

Road User and Mitigation Costs in Highway Pavement Projects

Roadside Safety and Other General Design Issues

Roadway Incident Diversion Practices

The Role of Transit Amenities and Vehicle Characteristics in Building Transit Ridership: Amenities for Transit Handbook and the Transit Design Game Workbook

Safety Appraisal of Suspension Bridge Main Cables -- Contractor's Final Report

Safety, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Issues in Air Transportation

Seven Key Attributes for Building Robust Research Programs

Seventh International Conference on Low-Volume Roads 1999 (two-volume set)

Simulation, Instrumented Vehicles, and Human Performance in Highway Design and Research

Stabilization and Geosynthetics

State DOT Management Techniques for Materials and Constructions Acceptance

Statewide Travel Survey

Statistical Methods in Transportation and Safety Data Analysis for Highway Geometry, Design, and Operations

Strategies to Attract Auto Users to Public Transportation

Structural Analysis and Design: Bridges, Culverts, and Pipes

Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaries, and Traffic Signals

Summary of Economic Development Research Projects

Superpave Gyratory Compaction Guidelines

Superpave: Binder Specifications, Mixture Design, and Construction

Systems for Design of Highway Pavements

Technology Transfer and Training

Testing of Conventional and Unconventional Aggregates and Soils

Thin-Surfaced Pavements

Tolling Practices for Highway Facilities

Tourism Travel and Transportation System Development

Tourism Travel Contributions to Economic Development: Volume II Supporting Materials and References

Traffic Flow and Safety in Work Zones, Signing, and Marking Materials

Traffic Flow Theory: Simulation Models, Macroscopic Flow Relationships, and Flow Estimation and Prediction

Traffic Safety: Management, Enforcement, Older Drivers, Heavy Vehicles, and Motorcycles

Traffic Signal Operations Near Highway-Rail Grade Crossings

Traffic Signing, Visibility, and Rail-Highway Grade Crossings

Transit Advertising Revenue: Traditional and New Sources and Structures

Transit Bus; Rural, Intercity, and Paratransit; New Technology, Capacity, and Quality of Service

Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual: First Edition (CD-ROM)

Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual: First Edition, Contractor's Final Report

Transit Intermodal Facilities, Rail Systems, Commuter Rail, Major Activity Center Circulation Systems, Light Rail, and Ferry Systems

Transit Scheduling: Basic and Advanced Manuals

Transit: Bus, Paratransit, Rural, Intermodal, Rail, Commuter and Intercity Rail, Light Rail

Transit: Planning, Management, Marketing, New Technology, Capacity, and Quality of Service

Transportation and Environment

Transportation Development Process

Transportation Finance, Economics, and Management

Transportation Finance, Economics, Pricing, and Management

Transportation in the New Millennium: State of the Art and Future Directions

Transportation Issues in Large U.S. Cities

Transportation Management Center Functions

Transportation Network Modeling

Transportation Planning, Programming, Public Participation, and Land Use

Transportation System Management, Transportation Demand Management, and High-Occupancy Vehicle Systems

Transportation, Energy, and Environment: Policies to Promote Sustainability

Travel Behavior and Passenger Demand Forecasting

Travel Estimation Techniques for Urban Planning

Trends in Single-Occupant Vehicle and Vehicle Miles of Travel Growth in the United States

Trends in Single-Occupant Vehicle and Vehicle Miles of Travel Growth in the United States -- Contractor's Final Report

Truck Safety Research

Underground and Other Structural Design Issues

Understanding and Applying Advanced On-Board Bus Electronics

Using Public Transportation to Reduce the Economic, Social, and Human Costs of Personal Immobility

Using Public Transportation to Reduce the Economic, Social, and Human Costs of Personal Immobility -- Contractor's Case Studies

Valuation of Travel-Time Savings and Predictability in Congested Conditions for Highway User-Cost Estimation

Various Bridge Design Issues

The Zoning and Real Estate Implications of Transit-Oriented Development


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