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UTRC follows the reporting requirements set forth by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). The purpose of these reports is to share the funded research results available for the transportation professionals and researchers and to publish the center’s past and future activities in the education, workforce development and technology transfer programs.

UTRC publications include a variety of reports; Project Reports, Project Briefs, Journal Articles, Quarterly Newsletters, Annual Reports, and Conference Reports. These reports can be accessed using the search tool which filters publications by the report type, publication year, principal investigator, and research topics.

Title: Impacts of Extreme Events, Phase 1:Intercity Passenger Travel Behavior - The September 11th Experience

Author(s): Dr. José Holguín-Veras, Dr. Robert E. Paaswell

Publication Year: 2002

<p>The changing perception of the safety of transportation modes is, in particular, affecting the way in which the traveling public makes choices concerning mode of transportation, place of work, and location of residence. On September 10,…

Title: Evaluation of New Jersey's Graduated Driver's License Program (Phase I)

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Publication Year: 2002

<p>New Jersey started enforcing a graduated driver license (GDL) system on January 1, 2001. The system requires a three-step process for full licensing: learner&#39;s permit at 16 years of age at the earliest; provisional license at 17…

Title: Impacts of Extreme Events, Phase 1:Intercity Passenger Travel Behavior - The September 11th Experience

Author(s): Dr. José Holguín-Veras, Dr. Robert E. Paaswell

Publication Year: 2002

<p>The tragic events of September 11th, 2001 (9/11) have had a profound and unimaginable impact on activities in all of lower Manhattan, and the New York City metropolitan region. Profound, of course, because of the huge loss of life, and…

Title: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Graduated Driver Licensing System in New Jersey

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Publication Year: 2002

Teenage drivers have high crash rates due to immaturity and lack of driving experience. To reduce their accident involvement, many states in the U.S. and countries around the world have implemented graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs.

Title: Impacts of Extreme Events, Phase 1:
Intercity Passenger Travel Behavior - The September 11th Experience


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Publication Year: 2002

The main objective of this project is to assess the impacts of 9/11 upon passenger travel behavior. Models based on Random Utility Theory (RUT) were used to assess behavioral changes. In this context, the random utility models provided the…

Title: Durability of Recycled FRP Piling in Aggressive Environments

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Publication Year: 2002

Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites represent an alternative construction material without many of the performance disadvantages of traditional materials. The use of FRP as a pile material can eliminate deterioration problems of…

Title: Analysis and Evaluation of the Physical Characteristics of Hot Mix Asphalt Using Crumb Rubber Modifier (Excerpt)

Author(s): Dr. Benjamin Colucci

Publication Year: 1998

State-of-the-art technology is available which incorporates shredded scrap tire rubber known as crumb rubber modifier (CRM) as a modifier for asphalt cement in paving mixtures. CRM is the general term to describe all rubber particles obtained…

Title: Comparative Evaluation of Deflection and Wave Propagation NDT Methods Pavements-brief

Author(s): Dr. Lynne Irwin (Late), Dr. Neville A. Parker, Dr. Nenad Gucunski

Publication Year: 1998

<p>In New York City, as in other highly urbanized areas, a number of factors make it too difficult to apply pavement management systems methodology in the traditional way: the existence of underground utilities and utility cuts. The…

Title: Impacts of Deferred Investment on
Capital and Operating Budgets(CaseStudy)


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Publication Year: 2004

To illustrate how deferred capital investments impact the MTA?s capital and operating budgets.

Title: Impacts of Deferred Investment on
Capital and Operating Budgets(DiscussionDocument)


Author(s):

Publication Year: 2004

To illustrate how deferred capital investments impact the MTA?s capital and operating budgets.

Title: Impacts of Deferred Investment on
Capital and Operating Budgets(ExecutiveSummary)


Author(s):

Publication Year: 2004

To illustrate how deferred capital investments impact the MTA?s capital and operating budgets.

Title: Alternatives to Herbicides: Integrated Vegetation Management Project

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Publication Year: 2004

Roadside rights-of-way are important technical and ecological features of the landscape. Managers of the vegetation in those rights-of-way are increasingly focused on environmental stewardship. Managers are interested in practices that will…

Title: Evaluating the feasibility of a passive travel survey collectionin a complex urban environment: Lessons learned fromthe New York City case study

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Publication Year: 2010

The combination of increasing challenges in administering household travel surveys and advances in global positioning systems (GPS)/geographic information systems (GIS) technologies motivated this project. It tests the feasibility of using a…

Title: Diesel Ultrafine/Fine Particle Emissions in Numbers:Statistical Modeling and Evaluation of Engine Operating Variables

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Publication Year: 2009

This work aims to develop statistical models for ultrafine/fine particle number emission rates from a diesel bus, to evaluate the explanatory power of engine operating variables. Emissions were recorded by using on-board instrumentation in two…

Title: OPENING-MODE CRACKING IN ASPHALTPAVEMENTS: CRACK INITIATION AND SATURATION

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Publication Year: 2009

<p>This paper investigates the crack initiation and saturation for opening-mode cracking. Using elastic governing equations and a weak form stress boundary condition, we derive an explicit solution of elastic fields in the surface course…

Title: Analytical Tool for Measuring Emission Impact of Acceleration and Deceleration Lanes

Author(s): Dr. Hualiang Teng

Publication Year: 2001

<p>Air quality has become one of the important factors to be considered in making transportation improvement decisions. Thus, tools are expected to help such decision-makings. On the other hand, MOBILE5 model, which has been widely used in…

Title: Analytical Tool for Measuring Emission Impacts of ACCEL/DECEL
Lanes


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Publication Year: 2001

The MOBILE5 model, widely used in evaluating the impacts of transportation investments on air quality, is insensitive to the effects of acceleration or deceleration on emissions and thus cannot model the effects of improvements such as a…

Title: Durability of Recycled Plastic Piles in Aggressive Soils

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Publication Year: 2001

In the United States millions of piles are used to support residential, commercial, and transportation structures. There are, however, some problems associated with the use of traditional piling. It is now more commonly required to install piles…

Title: Evaluation, prioritization and selection of transportation
investment projects in New York City


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Publication Year: 2005

Over the last decade, a large number of high capital cost transportation projects have been proposed for the New York City Region. Many have resulted from addressing evolving capacity needs, changes in regional demographics and economics, meeting…

Title: Dedicated Commercial Transportation Corridor

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Publication Year: 1995

As the world economy continues to grow, and the law of comparative economic advantage takes on greater significance at both the national and regional level, the importance of having efficient and effective freight transportation systems continues…