A comprehensive guidebook for practical employee commute options (ECO) was compiled for employers in New York State to provide them with the technical expertise to develop an ECO program.

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 reduction in grade. The
problem with MOBILE is that it uses average speed as
the only variable to represent driving dynamics which
are strongly related to vehicle emissions. These
dynamics are often not properly characterized by
average speed. The objective of this study was to

As more and more people have forsaken city-center activities in favor of out-of-town shopping malls and business parks, many downtown areas in the United States have been allowed to fall into neglect. Will Central Business Districts (CBDs) or 'Main Streets' survive these forces? Unless proper measures are taken and necessary investments made now, the future of Main Streets may be in danger. Is it worth investing in Main Streets in New York State?

<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 potential of future patching which affects pavement performance. The fact that more than 70 % of NYC pavements are composite pavements, which are not suited for Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) analysis techniques. The objective of this project is to develop a NDTbased framework to effectively manage urban pavements at the project level.

<p>The purpose of this study was to develop a methodology for estimating and weighing the transportation and the economic development benefits of transportation projects from the perspective of the private sector. This methodology is intended to help decision makers and the public evaluate the benefits of individual projects and clusters of projects. It may also be valuable in making the city&#39;s case for federal transit aid.</p>

In 1974, a national maximum speed limit (NMSL) of 55
mph was introduced to reduce the consumption of fuel.
NMSL was followed by a dramatic reduction in the
number of fatal crashes and Congress decided to
continue with the 55 mph speed limit. In 1987, states
were allowed to increase the speed limit to 65 mph on
certain rural interstates. New Jersey did not change the
55 speed limit at that time since 'very little mileage
qualified as rural interstate.' In May 1998, New Jersey

This project involved a field campaign and subsequent
data analysis for the Route 30 bridge over the South
Chuctanunda Creek in Montgomery County, NY. The
two purposes of this work were: 1) to make more
detailed measurements of the bridge environment than
we have done in the past to better understand the
energy budget of a curing concrete bridge and 2) to
provide atmospheric boundary conditions to a model
of curing concrete.
New measurements included direct sensible and latent

<p>This study was undertaken to examine how to introduce bus rapid transit (BRT) in New York City. In recent years, the idea of bus rapid transit ? innovative bus services providing superior speed and convenience to traditional bus service ? has attracted growing interest both here and across the United States. The tremendously successful BRT systems in Bogotÿ, Colombia and Curitiba, Brazil, have stirred worldwide interest in whether BRT could be introduced elsewhere. New York, where more passengers use buses than in the next five largest U.S.

This series of projects examined travel behavior and accessibility in the Bronx. The first study in the series, "The Implications of Travel Profiles for Transportation Investment," analyzed travel conditions and choices in the Bronx, where large-scale transportation and other development projects were presently taking place. Using a large database composed of census tract information on socio-economic and travel behavior, the paper first examined the travel profile of the Bronx population, by estimating travel choice elasticities.

This three-part research project examined three different sets of technologies ? energy-absorbing fender systems, pre-cast or prefabricated bridge deck systems, report presents the findings and 'smart bridges' ? and provided recommendations for how New Jersey DOT should proceed with implementing them.