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Climate Change Impact Assessment for Surface Transportation in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska
John MacArthur
Miguel Andres Figliozzi , Jason Ideker , Phillip Mote , Ming Lee
The states in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska region share interconnected transportation networks for people, goods, and services that support the regional economy, mobility, and human safety. Regional weather has and will continue to affect the phy ...
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Assessment of Statewide Intersection Safety Performance
Christopher Monsere
This report summarizes the results of an analysis of the safety performance of Oregon’s intersections. Following a pilot study, a database of 500 intersections randomly sampled from around the state of Oregon in both urban and rural environments wa ...
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Exploratory Methods for Truck Re-identification in a Statewide Network Based on Axle Weight and Axle Spacing Data to Enhance Freight Metrics: Phase 2
Christopher Monsere
Mecit Cetin , Andrew Nichols
Vehicle re-identification methods can be used to anonymously match vehicles crossing two different locations based on vehicle attribute data. This research builds upon a previous study and investigates different methods for solving the re-identificat ...
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Regional transportation and land use decision making: a multistate analysis
Richard Margerum
Robert Parker , Susan Brody , Terry Moore , Gail McEwen
Throughout the United States, metropolitan regions face increasingly complex issues related to transportation and land use. The diffuse nature of decision making creates a need to better coordinate land use and transportation to address issues such a ...
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Tools for Gusset Plate Evaluation
Christopher Higgins
Peter Dusicka , Michael Scott
The collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota has raised questions regarding the performance and possibly safety of steel truss bridges. The failure investigation indicated that the collapse was due to a design error in the gusset plates ...
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Case Study Evaluation of Dynamic Traffic Assignment Tools
John Gliebe
DEVELOPMENT AND SENSITIVITY TESTING OF ALTERNATIVE MOBILITY METRICS: The Oregon Highway Plan’s (OHP) mobility policies guide various planning and programming activities of the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT). Among these activities are O ...
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Exploiting a Next Generation ITS Data Warehouse for Improved System Performance and Congestion Monitoring
Kristin Tufte
David Maier
The objective of this project is to build on an existing data archive platform, known as the Portland Oregon Regional Transportation Archive Listing (PORTAL) toward development of next generation performance measurement and congestion reduction tools ...
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Fusion and Integration of Arterial Performance Data
Kristin Tufte
Real-time knowledge of system performance enables transportation agencies to manage traffic conditions and keep the public informed of periods of congestion. The ability to accurately measure arterial performance has been limited primarily by the ava ...
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Incorporating New Data Needs into Travel and Activity Surveys
Jennifer Dill
Asha Weinstein Agrawal
This project aims to answer the following question: How can regional and national travel and activity diary surveys be modified to collect the new types of data needed to meet today's planning needs? In particular, how can the surveys be modified to: ...
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Analyzing and Quantifying the Impact of Congestion on LTL Industry Costs and Performance in the Portland Metropolitan Region
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
Christopher Monsere
Increased congestion during peak morning and afternoon periods in urban areas is increasing logistics costs. In addition, environmental, social, and political pressures to limit the impacts associated with CO2 emissions are mounting rapidly. A key ch ...
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Analysis of Travel Time Reliability for Freight Corridors Connecting the Pacific Northwest
Miguel Andres Figliozzi
A new methodology and algorithms were developed to combine diverse data sources and to estimate the impacts of recurrent and non-recurrent congestion on freight movements’ reliability and delays, costs, and emissions. The results suggest that tradi ...
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Cost of Alternative Highway Revenue Collection Systems
Anthony Rufolo
The objectives of this research are to (1) examine, compare, and present the administrative, collection, and compliance costs of usage-based revenue-generation systems, such as motor fuel taxes, tolls, and VMT fees; and (2) examine the potential feas ...
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