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Transit fare arrangements for public employees / by Boyle, Daniel K.(CARDINAL)326893; United States.Federal Transit Administration.(CARDINAL)217229; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287; Transit Cooperative Research Program.(CARDINAL)307612; Transit Development Corporation.(CARDINAL)307611;
Includes bibliographical references (page 37).Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation
Subjects: Technical reports.; Civil service; Employer-sponsored transportation; Local transit passes; Local transit;
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Exploring airport employee commute and parking strategies / by Ricard, Diane M.(CARDINAL)311634; United States.Federal Aviation Administration.(CARDINAL)139906; Airport Cooperative Research Program.(CARDINAL)307624; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-62).Airport employees are vital to the operation of an airport. They staff the airport on a daily basis from well before the first flight operation until after the last flight operation, which at many airports is 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Airport employees generate a significant number of vehicle trips to and from the airport each day, which impacts air quality, airport traffic conditions, and traffic in the communities surrounding the airport and on the freeway system. The purpose of this report was to determine what is known about airport employee commute patterns and commute modes, what programs are being offered to airport employees by the airport operator or a transportation management association (TMA) to provide them with alternatives to the drive alone commute to work, how progress is being monitored, what is known about the effectiveness of airport employee commute options (ECO) programs, what the challenges are for the providers of such programs, and to research some ECO programs offered by non-airport employers for program elements that may have applicability in the airport environment. This report was accomplished through a literature search of airport employee commute programs, commute programs offered by non-airport employers that may have applicability in the airport environment, and through interviews with four U.S. and one U.K. airport operators (of 16 airports and 3 TMAs identified, 84 percent interviewed) that offer comprehensive airport ECO programs. Each of the five case studies provides an example of how ECO strategies are applied in the airport environment.Research sponsored by the Federal Aviation Administration
Subjects: Technical reports.; Access to airports; Airport parking facilities; Airports; Commuting; Employer-sponsored transportation;
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A transportation guide for all-hazards emergency evacuation / by Matherly, Deborah,author.(CARDINAL)308665; United States.Federal Highway Administration,sponsor.(CARDINAL)139839; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials,sponsor.(CARDINAL)138446; Louis Berger Group,employer.(CARDINAL)289125; National Cooperative Highway Research Program,sponsor.(CARDINAL)281856; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board,issuing body.(CARDINAL)141287;
Includes bibliographical references (page 181).Introduction -- Step 1. Form a collaborative planning team -- Step 2. Understand the situation -- Step 3. Determine goals and objectives -- Step 4. Develop the plan -- Step 5. Prepare, review, and approve plan -- Step 6. Implement and maintain plan -- Resource: Evacuation workshop planning 101 "Workshop in a box.""TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 740: A Transportation Guide for All-Hazards Emergency Evacuation focuses on the transportation aspects of evacuation, particularly large-scale, multijurisdictional evacuation. The guidance, strategies, and tools in NCHRP Report 740 are based on an all-hazards approach that has applicability to a wide range of "notice" and "no-notice" emergency events. The report follows the basic planning steps of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101. Each chapter parallels one of the six main CPG steps. Each chapter is further subdivided into smaller, discrete tasks, with cross-references to tools--such as templates or checklists--that are shown at the end of each chapter and are on a CD-ROM included with the print version of the report."--Publisher's description.Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Technical reports.; Emergency transportation; Evacuation of civilians; Emergency management;
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Using historical data to measure transportation infrastructure constraints on land use / by Miller, John S.(John Sanders)(CARDINAL)314720; Demetsky, Michael J.(CARDINAL)313581; Virginia.Department of Transportation.(CARDINAL)291718; Virginia Transportation Research Council.(CARDINAL)195142;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 54-59).Final report.Conventional practice for developing transportation forecasts is to calibrate a model for base year conditions and then apply the model to identify future deficiencies. These models typically begin with an assumed land use and then project future traffic volumes. To determine limitations on land development as a function of the capability of the transportation system, this research effort reversed that direction, beginning with transportation system characteristics as the independent variable and calculating employment and population as dependent variables. To evaluate this process, a case study area was selected for which transportation planning data were available at three points in time over a 25-year period. This area is Charlottesville, Virginia, with imperfect snapshots of transportation and land use characteristics from 1967, 1979, and 1990. A five-component modeling process was developed and applied to the Charlottesville area for the 1967 base year. This initial approach made intuitive sense, was built from models suggested by the literature, and worked reasonably well on a small theoretical network. The performance of one component, however, was extremely weak and led the authors to develop a direct estimation model instead. This revised technique directly estimates zonal trip ends based on transportation system variables that are influenced by link volumes, roadway types, travel distances, and the geographical position of the zone. Additionally, the authors regressed retail employment, non-retail employment, and population to zonal trip ends. Lessons learned with 1967 data were used to calibrate the model for the 1979 base year and apply it for the 1990 forecast year. For individual zones, errors on the order of 50% were obtained, with larger values for retail employment and smaller values for non-retail employment and population. For the aggregate study area, errors between 6% and 21% were obtained. Suggestions about how this model formulation might be interpreted to yield land use limits as a function of traffic volumes are discussed. A simple finding for achieving convergence with the iterative entropy maximization method is stated. Recommendations for using historical data to predict the present, ensuring that these planning data are available for future efforts, and conducting a longitudinal study are presented. Issues associated with linking data from different time periods are explained.Sponsored by Virginia Department of Transportation in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, under contract no.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Land use; Real estate development; Transportation;
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Using geographic information systems for welfare to work transportation planning and service delivery : a handbook by United States.Federal Transit Administration.(CARDINAL)217229; Applied Geographics, Inc.(CARDINAL)312715; Multisystems, Inc.(CARDINAL)312716; National Research Council (U.S.).Transportation Research Board.(CARDINAL)141287; Transit Cooperative Research Program.(CARDINAL)307612; Transit Development Corporation.(CARDINAL)307611;
Includes bibliographical references.Research sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development CorporationWindows 95/98/NT; Open in Windows Explorer to install Acrobat Reader or run GISAPPS.pdf.
Subjects: Handbooks and manuals.; Technical reports.; Geographic information systems; Welfare recipients; Welfare recipients;
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1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games and Paralympic Games event study / by Amodei, Richard.(CARDINAL)314824; United States.Federal Highway Administration.Office of Safety and Traffic Operations Research and Development.(CARDINAL)172825; Booz, Allen & Hamilton.(CARDINAL)143506; Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center.(CARDINAL)286897;
Includes bibliographical references (page 238).Executive summary -- Introduction -- The Olympic and Paralympic games -- Findings -- Conclusions -- References -- Appendix A: Booz-Allen & Hamilton daily reports -- Appendix B: Atlanta traveler information showcase user assessment.Final report;The Atlanta metropolitan region was the location of one of the most ambitious Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) deployments in the United States. This deployment included several individual projects - a Central Transportation Management Center (TMC), six Traffic Control Centers (TCCs), one Transit Information Center (TIC), the Travel Information Showcase (TIS), and the extension of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) Rail network and the new high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes on I-85 and I-75. This report presents the findings of the 1996 Olympic and Paralympic Games Events Study - a compilation of findings of system performance, the benefits realized, and the lessons learned during their operations over the events period. The study assessed the performance of the various Travel Demand Management (TDM) plans employed for Olympic Games traffic management. This intermodal system performance and benefits assessment also presents recommendations for other major special-event host cities and ITS deployments, based on the lessons learned from the Atlanta Centennial Olympic Games transportation operations.Sponsored by Office of Safety and Traffic, Operations Research and Development, Federal Highway Administration, under contract no.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Olympic Games 1996 : Atlanta, Ga.); Intelligent transportation systems; Local transit; Transportation; Transportation; Transportation;
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Placement of detection loops on high speed approaches to traffic signals / by List, George F.(CARDINAL)311683; North Carolina.Department of Transportation.Research and Analysis Group.(CARDINAL)272064; North Carolina.Traffic Engineering & Safety Systems Branch.ITS and Signals Unit.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-100).Final report;This report contains the results of the NC Department of Transportation research project Placement of Detection Loops on High Speed Approaches to Traffic Signals (HWY 2007-13). The goal of this project was to determine the best places to locate detectors on the approaches to high-speed signalized intersections and the best signal control strategy to employ in conjunction with those sensor placement ideas to minimize dilemma zone occurrences.Performed by Department of Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering, NC State University, sponsored by North Carolina Department of Transportation, ITS and Signals Unit / Traffic Signals Branch under project no.
Subjects: Detectors; Electronic traffic controls.; Traffic signs and signals.; Traffic signs and signals;
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A study of the feasibility of using photo-radar for traffic speed enforcement in Virginia / by Lynn, Cheryl.(CARDINAL)311173; Virginia Transportation Research Council.(CARDINAL)195142;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 18-20).Final report.Because of increasing difficulties in enforcing posted speed limits on the Capital Beltway around Washington, D.C., local officials proposed that experiments be conducted with photo-radar to determine if that method of automated speed enforcement (widely used in Europe for about 30 years and very recently employed in the western United States) could help reduce average speed and speed variance. A project task force led by the Virginia Department of State Police, with assistance from the Maryland Department of State Police and the Virginia and Maryland Departments of Transportation, and with technical assistance from the Virginia Transportation Research Council, conducted site visits to cities in Europe and the United States where photo-radar is being used. The task force also invited six manufacturers of photo-radar equipment to staff and demonstrate their equipment. Five of the manufacturers conducted a 2-week series of tests on sections of interstate highways with varying volumes of traffic and different traffic characteristics. The tests, which were conducted from June through September 1990, were designed to provide the evaluators with data on the accuracy, reliability, and efficiency of each unit (in terms of the number of speeding cases that could potentially be generated by the use of photo-radar on the Beltway) and help the study team determine if photo-radar could be successfully deployed on the Capital Beltway as an enforcement tool. In addition, the project included an analysis of legal and constitutional issues associated with photo-radar use as well as an evaluation of public sentiment concerning photo-radar use on the Capital Beltway. The evaluators concluded that photo-radar use was feasible on high-speed, high-volume roads such as the Capital Beltway and, therefore, recommended efforts to pass state enabling statutes and test further the efficacy of photo-radar in actual traffic enforcement conditions.Sponsored by Virginia Department of Transportation, University of Virginia, [and] Virginia Dept. of State Police, under a grant awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, contract no.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Radar in speed limit enforcement; Radar in speed limit enforcement; Speed limits; Speed limits;
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Evaluation of surface treatments / by Payne, Charles W.(CARDINAL)314552; Mahone, David C.(David Crenshaw)(CARDINAL)314551; Virginia Transportation Research Council.(CARDINAL)195142;
Includes bibliographical references (page 27).State report;This report describes the installation, evaluation, and performance of surface treatment test sections placed during 1983, 1984, and 1985. The study was initiated because of adhesion problems between asphalt and river gravel in the Fredericksburg District. However, observations by the researchers and complaints from other districts indicated that adhesion problems were also prevalent when crushed stone was used as the cover material. The study was continued through 1985 in order to include crushed stone. The results of this study indicate that the quality of a surface treatment is greatly influenced by the quantity of aggregate used, its cleanliness, the type and gradation of the aggregate, material adhesion, and construction techniques. It was found that some gravels perform better than others, but none perform as well as crushed stone. It was also learned that steel wheel rollers embed aggregate better than rubber tire rollers, but because of the irregular cross sections of so many secondary roads, the two should be used together. The recommendations in this report include the following: material quantities should be determined by a design method; adjustments should be made for road surface characteristics and traffic speeds and volumes; better construction techniques should be employed; river gravels should not be used on roads in traffic groups V and above; and, because of the problems caused by the wide tolerance in gradation on the No. 4 screen of the No. 8 aggregate used in surface treatments, the gradation should be changed to 12 percent + 12 percent passing the No. 4 screen, 2 percent + 2 percent passing the No. 8 screen, and 1 percent + 1 percent passing the No. 16 screen.Sponsored by the Virginia Department of Transportation and the University of Virginia. Performed by Virginia Transportation Research Council, under project no.
Subjects: Technical reports.; Pavements, Asphalt; Pavements; Pavements;
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Money for millennials / by Fisher, Sarah Young,author.(CARDINAL)651474; Shelly McGovern, Susan,author.(CARDINAL)651503;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-295) index.Introduction -- Financial basics everyone should know. Your financial base ; Understanding your spending ; Getting a handle on debt ; The importance of earning and saving ; How's your credit? -- Life events that affect your finances. How's your job going? ; Thinking about buying a house? ; Finding that special someone ; Growing your family ; Protecting your stuff with insurance -- Looking ahead. Saving for retirement ; Investing ; Enhancing your investments ; Taxes ; Estate planning ; Planning for retirement."Money for Millennials provides you with the basic tools you need to manage your life and plan for your financial future. You’ll learn how to oversee every aspect of your personal finances as well as how to strengthen your financial plan to yield better returns on your investments. This revised guide includes how to: Create and follow a budget. Maintain a robust savings account. Building an emergency fund. Use online banking and the best account options available. Use credit cards and how to pay off debt judiciously. Pay off student loan debt and how to understand your options if you choose to further your education. Make big purchases, such as houses and transportation. Make the right choices when unemployed or underemployed or lack employer-sponsored health care options. Make the most of retirement plans: 401(k), individual retirement accounts (IRAs), etc. Even if you’ve tried budgeting books before and didn’t have the success you desired, Money for Millennials offers some different approaches that are worth trying. Your financial future is at stake—take advantage of all that Money for Millennials has to offer you."--
Subjects: Self-help publications.; Informational works.; Finance, Personal.; Investments.; Generation Y;
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