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FIBER MATERIALS, INC. (FMI) PROPOSES SENSORS WHICH CAN BE EMBEDDED IN PAVEMENT TO MEASURE STRESS AND STRAIN FROM TRUCKS PASSING OVER AT SPEEDS UP TO 60 MPH. THESE SIMPLE, DURABLE SENSORS WILL BE MADE FROM PIEZOELECTRIC COMPOSITES WHICH ACT AS PASSIVE SENSORS AND DEVELOP A CHARGE PROPORTIONAL TO THE APPLIED PRESSURE. THE CHARGE IS CONVERTED TO A VOLTAGE WHICH IS RECORDED ON NEARBY EQUIPMENT. THE PH ...

AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WEIGHING TRUCKS WHILE IN MOTION IS PROPOSED. TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND REDUCE TIME LOST AT WEIGH STATIONS, THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEEDS TO EXCHANGE DATA, INCLUDING WEIGHT DATA, BETWEEN MOVING TRUCKS AND ENFORCEMENT FACILITIES. LEGALLY LOADED TRUCKS WOULD THEN BE ABLE TO PROCEED WITHOUT STOPPING. THIS INVOLVES WEIGH-IN-MOTION. PRESENT WEIGHING TECHNIQUES INVOLVE LOAD CELLS OR ...

THE FOLLOWING PROPOSAL PROVIDES THE RATIONALE AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GEOGRAPHICALLY DETAILED VISUAL DATABASE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM TO SUPPORT THE INTERMODAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS OF ISTEA. CURRENTLY, STATES AND METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ACCESS TO LIMITED AND INCONSISTENT FREIGHT INFORMATION RESOURCES WITH WHICH TO INTEGRATE INTO INTERMODAL PERFORMANCE SY ...

THE TRAFFIC ENGINEER RELIES UPON A COLLECTION OF SOFTWARE TOOLS TO COMPUTE TRAFFIC SIGNAL TIMING PLANS AND TO EVALUATE THE OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF HIGHWAY NETWORKS. TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS EMPLOY DEMAND MODELING TOOLS TO PROJECT TRAFFIC DEMAND, DISTRIBUTION, ASSIGNMENT AND PERFORMANCE OVER LARGE NETWORKS. THESE TOOLS HAVE TWO OVERALL ATTRIBUTES IN COMMON. THE ARE: 1) NETWORK-BASED AND 2) DATA I ...

THIS PROJECT WILL DEMONSTRATE THE VALUE OF DELIVERING INTERMODAL FREIGHT DATA TO A WIDE VARIETY OF TRANSPORTATION PLANNERS; FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND ULTIMATELY SOME PRIVATE SECTOR USERS. THE PROJECT'S CHALLENGE IS TO MAKE DATA ACCESSIBLE IN TERMS OF THE USER'S ABILITY TO INTERACT WITH VARIOUS SOURCES AND DEPTHS OF INFORMATION AND THE SYSTEM'S ABILITY TO BE TIME RESPONSIVE. THE FACT THAT THE DATA ...

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF IMPLEMENTING A VISUALLY8ORIENTED DATABASE OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM ENHANCEMENT PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN AT THE STATE LEVEL UNDER ISTEA. THESE ENHANCEMENTS COULD INCLUDE BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN PROJECTS, LANDSCAPING AND SCENIC ENCHANCEMENTS, HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND MITIGATION OF HIGHWAY RUNOFF IMPACTS ON WATER QUALITY. THE GOAL OF THE DATAB ...

DENSE FOG HAS OFTEN BEEN A CAUSE OF TRAGIC ROAD ACCIDENTS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COST EFFECTIVE HIGHWAY FOG DETECTION SYSTEM WHICH MONITORS ROAD VISIBILITY AND PROVIDES WARNINGS TO MOTORISTS THROUGH ROADSIDE DISPLAYS OR RADIO COMMUNICATION IS PROPOSED FOR DOT 94-FH7. THE PROPOSED OPTICAL SENSOR MEASURES SCATTERED LIGHT FROM FOG PARTICLES. THE PHASE I EFFORT WILL BE FOCUSED ON DETERMINING THE FEASIB ...

WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE INTERMODAL SURFACE TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY ACT, THERE BECAME A HEIGHTENED AWARENESS THAT OUR UNDERSTANDING OF INTERMODAL AND MULTIMODAL FACILITIES WAS LIMITED. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE HAS BEEN WORKING FOR MANY YEARS ON APPLICATIONS WHICH WOULD ALLOW FOR A PACKAGE TO MOVE FROM POINT A TO POINT B BY THE MOST EFFICIENT MODE, WITH THE PURCHASER OF THE SERVICE ONLY BEING AWARE OF A ...

ADVANCED COMPUTER-AIDED TECHNIQUES TO DETERMINE VEHICLE CLASS AND SPEED ARE REQUIRED FOR ADVANCED INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEM'S APPLICAITONS. ORINCON IS PROPOSING TO DEVELOP A NOVEL SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE USING DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING (DSP) ALGORITHMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFIER TO PROCESS DATA FROM EXISTING VEHICLE DETECTION HARDWARE. OUR DESIGN CRITERIA WILLINCLUDE COST ...

FAA AVIATION SECURITY HAS EXPRESSED A NEED FOR TECHNOLOGIES TO PROVIDE INCREASED SENSITIVITY/RESPONSE TO AIRBORNE FORMS OF EXPLOSIVES. THE TECHNOLOGIES ASSOCIATED WITH SPACE CHARGE ATOMIZING ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION (SCAEP) HAVE CAPABILITIES IN CONCENTRATING THE CONTAMINANTS IN LARGE VOLUMES OF AIR INTO SMALL VOLUMES OF LIQUID WITH INCREASED DETECTION CAPABILITY. AN R & D PROGRAM TO DEFINE CAPT ...