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  1. Public Rights-of-Way Assessment Instrumentation to Determine Accessibility

    SBC: BENEFICIAL DESIGNS INC            Topic: 081FH2

    City planners and engineers need detailed assessments of public rights-of-way to evaluate existing conditions, determine compliance with draft accessibility guidelines, and plan reconstruction projects. Current assessment methods are inadequate and inefficient due to the time and resources required. This project will develop an automated public rights-of-way assessment process and the measuremen ...

    SBIR Phase II 2010 Department of Transportation
  2. Air-Steam Hybrid: an Alternative to Internal Combustion-cleaner, more efficient, multi-fuel compatible retrofit-able

    SBC: Bevilacqua-Knight Inc.            Topic: 101FT1

    An air/steam propulsion system has been developed and key performance attributes have been demonstrated qualitatively: a mixed propellant system can provide immediate power without a boiler, and that power can be varied by varying the ratio of water and air in the propellant mix. What is proposed is an analysis of scaling this very promising technology to propel buses and trains for mass transit ...

    SBIR Phase I 2010 Department of Transportation
  3. Radio Frequency Identification Licensing System for Motor Vehicles

    SBC: Thinkify LLC            Topic: 101NH2

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports year over year increases in motorcycle fatalities and accidents over the past ten years. Of these: · 2/3s of the deaths were related to excessive speed and loss of operator control · 60% of deaths occurred at night or with poor visibility · Approximately 30% were not properly licensed · A majority had e ...

    SBIR Phase I 2010 Department of Transportation
  4. Data Compression and Packaging to support delivery of Differential GPS corrections to Kinematic Users

    SBC: SUB CARRIER SYSTEMS CORPORATION            Topic: 102FH1

    The project’s primary technical objective is to devise a compression and formatting scheme for the transport of real time differential GPS correction information in standardized forms (RTCM 104 messages and other formats) such that it can be transmitted over limited bandwidth communications media to support requirements for high accuracy position determination in ground based transportation user ...

    SBIR Phase I 2010 Department of Transportation
  5. A LOW-COST OPTICAL WEATHER IDENTIFIER FOR AN AUTOMATED WEATHER OBSERVING SYSTEM

    SBC: DYNAMICS TECHNOLOGY, INC.            Topic: N/A

    THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE TYPE OF PRECIPITATION (RAIN, SNOW, FOG/HAZE, HAIL) HAS TRACTIONALLY RELIED ON HUMAN JUDGMENT. RECENTLY, THE WAVE PROPAGATION LABORATORY OF DEVELOPED A TECHNOLOGY FOR AUTOMATIC WEATHER IDENTIFICATION USING LASER SCINTILLATION AND SCATTERING. THE TECHNIQUE HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY TESTED IN FIELD OPERATION. HOWEVER, THE SYSTEM IS TOO CLUMSY AND EXPENSIVE FOR LARGE-SCALE FIELD ...

    SBIR Phase II 1985 Department of Transportation
  6. SPEECH RECOGNITION IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL (ATC) (NOISE, MULTIPLE VOICES) AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL STRESS (PEAK TRAFFIC PERIODS, COLDS), WHILE MEETING THE NEED OF ERROR-RESISTANT OPERATION.

    SBC: Emerson & Stern Associates Inc            Topic: N/A

    SPEECH RECOGNITION IN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL (ATC) (NOISE, MULTIPLE VOICES) AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OR PHYSICAL STRESS (PEAK TRAFFIC PERIODS, COLDS), WHILE MEETING THE NEED OF ERROR-RESISTANT OPERATION. A SUCCESSFUL DESIGN THAT "CAPTURES" THE INFORMATION ALREADY COMMUNICATED VERBALLY, HOWEVER, WOULD SAVE TIME NOW SPENT RE-ENTERING SPOKEN DATA THROUGH THE KEYBOARD AND REDUCE THE NEED FOR A CONTROLLER TO LOO ...

    SBIR Phase I 1985 Department of Transportation
  7. Software-Based Vehicle Re-Identification

    SBC: Berkeley Transportation Systems Inc.            Topic: 102FH2

    Standard loop detector controller cards sample traffic at a rate of 60Hz. However, they frequently do not push detailed information back to the traffic management center (TMC). Instead, they calculate and then aggregate values such as volumes and occupancies at up to 30-second intervals before sending this data back to the central processing system. Past approaches to loop-based vehicle re-iden ...

    SBIR Phase I 2010 Department of Transportation
  8. Driver Detecting Cell Phone Blocker System

    SBC: CORNERTURN LLC            Topic: 102NH1

    The proposed system will provide a very robust means of determining that the driver of a moving vehicle is attempting to use his phone for a purpose restricted by local regulations. The system will then preclude the restricted operation. Cell phone usage that is not restricted by local regulations will not be affected. The system imposes no changes to public roadways or to the vehicles used to ...

    SBIR Phase I 2010 Department of Transportation
  9. CONDITIONS

    SBC: INNOVATIVE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY            Topic: N/A

    OVER THE LAST 5 YEARS, A NUMBER OF ULTRASONIC APPROACHES TO RESIDUAL AND APPLIED STRESS MEASUREMENTS USING EMATS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. NONE OF THESE HAS BEEN EVALUATED ON STEEL BUT THERE ARE NO FUNDAMENTAL REASONS WHY MOST CANNOT BE APPLIED TO STEEL. WHEN THE MEASUREMENT CONSTRAINTS IMPOSED BY MAKING MEASUREMENTS WITH A DEVICE ATTACHED TO A RAILCAR TESTING VEHICLE ARE CONSIDERED, TWO EMAT ULTRASONIC ...

    SBIR Phase I 1985 Department of Transportation
  10. Low-Cost, Full-Field, Surface Profiling Tool for Mechanical Damage Evaluation

    SBC: INTELLIGENT OPTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.            Topic: 091PH1

    Mechanical damage (typically from third party excavations) is the most frequent source of leaks and ruptures in pipelines. The most common type of mechanical damage is dents, sometimes associated with secondary features such as gouges, external corrosion, or cracks. Currently used techniques for assessing dents are not accurate enough for reliable determination of fitness for service. In this p ...

    SBIR Phase I 2009 Department of Transportation
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