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Conventional test methods for roadway compaction cover less than 1% of a roadway; whereas, intelligent compaction (IC) offers a method to measure 100% of a roadway. IC offers the ability to increase compaction uniformity of soils and asphalt pavements, which leads to decreased maintenance costs and an...
Effectively capturing traffic volumes on a network scale is beneficial to Transportation Systems Management & Operations (TSM&O). Yet it is impractical to install sensors to cover a large road network. To address this issue, spatial prediction techniques are widely performed to estimate traffic volumes...
MPC-441 - Where the Sidewalks End leverages advances in remote sensing to bridge the data and research gap on pedestrian infrastructure in cities. MPC-430 - A LiDAR-Based Approach to Quantitatively Assessing Streetscapes investigates objective methods to extract streetscape features with three different...
Optimizing Snowplowing Operations in Utah via routing and truck allocation considers a two-stage planning problem where a fleet of snow plow trucks is first divided among a set of independent regions and then each region designs routes for efficient snow removal. In the first stage, we run routing heuristic...
The MPC project of Removal of Escherichia coli from stormwater using recycled steel byproduct filtration: Laboratory to field scale demonstration covers the fact that stormwater runoff is the one of the most common forms of non-point source pollution, which can degrade surface water quality. Fecal indicator...
Reinforced concrete bridge wall piers constructed using older codes perform inadequately during strong earthquakes. Deficiencies include short reinforcement lap splices, insufficient steel reinforcement ratios in the longitudinal and transverse direction, and inadequate seismic detailing. The research...
Based on Reports: #MPC-17-321 & #MPC-18-348, this presentation will discuss cost-effective and proven repair methods to bridge structures that have been severely damaged in cyclic tests simulating strong earthquakes. Both cast-in-place bridges and bridges constructed using Prefabricated Bridge Elements...
This presentation will cover research conducted by South Dakota State University under the Mountain Plains Consortium and with additional funding from Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) has high potential to be used for prestressed bridge girder (PSB) construction...
Unravel the impact of COVID-19 on the spatio-temporal mobility patterns of microtransit is part of MPC project 608, Impact of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) on Transit Access. MaaS as a transit access mode is also referred to as microtransit. Using the microtransit pilot project launched in Salt Lake City...
The presentation will be a discussion about an update to the Grade Severity Rating System (GSRS), which is a system that recommends safe descent speeds for trucks on steep downgrades. The need to update the GSRS will be discussed. This includes changes in truck characteristics including aerodynamic designs...