RRR Design Standards: Cost-Effectiveness Issues
The Transportation Research Board study of geometric design standards for RRR projects is currently trying to match the logic of cost-effectiveness to the mostly judgmental process of...
Delineation Effectiveness for Alcohol Involved Accidents
The approach to the problem of the alcohol impaired drivers to date has been directed at driver education and increased police enforcement. A complementary and parallel approach is presented...
Sighting Safety
This paper examines the interrelation between drivers' visual needs and the road environment. Specific elements of visual limitation and drivers at greatest risk are identified....
An Analysis of Traffic Signal Safety Improvements
Identifying high accident rate locations and determining that they have an overrepresented type or pattern of accidents is an important first step in the safety improvement process. However,...
Location and Development of Safety Projects
Projects to be considered for inclusion in the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) must be part of a prioritized listing in which each project is based on accident experience or...
Evaluation?A Key to Safer Design Standards
Public highways are designed and constructed in accordance with established standards which have been developed over the years as a result of research studies or developed by committees...
Base Isolation in the Design and Construction of Power Plant Structures
This technical paper summarizes the results of some of the recent studies performed to assure technical feasibility in isolating safety-related nuclear power plant structures. The particular...
Back on a Full Speed Track
A $30 million rehabilitation project is transforming a Massachusetts rail line that shows its age and poor maintenance history. Rehabilitating the line from Bristol County, Mass. to Hyannis...
Treatment in Your Own Backyard
Everyone wants the nation's hazardous waste sites cleaned up, but nobody wants the wastes disposed of near them. Therefore, cleaning up these problems at the site may be the...
Risk Assessment: Engineering Tool
In factoring in human-health impacts when tackling an environmental problem, risk assessment is often the best approach. Its use is growing fast. The technique increasingly is being used...
Vibration Tests of Reservoir Structures Outlet Tower and Footbridge
This paper presents a field test procedure used in determining the dynamic properties of an outlet tower and footbridge for a major reservoir. Such factors as virtual water mass, soil-structure...
Explosion Hazards to Urban Structures
Manufacture, storage and transportation of chemicals capable of exploding at energy levels comparable to TNT has increased in recent years. Land areas adjoining such facilities and transportation...
Performance of Existing Buildings: Results of Benchmark Structure Analyses Performed in U.S.-Japan Workshops
In response to the need for better understanding of current safety evaluation methodologies, three U. S. -Japan workshops have been conducted on the evaluation of the performance of existing...
A Recommended Federal Action Plan for Reducing Earthquake Hazards of Existing Buildings
In September 1985 a Five-Year Plan for reducing earthquake hazards of existing buildings was submitted to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This plan, prepared by the Applied Technology...
Reshaping Providence
By moving railroad tracks, river banks and several roadways, Providence, Rhode Island is reclaiming some 45 acres in its downtown and capital districts. This public works package is the...
Gabon Mineral Port Master Plan?A Case History
The integrated design of infra-structure and superstructure of marine terminals for bulk cargoes presents opportunities for innovative solutions that can produce substantial economic benefits....
Soil Quality Testing in Ports: Why?
The Port of Seattle has instituted an agency-wide environmental protection guidelines which include the option to prepare site histories and perform chemical screening of soils prior to...
Port Planning after Earthquake Damage
The earthquake of March 1985 affected two important ports in Chile: Valparaiso and San Antonio. While emergency measures succeeded in solving immediate operational problems, there remain...
The Application of Computer Simulation in the Design of Marine Terminals and the Scheduling of Ship Traffic
This paper describes a software package which simulates the operations of marine terminals. The computer programs were designed to assess the effectiveness of the available design alternatives...
Terminal 18 Entry Facility?Port of Seattle
This paper presents a successful approach that was used in the planning, design, permit coordination, and expansion of the entry/exit facilities at Terminals 18 and 20 at the Port of Seattle....
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