Computer Aided Design of Traffic Signal Systems
Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) has traditionally been the domain of powerful and expensive computers. Personal computer technology, however, is rapidly changing this trend by:...
U.S. Geological Survey DLG-3 and Bureau of the Census TIGER Data: Development and GIS Applications
The U.S. Geological Survey has been actively developing digital cartographic and geographic data and standards since the early 1970's. One product is Digital Line Graph data, which offer...
Synthetic O-D Microcomputer Trip Table Packages
Three microcomputer models for synthetic estimation of origin-destination trip tables are compared based on theoretical foundations, implementability, and operating performances. Each...
A Computerized Hazardous Material Incidents Database
This paper reports on the development of a microcomputer database management system for hazardous material incidents that occurred on highways and at fixed sites in Arizona. The objective...
Planning and Budgeting Pavement Marking Installation Using Microcomputer
This paper presents a microcomputer based Pavement Marking Management Information System (PM-MIS) software suitable for processing pavement marking data. The software has the capability...
Microcomputer Based Traffic Signal Inventory Records
This paper describes microcomputer software used by District 12 of the Texas State Department of Highways and Public Transportation to provide for a constantly updated inventory of traffic...
World Bank's HDM-PC: A Microcomputer Aid for Road Planning and Management
HDM-PC, a microcomputer adaptation of the mainframe Highway Design and Maintenance Standards Model (HDM-III), is a powerful analytical tool for the engineering-economic evaluation of road...
Economic Analysis of Local Highway Maintenance
This paper presents a computer program which uses the present worth of life-cycle costs as a basis to select the most cost-effective maintenance strategy to apply to local highway pavements....
A Microcomputer Aided Bridge Management System
This paper presents a microcomputer based software system suitable for a local agency which will permit a local bridge system to be systematically evaluated with the use of a bridge management...
Arterial Traffic Flow in Construction Zones
Previously, NETSIM (NETwork SIMulation model) was the only available simulation model that could investigate a wide mix of traffic control and traffic management strategies for a network...
Validation of a Traffic Modeling System for Detour Planning
The Downtown Seattle Transit Project (DSTP) was initiated as an effort to relieve existing traffic congestion in downtown Seattle. It consists primarily of a 1.3-mile electric-bus tunnel...
MECHOD: A Mechanistic Overlay Design Program for Flexible Pavements
This paper presents a fully mechanistic asphalt overlay design procedure for use on microcomputers. The procedure is based on fundamental characteristics of pavement layer properties and...
A Microcomputer Based Pavement Design Program
This paper describes a newly developed pavement design program. The performance of a number of pavement structures are projected over the analysis period. Structurally adequate designs...
Interfacing Pavement Management and Design Process
Pavement management systems coordinate all the activities required to provide pavements for the traveling public in a cost efficient manner. Information for the pavement management system...
Structuring a Microcomputer Based Pavement Management System to Enhance the Probability of Adoption and Continued Use
Diffusion of innovation concepts were used to help structure a microcomputer based pavement management system (PMS) for use by local agency public works personnel in the San Francisco...
Expert System for Flexible Pavement Management Using Lotus 1-2-3
The paper shows how a spreadsheet, LOTUS 1-2-3, can be used in developing expert systems without using any other software. The application program is for selecting a dominant maintenance...
Lapsize Computers and Local Pavement Management
The purpose of this study is to examine the use of a portable computer, the GRIDcase Plus, in local pavement management. A software program in BASIC is developed to run on the GRID, to...
Using Microcomputers for Project Management
Microcomputers for both project scheduling and cost control were used during design and construction on a major project in Honolulu. Hotel Street Mall, located in the heart of Honolulu's...
The Financial Analysis of a Transportation Project on a Microcomputer
The economics of a future rail transit project are analyzed. Pro forma financial statements are constructed to the year 2002. A number of financial ratios are examined to assess the project's...
A Microcomputer Methodology for Parsimoniously Structuring a Set of Activities
The paper develops a systematic methodology to aid in the identification and rapid structuring of a system of activities. In essence, the user is asked to supply only the names of the...
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