FEDIT? User Interface for FHWA's TRAF-FRESIMTM Model
This paper presents the FEDIT Data Input Preprocessor for FHWA's soon-to-be-released microscopic freeway simulation program - FRESIM. FRESIM (Halati, 1990, 1991) is a powerful freeway...
Spreadsheet Pavement Management Systems for Local Roads
Changes in administration and funding levels at the local government level are continuing to illustrate the need for information systems to aid the county engineer or public works director....
A Maintenance Management System for Highways & Urban Streets
This paper describes the establishment of a comprehensive management system for highways and urban streets of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. In this important United Nations project...
Components of a Total Infrastructure Management System
As more and more levels of government investigate the benefits of an infrastructure management system, the need for a generic and easily implemented system is becoming more apparent. What...
Automation of Design at the New Denver Airport
This paper outlines an innovative approach to automating the roadway design process by linking design and drafting with multiple software programs and taking advantage of the strengths...
Grading Design Using CADD: Denver International Airport Roadways
Using the terminal access roadway site for the new Denver International Airport as an example, this paper outlines a method for automating the preparation of grading plans and computation...
A Two-Way Traffic Feasibility Analysis
This paper presents the findings of a traffic planning feasibility analysis of the expected operational characteristics and traffic impacts related to the proposed conversion of Hennepin...
A Highway Maintenance Operation Database
This paper presents the major findings of a study to develop a system design for the implementation of an electronic network which uses personal computers in local highway maintenance...
General Purpose Microcomputer Software for Transportation Engineering Applications
A transportation agency or firm faces the challenge of being suitably equipped to gather, reduce, and analyze large amounts of data. The organization must then communicate the meaning...
Software Utilities for Traffic Simulation Models
Simulation models of traffic flow on highways are increasingly becoming the choice of many analysts and traffic engineers as analytical tools to test, evaluate and implement traffic control/management...
CADD Applications in Transportation: Beyond Highway Design
Computer Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) software have become very prominent in the design of transportation facilities. There are currently a number of third party packages that operate...
Transport and Communications Information System for Africa
The Transport and Communications Information System for Africa (TCISA) is a customized microcomputer-based prototype information system for planning transportation and communications in...
Validating Expert System Prototypes Using the Turing Test
This paper describes the Turing Test technique to formalize the expert system validation process using a mature microcomputer based prototype expert system that has been developed to perform...
Improving the Graphical Interface in Transportation Planning Software
This paper examines the general issues that drive the development of graphics as a medium for transportation planners. Transportation planning has changed over time, and so has the nature,...
Methodology for Determining Vehicle Usage and Speeds for Mobile Source Emissions Inventories
This paper was published by the Baltimore Regional Council of Governments to document its work in preparing data from its regional road model for input into a computer emissions inventory...
Integration of a Traffic Noise Model and AutoCAD
TrafficNoiseCAD represents a new approach to noise analysis and barrier design by integrating file creation for the FHWA STAMINA 2.0 noise prediction program with interactive graphical...
Tutorial on Computer-Aided Design
These tutorial sessions are designed to provide a basic introduction to the use of Computer-Aided Design/Drafting (CAD) in transportation engineering, with particular regard to Civil Engineering...
A CADD Program for Simulating Turning Vehicles
The turning capability of one or more 'design' vehicles and their swept paths has a significant influence on the layout of transportation facilities such as roadway intersections, parking...
Design of Underground Repository Openings in Hard Rock to Accommodate Vibratory Ground Motions
A methodology and preliminary application for designing repository openings to withstand vibratory ground motions is presented. The methodology first establishes the design basis ground...
Block Dynamics Modeling in Support of Seismic Design
The behavior of an underground excavation is usually characterized by stresses and displacements which develop around the excavation as a result of prevailing field conditions. For conventional...
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