1999

Research Reports | Active and Completed Projects

Research Reports

• Minne-ALF Project Overview and Retro-Fit Dowel Study Results
  December 1999 Report no. MnDOT 2000-02
• Development Impact Fees for Minnesota? A Review of Principles and National Practices
  October 1999 Report no. CTS 99-04
• Minnesota Low Volume Road Design 1998
  September 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-34
• Effect of Seeding Date on Establishment of Native Grasses in Minnesota
  September 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-16
• Acoustic Emission Monitoring of Fatigue Cracks in Steel Bridge Girders
  September 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-36
• Understanding Urban Travel Demand: Problems, Solutions, and the Role of Forecasting
  August 1999 Report no. CTS 99-02
• Linking Light Rail Transit to the City: Six Neighborhood Station Districts
  August 1999 Report no. MnDOT 2000-01
• Enhancements of the Kronos Simulation Package and Database for Geometric Design Planning, Operations and Traffic Management in Freeway Networks/Corridors (Phase III)
  July 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-11
• Incorporation of Reliability in Minnesota Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design
  July 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-35
• Automatic Passenger Counting in the HOV Lane
  June 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 2000-06
• Automatic Detection of Driver Fatigue - Phase 3
  June 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-30
• Archival of Traffic Data: Phase II
  June 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-28
• Factors Affecting Biological Recovery of Wetland Restorations
  June 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-25
• Estimation of the Capacity in Freeway Weaving Areas for Traffic Management and Operations
  May 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-40
• An On-Board Emissions and Performance Measurement System (OEPMS) for Measuring Carbon Monoxide Emission During Cold-Start
  May 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-39
• Investigating Differences In Driver Accident Involvement: The Influence of Perceptual Motor Competence, Competitive Athletics, and Gender
  April 1999 Report no. CTS 99-03
• Human Factors Evaluation of Gains, a Prototype In-Vehicle Navigation System
  April 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-14
• Next Generation R/WIS: Concept and Prototype Implementation
  March 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-19
• Radar Based Longitudinal Virtual Bumper Collision Avoidance System Implemented on a Truck
  March 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 2000-07
• Establishment of Native Sedge Vegetation in Created Wetlands
  February 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-38
• Investigating the Effects of Roadway Design on Driver Behavior: Applications for Minnesota Highway Design
  February 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-10
• Statistical Analysis of the Sources of Flexible Pavement Variability
  February 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1995022
• Bayesian Methods for Estimating Average Vehicle Classification Volumes
  January 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT P2000-02
• Differential GPS Based Control of a Heavy Vehicle
  January 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 2000-05
• Acoustic Emission Equipment for Infrastructure Monitoring
  January 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-18
• Trade Centers of the Upper Midwest: 1999 Update
  January 1999 Report no. MN-CURA-99-04
• Stability of Pile Groups
  January 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-31
• Determining the Value of Real Time Congestion Information for Commercial Vehicle Operators
  January 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-12
• Deformability of Shredded Tires
  January 1999 Report no. Mn/DOT 1999-13
• Transverse Cracking in Concrete Bridge Decks
  January 1999 Report no. MnDOT 1999-05

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Active and Completed Research Projects

• Design/Development Principles for Livable Suburban Arterial Roadways
  (12/1999) Status: Completed
• Psychological and Roadway Correlates of Aggressive Driving
  (12/1999) Status: Completed
• An Automatic Visibiltiy Measurement System Based on Video Cameras: Phase II
  (12/1999) Status: Completed
• Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Vertical Pre-Release Cracks in Prestressed Bridge Girders
  (12/1999) Status: Completed
• Effects of Increasing Truck Weight on Steel and Prestressed Bridges
  (12/1999) Status: Completed
• Monitoring Weaving Sections
  (12/1999) Status: Completed
• Human Factors Issues in Transportation and Transit Safety
  (11/1999) Status: Completed
• Investigating the Effect of Roadway Design on Driver Behavior - Phase II
  (11/1999) Status: Completed
• Improving the Global Awareness of the MSP International Airport
  (11/1999) Status: Completed
• Use of Adhesives to Repair out of Plane Bending at Stiffener to Web Connections
  (11/1999) Status: Completed
• Snowplow Simulator
  (11/1999) Status: Completed
• Increasing Native Grass Germination Using Novel Germination Blankets, Soil Treatments, and Cover Crops
  (10/1999) Status: Completed
• United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) specialty Vehicle Field Operational Test
  (10/1999) Status: Completed
• Characteristics of Erosion Control Measures and Their Impact on Erosion
  (10/1999) Status: Completed
• Re-Assessment of Road Accidents Data Analysis Policy in Minnesota
  (10/1999) Status: Completed
• Physical and Mechanical Properties of Innovative Concrete Mixtures
  (09/1999) Status: Completed
• Building Our Way Out of Congestion? Highway Capacity for the Twin Cities
  (09/1999) Status: Completed
• GPS-Based Failure Identification System for Intelligent Vehicles
  (09/1999) Status: Completed
• Delineation of the Stiff Layer and Groundwater Conditions From FWD Data
  (09/1999) Status: Completed
• Population Density and Travel in U.S. Cities
  (08/1999) Status: Completed
• Economic Value of Minnesota's Transportation Network
  (07/1999) Status: Completed
• A Groundside Effect of Air Transportation
  (06/1999) Status: Completed
• Fine Particle (Nanoparticle) Emissions on Minnesota Highways
  (06/1999) Status: Completed
• Spatial Orientation and Navigation in Elderly Drivers
  (06/1999) Status: Completed
• A Survey of Segmental Concrete Block Retaining Walls Along Roadways in the Twin Cities
  (06/1999) Status: Completed
• Best Practices for the Design and Construction of Low-Volume Asphalt Roads
  (06/1999) Status: Completed
• Fatigue Assessment of Deck Truss of Bridge 9340 TH I35W over the Mississippi River
  (05/1999) Status: Completed
• Snowplow Technology Integration for Driver Assistance
  (05/1999) Status: Completed
• Climatological Characterization of Snowfall and Snowdrift in Minnesota
  (05/1999) Status: Completed
• Attributes and Amenities of Highway System that are Important to Tourists
  (05/1999) Status: Completed
• Low Temperature Cracking of Asphalt Concrete Pavements
  (05/1999) Status: Completed
• Assistance in Validating the Mn/ROAD Database
  (04/1999) Status: Completed
• Passenger and Freight Travel Demand Patterns - Phase II
  (04/1999) Status: Completed
• The Effects of Vision Enhance Systems on Older Drivers' Ability to Drive Safely at Night and in Inclement Weather
  (04/1999) Status: Completed
• Model-Based Intelligent Vehicle Control System
  (04/1999) Status: Completed
• Capacity Analysis for Dynamic Bottlenecks and Alternative Concepts for Coordinated Ramp Metering Operations
  (03/1999) Status: Completed
• Environmental Hazard Assessment for Transportation-Related Chemicals
  (03/1999) Status: Completed
• Local and Regional Planning, Management, Design and Evaluation of Advanced Transportation Technologies
  (03/1999) Status: Completed
• Transportation Financing Alternatives
  (02/1999) Status: Completed
• Repair of Fatigued Steel Bridge Girders with Carbon Fiber Strips
  (01/1999) Status: Completed
• Algorithms for Vehicle Classification
  (01/1999) Status: Completed
• Software Issues in Critical Transportation Systems
  (01/1999) Status: Completed