2003

Research Reports | Active and Completed Projects

Research Reports

• Performance Testing of Experimental Dowel Bar Retrofit Designs Part 1 - Initial Testing
  December 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-17A
• Properties and Aggregate Potential of Coarse Taconite Tailings from Five Minnesota Taconite Operations
  December 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2004-06
• Mn/ROAD TDR Evaluation and Data Analysis
  December 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-15
• Telecommunications for Sustainable Transportation
  December 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2004-10
• System Performance and Human Factors Evaluation of the Driver Assistive System (DAS)
  December 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-09
• Repair of Fatigued Steel Bridge Girders with Carbon Fiber Strips
  December 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-02
• Transportation-Related Impacts of Different Regional Land-Use Scenarios
  December 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-03
• Refinement and Validation of the Hydraulic Fracture Test
  December 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-28
• St. Paul Central Corridor Study: Pierce Butler Industrial Redevelopment Parkway
  December 2003 Report no. CTS 03-08
• Improving transportation services for disadvantaged populations
  December 2003 Report no. FTA-MN-26-7004
• Performance Testing of Experimental Dowel Bar Retrofit Designs Part 2 - Repeatability and Modified Designs
  December 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-17B
• Best Practices for the Design and Construction of Low Volume Roads - REVISED
  November 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2002-17REV
• System Performance and Human Factors Evaluation of the Driver Assistive System (DAS): Supplemental Track Test Evaluation
  November 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-12
• Evaluation Report Volume 2: Benefit Analysis
  November 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-08
• Evaluation Report Volume 1: System Performance and Human Factors
  November 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-07
• Paying for Minnesota Roads: A Tax Policy Assessment
  October 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2004-04
• A New Approach to Assessing Road User Charges: Evaluation of Core Technologies
  September 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-38
• If They Come, Will You Build It? Urban Transportation Growth Models
  September 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-37
• Progressive Lifting of Shallow Sewers Due to Frost Heave Actions: Investigation of a Lumped Parameter Frost Heave Model
  August 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-25
• Evaluation of Asphalt Binders Used for Emulsions
  August 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-24
• Power Plant Siting Decisions and Transport Implications
  August 2003 Report no. CTS 03-09
• Factors associated with success of fuel ethanol producers
  August 2003 Report no. P03-7
• Station Urban Design Issues: Red Rock Commuter Rail
  August 2003 Report no. CTS 03-07
• Benchmarking Fleet Management
  July 2003 Report no. CTS 04-10
• Reducing Crashes at Controlled Rural Intersections
  July 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-15
• Dynamic Estimation of Freeway Weaving Capacity for Traffic Management and Operations, Phase II
  July 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-32
• The Effects of Fire versus Mowing on Prairie Plant Communities
  July 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-20
• Improving the Design of Roadside Ditches to Decrease Transportation-Related Surface Water Pollution
  June 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2004-11
• The Per-mile Costs of Operating Automobiles and Trucks
  June 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-19
• Snowplow Operations and Resource Management
  June 2003 Report no. CTS 04-09
• ISO 9000's Effects on Accident Reduction in the U.S. Motor Carrier Industry
  June 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-29
• Development of Dynamic Route Clearance Strategies for Emergency Vehicle Operations, Phase I
  June 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-27
• The Effectiveness of Auditory Side- and Forward Collision Avoidance Warnings on Snow Covered Roads in Conditions of Poor Visibility
  June 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-14
• The Effectiveness and Safety of Traffic and Non-Traffic Related Messages Presented on Changeable Message Signs (CMS)
  June 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-27
• Rapid Assessment of Distortional Stresses in Multi-Girder Steel Bridges
  June 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2004-48
• Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC) Special Events Traffic Flow Study
  June 2003 Report no. CTS 04-08
• Special Practices for Design and Construction of Subgrades in Poor, Wet, and/or Saturated Soil Conditions
  May 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-36
• Market Choices and Fair Prices: Research Suggests Surprising Answers to Regional Growth Dilemmas
  May 2003 Report no. CTS 03-02
• Sensor-Based Ramp Monitoring
  May 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-34
• Effects of Increasing Truck Weight on Steel & Prestressed Bridges
  March 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-16
• Driver Assistive Systems for Snowplows
  March 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-13
• Designing Pavement Drainage Systems: The MnDrain Software
  March 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-17
• Minnesota Value Pricing Project
  March 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-31
• Urban Design, Transportation, Environment and Urban Growth: Transit-Supportive Urban Design Impacts on Suburban Land Use and Transportation Planning.
  March 2003 Report no. CTS 03-06
• The Distribution of Transportation Costs in the Twin Cities Region
  February 2003 Report no. CTS 03-03
• Highway Improvements and Land Development Patterns in the Greater Twin Cities Area, 1970-1997: Measuring the Connections
  February 2003 Report no. CTS 02-03
• Erosion Control Handbook for Local Roads
  January 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-08
• A Systems Thinking Perspective on the Transportation and Regional Growth Study
  January 2003 Report no. CTS 03-05
• Investigation of Factors Related to Surface-Initiated Cracks in Flexible Pavements
  January 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-07
• Flying High: A Marketing Toolkit for Minnesota Airports
  January 2003 Report no. AirTAP 2003 Toolkit
• Dynamic and Resilient Modulus of Mn/DOT Asphalt Mixtures
  January 2003 Report no. MnDOT 2003-09
• Capital Improvement Program Guide
  January 2003 Report no. AirTAP 2003 Guide
• The Effect of Transverse Stiffener Beams on Shear Transfer
  January 2003 Report no. Mn/DOT 2003-12
• Urbanization of the Minnesota Countryside: Population Change and Low-Density Development Near Minnesota's Regional Centers, 1970-2000
  January 2003 Report no. CTS 03-01
• Transportation, Urban Design and the Environment : Highway 61/Red Rock Corridor
  January 2003 Report no. CTS 03-04

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Active and Completed Research Projects

• 04-05 AirTAP Program
  (12/2003) Status: Completed
• Urbanization of Minnesota's Countryside, 2000-2025
  (12/2003) Status: Completed
• In Vehicle Driver Assistance for Teenagers
  (12/2003) Status: Completed
• Deployment of a Tracking-Based Monitoring and Data Collection System
  (11/2003) Status: Completed
• Adequacy of future road funding
  (11/2003) Status: Completed
• Section Travel-Time Measurement Using Inductance Signatures of Loop Detectors
  (11/2003) Status: Completed
• Politics and Freeways: Building the Twin Cities Interstate System
  (11/2003) Status: Completed
• Design and Safety Implications for ATIS Use with Cell Phones
  (11/2003) Status: Completed
• Moisture Retention Characteristics of Base and Sub-Base Materials
  (11/2003) Status: Completed
• Guidelines for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investments in Bicycle Facilities
  (10/2003) Status: Completed
• Chemical Inventory and Database Development for Recycled Material Substitutes
  (10/2003) Status: Completed
• Screening Tool for Using Waste Materials in Paving Projects
  (09/2003) Status: Completed
• Mn/ROAD Governance Structure
  (09/2003) Status: Completed
• Water Quality Performance of Dry Detention Ponds with Underdrains
  (09/2003) Status: Completed
• Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) for Prestressed Bridge Girders
  (09/2003) Status: Completed
• Adaptation of Mechanistic-Empirical 2002 Guide for Design of Minnesota Low-Volume PCC Pavements
  (09/2003) Status: Completed
• In-Depth Examination of Urban Corridor Development
  (09/2003) Status: Completed
• Benchmarking Analysis of Fleet Performance and Maintenance (Fleet II) - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Role of Licit Drug Use by Elderly in Motor Vehicle Mortality
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Quantification of Uncertainty in Transportation Infrastructure Projects - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Duluth Entertainment Convention Center (DECC) Special Events Traffic Flow Study: Phase II - Mobility Monitoring and Performance Measure via Dynamic Travel - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Operation of Transportation Data Center at TDRL: Archival of Large Scaled Transportation Data, Analysis and Tool Developments, and On-Line Data Support - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• ITS and Emergency Medical Services Response
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Snowplow Operations and Resource Management - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Preliminary Laboratory Investigation of a Commercial Enzyme Solution as a Soil Stabilizer
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• CAREER: The Evolution of Transportation Networks: Empirical Research and Agent-Based Models
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Survey and Evaluation of Ice/Snow Detection Technologies - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Minnesota Taconite as a Microwave-Absorbing Road Aggregate Material for Deicing and Pothole Patching Applications - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003) Status: Completed
• Production and Characterization of Mycorrhizal Fungal Inoculum
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Truck Weight Compliance Education Project
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Development of a Economic Impact Measurement Tool for Small/Medium Size Commercial and Public Use Airports in Minnesota
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Pavement Research Institute
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Stability Tests of Prestressed Concrete Through-Girder Pedestrian Bridge under Lateral Impact - Phase 2
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Cost Effectiveness of Storm Water Runoff Best Management Practices for Water Quality Enhancement
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Evaluation of Asphalt Binders Used for Emulsions
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Operational Research Program for Local Transportation Groups
  (06/2003) Status: Completed
• Scoping Studies for the Development of Design Guidelines for Bioengineering in the Upper Midwest
  (05/2003) Status: Completed
• Impact of Alternative Storm Water Management Approaches on Highway Infrastructure
  (05/2003) Status: Completed
• Resilient Modulus Testing of Six Granular Soils
  (05/2003) Status: Completed
• 2003 Minnesota LTAP Program
  (04/2003) Status: Completed
• Fatigue-resistant Design Details for Overhead Signs, Mast-arm Signal Poles and Lighting Standards
  (04/2003) Status: Completed
• Guidelines for Using Rumble Strips
  (04/2003) Status: Completed
• Economic Benefits of Bicycling in Minnesota
  (03/2003) Status: Completed
• MN MMUTCD Training
  (03/2003) Status: Completed
• Real-time Collision Warning and Avoidance at Intersections
  (03/2003) Status: Completed
• The Effectiveness and Safety of Traffic and Non-Traffic Related Messages Presented on Changeable Message Signs
  (03/2003) Status: Completed
• Using ITS to Better Serve Diverse Populations
  (03/2003) Status: Completed
• Minnesota Value Pricing Outreach and Education
  (03/2003) Status: Completed
• Erosion Risk Protection Tool for Construction Sites
  (02/2003) Status: Completed
• Optimal Secondary Controls Using a Configurable Haptic Interface
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Quality of Service Implementation for Transmission of Video Data - Phase 2
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Adaptability and DNA Fingerprinting of Native Plant Population
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Development of Policy Analysis Tool for Determining Potential Biodiesel Consumption in MN by Season and Activity
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Identification of Causal Factors and Potential Countermeasures for Fatal Rural Crashes
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Validation of Superpave Fine Aggregate Angularity (FAA) Values
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• I-494 Future Improvement Evaluation with Two Traffic Simulators
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Model Evaluation - Comparison of AIMSUN and VISSIM
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Utility Manual, Accommodation Policy Rewrite and Training Delivery
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Load Rating by Load Testing on Bridges
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Investigating the Effects of Rumble Strips on the Stopping Performance of Sleep Deprived and Alcohol Impaired Drivers
  (01/2003) Status: Completed
• Driving Simulator for Persons with Impaired Cognition
  (01/2003) Status: Completed