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Research Reports
View AllThe purpose of this study was to evaluate motorist information needs during adverse winter travel conditions, and the application of this information to changeable message signs. Local commuters and interstate truck traffic along Interstate 80 in southeast Wyoming were the principle source of information.... This report is a bibliography of railroad labor laws and related materials. It includes cites from academic journal articles, books, dissertations, technical reports, and popular trade journals. Materials are cited for the Railroad Labor Act, the Federal Employers' Liability Act (FELA), Railroad Retirement... This report represents a continuation of analysis concerned with the patterns and methods of distributing grains and oilseed from North Dakota. The railroad industry uses a variety of information and data sources to present planners and decision makers with the best environment facilitating the decision process. The management of this information and its environment is vital to ensure that decision makers have an operational framework allowing... The goal of this research is to estimate productivity gains and cost savings in the railroad industry since 1978. Further, prior work was extended by separating output and size variables into measures of high and low density output and miles of track. For purposes of comparison, a translog cost function... The purpose of this report is to describe the R-1 database and a series of programs written to manipulate the data files. These programs were used in a recent research project to generate a time-series database of railroad expense, investment, and operating data. The time-series database was used to... Transit service is playing an increasingly vital role in maintaining and improving mobility and economic well-being of rural populations in the North Central region. At the same time that transit service is increasing in importance, higher operating expenses and reduced federal subsidies are making management... Firms can jointly serve multiple markets in a set and can serve one of several mutually exclusive sets. Firms choose the set and the particular markets of the set in which to produce. Entry regulation influences these decisions by restricting access to some but not all markets. Entry restrictions directly... This report reviews the state-of-the-practice in low-volume road pavement design. The factors which dictate pavement design are discussed in terms of construction materials, environment, and traffic. Eight different design procedures are presented and discussed. These include the 1972 and 1986 AASHTO... Economic development efforts are addressed as "family of services" to prospective businesses. There is some uncertainty if transportation/logistics should be considered as a factor within the family of services. The overall goal of this study was to develop a better understanding of the relationship... |
