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Collision Loads on Bridge Piers: Phase 2. Report of Guidelines for Designing Bridge Piers and Abutments for Vehicle Collisions

Description: "An instrumented, simulated bridge pier was constructed, and two full-scale collisions with an 80,000-lb van-type tractor-trailer were performed on it. The trailer was ballasted with bags of sand on pallets. The simulated pier was 36 inches in diameter and was supported in the longitudinal direction by two load cells. Force-versus-time data were obtained from the load cells."
Date: March 2011
Creator: Buth, Eugene; Brackin, Michael S.; Williams, William F. & Fry, Gary T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Operational and vehicular strategies for reducing fuel consumption and Green House Gas emissions from trucking

Description: "Reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions is becoming increasingly important in the United States, and new legislation can be expected in the near future that will affect trucks either directly or indirectly. This work is a qualitative examination of operational strategies for reducing fuel consumption from freight trucking, and also compares them with vehicular strategies. A focus is placed on who implements, benefits from, and pays for each strategy, and what type of trucking ea… more
Date: August 2011
Creator: Walton, C. Michael & Thompson, Melissa Renee
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Impacts of pending federal greenhouse gas legislation on the Texas transportation sector

Description: Report on a study to assess current regulatory attempts to mitigate climate change and how such proposed action would impact the Texas transportation sector economically and provides recommendations for how policymakers can build consensus in Texas to address carbon emissions.
Date: May 2010
Creator: Woodward, James T. & Boske, Leigh B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

A comprehensive examination of heavy vehicle emissions factors

Description: "This report summarized the findings from reviewing the literature on several topics that are related to heavy vehicle emissions including engine and fuel types, vehicle technologies that can be used to reduce or mitigate vehicle emission, the factors that affect vehicle emission, vehicle emissions modeling, and current and future policy requiring accurate accounting of heavy vehicle emission."
Date: August 2010
Creator: Thompson, Melissa Renee; Unnikrishnan, Avinash; Conway, Alison J. & Walton, C. Michael
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Responses of trucking operations to road pricing in central Texas

Description: "The purpose of this study is to identify and quantify how the different segments of the trucking industry would respond to road pricing applications, including traditional toll rads, variably priced toll roads, mixed-use express lane facilities, and truck-only tolled facilities."
Date: October 2010
Creator: Prozzi, Jolanda; Walton, C. Michael & Rutzen, Beatriz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings

Description: Patent for an improved apparatus for Curing Tire-Casings (relates to molding devices for curing tire casings) which is easily and quickly set up and knocked down, holds casings safely in position while being cured, and highly efficient in curing tire casings.
Date: June 17, 1919
Creator: Bongio, Philip P. & Stephenson Elonzo
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Development of Statistical Models to Forecast Crossing Times of Commercial Vehicles

Description: In this report statistical models were developed to predict crossing times of trucks over a short range of time. The statistical prediction models use historic data and take into account empirical relationships between border-crossing-related parameters and truck crossing times.
Date: July 2011
Creator: Kang, Dong Hun; Ochoa, Cesar; Rajbhandari, Rajat & Garcia, Francisco
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for Calendar Year 1995

Description: Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pickup trucks in Texas during calendar year 1995, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: February 28, 1996
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Accident Records Bureau.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for Calendar Year 1996

Description: Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pickup trucks in Texas during calendar year 1996, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: February 28, 1997
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Accident Records Bureau.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for [the] First Six Months [of] 1997

Description: Semiannual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pickup trucks in Texas during calendar year 1997, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: July 20, 1997
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Accident Records Bureau.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for [the] First Six Months [of] 1998

Description: Semiannual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pickup trucks in Texas during calendar year 1998, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: July 20, 1998
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Accident Records Bureau.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for Calendar Year 1999

Description: Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pickup trucks in Texas during calendar year 1999, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: February 29, 2000
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Accident Records Bureau.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for Calendar Year 1994

Description: Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pick-up trucks in Texas during calendar year 1994, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: February 28, 1995
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Statistical Services.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for [the] First Six Months [of] 1993

Description: Semiannual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pick-up trucks in Texas during calendar year 1993, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: July 20, 1993
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Statistical Services.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for Calendar Year 1992

Description: Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pickup trucks in Texas during calendar year 1992, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: February 29, 1993
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Statistical Services.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for Calendar Year 1991

Description: Annual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pickup trucks in Texas during calendar year 1991, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: February 29, 1992
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Statistical Services.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Summary of Pick-Up [Truck] Involved Accidents in the State of Texas for [the] First Six Months [of] 1991

Description: Semiannual report providing tabular statistical information about motor vehicle accidents that involved pick-up trucks in Texas during calendar year 1991, with data broken out by various criteria including number of persons, locations, types of accidents, time of day, and other factors.
Date: July 20, 1991
Creator: Texas. Department of Public Safety. Statistical Services.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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