Semisequicentennial Transportation Conference Proceedings
May 1996, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

NOTE: This proceedings is available as is, without figures, and only in HTML rather than PDF.

Session 0

• Highway Finance—Entering the Second Century

Session 1

Highway Materials

• Bentonite Treatment for Fugitive Dust Control
• The Formation of Rims on Dolomite Aggregate in Iowa Highway Concrete
• Concrete Deterioration by Deicing Salts: An Experimental Study

• Maintenance Operations Research Program
• Maintenance Technology Exchange Partnership: Minnesota Department of Transportation/Finnish National Road Administration
• Prewetting with Salt Brine

• Interacting Vehicles and Roadways with Elderly Drivers on Missouri Highways
• Roadside Safety Milestones
• A GIS-based Accident Location and Analysis System (GIS-ALAS)

• Improving Transportation Resource Allocation Practices of Iowa Regional Planning Affiliations
• The Super Two
• The Influence of Rural Road Quality on Vehicle Fuel Consumption

Session 2

Use of Waste Materials In Pavements

• The Use of Solid Waste Materials as Fine Aggregate Substitutes in Cementitious Concrete Composites
• Reclaimed High Calcium Fly Ash Use as a Highway Base Material
• Assessment of Cementitious Coal Combustion Byproducts for Highway Base Materials

• Design of Gate Delay and Gate Interval Time for Four-Quadrant Gate System at Railroad-Highway Grade Crossings
• An Innovative, Train-Illuminated Passive Warning Sign for Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings

• Traffic Forecasting as if Intersection Control Matters (And Vice Versa)
• Database and Graphical Techniques for Managing and Displaying Travel Forecasting Information
• 10th Street Trolley Feasibility Study

• Pooled Estimates of the Effects of Through, Interstate, and Bypass Traffic on Kansas Towns
• The Need (and Opportunity) for Comprehensive Land-Use and Transportation Planning
• Road Improvements to Promote Local Economic Development: An Iowa Case Study

• The Evolving Role of Standards in Transportation System Design
• Economic Evaluation of Truck Collision Warning Functions
• Potential Safety Benefits of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Technologies

Session 3

Pavement Structures

• Fiber Composite Dowels in Highway Pavements
• Nonlinear Finite Element Based Model for Simulation of Performance of Concrete Pavements
• NDT-Evaluation of Seasonal Variation of Subgrade Response in Asphalt Pavements

• Evaluation of All-Weather Pavement Markings: Report on Two Years of Progress
• Determination of a Discriminant Function as a Prediction Model for Effectiveness of Speed Zoning in Urban Areas
• Preliminary Data Collection and Analysis for Traffic Flow Management on a Freeway Corridor

• Some Perspectives on Congestion: The Emerging Mission of Modern Transportation Departments
• The Major Investment Study: An Overview of the Process

• Commercial Vehicle Operations (CVO) Electronic Screening System for the State of Missouri—Implementation Through Current ITS Technologies
  

Session 4

• Condition Assessment of Navigation Lock and Dam Structures
• Dynamic Field Performance of Timber Bridges

• Vibration Study for Consolidation of Portland Cement Concrete
  
• A Study of Tire Chips as Road Construction Material

• Status of ITS Early Deployment Planning and Other ITS Deployment Initiatives of the U.S. Department of Transportation
• Omaha Metropolitan Area ITS Early Deployment Study
• Intelligent Transportation Systems Early Deployment Study for the Kansas City Metropolitan Area

• The Great Flood of 1993: Impacts on Waterborne Commodity Flow, Rail Transportation, and Surrounding Region
• A Methodology for Determining Road Damage Due to Railroad Branchline Abandonment
• The Iowa Grain Flow Survey : Where and How Iowa Grain Producers Ship Corn and Soybeans

Session 5

Bridge Performance and Maintenance

• Automated Method for Collecting Bridge Inspection Data in the Pontis Format

Weather and Winter Maintenance

• Use of Expert Systems for Roadway Weather Maintenance Decisions
• A Methodology for Conducting Research into Winter Highway Maintenance
• Conceptualization of the Future Highway Maintenance Vehicle

Intermodalism and Intermodal Planning

• The Process in Developing Intermodal Freight Strategies
• A 21st Century Vision of Intelligent Intermodal Transportation Technology

Freight Transportation Productivity

• AMASCOT: Demonstrating Technology for Automating Collection of Mileage-by-Jurisdiction Data for Commercial Vehicle Fuel Tax and Registration Fee Apportionment
• Applicability of Performance-Based Standards for U.S. Truck Size and Weight Regulations
• The Impact of Supply Chain Management on Logistics Service and Productivity