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Funding authorization for aviation programs set forth in Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act (P.L. 108-176) and authorization for taxes and fees that provide revenue for the aviation...

The Clean Air Act, enacted in 1963 and substantially overhauled in 1970, is a comprehensive federal law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources. This law authorized EPA to,...

The threat of attacks on aircraft by terrorists or other remains a persistent and growing concern for the United States. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the trend in terrorism...

Pipelines transport the bulk of natural gas and hazardous liquids (such as oil products) in the United States. Specifically, pipelines carry nearly all of the natural gas and about 65 percent of the...

Although federal regulations do not permit the general public to carry weapons abroad aircraft, under certain conditions, law enforcement officers have a mission-relaed need to fly with firearms...

This report provides the supporting data and describes the data sources, methodologies, and assumptions used in the assessment of existing and potential water resources of the Highlands of...

This report summarizes the economic analysis of the U.S. Geological Survey's 2010 assessment of oil and gas in undiscovered accumulations in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska; the assessment...

The report describes a risk-based approach for assessing the implications of higher train speeds on highway-railroad grade crossing safety, and allocating limited resources to best reduce this risk...

This report will improve understanding of how states and localities might contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction through transportation planning. Transportation is a major contributor...

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), National Park Service (NPS), and the U.S. Departmentof Transportation (DOT), Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are jointly sponsoring a study toexamine...

This report is part of a program of research designed to assist the National Park Service units of central Washington, DC, in their efforts to manage visitor mobility, reduce the negative...

The Norman Y. Mineta Research and Special Programs Improvement Act of 2004 was signed into law by President Bush on November 30, 2004. It embodies Security Mineta's vision of a Department-wide...

This report serves as both an analysis of current trends in ridesharing and a toolkit for public agencies, large and small, to create ridesharing programs tailored to meet the needs of their...

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) tasked the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center to document the further success of theNorth Carolina DOT"Sealed Corridor" project through...

Cheney Reservoir, located in south-central Kansas, is the primary water supply for the city of Wichita. The U.S. Geological Survey has operated a continuous real-time water-quality monitoring station...

Mitigating the effects of salt and selenium on water quality in the Grand Valley and lower Gunnison River Basin in western Colorado is a major concern for land managers. Previous modeling indicated...

A study of road-deicing chloride (Cl) concentrations and loads was conducted at three streams in Chittenden County, VT, from November 2005 to 2007. This study was done by the U.S. Geological Survey,...

Trends were determined in flow-adjusted values of selected water-quality characteristics measured year-round during water years 1998-2007 (October 1, 1997, through September 30, 2007) at 70 stations...

This industry survey provides an overview of the currently available surface moving map products, as of March, 2009. Thirteen manufacturers and six research organizations participated and provided...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in the United States. Approximately 53,000 persons die from TBI-related injuries annually. During 1989-1998, TBI-related death...

This document describes the strategy that the ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program is pursuing to create a 21stcentury learning environment and build an ITS professional that leads the...

This report uses signal detection theory (SDT) to model motorists' decisionmaking strategies at grade crossings in order to understand the factors that influence such decisions and to establish a...

The research develops a reference model of a predictive eco-cruise control (ECC) system that intelligently modulates vehicle speed within a pre-set speed range to minimize vehicle fuel consumption...

Beginning in 1988, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has coordinated the Micronutrients Measurement Quality Assurance Program (MMQAP) for laboratories that measure fat- and...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and NIH's Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), initiated an...

Manufacturers face many challenges in implementing next-generation automation, especially when their production mix involves low volumes of parts with high mixtures of part types. Small batches,...

The NIST Ontological Visualization Interface for Standards (NOVIS) was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide an interactive visual interface to the...

In this work we studied the response of two different Victoreen instruments as a function of the exposure rate, the instrument orientation and photon energy. The rate dependence for both instruments...

Mineral resource assessments represent a synthesis of available information to estimate the location, quality, and quantity of undiscovered mineral resources in the upper part of the Earth's crust...

Cox1AbstractThe U.S. Geological Survey collaborated with the China Geological Survey to conduct a mineral-resource assessment of resources in porphyry copper deposits on the Tibetan Plateau in...