Technology & Engineering

For this exploratory study, focus groups were convened in Northern Virginia and Philadelphia among the general public, business owners and managers, and owners and managers of shipping and...

This Civil Monitoring Performance Specification (CMPS) is published and maintained at the direction of the Program Manager for Civil Applications, Global Positioning Systems Wing (GPSW). The purpose...

In this "Centennial of Flight" year, it is worth noting for all the amazing progress the age of aviation and space flight has made possible, our gains have not come easily. Every step of the way, the...

Since its inception 40 years ago, NASA's Technology Transfer Program has led the way for our Nation to benefit from cutting-edge aerospace technologies. In addition to contributing to U.S. economic...

This industry survey documents the symbols for navigation aids, airports, lines, and linear patterns currently in use by avionics manufacturers and chart providers for depicting aeronautical charting...

This report describes a study designed to address four research questions about symbology for electronic displays of charting information. The main research question was whether pilots could identify...

The Volpe Center has developed a set of five tools that can be used to evaluate Electronic Flight Bags(EFBs) from a human factors perspective. The goal of these tools is to help streamline and...

This report presents the findings of two studies related to the design of symbology for electronic displays of navigation information. Experiment 1 addressed whether symbols have key features that...

This report analyzes the structural steel available from World Trade Center (WTC) 1, 2, and 7 to determine the metallurgical and mechanical properties and quality of the metal, weldments, and...

Information technology (IT) is an integral part of our everyday lives. It keeps businesses running, provides a data superhighway, simplifies file storage, entertains us, and keeps people around the...

Two procedures for adjusting as-measured test-day spectra to reference day conditions - the Society of Automotive Engineers' (SAE) Aerospace Recommended Practice (ARP) No. 866A (866A) and a procedure...

The Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) market has accelerated rapidly in the past few years. The purpose of this industry review is to provide a primer on who is involved in the industry and what their...

This report describes the system capability assessment for the Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance System for Violations (CICAS-V) based on data collected from objective tests and a pilot...

This report documents the process required for data exchange between a conductor of a field operational test (FOT) and an independent evaluator based on the experience of the Cooperative Intersection...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recognizes that quieter cars such as hybrid-electric vehicles in low-speed operation using their electric motors, may introduce a safety issue for...

This report identifies crash imminent test scenarios based on common pre-crash scenarios for integrated vehicle-based safety systems that alert the driver of a light vehicle or a heavy truck to an...

This NASA special publication presents a general overview of the flight research that has been conducted at Ames Research Center over the last 57 years. Icing research, transonic model testing,...

This report presents and analyzes new approaches for determining when a sector should be alerted by the Monitor Alert capability of the Traffic Flow Management System (TFMS). TFMS currently alerts a...

This report provides guidance and better practice recommendations to the NPS for selecting pavement surfaces to minimize tire-pavement noise. The report contains an overview of common technologies...

The problem that this report tackles is determining how to best utilize Rte 2A and the surrounding roadways to access Minute Man National Historical Park and Battle Road while minimizing the impact...

This report provides a guide for achieving a basic service model for traffic signal management and operations. The basic service model is based on simply stated and defensible operational objectives...

This report documents a model to represent the true stress-strain behavior of structural steel. It is based on combination of data from the NIST World Trade Center collapse investigation and many...

The investigation of the collapse of a five-sorry reinforced concrete flat-plate structure under construction at Cocoa Beach, Florida is present in this report.Author: U. S. Department of...

This report documents a set of 9 full scale ISO 9705 room under-ventilated compartment fire experiments. The gas species composition and temperature throughout the interior of the compartment were...

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Americans and people around the world were shocked by the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and the devastation of the Pentagon near...

This report presents the urban helicopter noise study information that the FAA was required to prepare pursuant to Section 747 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st...

Over the last 20 years, nearly 40,000 general aviation (GA) aircraft were involved in accidents, roughly 20% of which were fatal. To address this safety concern, scientists have often relied on...

This research is designed to support FTA in its efforts to disseminate knowledge of new technologies within the transit community, in this case focusing on issues associated with automated fare...

Between May 2002 and July 2006, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) provided technical assistance to the top 50 transit agencies through the Security and Emergency Management Technical...

This report provides an overview of diverse transit bus applications of advanced Lithium Ion Batteries (LIBs). The report highlights and illustrates several FTA programs that fostered the successful...