Technology & Engineering

This primer is focuses on the collaborative and systematic consideration of management and operations during transportation project design and development. This is termed "designing for operations."...

This report presents the results of analysis and characterization of uncertainty in traffic demand predictions using Enhanced Traffic Management System (ETMS) data and probabilistic representation of...

Under direction of the Federal Railroad Administration's Office of research and Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration's John A. Volpe...

The information contained in this report was collected through interviews with State GIS specialists and project managers who manage GIS4EST work. With consultation from FHWA, eight geographically...

A chronicle of scientific and technological events in the exploration of space offers useful perspective. To those of us engaged in these activities, it provides an inventory of the crowded...

Are you ready for the 2014 Wildland Fire Season?The 2014 season may be one of the worst on record. Prepare yourself now with the Wildland Fire Incident Management Guide. It is an essential tool for...

This document discusses the procedures for submitting a flow meter for calibration, gives the readily available pipe sizes and flanges suitable for flow meter calibration, documents the format of a...

The Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometer (SPRT) is defined by the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) as the interpolating instrument for temperatures between 13.8033 K and 1234.93 K...

The freezing point or time is a defining fixed point of the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90). Realization of this freezing point is performed using a fixed-point cell containing...

This document describes the operation and usage of the Quality of Design and the Content Checker Testing Tools. These tools were developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

In this paper the authors intend to demonstrate the need for extending the notion of quality from the physical domain to information and, more comprehensively, to sustainability. In physical...

The languages and logical formalisms developed by information scientists and logicians concentrate on the theory of languages and logical theorem proving. These languages, when used by domain experts...

Image validation and verification are important functions in the acquisition of fingerprint images from live-scan devices and for assessing and maintaining the fidelity of fingerprint image databases...

The Standards Services Division (SSD) within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) publishes information related to standards and conformity assessment as a service to producers...

As different wireless technologies are launched to enable user mobility and provide pervasive network and service accessibility, security has been a prominent requirement for the U.S. Federal...

This report describes the National Institute of Standards and Technology's role in the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems (IVBSS) program, a four-year safety initiative sponsored by the United...

Performance of biometric recognition systems degrades substantially as quality of the input samples drops. Although only a small fraction of input data are of poor-quality, the bulk of recognition...

A previous X-ray absorption study of tile adhesive mortars identified a new phenomenon during drying, namely the movement of small cement particles from the interior of the specimen to its surface...

Experiments conducted in a Toledo Ohio school are used to examine the use of signals from simulated heat detectors by incident command. Two approaches are examined. The first is to use the signal...

A retrofit study is being conducted to investigate the airtightness, ventilation and energy impacts of tightening the exterior envelope and the heating and air conditioning system ductwork of a...

This study reported here was conducted for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under Contact Number NA1341-02-W-0686. Hughes Associates, Inc. performed this work with assistance...

Time-domain analyses of wind effects on high-rise structures have been made possible in recent years by advances in wind pressure measurement and computer technology. Time domain solutions not only...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is supporting use of the Dimensional Measuring Interface Standard (DMIS) language. One form of this support is providing the NIST DMIS Test...

WiMAX technology is a wireless metropolitan area network (WMAN) communications technology that is largely based on the wireless interface defined in the IEEE 802.16 standard. The industry trade...

This document has been developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in furtherance of its statutory responsibilities under the Federal Information Security Management Act...

The content of this handbook is the consolidated effort of the Illumination Engineering Society (IES) Subcommittee on General Aviation Lighting, the Center of Excellence for General Aviation Research...

Software implementation errors are one of the most significant contributors to information system security vulnerabilities, making software testing an essential part of system assurance.Author: U. S...

This report is designed to give the U.S. parts remanufacturing industry a starting point for determining which areas of the world show potential growth for the industry and some of the limitations...

At the start of the 21st century, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) began the task of providing cryptographic key management guidance, which includes defining and implementing...

This document details the water supply and wastewater treatment market in China.Author: U. S. Department of CommercePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Jan 31,...