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Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
This study evaluated the condition of the thermoplastic and pavement marking tape stripes through several winters to see if the grooves provided significant protection for the stripes. Placing lane markings in shallow grooves in the pavement results in considerably longer marking life, making the highway safer for drivers.
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Welcome to CDOT's first web-based Statewide Transportation Plan. This plan is a vision document that outlines what our multimodal transportation options will look like in Colorado over the next 10 to 25 years. It is divided into four sections plus an executive summary, each of which helps to illustrate where Colorado stands today, the challenges that we face, and how we will continue to make progress in the future.
Author
Pub. Date
07/10/2018
Description
The Pan-American Highway, monument to a centurys worth of diplomacy and investment, education and engineering, scandal and sweat, is the longest road in the world, passable everywhere save the mythic Darien Gap that straddles Panama and Colombia. The highways history, however, has long remained a mystery, a story scattered among government archives, private papers, and fading memories. In contrast to the Panama Canal and its vast literature, the Pan-American...
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
This report investigates the impact of highways and landscape connectivity in Colorado. To do so, it describes three complementary research questions. Given the threat of roads to both wildlife populations and human safety, describing the distribution of animal-vehicle collisions (AVC) is a necessary step in understanding potential roadway impacts.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
This study determined the feasibility of using driven piles to stabilize highway embankment slopes. The activities performed under this study were a detailed literature review, a national survey of state DOTs, a review of inspection and stabilization mitigation reports, targeted field inspections, a cost comparison analysis, and a finite element study. The results of this study show that driven piles can be a cost-effective solution to stabilizing...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The objective of this project was to integrate the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide, Interim Edition: A Manual of Practice and its accompanying software into the daily pavement design, evaluation, rehabilitation, management, and forensic analysis practices and operations of the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).
96) Development of estimation methodology for bicycle and pedestrian volumes based on existing counts
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
This research project enables CDOT to answer the question of whether or not pedestrians and bicyclists are being adequately accommodated by establishing Colorado-specific methodologies for estimating bicycle and pedestrian volumes via a limited sample of existing counts.