As transportation funding becomes increasingly constrained, it is imperative that decision makers invest precious resources wisely and effectively. Transportation planners need effective tools for anticipating outcomes ...

In this thesis, an infrastructure informed index is developed for pedestrians and bicyclists to relate the natural and built environment with its impact on perceived travel distance and time. The objective is to develop ...

As is the case for most of the Departments of Transportation in the U.S., the Texas Department of Transportation has been experiencing fluctuations of budget for maintaining and preserving its highway infrastructure over ...

As traffic congestion grows but existing roadway capacity remains fixed or limited, downtown congestion pricing offers potential as a tool to manage the transportation system. Though the idea is not new, congestion pricing ...

For repairing concrete transportation infrastructure, such as pavements and bridges, much importance is placed on early-age strength gain as this has a major impact on scheduling and opening to traffic. However, the long-term ...

An important and often overlooked aspect of commuter rail trips is the access trip to the boarding station. In this research, a revealed preference survey was conducted among commuter rail riders on the MetroRail Red Line ...

This thesis is divided into two parts. The first evaluates the role of the built environment in life-cycle energy consumption, by comparing different neighborhood and city styles. Through a holistic modeling and accounting ...

A great disparity exists between the direction of travel demand forecasting by researchers, and the travel demand models used by transportation planning organizations. Activity-based models of travel demand have become ...

In the state of Texas, the roadway network consists of approximately 313,228 miles of roads (Federal Highway Administration, 2013), accounting for 7.61% of the public roads in the United States. To put it in perspective, ...

A methodology for treating long-term origin-destination demand as random and possibly correlated in solving for deterministic user equilibrium is presented in this thesis. The effects of various types of correlations, ...