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Design Of An Underground Storage Tank Involving Water Collection For Water Reuse To Irrigate The Campus Green Area Of The Uab Campus, Zhuo Li
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The UAB Campus Recreation Center is located in the Birmingham city block whose boundaries are University Blvd., 10th Avenue South, 14th Street South, and 16th Street South. The water supply of the UAB Campus Recreation Center is based on a natural underground water source, which is use such needs as pool water. The underground water is continuously pumped from its foundation in order to avoid flooding the basement of the Recreation Center. As a result, in addition to the water usage of the Recreation Center, the additional water pumped underground could be utilized to irrigate the campus green area. A …
Effect Of Increasing Truck Weight On Bridges, Denson Yates
Effect Of Increasing Truck Weight On Bridges, Denson Yates
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The issue of increasing the gross vehicle weight limit on the interstate highway system has been debated on the local and federal levels. The driving forces for and against this topic cover a broad spectra ranging from economic benefits to public safety. The University Transportation Center of Alabama is sponsoring this study assessing the force effect that bridges experience when travelled by vehicles with a 97,000-lb gross vehicle weight (GVW). The maximum internal shear and moment caused by two proposed trucks (97-S and 97-TRB) are compared to effects from three base models: design live loadings from the American Association of …
Assessment Of Transit Oriented Development Impacts, Md Shah Imran
Assessment Of Transit Oriented Development Impacts, Md Shah Imran
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The recent interest in smart growth, livable communities, and sustainability creates new opportunities for the adoption, expansion, and enhancement of transit services in communities across the U.S. Given that promoting livability and alternative modes is a key priority in the U.S. DOT's agenda, research on economic impacts from integration of transit is both timely and essential. This is important as many of the possible gains from such integration are not fully understood and properly measured to date, such as the related health and quality of life benefits. This thesis analyzes the economic impacts from the implementation of a transit improvement …
Travel Time Reliability Under Varying Freeway Operating Conditions, Md Saidul Islam
Travel Time Reliability Under Varying Freeway Operating Conditions, Md Saidul Islam
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The performance of the transportation sector is popularly regarded as one of the key indicators of a nation's economic development. Travel time reliability is of paramount importance to the transportation sector performance as it relates to quality transportation network operation, improved traveler satisfaction, and on-time arrival of shipments of goods. Travel time reliability refers to the consistency in travel times over the day or across days. The objective of this thesis is to identify measures and methods appropriate to measure travel time reliability; and apply those methods to study the reliability of travel time along urban freeway corridors under varying …