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Title: A FRAMEWORK FOR LONG TERM ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN USING ASSET PRIORITY INDEX AND CONDITION INDEX FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA FERRY SYSTEM
Author: Subramanian, Balagee
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Management, Transportation
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) and the North Carolina Ferry System combined have many assets in place. This thesis primarily concerns the North Carolina Ferry System (NCFS). The NCFS has a sizable number of assets and a lo...

Title: DISTRACTED DRIVING AND DRIVER INTERPRETATION OF SHORT TERM CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE WORK ZONES IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Oosthuysen, Scott
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Transportation
Description: Previous literature of distracted driving and inattention has found that secondary tasks not associated with the task of driving increase vehicular accidents and near miss accidents. Distracted drivers are comparatively different to non – distract...

Title: Development of a Highway Maintenance Cost Index
Author: Riccio, Austin
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: The North Carolina Department of Transportation records maintenance activities performed in house, but does not have an efficient way of forecasting future costs. The problem with not having an efficient way to forecast future highway maintenance ...

Title: EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF PAVEMENT DISTRESS AND PERFORMANCE MODELS FOR A PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING AUTOMATED ASPHALT CONDITION DATA
Author: James, Steven
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: Since 2011, the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) has implemented an automated data collection process for their Pavement Management System (PMS). This study was conducted to update NCDOT’s PMS with the availability of new automa...

Title: Investigating Time Sensitive Thermal and Mechanical Inputs for Rigid Pavements
Author: Summers, Clarke
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: The Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) is a tool developed by NCHRP used to aid engineers in pavement design and performance analysis. MEPDG is currently incorporated into the software program AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design. The so...

Title: Predictive Maintenance Optimization Framework For Pavement Management
Author: Kumar, Amit
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The development of a progressive modern highway system is essential for the enhancement of the road capacity, safety, efficiency, commerce, and national defences of a country. These highway systems consist of various integrated individual asset co...

Title: SETTING APPROPRIATE BENEFIT/CONDITION JUMPS FOR PAVEMENT TREATMENTS
Author: Khan, Salman
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: This research was conducted to determine pavement performance jumps after treatment, which are defined as the difference between pre-treatment and post-treatment Pavement Condition Rating (PCR) values. the North Carolina Department of Transportati...

Title: TRANSPORTATION ASSET MANAGEMENT PLANNING: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF STATE DOTS TAMP REPORTS
Author: Thorat, Dhananjay
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: The transportation system of a country plays a vital role in supporting the overall growth of the nation. These transportation systems are a set of complex networks of different types of assets which continuously undergo deterioration at an uncert...

Title: UPDATING AND ENHANCING THE NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION’S BRIDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USER COSTS
Author: Ramsey, Joshua
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Transportation
Description: A Bridge Management System (BMS) can be used for both storage of data and to provide decision making tools for maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation (MR&R) needs and cost forecasting. The North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) BMS...

Title: WEIGHT FACTOR DETERMINATION AND FUND ALLOCATION OF PAVEMENTS BY COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Author: Patil, Chaitali Ramakant
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Civil engineering, Transportation
Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the most efficient and ideal weight factors by performing the Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) using the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Pavement Management System (PMS) and using the idea...