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Research Digest, May 2020: State DOTs

thumbnail of research digest coverThe May 2020 issue of the Research Digest is now available for download from the CTR Library. This digest from CTR Library provides abstracts for 14 publications recently received from other states’ department of transportation research programs. The research projects represented here are from various states including Florida, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, South Carolina, and Virginia. The reports cover a wide range of topics including applications of unmanned aerial systems technology to highway construction projects; maintenance-free corrosion-resistant steel plates for bridges; and strategies aimed at preventing distracted driving.

Full-text links are provided for each report.

To stay up-to-date on all the latest research published through different transportation programs, please visit the library’s online catalog. We provide links to online full-text of reports in our catalog when publishers make that content available for free.

The Research Digest is a monthly newsletter targeted mainly towards TxDOT staff and researchers. The goal of the Digest is to showcase new publications.The subject of the Digest rotates between these themes:

  • TxDOT research (Center for Transportation Research, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, Center for Multidisciplinary Research in Transportation, University of Texas at El Paso, etc.)
  • Other State DOTs’ research
  • Transportation Research Board (TRB)
  • Federal government publications

Posted by Michael Nugent  |  Category : CTR Library