Transportation noise contains significant low frequency components. It is difficult to sound insulate buildings against transportation noise because wall cavities are only effective in increasing sound insulation above the mass-air-mass resonance frequency. Stud walls can also have a significant structural resonance in this low frequency range, although it is not yet clear if this is significan...

The last decade has seen tremendous investments in new container ports, vessels, and linked onshore transportation systems. Due to the high level of customer service requested and the complexity of logistic processes in seaport container terminals, many terminal operators have attempted to improve the performance of their terminals by applying new technologies including automated equipment, adv...

The projected growth in container traffic at ports of New York and New Jersey, along with the expected regional growth of commuter traffic, will cause a significant increase in traffic congestion. This will result in deteriorating performance of the regional transportation system, including highway system providing access to the port. Because of limited ability to expand highway and rail infras...

This investigation was performed as part of the High-Speed Rail IDEA program supports innovative methods and technology in support of the Federal Railroad Administration's (FRA) next-generation high-speed rail technology development program. The High-Speed Rail IDEA program is one of four IDEA programs managed by TRB. The other IDEA programs are listed below. • NCHRP Highway IDEA focuses on adv...

With the development of global economy and increase in environmental awareness, energy technology transportation, especially application storage rail has become a key area research. Rail transportation systems are characterized by high consumption poor power quality due to more flexible regulation capability these aspects. This paper summarizes latest research results on systems, matches charac...

Transportation professionals have long recognized the harm of trespassing along railway rights-of-way. However, the non-crossing rail trespassing issue has received less attention than highway-rail grade crossing crashes, despite the fact that nearly 8,800 rail-trespassing crashes occurred on non-crossing rail tracks during the past decade, with a large number of them resulting in fatality. Als...