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           The Research Council staff conduct projects internally and also coordinate research being conducted by other organizations on behalf of the Virginia Department of Transportation. Direct any questions concerning these projects to the key staff contacts shown as the principal investigators.

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Addressing Fly Ash Shortage with Limestone Calcined Clay Cement
The wide availability of high-quality and economical supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs)...
Evaluation of a Driver Alerting System for a Truck Mounted Attenuator
The safety of workers and drivers is paramount in a work zone setting. One of the most important...
Evaluation of Nuclear Density Gauge to Perform QA/QC on a Base Material Containing RAP
In a recent Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) study, it was found that VDOT could use...
FHWA Climate Challenge
In the United States, the transportation sector is responsible for approximately 29% of the green...
Impact of Red Lights on Incident Response Time
VDOT recently gained approval to install flashing red lights on certain incident management coord...
Halifax County Road Orders 1752-1767
Eighteenth century transportation-related court records (“road orders”) for individual Virginia c...
Evaluation of Post Mounted Delineators and Curve Warning Message Markings
The purpose of this study is to evaluate post-mounted delineators and curve warning message marki...
Resilience Approaches for Pavements and Geotechnical Assets
 FORMTEXT Frequent occurrence of extreme weather events such as increased precipitation, increase...
Evaluation of Balanced Mix Design (BMD) Surface Mixtures with Conventional and High RAP Contents under Laboratory-Scale and Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT)
The environmental and economic benefits of using reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in asphalt mixt...
Transportation Operations Center Operator Workload Mitigation Strategies
Transportation Operations Center (TOC) operators are responsible for monitoring roadways and disp...
Multi-Use Trail Evaluation Tool for VDOT State Trails Office
VDOT's new State Trails Office (STO) has requested VTRC assistance with development of a prototyp...
An Analysis of VDOT's Sight Distance Requirements Relative to Context-Sensitive Designs
Although the Virginia Department of Transportation’s intersection sight distance (ISD) requiremen...
Evaluation of a Truck In-Cab Alert System
Transportation agencies have long communicated directly with truck drivers regarding weigh statio...
Field Validation of Balanced Mix Design Initial Criteria
 FORMTEXT The purpose of this project is to validate the initial Balanced Mixed Design (BMD) test...
Evaluation of Spray-on Rejuvenators - Field Trials
Pavement preservation treatments extend the service life of pavements by minimizing moisture infi...