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2006
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Wildlife
Fatalities Research Project, Final Report
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Creating Sense
of Place Through Context-Sensitive Design (PDF:495KB/20 pages)
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2005
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Communicating
the Science and Technology of Safe RAM Transport
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Using Computer-Mediated Communication in Public
Outreach Activities: The Transportation Resource Exchange Center (T-REX) Website
and Virtual Library
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2004
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A Case Study in Regional Transportation
Consensus Building Between Local and Tribal Governments in New Mexico |
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Case Study Approach to Creating Improved Tribal/State Relations:
The 2003 Four Corners Institute |
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An
Environmental Justice Approach to Federal Facilities Cleanup |
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Environmental
Justice Background Report for the NM Environment Department, November
2004 (PDF:82 pages/569KB) |
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Final
Report: A Report on Environmental Justice in New Mexico, November
2004 (PDF:330 pages/7MB) |
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Creating
Intelligent, Coordinated Transit: Moving New Mexico the Smart Way |
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How
Does a Traditional Highway Department Become a True Department of
Transportation |
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NMDOT
2003 Transit Guide (PDF:119MB/63 pages) |
| 2002 |
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At
the Crossroads: Disability and Transportation in New Mexico.
Executive Summary (PDF:672KB/19 pages) |
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At
the Crossroads: Disability and Transportation in New Mexico. Full
Report |
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Building
on a Common Desire for Better Tribal/State Governmental Relationships:
The 2002 Four Corners Institute for Tribal/State Relations (PDF:63KB/9
pages) |
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Conference on
Transportation Improvements. Experiences Among Tribal, Local,
State, and Federal Governments (PDF:7MB/115
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Developing
the Client Referral, Ridership, and Financial Tracking (CRRAFT) Transit
Management System: CRRAFTing a Bridge to Coordinated Interagency
Transportation (PDF:796KB/21 pages) |
| 2001 |
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Synthesis
of Facilitation, Communication, Information, and Technology
(PDF:96KB/6 pages) |
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Community Advisory
Groups: Involving Highway Users in the Research Process (PDF:371KB/11 pages)
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Enchanted
Circle Transit Study (PDF:6MB/52 pages) |
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Evaluation
of a Mechanical Stiffness Gauge for Compaction Control of Granular
Media (PDF:7MB/66 pages) |
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Moving Forward: A
Transportation Toolkit for Welfare Reform (PDF:634KB/15 pages)
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New
Mexico Tribal/State Transportation Summit. Summary of Proceedings
(PDF:50KB/12 pages) |
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Process
Modelling of Integrated Transportation Design (MS Thesis) |
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The
Transportation Resource Exchange Center (T-REX) Website: A Case Study (PDF:86KB/12 pages) |
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2000
New Mexico Transit Guide (PDF:275KB/18 pages) |
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Border
Air Quality Research Matrix and Bibliography (see BRITE Archives) |
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Border
Habitat and Land Use (see BRITE Archives) |
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Border
Region Information on Transportation and Environment - Water Quality
(see BRITE Archives) |
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Los
Alamos County Transportation and Transit Feasibility Study (PDF:1MB/68
pp.) |
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Moving
Forward: A Transportation Toolkit for Welfare Reform.
Executive Summary (PDF:2MB/45 pages) |
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Moving
Forward: A Transportation Toolkit for Welfare Reform. Full
Report |
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Proposed
Paseo del Norte Limited Access Highway Through the Petroglyph National
Monument: Gully Erosion Rates, the Impact of Dirt Roads, Proposed
Watershed Sensitive Guidelines, and the Native American Viewpoint on
this Road (PDF:11MB/182 pages) |
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Cold
In-Situ Recycling Evaluation |
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1998
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Mitigation
of Alkali-Silica Reactivity in New Mexico (PDF:222KB/29 pages) |
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Public
Transportation: A Priority Link in Moving People to Work
(PDF:213KB/71 pages) |
| 1997 |
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Asphalt
Content by Ignition: Round-Robin Experiment (PDF:116KB/31 pages) |
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Existing
Design Processes in New Mexico and PR China in Comparison to System
Engineering for Transportation (SET) Concepts (PDF:84KB/9 pages) |
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New
Mexico First: Integrated Regional Transportation |
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Our
National Laboratories and Transportation Research |
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Public
Involvement: Matters for the People in Technology Applications
(PDF:112KB/8 pages) |
| 1996 |
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Divided
Highway: Transportation Equity and Violence |
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Transportation
Opportunities and High Purposes |
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Virtual
Environment for Transportation Data (VETD) |
| 1995 |
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Choices
for Our Future: Finding Transportation Alternatives for an Aging
Population |
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GIS-T
Pooled Fund Study Final Report. Executive Summary |
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Safety
Products for New and Older Vehicles: A Recommendation for Action |
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Standing
in the Cold: Mobility and the Mentally Challenged |
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Transportation
Planning Information Framework. Strategic Planning Guide |
| 1994 |
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Barcelona
Air Quality Initiative |
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Celebration.
Transportation and Community |
| 1993 |
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Transportation
and Geographic Computing Concept |
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ATR
Institute Annual Reports 1991-1996 |
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Creating Sense of Place Through
Context-Sensitive Design by Geri
Knoebel. Presented at the TRB 85th Annual Meeting in Washington,
DC (January 2006) - Public involvement, design flexibility, and
interactive visualization techniques facilitated the development of a
context sensitive design (CSD) for the historically and culturally
significant Isleta Boulevard, which had been a point of controversy for
over 20 years. Isleta Boulevard is not only a part of the original
Route 66 alignment but also holds the distinction of being “El Camino
Real,” the oldest, continuously-used roadway in the United States.
Bernalillo County had proposed expanding this two-lane road into a
five-lane thoroughfare. The 3.0-mile stretch of roadway carried 15,000
to 20,000 vehicles per day. The community strongly opposed this
alignment, because this proposed thoroughfare would dissect the
community without providing economic or other benefits. Community
opposition led to the formation of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee
(CAC). CAC’s public involvement process was key to developing
alternatives not previously considered. New ideas emerged through the
use of CSD principles resulting in the harmonization of diverse
community interests with technical engineering concerns. The compromise
design is enhancing the mobility and connectivity of South Valley
citizens. This success was led to other collaborations including the
design of Isleta North and Isleta South. Isleta North was completed in
2003. Construction on Isleta South will begin in the summer 2005.
(Paper presented at TRB Meeting during
Session 354: Public Perception and Involvement Methods to Inform
Context-Sensitive Design and Solutions.)
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Communicating the Science and
Technology of Safe RAM Transport by Judith M. Espinosa, Nancy
Bennett, and Mary E. White. Presented at the Waste Management
Symposium 2005 (WM’05) in Tucson, Arizona (March 2005) - The prime goal of the Transportation Resource
Exchange Center (T-REX) Web site and Virtual Library
(www.trex-center.org/) is to establish a high-quality Web site to serve
as a centralized information resource for the development and
implementation of increased public engagement in policy discussions
about radioactive material (RAM) transport. Thousands of metric tons of
high-level radioactive waste—much of it in the form of spent nuclear
fuel (SNF) which remain as by-products of the production of nuclear
weapons, Navy reactor fuel, and electricity at nuclear power
plant—await permanent disposal at over 70 sites across the US. Moving
RAM and SNF from origination sites to new storage or disposal
facilities takes place under public scrutiny. Public expression of
concern can be substantial when RAM is to be transported. The general
public’s perception is that shipments of radioactive cargo are more
dangerous than other kinds of hazardous shipments. Public documents and
communication about these issues are often complex, highly technical,
or legalistic and confounded by statutory overlap. Since T-REX’s
inception in 1998, its pages, content, and features continue to be
determined by the information needs of diverse users.
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Using Computer-Mediated
Communication in Public Outreach Activities: The Transportation
Resource Exchange Center (T-REX) Website and Virtual Library by
Judith M. Espinosa, Nancy Bennett, and Mary E. White. For the 84th Transportation Research
Board (TRB) Annual Meeting (2005). Submitted to the TRB Committee
on Public Involvement
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A
Case Study in Regional
Transportation Consensus Building Between Local and Tribal
Governments in New Mexico by Judith M. Espinosa, DeAnza Valencia,
Michael Jensen, and Mary E. White. Submitted to the
Transportation Research Board, Committee ADD20 on Social and
Economic Factors of Transportation (July 2004) - Despite the area’s notable
heterogeneity, the North Central Regional Transit District (NCRTD) is
on track to be the first regional transit district (RTD) certified in
New Mexico. The NCRTD contains the state’s largest and smallest
Pueblos, the poorest and richest counties, and rural communities that
are steeped in 500-year old Spanish traditions juxtaposed against the
nearby “New Age” cosmopolitanism of Santa Fe. The diverse geographical,
political, and economic landscape of the NCRTD can make it difficult to
pursue new or ambitious projects across such disparate jurisdictions.
Organizational and jurisdictional barriers can create roadblocks to
effective collaboration. The New Mexico Department of Transportation
Research Bureau provided funds to develop a case study and model which
could be followed by other potential RTDs in the State. The ATR
Institute/University of New Mexico was charged, as the organizing and
research entity, with developing the RTD model and staffing the effort.
An Organizing Committee, representing public and private interests, was
tasked with producing the certification documents and supporting
materials, presenting them clearly and effectively to governing bodies
and the public, and providing an example of cross-jurisdictional
transit collaboration. Creation of the NCRTD required public hearings
in every jurisdiction. One-on-one “study sessions” raised public
awareness in every jurisdiction and fueled the process for obtaining
the needed affirmative votes to join the NCRTD. The NCRTD, composed of
ten initial members, has completed the necessary steps for creating a
RTD and was certified by the New Mexico Transportation Commission in
Autumn 2004.
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An Environmental
Justice Approach to Federal Facilities Cleanup by Judith M.
Espinosa, Nancy Bennett, and Mary E. White (July 2004) -
Environmental justice (EJ) is the fair treatment of people of all
races, income, and culture with respect to the development,
implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and
policies. Fair treatment implies that no person or group of people
should shoulder a disproportionate share of the negative environmental
impacts resulting from the execution of this country's domestic and
foreign policy programs. The term “EJ communities” is defined as
communities of color, low-income communities, and American Indian
tribes and Alaskan Native Villages. Sadly, environmental impacts do not
fall equally on everyone in society. Bureaucratic or
institutional mechanisms can give rise to class, gender, and racial
disparities in a range of actions and practices. Disproportionate
exposure to hazardous conditions occurs in minority and low-income
communities. Understanding the processes that give rise to
environmental inequalities and finding and using practical means to
overcome these inequities is a necessity for achieving the goal of a
sustainable society.
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Environmental Justice
Background Report for the NM Environment Department, by Judith
M. Espinosaa (ATR Institute) and Eileen Gauna (Southwestern University
School of Law) (November 2004) - This background report is
intended to give the New Mexico Environmental Department (NMED) a
general sense of the history of the environmental justice movement, the
types of issues that helped frame the debates, and existing evidence
of, and various theories about, the cause of existing racial
environmental disparities. Also included in this report is a section on
environmental justice at the federal level.
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Final
Report: A Report on Environmental Justice in New Mexico,
prepared by the ATR Institute (November 2004) - The New Mexico
Environment Department (NMED) conducted four "Listening Sessions" in an
effort to highlight environmental justice (EJ) concerns in New Mexico.
Secretary Ron Curry and Deputy Secretary Derrith Watchman-Moore of the
NMED ascertained the extent and nature of EJ concerns in New Mexico
from a grassroots perspective. A team of four co-consultants assisted
in this project: Judith Espinosa, the ATR Institute, University of New
Mexico; Paul Robinson and Frances Ortega of the Southwest Research and
Information Center (SRIC); and Professor Eileen Gauna, Southwestern
University School of Law, Los Angeles, CA. Secretary Curry and Deputy
Secretary Watchman Moore created an Environmental Justice Planning
Committee of diverse stakeholders to design a series of Listening
Sessions. The Planning Committee was charged with the design of
public listening sessions, discussion of important issues, and
promotion of an authentic participatory process. Essentially, there
were five somewhat overlapping stages to this process of conducting the
four EJ sessions and reporting, including: The Planning, The Sessions,
The Reporting Process, The Reports, and The Report Mail-Out.
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Creating Intelligent,
Coordinated Transit: Moving New Mexico the Smart Way by Judith
M. Espinosa, Eric F. Holm, and Mary E. White (July 2004) - In 1997, with
the ATR Institute acting as a change agent, the State of New Mexico
began initial efforts to bring about interagency coordination of
transportation. Working with the New Mexico Department of
Transportation Public Transportation Programs Bureau, the ATR
Institute conducted ground-breaking research with their studies on the
lack of transportation alternatives for the State’s poorest and most
disadvantaged citizens. This body of research gave the ATR
Institute an overview of the transportation needs of clients who
received State-funded transportation benefits as part of the delivery
of human services, an inventory of State-owned transportation and
transit vehicles, the needs of Agency funders, and local transit
providers. During this period, New Mexico’s small, rural transit
providers manually tracked agency-funded rides and spent many staff
hours each day reconciling cash receipts and trips with schedules, and
transferring all the data onto spreadsheets. Then, at the end of
each month, the transit providers had to spend days producing the
reports needed by the various State funding programs.
In
2000, the ATR Institute began conducting its own research on technology
that could be created and used to track clients and accounts as well as
provide for electronic fare collection. In late FY 2001, the ATR
Institute was asked by the U. S. Department of Transportation Federal
Transit Administration/Federal Highway Administration Joint Program
Office to conduct a demonstration project using smart card technology
for rural transit provider administration, financial tracking, and
electronic universal fare collection which could transform the
provision and management of transit services in New Mexico into a
sleek, efficient model that previously only big cities could afford.
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A
Case Study Approach to Creating Improved Tribal/State Relations:
The 2003 Four Corners Institute (January 2004) presented at the
83rd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Committee
on Native American Transportation Issues, January 2004 - The Four Corners Institute for Tribal/State
Relations (FCI) was founded after the Planning Division of the New
Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) initiated a Long Range
Major Transportation Investment Study. During that research,
NMDOT realized the study area included a 130-mile corridor from Belen
to Española and Los Alamos involving 14 Tribes about whom the
Department lacked sufficient knowledge to conduct transportation
planning, design, and implementation. NMDOT, the ATR Institute,
the Tribal Technical Assistance Program, and the Federal Highway
Administration’s Native American Program, created the FCI to
investigate the obstacles to and opportunities for better collaborative
relations between New Mexico’s 22 Tribal governments and
entrepreneurial enterprises and State and Federal agencies.
FCI held its second annual meeting in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, in October 2003. The meeting brought together 25
Tribal, State, and Federal practitioners to discuss issues and write a
White Paper with recommendations for policy, regulatory, legal, and
administrative changes to the ways in which the Tribes and the NMDOT
conduct business. The prime focus of the 2003 FCI was an exploration of
institutional processes that can serve as the basis for more
equitable and efficient Tribal/State relationships. Although FCI
focused on transportation in New Mexico, the process is relevant to all
sectors and States.
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How Does a
Traditional Highway Department Become a True Department of
Transportation by Mary White (October
2003) prepared for: New Mexico
Department of Transportation, Research Bureau in Cooperation with the
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration - A transformed NMDOT can better organize work around results
that customers consider valuable and concentrate resources on ensuring
high-quality results. With the freedom to create new
partnerships, NMDOT can better integrate service delivery and policy
development. Inclusion of all relevant contributors such as
stakeholders, Tribes and potential private sector partners, in the
planning and decision-making processes can ensure that approaches to
getting the work done are effective and efficient. Empowerment of
NMDOT staff with the needed information and training to fulfill their
roles in the transformed Department can maximize their capabilities,
foster excellence and remove barriers that could impede their
effectiveness
The NMDOT is charged with
the responsibility of intelligently adopting a modernized, balanced
approach to meeting the transportation needs of all New Mexicans,
implementing a multimodal system that will consider all modes of
transport, allowing for innovative approaches for economic development,
trade and a sustainable environment. Integration and connection
of the highways, railways, airports, bike trails, walking paths and
public transportation as one statewide system for safety,
accessibility, flexibility, and efficiency is more than an idea; it is
an economic imperative to give the state an economic competitive edge
with neighboring states, the Rocky Mountain Region, and
nationally. By taking a proactive approach now, the new NMDOT can
better accommodate growth in cities and towns across the state.
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NMDOT
2003 Transit Guide (May 2003)
- The 2003 Transit Guide i is a comprehensive reference of
transit providers in New Mexico (including Tribal-run systems) and how
to contact them. The Guide includes information about the types
of transit services and transit funding programs that exist in New
Mexico and a complete listing of transit providers organized by their
locations within NMDOT districts.
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Developing
the Client Referral, Ridership, and Financial Tracking (CRRAFT)
Transit Management System: CRRAFTing a Bridge to Coordinated
Interagency Transportation by Judith M. Espinosa, Matthew R. Baca,
Amy D. Estelle, Nancy Bennett, Geri Knoebel, Mary E. White, and Josette
P. Lucero (January 2003) - To bridge the gap between human
service agency and rural transit system cultures, the ATR Institute of
the University of New Mexico developed a Web-based software program,
the Client Referral, Ridership, and Financial Tracking Transit
Management System (CRRAFT TMS). The CRRAFT TMS integrates human service
client transportation referral and service delivery with daily rural
public transit operations, provides passengers with an increased
seamlessness in transportation service, and generates financial and
client tracking reports, which meet each funding agency’s criteria,
including those required by the FTA. The CRRAFT TMS also decreases the
administrative burden on small transit systems, which are usually
staffed by two or three people, and provides funding agencies with
tools to facilitate planning and to maintain administrative and fiscal
accountability.
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Building
on a Common Desire for Better Tribal/State Governmental
Relationships: The 2002 Four Corners Institute for Tribal/State
Relations by James Kozak and Mary E. White (PDF:61KB/9 pages)
presented at the 82nd Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting,
January 2003. Accepted for publication in the 2003 Transportation
Research Record, Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Born from a sense of frustration and history of inter-governmental
relations that has been decidedly a mix of success and failure, the
Four Corners Institute for Tribal/State Relations of 2002 was created
to be an interactive process in which the participants, decision-makers
from state, federal, and tribal governments and enterprises, were asked
to discuss the barriers to and opportunities for creating a new model
of working cooperatively on a government-to-government basis. The
short-term goal of the gathering was to produce white papers from
discussions as a whole and in breakout groups. The long-term goal
of the Institute was to explore ways to improve relations between state
governments and tribal governments in meaningful ways that would serve
all parties. The Institute is a concept that was generated by
those dedicated to better government and service to its citizens.
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At the
Crossroads: Disability and Transportation in New Mexico.
Executive Summary (PDF:672KB/19
pages)
Full Report (215
pages)
by Judith M. Espinosa, Matthew Baca, Amy Estelle, and Mary E.
White. Funded by the New Mexico Developmental Disabilities
Planning Council, Patrick Putnam, Executive Director (December 2002)
- A study on transportation needs of 644 New Mexicans with disabilities
reports the quality of life for most could be improved with better
transportation options. This study was researched and written by the
ATR Institute. The study found that 92 percent of the State’s
persons with disabilities require mechanized transportation to work.
Over one-third of participants have missed an opportunity to become
employed and almost one-quarter have lost a job, due to lack of
transportation. The report showed that almost half of those study
participants who were unable to drive rely on family and friends for
transport to medical services, and over one-third of participants have
missed at least one medical or rehabilitation appointment in the last
12 months due to lack of transport.
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Evaluation of a
Mechanical Stiffness Gauge for Compaction Control of Granular Media
by Lary R. Lenke, R. Gordon McKeen, and Matt Grush, ATR Institute
(December 2001) - The use of nuclear methods for compaction
control is increasingly problematic for state highway agencies.
Regulatory and safety issues have prompted agencies such as the New
Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department to look for
non-nuclear alternatives for compaction control. This report
describes the evaluation of one such commercially available device
known as the GeoGauge. The GeoGauge measures soil stiffness,
arguably, a much more viable engineering parameter than the
moisture-density relations currently used. The GeoGauge was found
to measure soil stiffness as advertised. Results relating moisture,
density, and stiffness were found to be consistent with earlier
research on compaction and mechanical strength of soils. However,
because of the dynamic nature of the measurement obtained via the
GeoGauge and associated boundary constraints, the ability to obtain a
target value for stiffness in the laboratory has proved to be
elusive. The New Mexico State Highway and Transportation
Department, Research Bureau sponsored this research.
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Synthesis
of Facilitation, Communication, Information, and Technology
by
Judith M. Espinosa and Mary E. White, ATR Institute (September 2001) - This paper was presented at The International
Conference on Ecology and Transportation (ICOET) on September 24-28,
2001. The paper documents the history of the ATR Institute's
T-REX Virtual Library.
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Process Modelling of Integrated
Transportation Design by Ruinian Jiang (MS Thesis, Civil
Engineering, University of New Mexico) (August 2001) - The
transportation development process (TDP) is a key business process of
transportation agencies. The TDP consists of planning, project
development, design, construction, maintenance, and operation phases
with thousands of activities involved. This research addresses
problems in the traditional TDP caused by the separation between TDP
phases and between the basic elements of users, vehicles, and
infrastructure within a transportation system. This research
further establishes an Integrated Transportation Design (ITD) process
model for amending the missing links between basic elements of the TDP.
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New Mexico Tribal/State Transportation
Summit. Summary of
Proceedings
(PDF:50KB/12 pages) (2001) - The New Mexico Tribal/State
Transportation Summit held October 14-15, 1999, was a significant step
towards improving the relationship between the State of New Mexico and
the Indian pueblos and tribes. This event was the first of its
kind in New Mexico, bringing together sovereign Native American nations
with local, state, and federal agencies to specifically discuss both
their individual and mutual transportation concerns and needs with the
intention of signing cooperative resolutions. The Summit was the
pinnacle of months of collaboration between the Pueblos and Tribes of
New Mexico and the New Mexico State Highway and Transportation
Department working to lay the foundation for government-to-government
protocol for tribal and state transportation issues.
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Community
Advisory Groups: Involving Highway Users in the Research
Process (July 2001) - Conventional technical and economic
components to any roadway evaluation are crucial. However, the
immediate as well as final impacts of road construction are
social. The New Mexico State Highway and Transportation
Department upgraded 118 miles of NM 44 (renamed US 550 in January 2001)
from a two-lane highway to a four-lane highway in three years using the
first road warranty of its kind in the United States of America.
The Road LIFE project is the rigorous research evaluation of the $62
million dollar warranty agreement where the design team developing
widening plans is also fiscally responsible for long-term pavement and
structures performance. National and state evaluation teams were
used. A third team, the Community Advisory Group was established
from randomly chosen individuals met and interviewed along NM 44 who
were knowledgeable about their community or tribal nation and wanted to
assist the technical and financial evaluation process from the
viewpoint of how the highway upgrades affects their community.
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Conference on
Transportation Improvements. Experiences Among Tribal,
Local, State, and Federal Governments. TRB Circular Number
E-C039 (September 2002) - Native American issues were
brought to the Transportation Research Board’s Historic Preservation
Committee (A1F05) over 7 years ago. Traditional cultural properties are
important to Native Americans, as are all aspects of transportation,
including economic development, safety, right-of-way, sovereignty,
jurisdiction, and training. The Subcommittee on Native American Issues
in Transportation [A1F05(1)] was formed to facilitate discussion,
research, and illustrations of best practices concerning transportation
issues on tribal lands. The Subcommittee on Native American
Issues in Transportation resolved at the 1999 Transportation Research
Board Annual Meeting to have a conference that focused on the
complexity of broad transportation issues of importance for Native
American nations. Nationally there appears to be a desire for effective
governmental participation in transportation programs and projects
affecting tribal government interests. The committee chose improving
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The Transportation Resource Exchange Center (T-REX) Website: A Case Study
(November 2001) - This paper examines the Transportation
Resource Exchange Center (T-REX), the first Virtual Library that is
dedicated to providing information about the transportation of
radioactive materials to all stakeholders or interested parties. The
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Transportation Program (NTP),
which coordinates transportation activities for all DOE non-classified
shipments of radioactive and mixed wastes and provides information
about these shipments to Non-DOE and DOE stakeholders, recognized the
need for greater outreach on the topic and responded. In June 1998,
through a cooperative agreement, the DOE NTP authorized the ATR
Institute (ATRI), a research organization at the University of New
Mexico, to develop and maintain a Virtual Library that would be
dedicated to serving as a single-point source of information about the
transportation of radioactive materials for Non-DOE and DOE
stakeholders. The ATRI created The Transportation Resource Exchange
Center (T-REX) to serve as an online “one-stop shop” national
clearinghouse for information. The overarching goal for the T-REX
Center is to become the permanent repository and principal distributor
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Moving Forward: A Transportation Toolkit
for Welfare Reform (August 2001) - Every state faces
formidable transportation obstacles in welfare reform, but the most
successful states share several characteristics. These states
have resolved that lack of transportation will no longer prevent a
person who wants to work from doing so. Transportation is the key
to successful welfare reform.
At the request of the
New Mexico State Legislature, and in cooperation with the New Mexico
State Public Transportation Programs Bureau, the ATR Institute
conducted a quantitative analysis of New Mexico specific transportation
barriers to low income residents. The data gathering efforts
included a composite public transportation vehicle database and a
survey of 440 Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) clients and
403 recipients of other public assistance. Interviews with or
surveys of the directors of senior centers, Head Start programs, rural
and urban transit providers, welfare providers, and program managers
operating developmentally disabled transportation services were
conducted to gather information about which would move forward the
coordination of transportation services in their areas. The
results collected from this research were depicted on a GIS mapping
system to increase the comprehension of available resources.
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Enchanted Circle Transit Study
(January 2001) - The Public Transportation Programs Bureau of
the New Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department and the
State of New Mexico Economic Development Department awarded a grant to
the ATR Institute to assess the feasibility of expanded public transit
in the Enchanted Circle region. This northern New Mexico study
area includes the communities of Amalia, Angel Fire, Cerro, Cimarron,
Costilla, Eagle Nest, El Rito, Las Vegas, Penasco, Questa, Red River,
Taos, and Taos Ski Valley. The purpose of the study was to
identify the needs for both general public transportation around the
circle and for employees commuting to jobs in ski and tourist-oriented
communities, and to present several design alternatives for providing
public transportation in the region.
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Los
Alamos Transportation and Transit Feasibility Study (October
2000) - The Los Alamos Transportation and Transit Feasibility
Study is a comprehensive assessment conducted in 2000 to identify the
the potential effects if the County Fleet Management was to assume
operations of the Federal Transit Administration Section 5311 Transit
System, which was being operated by the non-profit LA Bus. The
study was undertaken to determine the range of alternate measures which
should be considered if the nonprofit provider, LA Bus, should
discontinue offering transit services. This assessment analyzes
the level of services provided and need for services, the level of
customer satisfaction, how to avoid duplication of services through
coordinated transportation to eliminate duplication of services, and
the existing regulatory and statutory requirements for transfer and/of
disposal of capital equipment, such as vans or buses, previously
purchased with State funds. A budget, which compares of the costs
of management by the non-profit and by the County government, as well
as a survey conducted with several National Laboratories to determine
the availability of transit services near the Labs and level of transit
support by the Labs, are included in the addenda.
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New Mexico Transportation Guide 2000 (PDF:241KB/18 pages) (August 2000) - The New
Mexico Transportation Guide 2000 is more than a list of names of
transit providers in New Mexico. As well as providing a comprehensive
reference of all the transit providers (including Tribal-run systems)
and how to contact them, this booklet includes the following
information: The role and mission of the Public Transportation
Programs Bureau in public transit in New Mexico; the types of public
transportation programs that exist in the State; how these programs are
funded; why public transit is important; types of transit services
provided; additional transportation services that are provided; and
federal legislation that impacts transit in the twenty-first
century.
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Proposed Paseo del Norte Limited
Access Highway Through the Petroglyph National Monument: Gully
Erosion Rates, the Impact of Dirt Roads, Proposed Watershed Sensitive
Guidelines, and the Native American Viewpoint on this Road (PDF:11MB/182 pages) (February 2000) A study of the
general erosion rate of the current gullies associated with the
proposed Paseo del Norte road through the Petroglyph National Monument
(New Mexico). This report delivers the field analysis of the
erosion rates of the arroyos that lie upstream and with the proposed
roadbed. Additionally, the report assesses if road construction
will lead to increased or incised arroyo development at the proposed
site. A proposal of watershed sensitive guidelines and methods to
evaluate the erosion potential of a proposed road site is
included. The Native American perspective of the proposed Paseo
del Norte road extension into the Petroglyph National Monument is
given.
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Moving Forward: A
Transportation Toolkit for Welfare Reform.
Executive Summary (PDF:1636KB/45 pages) (January
2000)
Full Report (299 pages) (February
2000) - This document describes the welfare to work
transportation hurdles in New Mexico, as well as the innovations and
programs that can be used to sweep these hurdles to the side.
This work is designed as a Toolkit for both state and local
governments; as such, it provides a variety of instruments. It is
well recognized that the problems facing a state as diverse as New
Mexico precludes a single, homogeneous answer. In many instances,
transportation challenges will be unique to the particular
locale. Our hope is that with the proper tools, each community
can initiate the process and procedures necessary to bring its citizens
from welfare to work.
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Cold In-Situ Recycling Evaluation (December 1996–revised
February 1999) This report provides results of a comprehensive
evaluation Cold In-Situ Recycling based on pavement performance and
cost. The evaluation was performed by selecting and investigating
by physical tests, condition inspections and review of other data, 45
projects located throughout the State of New Mexico.
Author: R. Gordon McKeen, P.E.
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Mitigation of Alkali-Silica Reactivity in New Mexico (PDF:222KB/29 pages)
(October 1998) - Alkali-silica reaction occurs when reactive
silica in aggregates chemically reacts with alkaline components of
Portland cement forming ASR gel. So long as the internal relative
humidity of concrete exceeds 80 percent, the gel absorbs water and
swells, damaging the concrete. In summer 1997 the New Mexico
State Highway and Transportation Department (NMSHTD) Research Bureau
initiated an experiment to develop data for use in specifying methods
to eliminate ASR damage in Portland cement concrete. The project
was conducted by the ATR Institute's Materials Research Center at the
University of New Mexico (UNM). The approach was a cooperative
effort involving UNM, NMSHTD Research Bureau, and Materials Labs
Bureau, representatives of industry (FMC Corporation, Western
Mobile/LaFarge), and researchers from New Mexico Institute of Mining
and Technology. Two randomized, full-factorial analysis of
variance experiments were designed and conducted to assess the effects
of additives (fly ash and lithium nitrate) on expansion due to
alkali-silica reaction. Expansion was measured using Test Method
AASHTO T 303 for accelerated testing. Authors: R. Gordon
McKeen, Lary R. Lenke, and Kiran Kumar Pallachulla.
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Public
Transportation: A Priority Link in Moving People to Work (PDF:213KB/71 pages)
(October 1998) - New public law, which limits the time a TANF
recipient may receive benefits to a maximum of five years, has caused a
re-examination of the causes leading families into the welfare cycle
and the barriers to bring the recipient into the work force. This
report focuses on one of the major obstacles individuals face in moving
from welfare rolls to productive employment: the lack of adequate
transportation. This report not only describes the public
transportation needs in New Mexico, but also outlines the federal
assistance that can be expected and how other states and communities
are addressing these same problems with imaginative and innovative
programs. Authors: Judith M. Espinosa, Matthew Baca, and
Amy D. Estelle.
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Existing Design Processes in
New Mexico and PR China in Comparison to System Engineering for
Transportation (SET) Concepts (PDF:84KB/9 pages) (September 1998) -
Application of Systems Engineering for Transportation to a specific
pavement performance problem is compared to existing approaches used in
the State of New Mexico/USA and Ministry of Communications/People's
Republic of China. The advantages of the comprehensive approach
to transportation are clear; however, the application in real projects
is directly affected by the availability of the necessary information
and personnel with skills required to properly execute the SET
approach. Better information systems for use with SET are
essential. Training of specialists in areas new to them will be
of great importance to facilitate a balanced consideration of all
important aspects of a project. Authors: R. Gordon McKeen
and Sun Xiaohe.
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Public
Involvement: Matters for the People in Technology Applications by Judith M.
Espinosa, ATR Institute. One
of eleven papers included in Effluents from Alternative
Demilitarization Technologies, Proceedings of the NATO Advanced
Research Workshop, Prague, Czech Republic, October 13-15, 1997,
edited by Francis W. Holm, 234 pp. (August 1998)
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Asphalt Content by Ignition: Round-Robin
Experiment (PDF:116KB/30 pages) (December 1997) - A
round-robin experiment involving 10 laboratories, 5 mixtures, and 3
replicates for each mix was conducted to obtain data to serve as the
basis for determining precision of the ignition method for measurement
of asphalt content and gradation. Asphalt contents were also
determined using reflux and centrifuge extractions as well as nuclear
asphalt gage measurements. An ignition test procedure was
developed for use with ovens not having an internal balance, which
requires measurements of all weights at specific temperatures and a
determination of appropriate burn times for specific materials.
Test results indicated the precision is equal to that reported for
reflux extractions and nuclear asphalt gages. Aggregate
gradations were not changed by the ignition test based on a comparison
of before and after gradation data. It is recommended that the
ignition method be implemented for determination of asphalt cement
content of bituminous mixtures.
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New Mexico First: Integrated
Regional Transportation (December 1997)
The challenge of addressing the transportation needs of New Mexico,
both in the near term, as well as in the 21st century, was the subject
of the Twentieth New Mexico First Town Hall held in Gallup, New Mexico,
on October 23-26, 1997. The Town Hall, sponsored by the New
Mexico State Highway and Transportation Department, the Associated
Contractors of New Mexico, and the Nova Bus Company, brought together
94 New Mexicans from all parts of the State and three out-of-state
guests to discuss the topic "Integrated Regional Transportation."
Participants identified and debated issues related to New Mexico's
transportation system and came to consensus on recommendations that
will have a long-term impact on the future of the State. This
report reflects the consensus of the participants on the issues
discussed at the Town Hall. Background report authors:
Judith Espinosa and Matthew Baca.
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Our National Laboratories and
Transportation Research (January
1997) The ATR Institute and three national laboratories
prepared this document in response to the question, "What is the
appropriate role of our national laboratories in transportation
research?" Authors: David Albright, Basil Barna, Lewis
Roach, and Adrian Tentner.
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Divided Highway: Transportation
Equity and Violence (August
1996) The promise of transportation accessibility to all
citizens is presented as it was expressed in our Nation's founding
documents. A brief history of transportation and social equity
follows. Based upon this historical perspective, the relationship
between transportation and violence is explored. Authors:
David Albright, John Hamburg, and Henry Richards.
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Virtual
Environment for Transportation Data (VETD) (May 1996) The purpose of this paper is
to guide the development of a set of evaluation tools and methods to
understand better and appropriately use transportation data.
Authors: David Albright, David Fletcher, and Alliance for
Transportation Research.
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Transportation
Opportunities and High Purposes
(March 1996) Proceedings of the First Invitational
Simultaneous Vehicle and Infrastructure Design Workshop.
Authors: Alliance for Transportation Research.
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GIS-T
Pooled Fund Study Final Report. Executive Summary (December 1995) This summary examines
the forces that are influencing transportation policy and direction in
the public sector, highlights the issues facing senior executives
today, outlines the planning process and the applicability of the study
results, and summarizes the benefits that accrue from the application
of the planning framework and the planning model. Authors:
David Fletcher, John Espinoza, and John Wagner.
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Transportation Planning Information
Framework. Strategic Planning Guide (December 1995) This strategic planning
guide was written to assist transportation planning organizations in
evaluating and using the technical results of the GIS-T Pooled Fund
Study. Authors: Alliance for Transportation Research and
Sandia National Laboratories.
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Choices
for Our Future: Finding Transportation Alternatives for an Aging
Population (November 1995)
Transportation resolutions were adopted as part of the 1995 White House
Conference on Aging. This document is a final report of follow-on
activities in response to the resolutions. Authors: Ed
Crow, Felicia Young, Hank Dittmar, Judith Espinosa, and David
Albright.
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Standing
in the Cold: Mobility and the Mentally Challenged (August 1995) This publication is a
brief presentation on the mobility needs of the mentally
challenged. Author: David Albright.
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Safety
Products for New and Older Vehicles: A Recommendation for
Action (July 1995)
This report seeks to stimulate private industry to provide automobile
safety products that can be retrofit in older vehicles as well as
introduced as original equipment in new vehicles. Authors:
David Albright and Phil Kithil.
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Barcelona
Air Quality Initiative (July
1994) This report documents a combined experimental and
modeling effort to study the chemistry, origins, and transport of urban
air pollution in the Barcelona region of Spain. Authors:
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Alliance for Transportation
Research.
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Celebration.
Transportation and Community (February 1994) Celebration
is a planned community being designed by the Celebration Company, and
affiliate of the Disney Development Company. Authors: David
Albright, Mike Moulton, Larry Blair, John Hamburg, and Gregory Lay.
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Transportation and Geographic Computing Concept (January 1993) This publication presents
a framework for a Geographic Information System for Transportation
(GIS-T). In contrast with systems which append transportation to
separately-developed procedures, the proposed framework originates from
transportation needs. Authors: David Fletcher, Robert
Cover, and Thomas Henderson.
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ATR
Institute Annual Reports Annual Reports for each year
from 1991 to 1996.
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