Maintenance

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Active and Completed Projects

• Assessing The Capacity of Four Steel Hinges Extracted from Existing Bridges
  (09/2025)
• Tools to improve the durability of asphalt pavements
  (07/2025)
• Sawing and Sealing Joints in Bituminous Pavements to Control Cracking
  (07/2023)
• Expanding the Transportation Workforce: Roadway Maintenance Workers
  (06/2023)
• Effect of Tree Shade on State Highway 34 Winter Maintenance Operations
  (03/2023)
• Haul Road and Detour Maintenance
  (12/2022)
• Mitigation of tenting of transverse cracks and joints in asphalt pavement
  (06/2022)
• Towards the Development of Pavement-Specific Structural Synthetic Fibers
  (03/2021)
• The Impact of Deferred Maintenance in Minnesota
  (07/2020)
• A Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of Pavement Segments that have Remained in Poor Condition for 5+ Years
  (07/2019)
• Remaining Service Life Asset Measure, Phase 2
  (07/2019)
• Autonomous Mobile Asphalt Density Profiling Robot to Reduce Worker Risk
  (05/2019)
• Reducing Winter Maintenance Equipment Fuel Consumption Using Advanced Vehicle Data Analytics
  (06/2018)
• Innovative Materials and Advanced Technologies for a Sustainable Pavement Infrastructure
  (06/2018)
• Snow Control Web Tools Maintenance and Administration, FY18
  (11/2017)
• Septic System Research at MnDOT Safety Rest Areas
  (09/2016)
• Final Report for Vehicle-mounted Robotic Roadway Message and Symbol Painter
  (06/2016)
• Optimized taconite-based pavement repair compound and deployment system
  (05/2016)
• Test and Demonstration of Connected Vehicles Applications to Maintenance Operations
  (05/2015)
• Slope Stabilization and Repair Solutions for Local Government Engineers
  (05/2015)
• Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Tool for Minnesota Pavements
  (05/2015)
• Pothole Prevention and Innovative Repair
  (04/2015)
• Integration of Advanced Timber Bridge Inspection Techniques
  (01/2015)
• Asphalt Mixture Performance Testing for Thermal Cracking
  (12/2014)
• Bio-Fog Seal Evaluation
  (07/2014)
• Full Depth Reclamation (FDR) for Suburban/Urban and Local Roads Application
  (06/2014)
• Comprehensive Field Evaluation of Asphalt Patching Techniques and Development of Best Practices Manual and Simple Decision Tree
  (09/2013)
• Septic System Evaluation at MnDOT Rest Stops and Truck Garages
  (01/2013)
• Estimation of Winter Snow Operation Performance Measures with Traffic Flow Data, Phase 2
  (11/2012)
• Evaluate and Develop Innovative Pavement Repair and Patching: Taconite-Based Repair Options
  (08/2012)
• Evaluation of Concrete and Mortars for Partial Depth Repair
  (08/2012)
• Development and Integration of Advanced Timber Bridge Inspection Techniques for NBIS
  (08/2012)
• Time-Dependent Considerations of I35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge Including Long-Term Monitoring Applications
  (06/2012)
• Robotic Roadway Message and Symbol Painter Implementation
  (12/2011)
• Limited Deployment of Friction Measurement and Applicator Control Systems for Winter Road Maintenance
  (07/2011)
• Improve the Safety and Efficiency of Roadway Maintenance Phase II: Developing a Vision Guidance System for the Robotic Roadway Message Painter - FY12 NATSRL
  (07/2011)
• A Research Plan and Factors Effecting Service Life for Culvert Pipe Materials in Minnesota
  (04/2011)
• Innovative Technologies for Lifetime Extension of an Aging Inventory of Vulnerable Bridges
  (02/2011)
• FY11 Gravel Roads ODL Course
  (11/2010)
• Estimation of Winter Snow Operation Performance Measures with Traffic Flow Data
  (08/2010)
• Traffic Impacts of Bridge Closures 1: Lafayette Bridge
  (04/2010)
• Carbon Nanotube Based Self-Sensing Concrete for Pavement Structural Health Monitoring
  (03/2010)
• RUI: Self-sensing Concrete Pavement
  (09/2009)
• Wakota Bridge Monitoring Program
  (06/2009)
• Improve the safety and efficiency of roadway maintenance phase I: Developing a robotic roadway message painter prototype - FY10 NATSRL
  (06/2009)
• Low-Cost Portable Video-Based Queue Detection for Work Zone Safety
  (06/2009)
• Monitoring Instrumentation of I35W Bridge
  (02/2009)
• Implementation of methodology for weed management practices - Phase II
  (10/2008)
• Bridge scour monitoring technologies: Development of evaluation and selection protocols for application on river bridges in Minnesota
  (09/2008)
• Mn/ROAD Data Mining, Evaluation and Qualification - Phase 1
  (04/2008)
• Automated Vehicle Location, Friction Measurement and Applicator Control for Winter Road Maintenance
  (12/2007)
• Effects of Implements of Husbandry (Farm Equipment) on Pavement Performance
  (10/2007)
• Optimal Workforce Planning and Shift Scheduling for Snow & Ice Removal
  (09/2007)
• Snow Rendering for Interactive Snowplow Simulation - Supporting Safety in Snowplow Design - FY08 NATSRL
  (06/2007)
• Detection of Water and Ice on Bridge Structures by AC Impedance and Dielectric Relaxation Spectroscopy (Phase I) - FY08 NATSRL
  (06/2007)
• TH-36 Full Closure Construction: Evaluation of Traffic Operations Alternatives
  (04/2007)
• Crack and Concrete Deck Sealant Performance
  (09/2006)
• Development of Flexural Vibration Inspection Equipment and Techniques to Rapidly Assess the Structural Health of Rural Bridge Systems; Phase II
  (09/2006)
• Subsurface Drainage Manual for Pavements in Minnesota
  (09/2006)
• LRRB - RIC Best Practices for Concrete Repair for Local Streets and County Roads Field Handbook
  (05/2006)
• Development of a Trash Harvester for MNDoT Phase 2
  (01/2006)
• Design Tool for Controlling Runoff and Sediment from Highway Construction
  (12/2005)
• Evaluating Roadway Subsurface Drainage Practices
  (08/2005)
• Determination of Optimum Time for the Application of Surface Treatments to Asphalt Concrete Pavements - Phase II
  (05/2005)
• Automated Winter Road Maintenance Using Road Surface Condition Measurements
  (12/2004)
• Pavement Evaluation using Ground Penetrating Radar
  (09/2004)
• Motor Grader & Gravel Road Maintenance Tech
  (01/2004)
• Survey and Evaluation of Ice/Snow Detection Technologies - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003)
• Snowplow Operations and Resource Management - FY04NATSRL
  (07/2003)
• Investigating the Effect on Driver Performance of Advanced Warning Flashers at Signalized Intersections
  (04/1998)
• Maintaining the Traffic Control System - Phase II
  (02/1997)
• Maintaining Traffic Light Control Systems
  (06/1995)
• Repair of Metal Culverts - Phase 2
  (06/1995)
• Repair of Metal Culverts, Phase 1
  (10/1994)
• New Retroreflective Sheeting Materials on Highway Signs
  (09/1994)