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UTC(s): City College of New York
Publication Date: January, 2013
Recent research conducted by the University Transportation Research Center at the City College of New York, shows that bridges in New York State have been experiencing approximately 200 strikes annually by...
UTC(s): Rutgers University
Publication Date: February, 2013
Rutgers’ Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), a U.S. Department of Transportation Tier I University Transportation Center, recognized the unique opportunity provided by Hurricane...
UTC(s): Texas A&M
Publication Date: March, 2013
The 2012 Urban Mobility Report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute with sponsorship from the Southwest Region University Transportation Center (SWUTC) includes two new ways to describe the effects of traffic...
UTC(s): Utah State University
Publication Date: April, 2013
In the latest State of the Union address, President Obama reported to the American public on the status of our national infrastructure: over 25 percent of the Nation's 600,000 bridges are considered "structurally...
UTC(s): University of South Florida
Publication Date: May, 2013
Blind zones—those areas directly around a vehicle that the operator cannot see while driving—are a particular problem for transit drivers while changing lanes or turning.
Side camera systems have been...
UTC(s): Louisiana State University
Publication Date: July, 2013
Stopping traffic flow to perform road maintenance is not always feasible. Common practice is to close a lane for maintenance and guide traffic to an open lane through the work zone. Unfortunately, it is well...
UTC(s): University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Publication Date: June, 2013
Established by a grant issued in January 2012, the National University Rail Center (NURail) is the first USDOT-RITA Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) dedicated to the advancement of...
UTC(s): University of Alaska
Publication Date: August, 2013
The day-to-day challenges of researchers and engineers at the Alaska University Transportation Center (AUTC) and Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) range from strengthening...
UTC(s): Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publication Date: September, 2013
The explosion of mobile computing in the last few years has fundamentally changed how people interact with technology on the roadway and the information it provides. Scenes that would have been...
UTC(s): Carnegie Mellon University
Publication Date: October, 2013
In April 2012, the Council of University Transportation Centers sponsored a National Transportation Workforce Summit to address the dynamic needs of the future transportation workforce. One stated objective...