New data collection methods and computing techniques are powerful tools for improving the safety of the nation’s roads. Researchers and road agencies use those tools to predict accidents so they can focus efforts on designing highways and making improvements that minimize crashes.
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With research funding from the Traffic21 Institute’s Mobility21 University Transportation Center Program, Dr. Stephen Smith, Director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, developed the Scalable Urban Traffic Control (Surtrac), the world’s first...
Documentation of Federal Funds under 23 U.S.C. § 504(b) and 505 as Matching Funds (11/28/2018)Question: Per the guidelines, Federal funds under 23 USC § 504(b) or 505 may be used as match. I reviewed all of our awards that flow down from the Federal Highway Administration...
In support of the United States Department of Transportation’s mission to recruit, educate, and train workers from underrepresented groups, the Mid-America Transportation Center (MATC), located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been working to close the gap for underrepresented groups...
Transportation technology has progressed by leaps and bounds in the past few years and more and more of the physical elements of surface transportation systems are now controlled via Internet connections. But with legitimate remote access comes malicious attempts to gain illegitimate...
The University of New Orleans (UNOTI) is conducting severalphases of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) research concerningthe US shale revolution and its effect on the energy sectorand various transportation systems. UNOTI initially assistedthe Port of New Orleans with LNG bunkering research. PhaseII...
Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) and North Carolina A&T State University (NC A&T) are collaborating on an innovative project sponsored by the Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility (CATM) Tier 1 UTC. The goal of the Vulnerable Road User Mobility...
In recent decades, cities have become increasingly motivated to invest in infrastructure that supports multimodal options like walking, biking and public transit. Trip generation, the first step in conventional four-step forecasting models, is a central figure in determining how those...
Over the past six years, the Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) has funded a group of four researchers from three partner universities to explore innovative methods for rockfall and landslide risk assessment. The four phases of this work resulted in...