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To help ease freeway congestion and improve safety, Morgan State University and Clemson University developed a prototype for a new traffic surveillance system. This proposed vehicle-infrastructure integration (VII) system assesses and predicts traffic conditions via...
In April 2007, a petroleum tanker crashed and exploded on an Oakland, California, freeway interchange known locally as "The MacArthur Maze." The intense heat weakened and collapsed an overpass and closed a major access to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, causing ...
The Southwest Region University Transportation Center (Region VI), headquartered at the Texas Transportation Institute in the Texas A&M University System, recently reported the results of a detailed safety study of trucks crossing the U.S.- Mexico border into...
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) recently announced a novel and robust process for converting ethanol into hydrogen-- E-H2 technology. This new process, developed by Missouri S&T's National University Transportation...
The adoption of Accelerated Bridge Construction (ABC) techniques in Utah has raised questions regarding how well ABC bridge spans handle unique stresses placed on them during construction as well as how well they might handle stresses posed by natural hazards, such as earthquakes...
Roadway crashes are a leading cause of death in the United States. Yet, little information on crash risks is readily available to travelers and highway planners. Raising public awareness of these risks is one of the primary objectives of the U.S. Road Assessment Program (usRAP)...
Pennsylvania roadway bridges are not just designed to bear traffic, they must handle the extreme temperature fluctuations of the winter and summer cycles. Recent construction of Interstate 99, in central Pennsylvania, has provided an ideal arena for examining two popular bridge...
The successful mass evacuation of populations endangered by natural and manmade disasters requires establishment of mass-exit and operational strategies that maximize the proficiency and capacity of multimodal transportation networks. A workable emergency evacuation calls for...
The University of Idaho's National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology (NIATT) has been transferring technology that it developed to students in the classroom and to practitioners in the field for over 10 years, thanks to a closely integrated program of technology...