Phragmites australis plant growth and rapid expansion causes negative impacts including public safety and interference with New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) maintenance operations. More broadly, the growth and expansion of Phragmites australis interferes with NYSDOT’s Landscape Stewardship Policy to promote biodiversity. Current practices to control Phragmites australis include the application of herbicides followed by burning or mechanical removal of dead stalks.

Adverse weather conditions have a signicant impact on the safety, mobility, and eciency of highway networks. Annually, 24 percent of all crashes, more than 7,400 roadway fatalities, and over 673,000 crash related injuries were caused by adverse weather conditions between 1995 and 2005 [1]. In addition, weather contributed to 23 percent of all non-reoccurring delay and approximately 544 million vehicle hours of delay each year [2].

The Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will lead a collaborative partnership among industry, government, not-for-profit and academic organizations to conduct a demonstration of a light emitting diode (LED) roadway lighting retrofit installation along Central Avenue (Route 5) in the Town and Village of Colonie.

In urban areas, obstructions of traffic such as double parking, commercial vehicle deliveries, pedestrian jaywalking, taxi pick-ups and drop-offs, are potential impediments to road capacity and vehicular speed, and causes traffic delay as well as safety risks. In 2014, double parking violation had 502,082 ticketed cases in New York City according to NYCDOF records. New York City and many urban areas need to keep track of the impacts of these violations on their transportation system as well as on the residents of the city.

Over the last few years, bike-sharing systems have become a cost-effective, environmentally friendly alternatives for public transportation in many cities all over the world. On the one hand, the possibility of renting bicycles for short periods of time has given the users a new alternative for performing their daily commuting trips, a vibrant option of completing touristic loops, and a fast way of traversing a city in a healthy and exciting way.

Automated vehicles are rapidly maturing; AVs will necessarily have different capabilities than human drivers, yet there is a major gap in understanding their likely drive cycles (the profile of speed versus time). Any changes in patterns of speed with respect to time will have structural consequences for the main outcomes from the transportation sector (e.g. mobility/accessibility, energy consumption, pollutant emissions, crash risk exposure, induced travel, etc.)

This research has two objectives:

Bus based evacuation serves carless population and helps reduce congestion during evacuations.

By 2020, traffic delay is froecasted to cost 8.4 million hours for society and result in a fuel waste of 4.5 billion gallons in the U.S.  Besides the wasted time and fuel, incidents also cause local pollution (due to higher levels of emissions), and injuries/fatalities.  Roadway accidents are responsible for the majority of this high toll a 57.9%.  If an incident is not cleared in a timely fashion, the queue back-up due to incidents can further block nearby ramps or intersections, causing additional delays.  Early incident detection is also reported to save lives by incr

Hunts Point Food Distribution Center, also referred to as Hunts Point Terminal Market (HPTM), is the center or hub for food distribution for the New York Metropolitan area. Hunts Point Peninsula, located in the South Bronx, is also home to over 40,000 residents. HPTM is a cooperative owned by stockholders. The cooperative has a long-term lease with the City of New York for its cooperation and tenants.

Drainage Identification Analysis and Mapping System (DIAMS) is a computerized database that captures and stores relevant information associated with all on-ground and under-ground hydraulic structures belonging to NJDOT.  DIAMS retrieves relevant financial information for management so that NJDOT can remain compliant with Phase II of the Government Accounting Standards Board Statment 34, which is NJDOT's sole means of reporting all financial transaction, namely the value of infrastructure drainage assets on an accrual accounting basis.  DIAMS also retrieves all relevant environmen