One of the most important aspects of transportation planning is understanding employment information of businesses and organizations. Information such as location of employment, size of organization or business in terms of employees, sales, can provide valuable input to understanding travel patterns and human activities. Visualizing this information along with several administrative, transportation and infrastructure facilities provides key contextual information to transportation planning agencies. MORE about Business Location Data Analysis and Editing Interface Tool Development
Currently, asphalt mixtures are design using volumetric concepts to determine optimum asphalt content levels with no means of verifying mixture performance prior to field production and placement. A new design methodology called Balanced Mixture Design (BMD) promotes the use of evaluating and design asphalt mixture using rutting and fatigue cracking methods and criteria to achieve an optimum asphalt content that will result in an asphalt mixture performing well in rutting and fatigue cracking scenarios – thereby “balancing” the asphalt mixture performance. MORE about Performance Evaluation of Asphalt Mixtures Statewide
Juliette Spertus is an architect, writer and curator. Her work focuses on the relationship between architecture and infrastructure and the possibilities for public space. Fast Trash is her first infrastructure exhibition. She previously worked as a project architect for Michielli Wyetzner Architects in New York and as a designer at Utile, Inc. in Boston. She completed a BA in art history at Williams College and received her professional architecture degree from l’Ecole d’Architecture des Villes et des Térritoires à Marne-la-vallée near Paris, France. MORE about Juliette Spertus
While Manhattan’s streets may be the most congested—and carbon-emitting—in the country, the subway system that runs beneath them offers an inspiring example of how efficiently—and with what minimal emissions of greenhouse gases—passengers can be transported. Although the collection and transport of municipal solid wastes produces only a fraction of the congestion and emissions on Manhattan’s surface, in absolute terms the hundreds of thousands of annual truck miles these wastes cause are nonetheless quite significant. MORE about Underground Pneumatic Transport of Municipal Solid Waste and Recyclables Using New York City Subway Infrastructure
Research of urban parking policies has tended to center on the impact of policy interventions in central business districts and commercial areas, overlooking parking policies that affect a resident’s home, where most journeys begin. In particular, research has overlooked the relationships between residential parking policies, development and travel behavior. This research proposes to study the impact of residential parking policies, and explores developer behavior with respect to parking requirements and residence-based auto ownership and travel behavior in New York City. MORE about Rethinking Residential Parking Policies in New York City based on Behavioral Responses from Developers and Residents
Over the last several decades population and economic growth in urban areas has intensified the need for more efficient transportation, including the expansion of existing transportation networks, or the construction of new transit projects. In either case, these infrastructure investments require careful prioritization and selection among available alternatives, and are subject to budgetary and other resource constraints. MORE about Decision-Making on Transportation Mega-projects: An Interpretative Analysis
With the amount of wireless communication technology available today, its use while driving has become a significant issue around the country as it relates to crashes, injuries and deaths on the nation’s roadways. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported over 6000 deaths and over 500,000 injuries in 2008 attributed to distracted driving1. MORE about Effects of New Jersey’s Cell Phone and Text Ban
Dr. Jahan is a Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at Rowan University. She teaches Engineering Clinic, Environmental Engineering I, and upper level Environmental Electives such as Fate and Transport of Organic Pollutants. Her research interests are in Sustainable Design, Water and Wastewater Treatment, Pollution Prevention, and Education Innovation. Dr. Jahan has been at Rowan since Fall 1996. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and her MS from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. MORE about Dr. Kauser Jahan
