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Professor Agrawal Appointed Chief Editor
UTRC is proud to inform you
that its Principal Investigator, Dr. Anil Agrawal, Professor of Civil Engineering
at City College of New York, has been appointed the Chief Editor of the ASCE
Journal of Bridge Engineering effective October 1, 2009. He has been serving as the Associate Editor
of ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering and ASCE Journal of Structural
Engineering for the last several years.
The Journal, devoted exclusively to bridge engineering, reports on
both the theory and the practice of the structural design, inspection,
construction, and performance of bridges. From materials to rehabilitation,
safety to demolition, papers address all aspects of a bridge's life. Dr. Agrawal is the 3rd Chief Editor since
the Journal was launched in 1996. UTRC
congratulates Dr. Agrawal for his achievements and appointment!
http://www.pubs.asce.org/journals/bridge/
New National Transportation Security
Center of Excellence Created at Rutgers
The Center for Transportation Safety, Security and Risk,
one of seven new university transportation security centers of excellence
created by Congress, has been established within the Edward J. Bloustein
School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. Organizationally, the center works
cooperatively with the National
Transit Institute and the Alan M. Voorhees
Transportation Center, as well as with other Rutgers faculty and
staff in the School of Engineering, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and
Transportation, School
of Environmental & Biological Sciences, School of Public
Health and other staff involved in
disaster preparedness and emergency response.
Search to Begin for New UTRC Director
UTRC will begin its search
for a new Director. Our goal will be
for new Director to begin at the start of the 2010/2011 academic year.
Candidates must be nationally recognized experts in the field of
transportation, as well as active faculty members. Candidates must have
proven leadership skills and possess management experience at the highest
level. More information will be posted at www.utrc2.org.
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
LIVING SNOW FENCE: First Training Session Held
Drifting and blowing snow is
a major concern for NYSDOT maintenance managers. It causes safety challenges for motorists
and workers and is costly to remove or control. Living snow fence allows managers to use
vegetation instead of human-made fences to keep snow from blowing and
drifting across a highway. Dr Timoth Volk of SUNY’s College of Environmental
Science and Forestry (ESF) is developing
guidance on living snow fence design and installation. Working with his
co-workers Lawrence Abrahamson and Philip Castellano, Dr. Volk is also
developing and refining a train-the-trainer course on designing and and
installing living snow fence. In late
May, Dr. Volk, Region 3 and Onondaga East Residency hosted the first
train-the-trainer session. At this session, 30 NYSDOT staff had an
enlightening and productive two days learning how to design a living snow fence,
and then actually installing it. The course was offered at SUNY ESF’s Heiberg Research
Forest in Tully, south of Syracuse.
 
Here is a view taken in late
July, looking south, of the Interstate 81 installation. The willows are
showing good growth.
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For the full article as it appeared in the NYSDOT
Technology Transfer News, follow https://www.nysdot.gov/divisions/engineering/technical-services/transportation-research-development/technology-transfer-news
Maritime Support Services Location Study: Recommendations
Presented
Findings and recommendations
have been presented as part of the Maritime Support Services Location Study
conducted recently by Prof. Shmuel (Sam) Yahalom of SUNY’s Maritime College.
The study, conducted on behalf of the New York City Economic
Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Development Corporation (BNYDC), aimed to identify and analyze existing
maritime support services and then determine service needs for the
future. Some of the study’s recommendations have already been
adopted and implemented by the NY City Council.
Major findings indicate that the Port of New York
generates more than $18 billion in international and domestic economic
activity annually, serving more than 221 million DWT and nearly 5000
international vessels (deep draft) trip calls in 2005. The maritime support
service industry carried the equivalent of 3.9 million truck trips of liquid
and dry cargo in 2005. The Port
of New York growth rate
of tanker and container vessel exceeds the national level. Furthermore, the
maritime support services industry employs 11,870 individuals, its economic
impact is over $2 billion annually, and the average tugboat handled is 381.8
thousand tons with an average value of $596 million in 21,000 calls for
service (2005).
 The
study’s recommendations include but are not limited to the following: develop
a maritime support service policy, create a seaport planning authority or
agency, preserve existing berthing areas for the industry, encourage building
more dry dock facilities, and develop a network of tie-up sites or hubs in
each borough; thus, a hub could also be used as an emergency response
facility, commercial center, recreation and education facility,
and a transit stop for water transit.
SUNY Buffalo Awarded Grant To Study VMT and Land Use
Adel Sadek and Qian Wang,
faculty members in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at the University at
Buffalo, the State University of New York, were
recently awarded a research grant, funded jointly by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority
(NYSERDA) and the New York State Department of
Transportation (NYSDOT). The grant, which is entitled “Reducing
Vehicle Miles Traveled through Smart Land-use Design”, has three specific
objectives. First, the study will evaluate recently developed tools and
models that have the potential to provide the increased modeling sensitivity
required for modeling smart growth strategies.
The second objective is to use a real-world case study to demonstrate how
these tools can be used to evaluate and analyze smart growth strategies, and
how much reduction in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) may be achieved as a
result of adopting and implementing smart growth principles. Finally,
the third objective is to develop a prototype decision
support system (DSS) that can be used by planning organizations for
optimal land use design aimed at minimizing VMT.
Rowan University Lab Put In Place To Study Binders
 Dr. Yusuf Mehta of Rowan
University has been awarded a grant to study the “Correlation between
Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (MSCR) Results and Polymer Modification of
Binder.” Currently, the state of New
Jersey requires the use of styrene-butadiene or
styrene-butadiene-styrene formulations. In-lieu of the polymer shortages, the
state of New Jersey
would like to expand the use of polymers and rubber in the binder. The state
of New Jersey
has adopted specification limits from the Elastic Recovery test to evaluate
modified binders. However, since then, the binder Expert Task Group has
recommended the use of MSCR (Table 3 - AASHTO TP 70) to evaluate modified
binders. Before the state of New
Jersey can allow the use of other modifiers, there
is a need to first determine whether parameters such as the Jnr and the
recoveries determined from MSCR and ER are sensitive to the polymer or rubber
modification of the binder. This will be a critical step in identifying
whether these parameters can be effectively utilized in the selection of
modified binder specification.
UTRC Investigators, Maxemchuk and Ukkusuri Recently Awarded NSF
Grant
UTRC provided seed money and
the intellectual forum for Nicholas F. Maxemchuk, Professor, Department of
Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
and Satish V. Ukkusuri Professor at Purdue University,
to collaborate and advance their research. UTRC continues to play a
pivotal role by supporting innovative research and is happy to announce that
Maxemchuk and Ukkusuri have received a three year NSF grant for
"Collaborative Research: Integrating Real Time
Traffic Signal Control with Networking Control Strategies to Optimize
Urban Traffic Networks". The goal of this project is to decrease commute
times, reduce fuel consumption and increase the capacity of urban roadways by
using real time measurements, communications and processing to control the
timing and phase of traffic signals.
Lifecycle Carbon Footprint Analysis of Transportation Capital
Projects
NJDOT has contracted with the
Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) at Rutgers to develop methods and
software to estimate lifecycle carbon emissions associated with the construction and
maintenance of transportation capital projects. Phase I of the project will
include literature and practice reviews of the state-of-the-art of materials production,
construction equipment, and maintenance practices for transportation capital
projects. The reviews consist of planning documents, standard practice
specification manuals, related cutting edge literature, and computer models
that address carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions. A
literature review of induced travel effects associated with infrastructure
construction is also included in Phase I of the research to assess the
viability of estimating carbon emissions associated with changes in travel behavior.
Phase II will involve development of an assessment methodology for highway
and transit projects, and development, testing, and dissemination of a
software tool.
Evaluation of Property Values in New Jersey Transit Villages
The Voorhees Transportation
Center is also conducting research examining whether property values near transit villages or train
stations are higher than properties located more than one mile away from a
train station. The project is funded by the New Jersey Association of
REALTORS Governmental Research Foundation (GRF). The research will compare
property values of residential and commercial properties within a radius of a
quarter mile, half a mile and one mile of a train station to those located
within more than one mile from the station. A minimum of five transit hubs, spread
geographically across New Jersey,
will be included in the study. At least one of the hubs analyzed will be a
Department of Transportation-designated Transit Village. Wherever possible, the
study will examine property values in the same location prior to Transit Village designation in comparison to
values post-designation.
NYSDOT Initiates New Projects
NYSDOT has selected PIs for
three new research studies. They are:
·
Grading Rubber Modified Performance
Grade, Thomas Bennert, Rutgers University
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Integrated Vegetation Management
Decision Support, Christopher Nowak, SUNY College of
Environmental Science and Forestry
·
 Verification/Development
of Seismic Design Specifications for Downstate
Zone, Anil Agrawal, City College.
RECENT EVENTS
Paaswell on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show
Buz Paaswell was introduced as the “resident
transportation guru” during WNYC’s four segment series, Door to Door, hosted
by Brian Lehrer. Buz offered his insights and expertise on such topics
as Your Commute and Your City, Technology and Public Policy. Here is the link to the Podcasts.
http://www.utrc2.org/aboutus/news.php
Andrews Provides Testimony to
Senate
Rutgers
Planning professor Clinton Andrews was one of five invited witnesses who
testified on July 7th before the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee on the
impact of transit in reducing greenhouse gas
emissions. To learn more and view his
testimony, go to
http://banking.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=5469b84c-73cb-4087-a1f5-57c49f21ae82
9/11 Award Winners Present to NYMTC
 This
year’s recipients of the September 11th Academic Initiative
Program presented their research and experiences at NYMTC’s Brown Bag Lunch
Series on September 16th. This initiative was created in 2005 by the New York
Metropolitan Transportation Council and the University
Transportation Research
Center to serve as a living memorial
to Ignatius Adanga, Charles Lesperance, and See Wong Shum, the three NYMTC
employees lost during the attack on the World Trade
Center. To date, it has attracted 51 applicants
and has had 18 participants selected
through Year 5 (2009-10), 9 in agency
internships and 9 in independent research covering a variety of topics
pertinent to the Region’s TIP goals.
Student topics are listed
below. For more detailed description of the students and their work
http://www.utrc2.org/education/911memorial.php.
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Nicholas Tulach, Ph.D. candidate in Urban
Planning, Rutgers
University, “The
Tyranny of the Shovel: Exploring Changes in Planning During Periods of
Economic Crisis.”
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Peter Feroe, Masters in Urban Planning, May
2009, New York University, Internship with the Westchester County Department
of Planning on Transit Oriented Development Along the I-287 Corridor.
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Evan Bialostozky, Masters Degree in Geography,
May 2009, Hunter
College Internship with
NYMTC Technical Group
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Jennifer Lozano, Masters Degree in Urban
Planning, May 2009, New York
University Internship
in MTA Capital Construction- Workforce Initiatives
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Darrell Sonntag, Ph.D candidate, Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Cornell University “Independent Research on Modeling the
Temporal and Size Distributions of Diesel Vehicular Particulate Matter
Emissions”
Rutgers Offers Workshop on New DEP Grants
In July, the Voorhees
Transportation Center partnered with NJ Future, the Mayors Committee for a
Green Future and the NJ Sustainable State Institute to host “Planning and Designing Climate-Friendly
Towns: A Workshop for DEP Grants”. The
workshop highlighted the Local Government Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Program created by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection. A focus of
the workshop was on zoning standards that allow for transit-oriented
development.
Bullough Presents Research
Findings
Senior Research Scientist, John Bullough of the Lighting Research
Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute recently presented “Toward Performance
Specifications for Intelligent High Beam Headlamps” at the International
Symposium on Automotive Lighting September 29-30, 2009, hosted by
the Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany. Dr. Bullough also has a
written contribution, “Predicting Stopping Distances Under Different Types of
Headlamp Illumination,” to be included in the conference proceedings. Dr.
Bullogh also presented “Methods of predicting visual performance in driving
situations” at The Eye and The Auto 2009, in Warren, MI,
at the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology. This was a presentation on using
models such as relative visual performance and a peripheral detection model
LRC developed to make predictions about the visibility provided by different
lighting systems used when driving. "Vehicle lighting, roadway
illumination and interactions: Recent data" was presented at the Society
of Automotive Engineers Forum on Safety, Vehicular Lighting and Roadway
Lighting in Troy, MI. This was a presentation to the SAE Lighting Committees
on some of our research for NHTSA on the relative contribution of headlamps
and roadway lighting to visibility and glare. Abstracts for these
presentations and papers can be accessed at http://www.lrc.rpi.edu/.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Infrastructure Security Workshop
- October 13th-14th
The two day workshop hosted
by the Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP) at Rutgers
University and co-sponsored by UTRC and NJDOT will provide a forum to
disseminate information on infrastructure security and evacuation planning
for Engineers, Consultants, and Owners.
A number of relatively
natural and manmade catastrophes, some of which have been cited above, have
been instrumental in allocating funds to several research and development
projects throughout the USA. These and other “infrastructure security”
projects are generating very valuable and potentially lifesaving results.
However, there is a need to communicate these results to public and private
agencies as well to develop synergies among practitioners and researchers to
share their results. This workshop provides a forum for the transfer of
knowledge and experiences that can be used to improve evacuation planning,
security and the safety of infrastructure facilities. The objective of the
two-day workshop is to provide a forum to disseminate information on
infrastructure security and evacuation planning; assisting Engineers,
Consultants, and Owners to:
1. Share the results of recent
research findings with the public and private agencies with the goal of
ensuring their implementation to minimize potential impacts of future events.
2. Create an
information-sharing platform among researchers that are potentially working
on complementary projects to maximize the impact of their findings through
active information sharing and collaboration. A variety of topics related to
security will be covered.
For additional information
and registration, visit the event site at:
http://www.isw.rutgers.edu/content/infrastructure-security-workshop
NJDOT 11th Annual Research
Showcase-October 14th
The NJDOT Bureau of Research
will hold its 11th Annual Research Showcase on October 14, 2009 at
the Conference Center
at Mercer County Community College at 1200 Old Trenton Road in East Windsor, New Jersey.
The showcase is hosted by the New Jersey Department of Transportation,
Federal Highway Administration, and the Center for Advanced Infrastructure
and Transportation at Rutgers University.
The event hours are from 8:00 am
(registration) to 12:30 pm.
The Research Showcase
aims to bring together transportation professionals from Federal, State and
Local Governments, University Research Partners and Legislators to showcase
the broad scope of the ongoing research program and to explore potential
research ideas for the future. This year’s event will emphasize the
value of research in transportation, in addition to, identifying issues and
finding solutions related to Safety, ITS/Congestion Mitigation, Security,
Infrastructure, and the Environmental issues impacting our State.
The NJDOT Research
Showcase has become a model for other states who desire to showcase the work
being conducted through their Research and Technology Programs. New Jersey is proudly leading
the way in showcasing our multi-faceted efforts of advancing transportation
safety, environment stewardship and infrastructure renewal through our
world-class Research and Technology Program.
For additional information
and to register please visit the event site at
http://cait.rutgers.edu/cait/events
CIUS/Newman to Host
Transformational Infrastructure
The CUNY Institute for
Transportation Systems and the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute will
present a half-day conference on “Transformational Infrastructure” on October
23rd. Top transportation officials,
economists, and leading real estate experts will discuss the state of NY’s
infrastructure and its impact on real estate market conditions. For more information follow
http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/newman/conferences/transformational-infrastructure.
UTRC to Present
Research at METRANS
Ben Miller and Penny
Eickemeyer will present their research findings at the third annual METRANS
National Urban Freight Conference on October 23rd in Long Beach, CA. Their paper “Issues Associated with the
Siting of a Truck-Rail Intermodal Facility on Long Island” discusses the
findings of a NYSDOT sponsored CIUS/UTRC study to evaluate demand for and
siting of potential locations for a truck/rail intermodal facility on Long
Island. The paper also provides an overall context of freight rail delivery
nationally and how this differs in Long Island.
UTRC and Rudin Center to Co-Host Policy Series and
Doctoral Lunches
The Thinking and Doing
Breakfast Series: Policy Makers Meet Policy Researchers pairs current New York area
transportation leaders and practitioners with top academic thinkers to
discuss challenging transportation topics: bridging theory with practice.
Breakfast begins at 8:00 AM; Conversation runs from 8:30 AM to 10:00AM.
Events are held at The Puck Building.
·
October 28, 2009: Funding Mass Transit with
Richard Ravitch and Professor Charles Brecher
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November
25th, 2009: World Class Streets for a World City with NYC DOT Commissioner
Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC Chief Designer Alexandros Washburn and Professor/
Vice Chancellor, NYU Abu Dhabi Hilary Ballon
Follow http://wagner.nyu.edu/transportation/
for more information
and to register.
The goal of the Urban
Transportation and Planning Doctoral Series is to provide an informal setting
in which some of the region’s leading young scholars, as nominated by their
faculty advisors, will have an opportunity to present their current
dissertation research on cutting-edge transportation planning matters and
engage other doctoral and masters students, as well as faculty and alumni, in
a meaningful discussion. Candidates will present the following topics for the
Fall 09 semester. Calls for faculty
nominations for the Spring 10 semester will be detailed soon. Student
sessions selected for the Fall 09 semester are listed below.
·
Cities in Mind: Processes and Access to
Opportunity, October 23, 2009 1:30 -
3:00 pm (Lunch starts at 1 pm), Speaker: Andrew Mondschein, UCLA
·
Private Transit Services in Immigrant
Communities, November 13, 2009, 3:00pm-3:00pm with Nicholas Klein, Rutgers
University
·
Neighborhood Design and the Energy Efficiency of Urban Lifestyle in China:
Treating Residence and Mobility as Lifestyle Bundle Friday, Dec. 11, 2009, 1:00pm-3:00pm with
Yang Chen PHD Candidate (MIT)
To register see
http://www.wagner.nyu.edu/events/urbantransportationandplanningdoctoralseries
Wakeman to Present
Transportation Links and Global Trade to NJDOT
The Panama Canal Authority is
investing $5.3 billion to widen and expand the canal’s capacity to service
the current generation of 8000+ TEU container ships. When the new canal locks open in 2014, a
new era will begin that could significantly change global trading patterns
for years to come, just as the initial canal opening did in 1914. There are estimates that as much 25% of the
West Coast current cargo base could be transferred to East and Gulf Coast
ports as global trade picks up again.
There will only be one chance to gain control of the initial surge,
and it will be the deepest East Coast ports with corresponding intermodal
connections and warehousing capacity that will capture this shift in market
share.
Thomas Wakeman, Deputy
Director of the Center for Maritime Systems at Stevens Institute of
Technology, will discuss how the State of New Jersey’s transportation and supply
chain infrastructure could connect the local economic development activities
in the State to the emerging global marketplace through its ports both in the
north and in the south. The talk will address the current economic
constriction that has impacted the prosperity of many and look to the future
of international trade using maritime services offered at the State’s
maritime assets. Finding New Jersey’s
Transportation Links For Global Trade And Economic Developments will be held
at the NJDOT offices on November 12th.
http://utrc2.org/events/events.php?viewid=233
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Berechman Introduces New Book
Throughout the world, the use of some kind of a
formal transportation project evaluation procedure is a requirement. Yet, by and
large, these are partial; in fact, much weight is often placed on the initial
-pre-engineering -phases of the planning process, when vital information,
such as accurate costs and demand projections, is largely missing. The book’s
main objective is to construct a comprehensive and methodical economic,
planning and decision-making framework for the evaluation of proposed
transportation infrastructure investment projects. To find more about The
Evaluation of Transportation Investment Projects, written by Chairman and
Professor of the Economics Department, at City College,
Dr. Joseph Berechman, please follow the link below. Look for a UTRC event this Fall to
highlight the book’s findings.
http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Evaluation-of-Transportation-Investment-Projects-isbn9780415777155
Cohen Contributes to Body of
Work on Financial History of Rail
James Cohen, Associate
Professor of Public Management, John
Jay College of Criminal Justice, has added original contribution to
understanding the causes of decline of French and American railway transport
in the mid 20th Century. By
identifying historic changes in public and private financial markets, Cohen
was able to revise the existing historiography on the decline of rail. His work, detailed below, has been accepted
for publication in a number of publications detailed below.
·
Cohen, J. (2009), “Divergent Paths, United States and France : Capital Markets, the
State, and Differentiation in Transportation Systems, 1840-1940,” Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business History (v.
10, n. 3, September: 449-497, Oxford University Press).
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Cohen, J. (accepted for publication late 2009,
early 2010), “Private Capital, Public Credit, and the Decline of Rail in the United States in the mid-20th
Century,” Journal of Transport History ( Manchester
, England : University of Manchester Press ).
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Cohen,
J. (2009), “Histoire comparative des systèmes de transport aux États-Unis et
en France , 1830 à la Grande Crise,” in Financer les enterprises face aux
mutations économiques du XXe siècle, eds. L. Quennouelle-Corre et André
Straus ( Paris , France : Comité pour
l’histoire économique et financière de la France , Ministère de Finance).
New TOD e-newsletter Produced
The latest issue of Transit-Friendly Development, a
joint effort of the Voorhees Transportation Center
at Rutgers and NJ TRANSIT, is now online. Transit-Friendly
Development keeps municipal officials, planners and transit advocates up
to date on TOD developments in New Jersey,
as well as the Delaware Valley and New
York metropolitan regions.
Zhang Paper Now Available
“Modeling Near-Road Air
Quality Using a Computational Fluid Dynamics
Model, CFD-VIT-RIT”, a paper produced by Y. Jason Wang and Ke Max Zhang,
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell
University is now available on the Environmental
Science & Technology website. Download a preprint at:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/702418/papers/Modeling%20Near-Road%20Air%20Quality%20Using%20a%20Computational%20Fluid%20Dynamics%20Model%20CFD-VIT-RIT.pdf
Minigrant Paper Published
"Dynamic Analysis of
Subway Structures Under Blast Loading", a study conducted by Huabei Liu,
Asst. Professor of Civil Engineering at City College,
has been accepted for publication in the Geotechnical and Geological
Engineering. This project was funded
through the UTRC Minigrant Program.
Subway systems are one of the
main targets of terrorist attacks. Among the various schemes that terrorists
may turn to, bombing is one of their prime options, examples of which include
the 1995 attack on Paris subway and the 2005
attack on the London
subway. Specifically in New York
City, the threat of terrorist attacks on subway
systems has intensified over the years yet how the existing subway structures
would respond under internal blasting is still not clear; and how to consider
such events in the structural design of the new Second Avenue Subway is also
not resolved. No investigation
considering the geological condition and subway structures in New York City has ever
been endeavored. The study analyzes
typical subway tunnels in New York City as
objects and takes into account the geological condition of New York City. The coupled fluid-structure
interaction, the guidelines to evaluate the structural integrity of existing
subways and those to design new underground structure will be investigated in
the later stage of investigation. The study can serve as a corner stone for
the resistance evaluation and design of New York Subway structures subject to
possible terrorist attack using explosives.
Lightning Center’s Research
Published
Miller-McCune published a feature article which came
out September 24, 2009 focusing on Lighting Research
Center’s extensive
headlamp studies. You can access the article at http://www.miller-mccune.com/business_economics/shining-a-light-on-better-headlamps-1452.
Miller-McCune
publishes articles about social issues and public policy and focuses on
topics such as education, politics, the environment, economics, urban affairs
and health. The magazine draws on academic research and other definitive
sources to provide reasoned policy options and solutions for today's pressing
issues.
RPI’s Holquin-Veras Study
Highlighted in Journal of Commerce
Jose Holguin-Veras, Professor, Department of Civil
and Environmental Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was recently interviewed regarding his study
to track off-peak truck deliveries in New
York City. The study will follow 25 carriers
and 20 receivers who have agreed to take delivery between the off-peak hours
of 7 pm to 6 am. Trucks will be equipped with “smart phones” that have GPS so
that real-time traffic, routing and delivery information will be
collected. The study aims to research the magnitude of off-peak
delivery impacts on congestion. It is a great testimony of the quality and
importance of Holquin-Veras’s work and his work with Rutgers, Princeton,
Purdue and NYU, as the Journal of Commerce is one of the most important trade
magazines that deal with commerce in the USA. See the article at
http://www.joc.com/node/413365.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
NYSDOT Proposals Due November
4th
The New
York State Department of Transportation has issued a new Request For
Proposal:
RFP# C-08-12: Mobile Source Air
Toxics (MSATs) Mitigation Measures. The
objectives of this project are to develop proposed procedures for
qualitatively and quantitatively analyzing MSAT impacts in NYSDOT NEPA and
State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) environmental documents and
identify feasible MSAT mitigation measures for NYSDOT capital improvement
projects and facilities. The RFP is available on the UTRC website at http://utrc2.org/research/rfps/C-08-12-RFP.
October 30th Deadline for UTRC Minigrants, Best Paper
Submissions, and Education & Tech Transfer Grants
UTRC is pleased to announce
three programs – the Best Paper Competition, the Faculty Development Minigrants
Program, and the Education and Technology Transfer Grants Program. The best
paper competition is open to faculty, students and staff throughout the UTRC
Consortium. To be eligible for this competition, the paper must have been
published by a peer-review journal between September 1, 2008 and August 31,
2009. Members of UTRC’s Advisory Board will take part in the review process.
The winning paper will be honored at the Annual Leadership in Transportation
Awards Reception held each February by the NYU Wagner
Rudin Center
for Transportation Policy & Management.
Faculty Development
Minigrants Program will fund innovative research by untenured faculty at
consortium universities. Mini-grants of up to $5,000 will be awarded for the
costs of developing a working paper in new and emerging areas related to
transportation. The working papers completed within a year will be
peer-reviewed and the author of the best paper will be eligible to receive a
substantial grant for a full-scale study on the topic.
The
second funding cycle for the 2009 UTRC Education and Technology Transfer
grant program ends on October 30th. This program provides small
grants to support transportation education and technology transfer
projects across Region 2. Tech transfer activities which may be funded
include hosting a transportation research conference or workshop and
providing training to public agency employees on the outcomes of university
research. Education activities which may be funded include transportation
curriculum development workshops, partnerships with a community group or
public agency, and exchange programs which allow students and faculty to
collaborate across universities.
The deadline for each of
these programs is October 30th through our on line submission
system found at http://www.utrc2.org/ReviewSystem/index.php.
Region 2
University Transportation Research
Center
(Serving New Jersey,
New York, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands)
Robert E. Paaswell,
Ph.D., P.E., Interim President, The City College of New York
Camille Kamga, Ph.D., Acting Director
Nadia Aslam, Administrative
Assistant
Penny Eickemeyer, Assistant Director for Program
Management
Herbert Levinson, Icon Mentor
Danielle L. Petretta, AICP, Assistant Director for
Technology Transfer
Ellen Thorson,
Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow
UTRC Research News is published quarterly by the
University Transportation
Research Center, which is based at the City College
of New York, 910 Marshak Hall,
New York, NY 10031. Editorial inquiries can be made
by calling Danielle Petretta
at
212-650-8052 or email at dpetretta@utrc2.org.
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information on our programs or to notify us for an address correction,
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you as Director of UTRC. It has been a
privilege to work, talk, argue, have coffee and just hang around with you.
This will have been – in August – my 20th year, an appropriate time to step
down and welcome new blood and ideas to UTRC. During the coming period, Dr.
Camille Kamga, newly appointed as Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at
CCNY and the long time operational brains of the Center will serve as Interim
Director. USDOT has been notified of and has approved of this transition. In
my new office, I will still be just a few footsteps away from UTRC and hope
to remain active in the transportation life of the region. I want to thank
all of you, my friends and colleagues, for helping make UTRC into the success
that it is and I look forward to its continued growth and impact on the
Region.
