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PURPOSE

The University Transportation Research Center wants to stimulate innovative and imaginative research by faculty in new and emerging areas related to transportation. The UTRC will fund faculty members in the development of a research paper in their area of interest. The topic of the paper can involve any area of transportation including engineering, policy, economics, planning, travel behavior, sociology, management, law, and technology. Only one proposal per faculty member will be accepted in a calendar year.

THE PROGRAM

Researchers interested in the program should write a one page description of an emerging transportation topic on which they would like to write a working paper plus a brief biographical sketch. The paper, when finished, should be of peer review journal quality.
The selected proposals will receive up to $5,000 to be used for costs of developing the working paper. UTRC funds can be used to pay for salary for faculty, stipends for graduate and undergraduate students or post-doctoral fellows, supplies and services and relevant travel required for the UTRC-funded project. Capital expenditures are not covered. University overhead charges are not included in the grant.
he working papers which are to be completed within a year will be independently peer-reviewed and ranked. The grant is designed to initiate and promote research; it is not renewable at the end of the one year. However, based on results, UTRC may elect to negotiate with the author of the best paper for additional research in the form of a grant for a full –scale research study on the topic of its research. No follow-up grants are guaranteed.

WHO MAY APPLY

Applications may be made by regularly appointed full-time faculty members at UTRC member academic institutions. Previous recipients of these minigrants are eligible to apply if they have completed the paper sponsored by their previous grant. However, priority for funding will be given to first-time applicants.

HOW TO APPLY

Prepare a 1-page description of the proposed working paper, including how it will make a contribution to the academic literature, the transportation needs in the region and meet the mission of UTRC.
The program for this round is currently closed and no application is being accepted. The next round for submitting application will be opened during Spring 2010. Applications are to be submitted through the UTRC Online Submission System.
Applications must be received by Date: TBD.

CONTACT

For more information, please contact:
Ellen Thorson
UTRC – 910 Marshak Hall
City College of New York
New York, NY 10031
ethor@utrc2.org

UTRC Faculty Development Mini-grants
Year Title Grant Recipient(s)
2013 Conduct Urban Agglomeration with the Baton of Transportation
  • Dr. Xiaokun (Cara) Wang
2013 Effectiveness-Based Pavement Preservation Selection Based on Statistical Analysis of Long Term Pavement Performance Data
  • Dr. Hao Wang
2013 Street Standards as Parking Policy: Identifying Residents’ Willingness to Pay
  • Dr. Zhan Guo
2013 Innovative Freight Logistics Partnering in the Material Reuse Sector
  • Dr. Alison Conway
2013 Financing high speed rail in the U.S. and France: the evolution of public-private partnerships
  • Dr. James K. Cohen
2013 The Effects of Public-Private Partnerships on Traffic Safety: Evidence from Mexico
  • Dr. Rick Geddes
2013 Prediction of Impact on Transport System due to Coastal Flooding under Climate Change Conditions
  • Dr. Hansong Tang
2013 Developing self-cleaning and air purifying transportation infrastructure components to minimize environmental impact of transportation
  • Dr. Alexander Orlov
2013 Transportation Mega-Project Decision-Making: The Case of NY 2nd Ave Subway
  • Dr. Joseph Berechman
  • Patrizia Nobbe
2013 National Aviation Security to Cyber-terrorism: An Integrated Framework to Quantify the Economic Impacts of Cyber-terrorist Behavior
  • Dr. JiYoung Park
2013 Determine Viscoelastic Mechanical Properties of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA)-Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) Mixes under High Stresses in Airfield Flexible Pavements and Its Impact on Design Life.
  • Dr. Yusuf A. Mehta
2013 Energy, Ride Comfort, and Road Handling of Regenerative Vehicle Suspensions
  • Dr. Lei Zuo
2013 Subsurface Imaging of Corrosion in Painted Steel Bridges
  • Dr. Alexey Sidelev
2013 Real-time Dynamic Pricing for Bicycle Sharing Programs
  • Dr. Changhyun Kwon
2007 Investment Planning for Optimized Decisions in Cleaning Up the Legacy Diesel Fleet
  • Dr. Huaizhu (Oliver) Gao
2007 Light Isn’t Just for Vision Anymore: Implications for Transportation Safety
  • Dr. Mariana Figueiro
2007 Influence of Proximity and Access on Transit Ridership for Older Adults
  • Dr. Daniel B. Hess
2008 Designing an automatic real-time traffic data-to-vehicle emissions system based on video vehicle detection data
  • Dr. Ke Max Zhang

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Design of a Scale Model to Evaluate the Dispersion of Biological and Chemical Agents in a NYC Subway Station
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