UTRC follows the reporting requirements set forth by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). The purpose of these reports is to share the funded research results available for the transportation professionals and researchers and to publish the center’s past and future activities in the education, workforce development and technology transfer programs.
UTRC publications include a variety of reports; Project Reports, Project Briefs, Journal Articles, Quarterly Newsletters, Annual Reports, and Conference Reports. These reports can be accessed using the search tool which filters publications by the report type, publication year, principal investigator, and research topics.
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Title: Assess Impacts and Benefits of traffic signal priority for buses Author(s): Publication Year: 2005 Bus transportation has traditionally served as the backbone of public transportation. Despite the importance and efficiency of buses, compared to the automobile, these vehicles are weighted equally with automobiles at traffic signals where a bus… |
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Title: Part 2 - Performance Standards for Assessing Vegetation Management on Rights-of-Way: Case Study of New York State DOT’s Roadside Rights-of-Way Vegetation Management Program Author(s): Dr. Christopher Nowak Publication Year: 2005 Rights-of-way vegetation managers are increasingly focused on environmental stewardship. Managers are interested in practices that will produce and demonstrate economically-sound, socially-responsible, and environmentally-sensitive decision… |
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Title: Part 4 - Developing a Cost-Effectiveness Model for Research, Development, and Application of Herbicide and Non-Herbicide Vegetation Management Treatments for Roadside Rights-of-Way Author(s): Dr. Christopher Nowak Publication Year: 2005 Vegetation managers could use a tool to compare cost effectiveness of different non-herbicide and herbicide alternatives for treating roadside vegetation. Such a tool could be used to make informed decisions, better communicate the bases for… |
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Title: Identification of Traffic Control Devices for Mobile and ShortDuration Work Operations(Final Report) Author(s): Publication Year: 2006 <p>This report documents and summarizes the study 'Identification of Traffic Control Devices for Mobile and Short Duration Work Operations,' for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The study was conducted in three… |
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Title: Identification of Traffic Control Devices for Mobile and ShortDuration Work Operations(Tech brief) Author(s): Publication Year: 2006 <p>This report documents and summarizes the study 'Identification of Traffic Control Devices for Mobile and Short Duration Work Operations,' for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. The study was conducted in three… |
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Title: Evaluation of the NJDOT Transportation Management Association Grant Program (Executive Summary) Author(s): Publication Year: 1995 <p>The NJDOT TMA Grant Program gives qualified TMAs up to $400,000 annually to carry out traffic reduction and clean air initiatives. These dollars have funded the implementation of important national and state mandates. They have given the… |
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Title: Deformation of Cohesionless Fill due to Cyclic Loading Author(s): Publication Year: 2007 Integral abutment bridges are becoming widely accepted for new construction of short to medium length highway bridges of limited skew. Although they offer an economic alternative to the use of bearings, integral abutments present their own unique… |
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Title: Comprehensive Survey of Emerging Technologies for the New York Metropolitan Area Author(s): Publication Year: 2008 Professors Satish Ukkusuri and Jose Holguin-Veras of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), as a result of an RFP process through the UTRC, have been selected by a selection committee to conduct an assessment of the emerging and promising… |
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Title: Economic Competitiveness:Performance Measures for Transportation Author(s): Publication Year: 2008 <p>The New York State Department of Transportat ion (NYSDOT) is developing a comprehensive set of measures that link investments in transportation to the general economic performance of the New York State Economy. The agency would like to… |
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Title: Effects on New York State Roadways on Amphibians and Reptiles: A Research and Adaptive Mitigation Project Author(s): Publication Year: 2008 <p>This report explains the impacts of transportation infrastructure on herpetile populations, the landscape, local habitat, and architectural attributes of effective herpetile crossing structures and employs habitat analyses to identify… |
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Title: Decision Support Tool to Assess Importance of Transportation Facilities Author(s): Publication Year: 2008 Assessing the importance of transportation facilities is an increasingly growing topic of interest to federal and state transportation agencies. This work proposes an optimization based model that uses concepts and techniques of complex networks… |
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Title: A Decision Support Tool to Assess Importance of Transportation Facilities Author(s): Publication Year: 2008 Assessing the importance of transportation facilities is an increasingly growing topic of interest to federal and state transportation agencies. This work proposes an optimization based model that uses concepts and… |
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Title: Comparative Evaluation of Deflection and Wave Propagation Nondestructive Testing Methods for Pavements: Implications for Implementation at State and Local Levels (Excerpts) Author(s): Publication Year: 1994 <p>In New York City, as in other highly urbanized areas, several factors make it too difficult to apply pavement management systems methodology in the traditional way. Two of those factors are: underground utilities and utility cuts;… |
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Title: Improved Customer Service and Automated Route Verification for the Issuance of Special Hauling Permits by the NYSDOT (Excerpts) Author(s): Publication Year: 1994 <p>This report presents a design for an electronic permit issuance system for overdimensional and/or overweight vehicles with nondivisible loads. The system has been designed in collaboration with, and for use by, the New York State… |
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Title: Employee Commute Options Guidebook Author(s): Publication Year: 1994 A comprehensive guidebook for practical employee commute options (ECO) was compiled for employers in New York State to provide them with the technical expertise to develop an ECO program. |
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Title: Implementation of Advanced Fiber Optic and Piezoelectric Sensors Fabrication and Laboratory Testing of Piezoelectric Ceramic-Polymer Composite Sensors for Weigh-in-Motion Systems Author(s): Publication Year: 1999 Piezoelectric sensors are being tested for collecting traffic data, including weigh-in-motion, measuring vehicle speeds, classifying vehicles by category and counting axles etc. There are two types of these sensors ? polymer and ceramic.… |
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Title: Economic Benefits of Pedestrian Traffic Author(s): Publication Year: 1999 As more and more people have forsaken city-center activities in favor of out-of-town shopping malls and business parks, many downtown areas in the United States have been allowed to fall into neglect. Will Central Business Districts (CBDs) or… |
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Title: Implementation of Advanced Fiber Optic and Piezoelectric Sensors Fabrication and Laboratory Testing of Piezoelectric Ceramic-Polymer Composite Sensors for Weigh-in-Motion Systems Author(s): Publication Year: 1999 Weigh-in-motion (WIM) systems might soon replace the conventional techniques used to enforce weight restrictions for large vehicles on highways. Currently WIM systems use a piezoelectric polymer sensor that produces a voltage proportional to an… |
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Title: Estimation of Time and Other Benefits from Nine Proposed Transit Capital Projects In New York City Author(s): Publication Year: 2003 Momentum is growing for an ambitious round of investments in transportation projects in New York City. At a time of fiscal crisis, and uncertainties over the direction of the economy in Lower Manhattan and the city as a whole, new transportation… |
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Title: Transit plans head for a crash Author(s): Publication Year: 2003 <p>New Yorkers are compiling a list of transit projects of enormous scope and cost. There is no consensus over priorities, and that's sure to fuel anti-New York sentiment in Congress. Someone needs to take charge here.</p> |