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: Innovative and Effective Techniques for Locating Underground Conduits Author(s): Dr. Fadi A. Karaa, Dr. Edip Niver, Dr. Allen Katz Publication Year: 2011 The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) operates and maintains a network of thousands of miles of conduits, many carrying fiber optic cables, that is vital to the State?s communication system. These… |
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Title: Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation Strategies into New York State Department of Transportation's Operations (Final Report) Author(s): Dr. David C. Major Publication Year: 2011 This study identifies climate change adaptation strategies and recommends ways of mainstreaming them into planned actions, including legislation, policies, programs and projects in all areas and at all levels within the New York State Department… |
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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: Part 1: Alternatives for Treating Roadside Right-of-Way Vegetation: Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography Author(s): Dr. Christopher Nowak Publication Year: 2005 Herbicides have been widely used to control vegetation on roadside rights-of-way because they are perceived as more cost effective than other treatments. However, as knowledge of environmental systems has developed along with a growing social… |
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Title: Part 5 - New Alternatives to Synthetic Herbicide Techniques for Treating Roadside Vegetation Author(s): Dr. Christopher Nowak Publication Year: 2005 <p>Herbicides have been widely used to control vegetation on roadside rights-of-way because they are perceived as more cost effective than other treatments. However, as knowledge of environmental systems has developed along with a growing… |
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Title: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) DIRECTOR REGION 2 Operational Support Contracts Implementation Plan Author(s): Publication Year: 2005 <p>The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) is currently facing a significant challenge in keeping Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) at a high level of availability at the Transportation Operation Center North (TOC North)… |
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Title: Identification of Traffic Control Devices for Mobile and Short Duration Work Operations(Project Brief) Author(s): Publication Year: 2005 <p>The objective of this research project was to study mobile and short duration work zone safety with particular attention to the identification of work zone safety devices, information systems for the reduction of safety and congestion,… |
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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;… |