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: Analyzing Willingness to Improve the Resiliency of New York City’s Transportation System Author(s): Dr. Ricardo A. Daziano Publication Year: 2015 Hurricane Sandy revealed the higher-risk vulnerability to natural hazards of civil infrastructure systems in coastal megacities such as New York. In particular, critical deficiencies in the NYC metropolitan area’s transportation system emerged… |
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Title: Analyzing Willingness to Improve the Resiliency of New York City’s Transportation System Author(s): Dr. Ricardo A. Daziano Publication Year: 2015 The goal of this project is to provide statistical inference for the community’s willingness to pay for improvements in the resiliency to extreme events of the transportation system in New York City. This objective seeks to provide better tools… |
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Title: Demonstrating Urban Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrian Safety and Security Author(s): Dr. John Bullough, Dr. Mark Rea Publication Year: 2015 Pedestrian safety is a critical element of urban transportation. A review of published literature, as well as real-world demonstration activities, indicate that bollard-level crosswalk lighting has excellent potential for enhancing pedestrian… |
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Title: Demonstrating Urban Outdoor Lighting for Pedestrian Safety and Security Author(s): Dr. John Bullough Publication Year: 2015 Pedestrian safety is a critical element of urban transportation. A review of published literature, as well as real-world demonstration activities, indicate that bollard-level crosswalk lighting has excellent potential for enhancing pedestrian… |
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Title: Techniques for Information Extraction from Compressed GPS Traces Author(s): Dr. Catherine T. Lawson, Feng Chen, Dr. Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Dr. Sekharipuram S. Ravi Publication Year: 2015 Developing techniques for extracting information requires a good understanding of methods used to compress the traces. Many techniques for compressing trace data consisting of position (i.e., latitude/longitude) and time values have been… |
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Title: Characterization and Modeling of Photon Absorption on Asphalt Materials for Improved Accuracy and Consistency of Nuclear Density Measurement Author(s): Dr. Huiming Yin, Qian Wang Publication Year: 2015 Although the nuclear density method has been widely used in the compaction measurement of both soils and asphalt pavements, its accuracy for asphalt pavements is not as good as that for soils. Due to this issue, many disputes have incurred in… |
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Title: On-Road Energy Harvesting from Running Vehicles Author(s): Dr. Lei Zuo, Dr. Xuegang (Jeff) Ban Publication Year: 2014 A new type of large-scale on-road energy harvester to harness the energy on the road when traffic passes by is developed. When vehicles pass over the energy harvesting device, the electrical energy can be produced by the mechanical motion even… |
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Title: Performance Measures To Characterize Directional Corridor Travel Time Delay Based On Probe Vehicle Data Author(s): Dr. Thomas M. Brennan Jr Publication Year: 2016 Anonymous probe vehicle data are currently being collected on roadways throughout the United States. These data are being incorporated into local and statewide mobility reports to measure the performance of freeways and arterial systems.… |
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Title: Suburban Poverty, Public Transit, Economic Opportunities and Social Mobility Author(s): Dr. Rae Zimmerman, Carlos E. Restrepo Publication Year: 2015 Recent demographic trends suggest an increasing suburbanization of poor populations. Given that poor households are often unable to afford increasing housing prices in many urban areas they are increasingly moving to the suburbs. At the same time… |
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Title: The Economy of Preventive Maintenance of Concrete Bridges Author(s): Dr. Riyad S. Aboutaha Publication Year: 2016 The most economical approach to maintain existing concrete bridges is by adopting an active preventive maintenance approach. An in-depth investigation of the combined deterioration effects of various deterioration mechanisms is needed to… |
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Title: The Role of Social Media in Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Traffic Operations Author(s): Dr. William "Al" Wallace, Jeffrey Wojtowicz Publication Year: 2015 The objective of this project was to present an assessment of how social media is used to support the management of traffic operations during non-routine events. To accomplish this, the authors reviewed literature related to social media use for… |
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Title: The Role of Social Media in Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Traffic Operations during Non-Routine Events such as Incidents and Planned Special Events Author(s): Dr. William "Al" Wallace, Dr. Xuegang (Jeff) Ban, Jeffrey Wojtowicz Publication Year: 2015 Social media has become an integral part of modern communication. There is however no clear consensus among transportation managers on how social media could or should be used to collect or disseminate actionable information. To provide guidance… |
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Title: Requirements, Model and Prototype for a Multi-Utility Locational and Security Information Hub Author(s): Dr. Fadi A. Karaa Publication Year: 2015 This project lays the foundation for building and exchange hub for locational and security data and risk assessment of potential excavation work. It acts primarily at 2 stages: upstream of the mark-out process, as a decision support tool to… |
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Title: Real-time Dynamic Pricing for Bicycle Sharing Programs Author(s): Dr. Changhyun Kwon, Jee Eun Kang Publication Year: 2014 This paper presents a new conceptual approach to improve the operational performance of public bike sharing systems using pricing schemes. Its methodological developments are accompanied by experimental analyses with bike demand data from Capital… |
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Title: Omitted Variable Bias in Crash Reduction Factors Author(s): Dr. Robert B. Noland Publication Year: 2015 Transportation planners and traffic engineers are increasingly turning to crash reduction factors to evaluate changes in road geometric and design features in order to reduce crashes. Crash reduction factors are typically estimated based on… |
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Title: Network System Effects of Mileage Fee Author(s): Dr. Xuegang (Jeff) Ban Publication Year: 2015 This project presents a comprehensive investigation about the network effects of MF to facilitate the developments of proper MF policies. After a practice scan and a review of the recent literature on MF, a multiclass mathematical programming… |
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Title: Development of a Comprehensive Inventory Management System for Underground Fiber Optic Conduits Author(s): Dr. Fadi A. Karaa Publication Year: 2013 Major State Departments of Transportation operate and maintain networks of thousands of miles of conduits, many carrying fiber optic cables that are vital to State communication systems. These conduits are located alongside or across highways and… |
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Title: Evaluating the Role of Private Investment in Infrastructure Assets Author(s): Dr. Huaizhu (Oliver) Gao, Dr. Rick Geddes Publication Year: 2015 Public Private Partnership (P3) projects are likely to fundamentally impact entire transportation systems. However, most studies are focused on system modeling rather than policy analysis, and few studies have examined the impacts of P3s on real-… |
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Title: Effects of Overweight Vehicles on NYSDOT Infrastructure Author(s): Dr. Michel Ghosn, Dr. Neville A. Parker Publication Year: 2015 This report develops a methodology for estimating the effects of different categories of overweight trucks on NYSDOT pavements and bridges. A data mining algorithm is used to categorize truck data collected at several Weigh-In-Motion stations… |
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Title: The Game-Theoretic National Interstate Economic Model: An Integrated Framework to Quantify the Economic Impacts of Cyber-terrorist Behavior Author(s): Dr. JiYoung Park Publication Year: 2014 This study suggests an integrated framework to quantify cyber attack impacts on the U.S. airport security system. A cyber attack by terrorists on the U.S. involves complex strategic behavior by the terrorists because they could plan to invade an… |