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: New Jersey's Links To The 21st Century:Maximizing The Impact Of Infrastructure Investment Author(s): Dr. Robert E. Paaswell Publication Year: 2002 <p>In the last 10 years, New Jersey has invested heavily in its transportation infrastructure, and numerous additional projects are planned or proposed for the next decade. Collectively, these projects have significantly improved… |
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Title: 12 - Empirical Analysis of the Relationship between Accessibility and Economic Development Author(s): Dr. Kaan Ozbay, Dr. Dilruba Ozmen-Ertekin , Dr. Joseph Berechman Publication Year: 2002 One of the key factors that play a pivotal role in a region's economic well being is the presence of a reliable and efficient transportation infrastructure. This is mainly due to the fact that a well-developed transportation system provides… |
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Title: Assessment of Methodological Alternatives for a Regional Freight Model in the NYMTC Region Author(s): Publication Year: 2002 Freight transportation has recently been pushed to the forefront of transportation planning by the confluence of several significant trends. Economic globalization, electronic commerce and the Internet are profoundly changing the geographic realm… |
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Title: Assessment of Methodological Alternatives for a Regional Freight Model in the NYMTC Region Author(s): Publication Year: 2002 Freight transportation has recently been pushed to the forefront of transportation planning by the confluence of several significant trends. Economic globalization, electronic commerce and the Internet are profoundly changing the geographic realm… |
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Title: 10 - The Residential Relocation Impacts of Midtown Direct; A Descriptive Analysis Author(s): Herbert Levinson (Late), Dr. Robert E. Paaswell, Dr. José Holguín-Veras Publication Year: 2002 <p>This paper presents an analysis of the residential relocations that followed the New Jersey Transit Midtown Direct rail improvement. The increased transit accessibility provided by the Midtown Direct connection reduced one-way commuting… |
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Title: New Jersey's Link to the 21st Century:Maximizing the Impact of Infrastructure Investments: MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIPBETWEEN TRANSIT ACCESSIBILITY ANDRESIDENTIAL LOCATION CHOICE-Working Paper No. 11 Author(s): Publication Year: 2002 <p>The importance of commuter rail as a transit mode has increased with the expansion of services to new metropolitan areas, such as San Diego, Los Angeles, South Florida, Dallas, and Washington, D.C., and with the expansion of existing… |
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Title: An Assessment of Educational and Training Needs of Public Transportation Managers in New York and New Jersey Author(s): Publication Year: 1993 Management may be the last major profession where practitioners acquire their skills, standards, and values principally through on-the-job training. The majority of current managers in industry, government, education, and public services learned… |
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Title: Assessment of Border Crossing Needs in New York State Author(s): Publication Year: 2004 Since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1993, rapid growth in crossborder travel has stretched the capacity of the border transportation network. Heightened security since September 11, 2001 and expedited clearance… |
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Title: Assessing New York's Border Needs Author(s): Publication Year: 2004 <p>New York?s northern and western borders with Canada have long served as important commercial and tourist gateways for the entire United States. With recent and projected growth in cross-border travel, and heightened security concerns… |
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Title: Sensitivity Analyses of the Best Practice Model (BPM) in the New York Metropolitan Region (Part II) Author(s): Dr. Maria Boilé, Dr. Sotiris Theofanis Publication Year: 2010 <p>New York Metropolitan Transportation Council (NYMTC), an association of governments, transportation providers, and environmental organizations, handles the metropolitan transport ation planning throughout New York City, Long Island and… |
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Title: Defining the Shared Goals of the NYMTC Principals andRelated Future Trends Author(s): Publication Year: 2010 <p>NYMTC?s Princ ipals reached consensus on f ive Shared Goals to guide regional t ransport a t ion investment deci s ionmaking. The Shared Goa l s ref l ect broad agreement on the need f o r reg iona l approaches to compl e x issues facing… |
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Title: Defining the Shared Goals of the NYMTC Principals and Related Future Trends Author(s): Publication Year: 2010 NYMTC?s Princ ipals reached consensus on f ive Shared Goals to guide regional t ransport a t ion investment deci s ionmaking. The Shared Goa l s ref l ect broad agreement on the need f o r reg iona l approaches to compl e x issues facing the… |
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Title: Multimodal Transportation Safety/Road Traffic Safety in African Countries - Status, Trend, Contributing Factors, Counter Measures and Challenges - Journal Author(s): Dr. Greg Chen Publication Year: 2010 <p>Road traffic crashes and injuries constitute major health, economic, and developmental challenges to African countries. For its 4 per cent of the world?s motor vehicles, the fatalities on African roads exceed 10%. With further… |
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Title: Investigation of rheological behavior of asphalt binder modified by warm mix asphalt additives Author(s): Dr. Huiming Yin Publication Year: 2009 <p>Warm mix asphalt (WMA) technologies have attracted great interest in the field of pavement engineering due to its potential energy savings and environmental benefits. As one of the most popular WMA processes, Advera? utilizes zeolite to… |
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Title: Water Quality Mitigation Banking Author(s): Dr. Anil Agrawal, Dr. John Fillos Publication Year: 2009 <p>Current practice in New Jersey for mitigating stormwater impacts caused by transportation infrastructure projects is established by NJDEP Stormwater Regulations (N.J.A.C. 7:8). These rules outline specific processes to offset impacts to… |
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Title: Multimodal Transportation Safety/Road Traffic Safety in African Countries ? Status, Trend, Contributing Factors, Counter Measures and Challenges Author(s): Publication Year: 2009 Road traffic crashes and injuries constitute major health, economic, and developmental challenges to African countries. For its 4 per cent of the world?s motor vehicles, the fatalities on African roads exceed 10%. With further motorization, the… |
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Title: Sensitivity Analyses of the Best Practice Model (BPM) in the New York Metropolitan Region (Part I) Author(s): Dr. Robert E. Paaswell, Dr. Cynthia Chen Publication Year: 2009 <p>Activity-based microsimulation models are gaining increasing attention from MPOs around the country. These models earn their reputation by having shown their theoretical superiority over the traditional four-step models. The NYBPM (New… |
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Title: Reaching the Potential: The Imperative for Forming National Aviation Policy in a Post 9/11 Environment Author(s): Dr. Michael L. Lahr, Martin E. Robins Publication Year: 2009 <p>The air travel industry is in turmoil. Bankruptcies of commercial air carriers has become commonplace. Increasing fuel costs make profitability wishful thinking for many carriers, and many cities are losing scheduled air service as… |
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Title: The Usefulness of US Transportation Service Index for New York State/Metro Area Author(s): Publication Year: 2009 Business indices play a c r i tical role in summarizing the business conditions of the economy and indicating the forthcoming of phase changes in business cycle. The useful indices should accurately reflect the business reality and dynamic… |
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Title: Regional Rail Transit Training Institute Author(s): Publication Year: 1991 In the New York metropolitan region, there are over 50,000 people employed in rail transit in five separate public rail agencies, including both heavy rail (sometimes called subway or rapid rail) and commuter rail. This represents approximately… |