<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 &#39;connectivity zones&#39; where crossing structures would be most appropriately deployed along New York State roadways. To conserve New Yorks herpetiles we must protect a diversity of habitats that they require as well as the connections between them.

<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 understand in particular how NYSDOT investments singularly or in concert with investments by State and Local governments and Public Agencies/Authorities could improve economic competitiveness. As in the rest o f the U.S., transport systems have been designed to link, impact and even stimulate economic activites.

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 science to assess the importance of transportation facilities.

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 science to assess the importance of transportation
facilities.

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 technology that is likely to impact transportation in the NYMTC region.

The New York State Department of Transportat ion (NYSDOT) is developing a comprehensive set of measures
that l i nk investments i n t ransport a tion to the general economic performance of the New York State Economy.
The agency wo u l d l i k e to understand in particular how NYSDOT investments singul a rly or in concert wi th
investments by State and Local governments and Public Agencies/Author i t ies could improve economic
competi t i veness.