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: Portable Bridge-Scour Monitoring using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Technology Development and Risk Assesment-based Platform for Deployment Prioritization Author(s): Mehdi Omidvar, Brent Horine Publication Year: 2018 In this study, advances were made toward implementation of a geographic information system (GIS)-based scour risk assessment program facilitated by autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) missions. |
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Title: Road Weather Information Systems for Winter Road Maintenance Author(s): Dr. Rouzbeh Nazari, Dr. Hao Wang Publication Year: 2018 Road Weather Information System (RWIS) technology is a useful tool in evaluating road conditions in cold climates, and is helpful in optimizing the timing of salting/plowing procedures, as well as the quantity of salt used. RWIS technology is… |
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Title: Improve Congestion Performance Measures Via Conflating Private and Public Information Sources Author(s): Dr. Rongfang (Rachel) Liu Publication Year: 2018 A series of transportation related legislations, from ISTEA (1991) to FAST (2015), have been consistently mandating the Congestion Management Plan as integral part of longrange transportation planning (LRTP) for metropolitan areas in the US. As… |
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Title: Investigating Public Opinions towards Emerging Transportation Technologies and Service Forms Author(s): Dr. Xiaokun (Cara) Wang Publication Year: 2018 In recent years, there has been a significant shift in how people use the transportation system. New technologies have resulted in new trends surrounding transportation. In this study, three emerging trends were considered: delivery lockers,… |
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Title: Investigating Public Opinions towards Emerging Transportation Technologies and Service Forms Author(s): Dr. Xiaokun (Cara) Wang Publication Year: 2018 Technology advancement is bringing many changes to the transportation system. Some well- known examples are connected and autonomous vehicles and on-demand mobility services (including the ride-hailing services such as Uber and on-demand home… |
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Title: Activity-Based Approach for the Design of Sustainable Area and Cordon Pricing Schemes Author(s): Daniel Rodriguez-Roman, Dr. Mahdieh Allahviranloo Publication Year: 2018 Vehicle-generated emissions remain a serious threat to the health of urban and suburban communities. Among the strategies implemented to address this environmental problem are area- and cordon-based pricing (ACP) schemes. Experiences in major… |
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Title: Foreign Involvement in U.S. High Speed Rail Projects: Risks, Problems, Opportunities Author(s): Dr. James Cohen Publication Year: 2018 In the early 1980’s, promoters who wanted to build new, very high speed, rail lines in states such as California, Florida, and Texas, were obliged to rely on foreign rail technology and expertise. This research Report explains how, when, and why… |
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Title: Incorporating Probe Vehicle Data To Analyze Evacuation Route Resilency Author(s): Dr. Thomas M. Brennan Jr Publication Year: 2018 Probe vehicle speed data has become an important data source for evaluating the congestion performance of highways and arterial roads. Predefined spatially located segments known as Traffic Message Channels (TMCs) are linked to commercially… |
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Title: Incorporating Probe Vehicle Data to Analyze Evacuation Route Resiliency Author(s): Dr. Thomas M. Brennan Jr Publication Year: 2018 Anonymous probe vehicle data has become an important data source to evaluate the performance of highways and arterials roadway systems. By using predefined spatially located segments, Traffic Message Channels (TMCs) and XD Segments, temporal… |
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Title: Potential Hydrodynamic Load on Coastal Bridges in the Greater New York Area due to Extreme Storm Surge and Wave Author(s): Dr. Hansong Tang Publication Year: 2018 This project makes a computer modeling study on vulnerability of coastal bridges in New York City (NYC) metropolitan region to storm surges and waves. Prediction is made for potential surges and waves in the region and consequent hydrodynamic… |
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Title: Evaluating the Impacts of Real-Time Information on Subway Ridership in New York City Author(s): Dr. Candace Brakewood Publication Year: 2018 It is now common for transit operators to provide real-time information (RTI) to passengers about the location or predicted arrival times of transit vehicles. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City has recently made RTI… |
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Title: The Spatial Effect of Socio-Economic Demographics on Transit Ridership: a Case Study in New York Author(s): Dr. Matthew Volovski Publication Year: 2018 Demand for vehicle and public transportation systems continues to increase in and around major urban centers. This increase is especially pronounced during the morning and evening commutes and is further complicated by the complex spatial… |
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Title: The Spatial Effect of Socio-Economic Demographics on Transit Ridership: a Case Study in New York Author(s): Dr. Matthew Volovski Publication Year: 2018 Demand for vehicle and public transportation systems continues to increase in and around major urban centers. This increase is especially pronounced during the morning and evening commutes and is further complicated by the complex spatial… |
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Title: Urban Travel Time Variability in New York City: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis within Congestion Pricing Context Author(s): Dr. Anil Yazici Publication Year: 2017 Traffic congestion is an important aspect of quality of life, mobility and accessibility in urban areas. The economic cost of congestion is in the order of billions of dollars especially for dense urban cities. Besides the congestion which… |
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Title: Development and Evaluation Smart Bus System Author(s): Dr. Joyoung Lee, Dr. Steven I-Jy Chien, Dr. Guiling Wang Publication Year: 2016 Due to stochastic traffic conditions and fluctuated demand, transit passengers often suffer from unreliable services. Especially for buses, keeping on-time schedules is challenging as they share the right of way with non-transit traffic. With the… |
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Title: Urban Travel Time Variability: Spatio-Temporal Analysis for New York City Author(s): Dr. Anil Yazici Publication Year: 2017 Traffic congestion is an important aspect of quality of life, mobility and accessibility in urban areas. The economic cost of congestion is in the order of billions of dollars especially for dense urban cities. Besides the congestion which… |
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Title: Using Visual Information to Determine the Subjective Valuation of Public Space for Transportation: Application to Subway Crowding Costs in NYC Author(s): Dr. Ricardo A. Daziano, Dr. Linda Nozick Publication Year: 2017 Subway demand in NYC has been on the rise, reaching 1.8 billion trips in 2014. Overcrowding delays have extended to non-peak hours and weekends; weekend overcrowding delays grew 141.2% in 2014-2015 (NY Daily News, 2015). In addition to delays,… |
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Title: Using Visual Information to Determine the Subjective Valuation of Public Space for Transportation: Application to Subway Crowding Costs in NYC Author(s): Dr. Ricardo A. Daziano, Dr. Linda Nozick Publication Year: 2017 The objective of this project is to explore the role of visual information in determining the users’ subjective valuation of multidimensional trip attributes that are relevant in decision-making, but are neglected in standard travel demand models… |
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Title: Reducing Incident-Induced Emissions and Energy Use in Transportation: Use of Social Media Feeds as an Incident Management Support Tool Author(s): Dr. Camille Kamga, Dr. Anil Yazici Publication Year: 2017 Ubiquitous connected devices and microblogging platforms, such as Twitter, are providing a huge amount user-generated information that has a great potential for applications in transportation incident management (TIM) with minimal infrastructure… |
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Title: Impact of Optimization Strategy and Adoption Rate of V2X Technology on Environmental Impact Author(s): Dr. Katie McConky Publication Year: 2017 This research evaluated the effects of automated vehicle control strategies on system level emissions, travel time and wait time through a series of traffic lights. The study was conducted using traffic simulation and a realistic vehicle mix. Two… |