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: Foreign Involvement in U.S. High Speed Rail Projects: Risks, Problems, Opportunities Author(s): Dr. James K. 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… |
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Title: Simulation of Automated Vehicles' Drive Cycles Author(s): Scott LeVine Publication Year: 2018 This research has two objectives: 1) To develop algorithms for plausible and legallyjustifiable freeway car-following and arterial-street gap acceptance driving behavior for AVs 2) To implement these algorithms on a representative… |
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Title: Simulation of Automated Vehicles' Drive Cycles Author(s): Scott LeVine Publication Year: 2018 This research has two objectives: 1) To develop algorithms for plausible and legally-justifiable freeway car-following and arterial-street gap acceptance driving behavior for AVs 2) To implement these algorithms on a representative… |
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Title: Inferring High-Resolution Individual’s Activity and Trip Purposes with the Fusion of Social Media, Land Use and Connected Vehicle Trajectories Author(s): Dr. Qing He Publication Year: 2017 Trip purpose is crucial to travel behavior modeling and travel demand estimation for transportation planning and investment decisions. However, the spatial-temporal complexity of human activities makes the prediction of trip purpose a challenging… |
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Title: Locating Portable Stations to Support the Operation of Bike Sharing Systems Author(s): Dr. Jose L. Walteros Publication Year: 2017 Redistributing bikes has been a major challenge for the daily operation of bike sharing system around the world. Existing literature explore solution strategies that rely on pick-up-and-delivery routing as well as user incentivization approaches… |
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Title: Bayesian Multilevel Models for Ridership Demand using Rainfall Author(s): Dr. Naresh Devineni, Dr. Mahdieh Allahviranloo Publication Year: 2017 The Northeast United States, particularly New York State has experienced an increase in extreme 24-hour precipitation during the past 50 years (Horton et al., 2011). Recent events such as Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy have revealed… |
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Title: Streetcar Projects as Spatial Planning: A Shift in Transport Planning in the United States Author(s): Dr. David King Publication Year: 2016 Currently dozens of U.S. cities are in the midst of planning and building modern streetcar systems. Though seemingly mobility investments, the intended impacts of these streetcar projects reach beyond transportation and represent a strong turn… |