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: 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: 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: 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… |
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Title: A Regional Approach to Rail Transit Training for the New York Metropolitan Area Author(s): Publication Year: 1991 <p>The purpose of this project was to study the feasibility of a regional approach to rail transit training in the New York metropolitan area and to recommend a means for implementing such a cooperative training effort. The first part was… |
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Title: A Regional Approach to Rail Transit Training for the New York Metropolitan Area Author(s): Publication Year: 1991 <p>The purpose of this project was to study the feasibility of a regional approach to rail transit training in the New York metropolitan area and to recommend a means for implementing such a cooperative training effort. The first part was… |
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Title: A Prototype Decision Support System for Optimally Routing Border Crossing Traffic Based on Predicted Border Crossing Times Author(s): Publication Year: 2012 The economic vitality of the “Golden Horseshoe”, a densely populated and industrialized region which encompasses Southern Ontario, Canada and parts of New York State including the Buffalo-Niagara Region, is heavily… |
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Title: New Jersey's Link to the 21st Century: DEVELOPMENT OF THE SERVICE EMPLOYMENT MULTIPLIER-Working Paper No. 7 Maximizing the Impact of Infrastructure Investments Author(s): Publication Year: 2001 <p>A central component of the New Jersey: Link to the 21st Century project is the calibration of TRANUS, a land use-transportation model, for use in the study of northern New Jersey. The model will be used to forecast the impact of… |
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Title: 6 - Presentation of Available Land Use Data Using TransCAD Author(s): Dr. Kaan Ozbay, Dr. Dilruba Ozmen-Ertekin Publication Year: 2001 The primary purpose of this working paper is to present available land use information for New Jersey State at county and municipality level (where available). Land use research is important for many scientific, ecological and land management… |
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Title: 9 - Using Regional Multipliers to Assess the Economic Impacts of Transportation Investments in Northern New Jersey Author(s): Dr. Joseph Berechman, Dr. Raghavan Srinivasan Publication Year: 2001 The main objective of this paper is to assess key economic impacts, mainly output, employment, and earnings, in Northern New Jersey from recent major transportation infrastructure investments, mainly in rail. This effort is part of the New Jersey… |
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Title: New Jersey's Link to the 21st Century: Maximizing the Impact of Infrastructure Investments: Business Relocation Patterns and Trends-Working Paper No. 8 Author(s): Publication Year: 2001 <p>This working paper describes employment trends and patterns in New Jersey over the last decade. Its focus is on the relocation of firms and jobs, into New Jersey, and their transportation implications. It addresses questions such as the… |
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Title: Investigation of RFID Based Sensors for SustainableTransportation Applications Author(s): Dr. Michael Carpenter Publication Year: 2011 <p>Through support of a University Transportation Research Center Faculty Development Minigrant an invest igation was made into the use of RFID based sensing technologies for transportation purposes. Transportation applications would potent… |
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Title: Risk-Neutral Second Best Toll Pricing Author(s): Publication Year: 2011 <p>As traffic congestion builds up rapidly in recent years especially in urban areas like the New York City, Congestion Pricing (CP) has been proposed and widely implemented, which has now become 'the single most viable and… |
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Title: The Implications of Travel Profiles for Transportation Investment: The Bronx Center Project Author(s): Dr. Robert E. Paaswell, Dr. Joseph Berechman Publication Year: 1997 Investment in transportation infrastructure is generally regarded as an effective means for inducing economic growth and employment in a region. However, the ability of such investments to achieve these objectives, to a large extent, depends on… |
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Title: Improving Safety at Intersections Controlled by Traffic Signal Lights Author(s): Dr. Lawrence T. Guzy Publication Year: 1990 <p>Young, middle and older drivers were motored towards a traffic signal face and were required to report whether the illuminated signal lens was modulating. No significant differences were found among the three age groups in the distance… |
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Title: Improving Safety at Intersections Controlled by Traffic Signal Lights Author(s): Publication Year: 1990 The purpose of the following research was to determine whether conspicuity of an illuminated traffic signal lens could be increased with a modulating incandescent light source. Experiments were conducted both in the laboratory and a controlled… |
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Title: Improving Safety at Intersections Controlled by Traffic Signal Lights Author(s): Publication Year: 1990 The purpose of the following research was to determine whether conspicuity of an illuminated traffic signal lens could be increased with a modulating incandescent light source. Experiments were conducted both in the laboratory and a controlled… |
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Title: Data Gathering and Design Details of An Integral Abutment Bridge Author(s): Publication Year: 2007 An integral-abutment bridge is designed to transfer the temperature and traffic-induced horizontal loading to its foundation by the use of a continuous joint between the superstructure and its abutment. The connection eliminates the need for… |