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: Drainage Identification Analysis and Mapping, Phase 2 Author(s): Dr. Jay Meegoda, Dr. Thomas M. Juliano Publication Year: 2017 Drainage Identification, Analysis and Mapping System (DIAMS) is a computerized database that captures and stores relevant information associated with all aboveground and underground hydraulic structures belonging to the New Jersey Department of… |
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Title: A Case Study of High Speed Rail in Florida: Implications for Financing Passenger Railways Author(s): Dr. James K. Cohen Publication Year: 2016 Between 1981and 2011, the State of Florida and private corporations, sometimes jointly, sometimes alone, made four different attempts to implement very high speed rail lines between Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, on which trains would run at very… |
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Title: Panama Canal Expansion: The Effect of Imports and Exports Diverted from California Seaports on the Port of New York and New Jersey Author(s): Dr. JiYoung Park Publication Year: 2016 In 2006, the Panama Canal Authority decided to expand the Canal by investing more than $5 billion to accommodate bigger vessels than now to traverse the current facility. Along with the Nicaragua Canal construction that is optimally expected to… |
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Title: The Ties that Bind: Bi-national Trade and its Implications of the U.S. and Canada Using Bi-national Freight Movement Network via Border Crossings Author(s): Dr. JiYoung Park, Dr. Changhyun Kwon Publication Year: 2016 The objectives of this research are to understand the economic importance of border bridges on the U.S.-Canada economies, especially involving the various US states proximate to the Provinces of Ontario, and to simulate various the U.S.-Canada… |
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Title: A Random Utility Based Estimation Framework for the Household Activity Pattern Problem Author(s): Jee Eun Kang Publication Year: 2016 In the field of transportation planning and engineering, the activity-based approach continues to generate interest in terms of model development and implementation. The Household Activity Pattern Problem (HAPP), is a mathematical programming… |
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Title: A Random Utility Based Estimation Framework for the Household Activity Pattern Problem Author(s): Jee Eun Kang Publication Year: 2016 This paper develops a random utility based estimation framework for the Household Activity Pattern Problem (HAPP). Based on the realization that output of complex activity-travel decisions form a continuous pattern in space-time dimension, the… |
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Title: Effect of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Adoption on Gas Tax Revenue, Local Pollution, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Author(s): Dr. William T. Riddell Publication Year: 2015 Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) are likely to increase in popularity in the near future. However, the environmental benefits of PHEVs involve tradeoffs between the benefits of reduced tailpipe emissions against the drawbacks of increased… |
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Title: Empirical Analysis of Consumer Aspects of Autonomous Cars Author(s): Scott LeVine Publication Year: 2016 Evidence is rapidly accumulating that attaining the full set of benefits from Automated Vehicles (AVs) will require that they do not merely mimic human-driving behavior. For instance, in recently-completed early-stage research, Le Vine and… |
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Title: Evaluation of Public Private Partnership Contract Types for Roadway Construction, Maintenance and Rehabilitation Author(s): Panagiotis Anastasopoulos Publication Year: 2015 Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in transportation infrastructure projects refer to contractual agreements formed between a public Agency and a private sector entity to allow for greater private sector participation in project delivery. At the… |
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Title: Evaluation of Public-Private Partnership Contract Types for Roadway Construction, Maintenance, and Rehabilitation Author(s): Panagiotis Anastasopoulos, Dr. Adel W. Sadek Publication Year: 2015 Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in transportation infrastructure projects refer to contractual agreements formed between a public Agency and a private sector entity to allow for greater private sector participation in project delivery. At the… |
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Title: Alkali Silica Reaction (ASR) in Cement Free Alkali Activated Sustainable Concrete Author(s): Dr. Sulapha Peethamparan Publication Year: 2016 This report summarizes the findings of an experimental evaluation into alkali silica reaction (ASR) in cement free alkali-activated slag and fly ash binder concrete. The susceptibility of alkali-activated fly ash and slag concrete binders to… |
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Title: Alkali Silica Reaction (ASR) in Cement Free Alkali Activated Sustainable Concrete Author(s): Dr. Sulapha Peethamparan Publication Year: 2016 Alkali-activated concrete (AAC) is an emerging technology in the construction materials sector. Being cement-free, AAC is a promising environmentally-friendly alternative to ordinary portland cement (OPC) concrete. Despite the improved… |
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Title: Modeling Disaster Operations From An Interdisciplinary Perspective In The New York-New Jersey Area Author(s): Dr. Kaan Ozbay, Dr. Satish V. Ukkusuri Publication Year: 2016 The objective of this research was to develop a systematic methodology to understand overall demand, destination type choice, and route choice decisions in the aftermath of a hurricane. It will consider transportation, social and other relevant… |
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Title: Freight Costs at the Curbside Author(s): Dr. Alison Conway, Dr. Xiaokun (Cara) Wang Publication Year: 2016 This research aims to evaluate the different parking conditions that drivers face in critical areas of New York City, to examine the variables that impact their curbside behavior, and to develop recommendations to improve curb management. To… |
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Title: Laser Scanning Aggregates for Real Time Property Identification for the New Jersey Department of Transportation Author(s): Dr. Beena Sukumaran, Dr. Ravi Ramachandran, Dr. Michael Lim Publication Year: 2016 The goal of this project is to develop a portable system for determining the mineralogical composition of aggregates in the field for quality control. Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), which involves firing a laser pulse at a sample to… |
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Title: Truck Driver Fatigue Assessment Using A Virtual Reality System Author(s): Dr. Ayman Ali, Dr. Yusuf A. Mehta Publication Year: 2016 In this study, a fully immersive Virtual Reality (VR) based driving simulator was developed to serve as a “proof-of-concept” that VR can be utilized to assess the level of fatigue (or drowsiness) truck drivers typically experience during real-… |
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Title: Truck Driver Fatigue Assessment using a Virtual Reality System Author(s): Dr. Yusuf A. Mehta Publication Year: 2016 Purpose: Develop a fully-immersive truck driving simulator using Virtual Reality to assess the truck driver’s level of fatigue typically experience during real-life varying driving conditions. Background: Driver fatigue is a significant… |
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Title: Effect of Implementing Lean-On Bracing in Skewed Steel I-Girder Bridges Author(s): Dr. Andrew J. Bechtel Publication Year: 2016 Skew of the supports in steel I-girder bridges cause undesirable torsional effects, increase cross-frame forces, and generally increase the difficulty of designing and constructing a bridge. The girders experience differential deflections due to… |
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Title: A Case Study of High Speed Rail in Florida: Implications for Financing Passenger Railways Author(s): Dr. James K. Cohen Publication Year: 2016 Between 1981and 2011, the State of Florida and private corporations, sometimes jointly, sometimes alone, made four different attempts to implement very high speed rail lines between Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, on which trains would run at very… |
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Title: Traffic Prediction Using Wireless Cellular Networks Author(s): Dr. Sabiha Wadoo Publication Year: 2016 The major objective of this project is to obtain traffic information from existing wireless infrastructure. In this project freeway traffic is identified and modeled using data obtained from existing wireless cellular networks. Most of the… |