UTC Spotlight Newsletters

This monthly report from the University Transportation Centers Program high-lights some of the recent accomplishments and products from one of the University Transportation Centers (UTCs). The UTC Program is administered by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration.

The views presented in the UTC Spotlight are those of the authors and not necessarily the views of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration or the U.S. Department of Transportation.

2009

• usRAP: A New Tool for Road Safety Management (Iowa State University’s Midwest Transportation Consortium) - November 2009
• New Highway Spurs Advanced Bridge Construction Technologies (Mid-Atlantic Universities Transportation Center at Penn State’s Larson Institute) - October 2009
• Jackson State University’s Institute for Multimodal Transportation Develops Impact Study for Urban Highway Evacuation (Institute for Multimodal Transportation at the Jackson State University) - September 2009
• Transferring New Technology to Our Students: Integrating Technology Development and Transportation Education (National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of Idaho) - August 2009
• "Brake-ing" Technology: Public-Private Collaboration Yields New Composite Material For Vehicle Brake Components (Center for Transportation and Materials Engineering at the Youngstown State University) - July 2009
• Spatial Analysis and GIS Support for Pedestrian Safety in New York City (University Transportation Research Center Region II at the City University of New York) - June 2009
• Integrating Technologies = New Transportation Solutions (Western Transportation Institute at the Montana State University) - May 2009
• Innovative Solution Helps NEXTRANS Model Travel-Time Reliability (NEXTRANS Center at the Purdue University) - April 2009
• Livability, a Transportation "Threefer" (Oregon Transportation Research and Education Consortium) - March 2009
• Mitigating Crash Fires with Fuel Additives (Mid-America Transportation Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln) - February 2009
• Innovative Use of Spatial Data Assists in Solving Truck Parking Shortage (National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison) - January 2009

2008

• A Research Test Bed, a Teaching Laboratory, and a Deployment Project (University of Massachusetts Transportation Center) - December 2008
• Travel Assistant Device (TAD) Aids Transit Riders with Special Needs (National Center for Transit Research at Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida) - November 2008
• A New Approach to Rural Intersection Safety (Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota) - October 2008
• Marshall University Refines Technique to Measure Railroad Track Wear and Deformation (Rahall Transportation Institute at Marshall University) - September 2008
• Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Traffic Management (National Center for Transportation Management, Research and Development at Morgan State University) - August 2008
• Mineta Transportation Institute Studies Risk Created by Highway-Borne Hazardous Materials (Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University) - July 2008
• University Conducts Comprehensive Study of Mexican Border Truck Safety (Southwest Region University Transportation Center at the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University) - June 2008
• University Converts Crude Beer into Hydrogen (National University Transportation Center at the Missouri University of Science and Technology) - May 2008