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Research:
Research projects recently completed
or currently under way include:
- Congestion management research
- Delineation and markings for
older drivers
- Geometric and operational characteristics
to accomodate large trucks
- Intersection sight distance
- Local Transportation Assistance
Program (LTAP)
- Median design on highways
- Traffic signal systems
- Transit finance and performance
- Transportation demand management
- Highway tort liability
- Traffic signal control equipment
- Cost allocation of geometric
and operational characteristics
- Development of PCE's for highway
cost allocation
- Highway capacity and traffic
simulation
- Travel demand and management
- Activity-based travel forecasting
- Travel demand analysis using
GIS and economics
- Access Management Impact Simulation
(AM/IS)
- ITS strategic planning
- ITS operation test evaluation
- Optimal location of service
facilities
- Mbile source air pollution
control strategies
- Safety, risk, and tort liability
- Traffic engineering education
program
- Low speed urban streets
- Typography for conventional
road-signs
- Freestanding sign visibility
- Impact of factors on conspicuity
and legibility of on-premise sign fonts
- Low-speed urban street design
- Highway cost allocation studies
- Development of passenger car
equivalents using simulation
Research is usually conducted
through the extensive facilities of the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute
(PTI). Research is conducted in laboratories, at field locations, and
also at a full-scale facility that includes a one-mile closed-loop test
track. Graduate students have access to the extensive computer facilities
of the University's Center for Academic Computing, the Pennsylvania Transportation
Institute, and the department's microcomputer laboratory. In addition
to the broad transportation-based research opportunities at PTI, the Mid-Atlantic
Universities Transportation Center (MAUTC) provides a blended curriculum
that allows students pursuing careers in transportation engineering to
gain an appreciation of the business and managerial aspects affecting
transportation. MAUTC's goal is to prepare its graduates to work effectively
at the juncture of traffic, organization, and infrastructure management.
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