34 Results
A Decentralized Network Consensus Control Approach for Urban Traffic Signal Optimization
Gerardo Lafferriere
The main contribution of this project is the simulation platform that allows for comparison between the proposed consensus approach and a standard traffic signal control protocol. The main features of the mathematical model and the simulation tools a ...
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Vehicle Sensor Data (VSD) Based Traffic Control in Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV) Environment
Xianfeng (Terry) Yang
It can be expected that automated vehicles and human-driven vehicles will coexist in the transportation network for quite some time. In order to support various traffic control tasks it is critical to develop a reliable model to understand the real-t ...
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Engaging Youth to Increase their Transportation System Support, Understanding, and Use
Autumn Shafer
Little is known from research about how to motivate youth to choose non-car mobility, especially specific Portland-area youth. Understanding the current attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of youth in relation to non-car mobility contributes to the sus ...
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The Use of Mt. Mazama Volcanic Ash as Natural Pozzolans for Sustainable Soil and Unpaved Road Improvement
Matthew Sleep
This Small Starts study offers sustainable road building materials for rural infrastructure, from an unlikely source. Approximately 7,000 years ago, the eruption of Oregon's Mt. Mazama blanketed the Klamath Basin region with a thick layer of volcanic ...
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How Do Stressed Workers Make Travel Mode Choices That Are Good For Their Health, Safety, and Productivity?
Liu-Qin Yang
This proposal integrates the perspectives from transportation and psychology research by focusing on the relations between commuting stress, commuting mode choice, and consequences of such choice for commuters' health, travel safety, and work perform ...
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Active and Public Transportation Connectivity between North Temple TOD and Jordan Park River Trail
Ivis Garcia
Christie Oostema
Students in the University of Utah’s Westside Studio researched and developed this project by studying the west side’s history and demographics, conducting surveys and focus groups with residents and performing on-site analyses of infrastructure ...
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Travel to Food: Transportation Barriers for the Food Insecure in Tampa Bay
Ann Joslin
Kevin Salzer
In partnership with the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida (USF), the Transportation
Innovation Group informed practical transportation solutions aimed at improved food access in Tampa Bay (Hillsboroug ...
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Narratives of Marginalized Cyclists: Understanding Obstacles to Utilitarian Cycling Among Women and Minorities in Portland, Oregon
Amy Lubitow
Everyday cycling for transportation can have positive, population-level health impacts. Significant deterrents to cycling remain, however, particularly for women and minorities. Narratives of Marginalized Cyclists, a NITC project conducted by Amy Lub ...
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Street Portals: Urban User Interface 'Test Bed' Prototype for Bike Shares
Jason Germany
Philip Speranza
The objective of this research project is to develop a user interface “test bed” to measure the role of touchscreen kiosks with community connectivity. This interface test bed will apply the knowledge of interface design to the domain of public t ...
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Characterization of Li-air batteries as an option to increase Electrical Vehicle range
Claudia Torres Garibay
The topic of the presented research tackles the main cause by which Electrical Vehicles (EVs) have not replaced conventional gasoline vehicles: battery capacity. This partially-funded project investigates the early development of Lithium-Air batterie ...
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Mobility versus Accessibility: Applications for Shrinking Cities
Joanna Ganning
For 15 years, scholars have written that the dawn of accessibility-based transportation planning has arrived (e.g., Cervero, Rood, and Appleyard, 1999; Litman, 2013). The motivations for accessibility-based transportation planning are many, spanning ...
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Methods to Increase Fuel Efficiency in Post-Production Automobiles
Hope Corsair
While much focus has been placed upon the identification of completely novel technologies for the future of personal transportation world-wide, the majority of the US and the world at large will be reliant upon petrol for personal transportation well ...
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