Research Recaps

The research recaps are one-page overviews of the US DOT University Transportation Center funded research.  Each recap includes a description of the research project’s purpose, approach, key findings, conclusions, contact information for the research team and a link to the final research report.

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• Towards Data-Driven and Continuous Safety Inspection of Commercial Trucks and Trailers, Pingbo Tang
• Designing the Future of Transit Work, Sarah Fox and Nik Martelaro
• Demand Learning and Supply Optimization for Last-Mile Transportation in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods, Peter Zhang
• Connected Vehicle Infrastructure for a Smart City, Ray Gastil
• Smart and Equitable Parks: Quantifying Returns on Investments, Katherine Flanigan
• Platooning for Improved Safety and Efficiency of Semi-Trucks (PISES-III), Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan and Varun Shankar
• Equity and Transportation System Implications of Shared Autonomous Vehicle Deployment, Corey Harper
• Towards a Smart, Safe, and Sustainable Sidewalk: How Infrastructure Affects Users, Ding Zhao
• Bus on the Edge: Applications, Christoph Mertz
• Rethinking Connected Vehicles for Spectrum Scarcity, Jon Peha
• Ridehailing Service Equity in Normal and Rare Conditions, Jeremy Michalek, Daniel Armanios, and Destenie Nock
• Mixed Autonomy Era of Transportation: Resilience and Autonomous Fleet Management, Carlee Joe-Wong
• Real-Time Traffic Analytics at Intersections, Srinivasa Narasimhan
• Synthesis of Research Results and Technology Trends to Inform Federal, State, Regional and Local Policies for Smart Mobility of People and Goods: Phase 3, Stan Caldwell and Chris Hendrickson
• Platooning for Improved Safety and Efficiency of Semi-Trucks (PISES – III), Venkat Viswanathan
• Accessibility with GetGoing, Maxine Eskenazi, Alan Black, and Yulan Feng
• Smart Glasses for Improving Mobility of Low Vision People (Phase Two), Yang Cai
• Development of a Safe, Profitable, and Fair Robotaxi Deployment Strategy, Ding Zhao
• Analysis of the Potential for Micromobility to Replace Short Car Trips in Urban Areas and Impacts on Congestion, Corey Harper
• Joint Optimization of School Bus Routes and Last-Mile Services, Peter Zhang
• Smart Right-of-Way Permitting System for the City of Pittsburgh: Coordination, Pricing and Enforcement, Sean Qian
• Platooning for Improved Safety and Efficiency of Semi-Trucks (PISES) II,  Venkat Viswanathan
• Taxi-for-all: Incentivized Taxi Actuation System for Balanced Area-wide Service, Carlee Joe-Wong
• Spectrum for Connected Vehicles, Jon Peha
• Driving Low-Income Mothers to Greater Success: The Impact of Ride-Hailing on Income and Employment, Lee Branstetter
• Assessment of Prospective Mileage-Based Fee System to Replace Fuel Taxes for Passenger Vehicles in Pennsylvania, H. Scott Matthews
• Proactive Management of Mobility Impact of Interdependent Subsurface Utility and Roadway Construction, Burcu Akinci
• Integration of Autonomous Vehicles with Adaptive Signal Control to Enhance Mobility, Stephen Smith
• Using Municipal Vehicles as Sensor Platforms to Monitor the Health and Performance of the Traffic Control System, Mark McCord, Rabi G. Mishalani and Benjamin Coifman
• Labeling Roads with Different Types of Automated Driving Functional Requirements using Machine Learning, Ding Zhao
• Bus on the Edge: Continuous Monitoring of Traffic and Infrastructure, Christoph Mertz
• Latest Generation Data Portal for the Intelligent Mobility Meter, Bernardo Pires
• Modeling and Enhancing Freight Mobility in the Philadelphia Region, Sean Qian
• Travel Impacts of a Complete Street Project in a Mixed Urban Corridor, Rick Grahn, Chris Hendrickson, H. Scott Matthews, Corey Harper and Sean Qian
• Cost-Effective Designs of Smart City Technologies for Vehicular Communications, Jon Peha
• Utilizing School Bus Meals to Deliver Meals to Families in Need, Stephen Smith
• Data-driven mobility service design: a case study for Moon Township, Sean Qian and Rick Grahn
• Smart Multi-modal Transportation Solutions for North Huntingdon Township in Response to Roadway Construction Project on Route 30, Sean Qian
• Personalized Trip Planner for Seniors – GetGoing, Maxine Eskenazi
• The Built Environment and Pedestrian Safety in the Philadelphia Region, Erick Guerra
• Understanding and Guiding Pedestrian and Crowd Motion, Umit Ozguner
• Improving Rush Hour Traffic Flow by Computer-Vision-Based Parking Detection and Regulations, Christoph Mertz and Sean Qian
• Dynamic Management of Food Redistribution for 412 Food Rescue, Zachary Rubenstein
• Connecting Millvale to the River and the Region, Stefani Danes
• Busload Detection via Autonomous Sensing, Anthony Tomasic
• Contact Sensing for Improved Inspection of Transportation Infrastructure, Sebastian Scherer
• Vehicle-based Panhandle Bridge Monitoring, Hae Young Noh
• Traffic Impact of CSX Pittsburgh Intermodal Rail Terminal and Mitigation Plans for McKees Rocks, Sean Qian
• Optimizing Snow Plowing Operations in Urban Road Networks, Phase II, Stephen Smith
• The Intelligent Mobility Meter, Bernardo Pires
• Incentive Design in Ride Sharing Platforms, Alexandre Jacquillat
• User-centric interdependent urban systems:  using energy use data and social media data to improve mobility, Sean Qian
• Connected Vehicle Infrastructure for a Smart City, Jon Peha

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