Climate change is making it more difficult to maintain some infrastructure, particularly in coastal areas subject to sea level rise. In some areas, DOTs are already foreseeing that the department…
Policies are needed to fund transportation infrastructure upgrades to avoid catastrophic costs and risks. However, while transportation experts see these costs and risks as significant, members of the general public…
Automated on-site data collection, GPS/AVL on maintenance vehicles to collect time and material information on maintaining individual BMPs, and national higher resolution datasets coming online are all trends that may…
Michigan DOT is currently running a pilot testing LiDAR as an efficient way to add data on engineered structures to the state’s asset management system. Meanwhile, the Missouri Resource Assessment…
The research regarding the reduction of the adverse environmental impact through highway design is still in its infancy. Furthermore, highway design manuals/guidebooks do not provide any information on environmentally-friendly designs.…
In the USA’s 374 metropolitan areas of 50,000 population and above, there is a significant variation in the rate of road-based passengership (being a passenger in a car, van, or…
Over the past decade, carsharing has evolved from an early-adopter stage to become a new mode of transportation in urban areas across the country. While significant work has been done…
State DOTs have measurably increased their participation in the climate change, transportation asset, and environmental planning linkage. There is currently a national policy movement to address these linkages and how…
This research project will apply a transport equation to predict noise distributions in long spaces/enclosures when multiple sources are present. Potential applications are transportation infrastructures such as tunnels, subway stations,…
As evidenced by the recent January 2013 EPA Webinar entitled “Road Salt Pollution Prevention” in which over 1000 people participated, the concern for road salt, or rock salt, and water…