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Animal-Vehicle Conflict Prevention via VDOT Mobile Safety Application

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Conflicts between vehicles and animals on roadways result in 200 human deaths and more than $4B in damages every year nationwide. VDOT spends $4M per year dealing with the challenging…

Design and Prototype Self Driving and Off Highway Sweeper

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

This research will develop the design for a prototype robotic sweeper sweep/collect trash along mainline highway segments. The research should produce the following: 1. Design of a self driving sweeper…

AVC Mitigation using Wildlife Crossing Control and Detection Systems

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Animal-vehicle conflicts (AVCs), and particularly the ever increasing deer-vehicle collisions, cause major transportation safety issues on U.S. roadways due to habitat fragmentation sustained by transportation developments. Therefore, the ability to…

Mitigation Values of Wildlife Crossing Enhancements with Transportation Projects

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Wildlife crossings and enhancements are often integrated into transportation projects and are becoming a larger aspect with long-term mitigation planning for many state DOTs and transportation agencies. There are unknowns…

Analytical Framework to Assess Air Quality Impacts of Free-floating Car Sharing System

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

This project aims to model the environmental effect of a new form of car sharing system with free-floating vehicles. The free-floating vehicle system, unlike traditional car-sharing systems, is based on…

Post War Commercial Properties

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Post war commercial structures and areas, in particular, shopping centers, banks, gas stations,, restaurants and car dealerships were typically placed along major thoroughfares. Though some have experienced updating renovations, many…

Best Practices for Streamlining Project-Level Analyses for Air Quality

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Air quality project-level analyses (PLAs) that state DOTs are required to prepare for purposes of NEPA and the EPA transportation conformity rule have become more complicated, time-consuming and costly in…

Determining the co-efficient of resilience capacities of various pavement materials to climatic parameters

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Climate change in terms of severe weather events is impacting severely the road infrastructure throughout the world. To design, construct and operate all weather roads in cost effective manner is…

Echo solutions to fog induced visibility reductions along highways

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

Fog induced visibility reduction is imposing a serious threat to safety, has limited traffic movements along highways and has so many indirect effect on economy and human life during winters…

Combining Compost and Phosphorus Sorption Media into a Homogenized “Mix” for Stormwater Treatment

By ahardingMay 7, 2021Leave a comment

This study will develop a compost blended with phosphorus sorption media mix (Mix), which will treat highways stormwater runoff while limiting phosphorus leaching. Compost effectively removes metals and other pollutants…

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