Where research meets the road
Our faculty use their knowledge and research to improve how we get to where we are going. Their research specialties include multimodal transportation system planning, travel behavior, sustainable and equitable transportation, emerging transportation technologies, travel demand forecasting, transportation policy, smart cities, application of new technology to surveys, evaluation of transportation projects, changes in travel behavior and consequences of technology changes on travel.
They are sought-out experts in infrastructure resilience and sustainability, climate change and extreme events, interdependent infrastructure systems, transportation life cycle assessment, infrastructure complexity and adaptation, pavements, urban heat island, pavement evaluation, material characterization, activity-travel behavior analysis, transportation demand forecasting/modeling, travel surveys and data analytics and land use-transportation policy analysis.
Faculty research also focused on airfield and highway pavements, asphalt materials characterization, pavement design and structural analysis, computational fracture mechanics, life-cycle assessment and sustainability, preservation and rehabilitation of pavements, highway safety, traffic engineering, vulnerable road users, human factors in design, human behaviors in safety, transportation network modeling, railway engineering, intelligent transportation systems and dynamic traffic assignment.