2010

Active and Completed Research Projects

• Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Task Force
  (12/2010) Status: Completed
• Transportation, Environmental, and Health Impacts of Transitways: A Case Study of the Hiawatha Line
  (12/2010) Status: Completed
• Mileage Based User Fee Policy Examination
  (12/2010) Status: Completed
• Mn/DOT's Corridor Coalition Forums
  (12/2010) Status: Completed
• FY 2011 MnDOT Context Solutions (CSS) Workshops and Advanced Flexibility in Design (AFD) Workshops
  (12/2010) Status: Completed
• New Reporting Capabilities for Continuous Vehicle Class and WIM Data
  (11/2010) Status: Completed
• FY11 Gravel Roads ODL Course
  (11/2010) Status: Completed
• Strategic Planning for Mn/DOT's Engineering Services Division
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Determination of the Effective Built-in Curling of Concrete Pavements
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Toward Zero Deaths Administration and Outreach 2011
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Monitoring the Use of HOV and HOT Lanes
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Expanding and Streamlining the RTMC Freeway Network Performance Reporting Methodologies and Tools
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Toward Zero Deaths Conference, 2010
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Enterprising Twin Cities Transitways: Regional Competitiveness and Social Equity in an Integrated Land Use and Transit Context
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Assessment of Mn/DOT's Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP2) Project C-I8: Pilot Test the Collaborative Decision Making Framework
  (10/2010) Status: Completed
• Operational Research Program for Local Transportation Groups, 2011
  (09/2010) Status: Completed
• BECS Collaborative Research: Modeling the Dynamics of Traffic User Equilibria Using Differential Variational Inequalities
  (09/2010) Status: Completed
• Quantifying Moisture Effects in DCP and LWD Tests Using Unsaturated Mechanics
  (09/2010) Status: Completed
• Development of an Advanced Warning System for Fracture Critical Steel Bridges - Phase II
  (09/2010) Status: Completed
• Using Twin Cities Destinations and their Accessibility as a Multimodal Planning Tool
  (09/2010) Status: Completed
• Development of Lab Test Method for High Temperature Grout Fluidity
  (09/2010) Status: Completed
• Estimation of Winter Snow Operation Performance Measures with Traffic Flow Data
  (08/2010) Status: Completed
• Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), 2011
  (08/2010) Status: Completed
• Case Studies of Transportation Investment to Identify the Impacts on the Local and State Economy
  (08/2010) Status: Completed
• Assessing and Improving Pollution Prevention by Swales
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Mn/DOT RSS Report Publication Services, FY11
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Viability of Personal Rapid Transit in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Deployment and Field Testing of Novel Water and Ice Sensor Systems on Bridge Decks - FY11 NATSRL
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• A Tracking Based Traffic Performance Measurement System for Roundabouts and Intersections - FY11 NATSRL
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Inspection of In-Place Bridges Constructed with Grouted Post-Tensioning Ducts
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Comparative Performance Study of Chip Seal and Bonded Wear Course Systems Applied to Bridge Decks and Approaches
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Development of a Portable Traffic Safety Information System for Congested US Roadways using V2V-assisted V2I Communication Using DSRC Technology - FY11 NATSRL
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Cost Estimating and Cost Management Capacity Building Workshop, 2010
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Integration of New Ramp Metering Formula in RTMC IRIS System
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Bike, Bus, and Beyond: Extending Cyclopath to Enable Multi-Modal Routing
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Prediction and Prevention of Tripped Rollovers
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Worker Earnings, Commuting, and Labor Force Participation in Minnesota Counties
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• AirTAP Program, FY10-11
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Infrared Thermal Camera-Based Real-Time Identification and Tracking of Large Animals to Prevent Animal-Vehicle Collisions (AVCs) On Roadways - FY11 NATSRL
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Performance and Emissions of Second Generation Biofuel DME
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• An Onboard Virtual Rumble-Strip Based Operation for Road Departure Warning Phase I - FY11 NATSRL
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Developing an Intelligent Decision Support System for the Proactive Implementation of Traffic Safety Strategies - FY11 NATSRL
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• TERRA Board Support, Fiscal Year 2011
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Traffic Impacts of Bridge Closures 2: Saint Croix Bridge
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Quality of Life: Assessment for Transportation Performance Measures
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Integrated Approach for Nonintrusive Detection of Driver Drowsiness - FY11 NATSRL
  (07/2010) Status: Completed
• Developing Salt-Tolerant Sod Mixtures for Use as Roadside Turf in Minnesota
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Estimating the Crash Reduction and Vehicle Dynamics Effects of Flashing LED Stop Signs
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Exploring Models of Regional Sustainability Planning and Implementation
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Using Velocity Constraints to Enhance Carrier Phase GPS Robustness
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Funding Urban Infrastructure Development, China Style
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Effectiveness of Urban Partnership Agreement (UPA) Traffic Operations Measures in the I-35W Corridor
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Development of an Accurate and Low Cost GPS-Based Heading Determination System
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Aqueous Pollutant Capture by Enhanced Filter Media
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Economic Benefits of Telework for Employers
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Investigation of Pedestrian/Bicyclist Risk in Minnesota Roundabout Crossings
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Viability and Benefits of Automated Rapid Transit for Minnesota
  (06/2010) Status: Completed
• Validation of Prestressed Concrete I-Beam Deflection and Camber Estimates
  (05/2010) Status: Completed
• TERRA Membership Pooled Funds
  (04/2010) Status: Completed
• FY10 Mn/DOT CSS Forums and Web Updates
  (04/2010) Status: Completed
• Traffic Impacts of Bridge Closures 1: Lafayette Bridge
  (04/2010) Status: Completed
• Mn/DOT Resource Allocation and Organizational Peer Review
  (03/2010) Status: Completed
• Carbon Nanotube Based Self-Sensing Concrete for Pavement Structural Health Monitoring
  (03/2010) Status: Completed
• Toward Zero Deaths Regional Workshops, 2010
  (03/2010) Status: Completed
• 2010 Mn/DOT Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining Workshop
  (03/2010) Status: Completed
• Mn/DOT Research Librarian Services
  (03/2010) Status: Completed
• Deployment of Practical Methods for Counting Bicycling and Pedestrian Use of a Transportation Facility
  (03/2010) Status: Completed
• Inexpensive 2-D Optical Sensor for DGPS Augmentation
  (02/2010) Status: Completed
• Assessing Neighborhood and Social Influences of Transit Corridors
  (02/2010) Status: Completed
• MnDOT Roundabout Training FY10
  (01/2010) Status: Completed
• Metropolitan Highway System Investment Study (MHSIS) Policymaker Workshop
  (01/2010) Status: Completed
• MRI-R2: Development of a Precise and High Speed Hydrostatic Dynamometer System for Research and Education in Automotive Propulsion Systems
  (01/2010) Status: Completed
• In-Situ Testing of State Patrol Vehicle Lighting, Retro-reflectors, and Paint
  (01/2010) Status: Completed
• Utilization of Highway Rights of Way for Public or Private Utilities
  (01/2010) Status: Completed
• Using Detailed Signal and Detector Data to Investigate Intersection Crash Causation
  (01/2010) Status: Completed