2026

Active and Completed Research Projects

• Beyond Ridership: Measuring the Performance of Twin Cities Public Transit Systems
  (09/2026) Status: Active
• Situational awareness alerts for roadside bicycles and pedestrians
  (08/2026) Status: Active
• Beyond the Sum of Its Parts: A Modeling Approach to Joint Effects and Network Interactions for Strategic Project Prioritization
  (08/2026) Status: Active
• Developing recommendations for the use of biochar in roadside green infrastructure
  (08/2026) Status: Active
• Creating a real-time road safety evaluation of collision risks based on traffic state estimation
  (08/2026) Status: Active
• Robust data driven condition monitoring of pavements based on temperature data
  (08/2026) Status: Active
• Effects of Stormwater BMPs on Water Quality in Surface Effluent and Groundwater during Spring Snowmelt
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Analysis and Risk Management of Motorcycle, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Crashes in Minnesota
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Utilizing Public Perceptions to Inform Successful Roadside Vegetation Planning
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Refining Ice Loading for Minnesota Bridges - Phase II Continued Data Collection
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Transportation Policy and Economic Competitiveness FY27
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Travel Behavior of Minnesota?s E-Bike Users
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Img2Speed: Generative AI and Multimodal Machine Learning for Predicting Operating Speed Distributions from Roadway Design and Context
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Mapping Heat Vulnerability: A Comparative Rural-Urban Study of Transportation Impacts
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• ART 2027: Density Thresholds for Transportation Alternatives
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Portable Tool for Periodic Evaluations of Intersection Signal Timings
  (07/2026) Status: Active
• Full-Scale Prestressed Bridge Girder Testing with Non-Proprietary Ultra-High-Performance Concrete (UHPC)
  (05/2026) Status: Active
• ODOT VMT Dataset Project
  (05/2026) Status: Active
• Enabling green electrooxidation of hard-to-oxidize molecules through coupled electrolyte and materials design
  (04/2026) Status: Active
• Leveraging AI to Improve the Safety of Connected and Automated Vehicles in Winter Weather
  (03/2026) Status: Active
• LIFT: Localization-Informed Flight Trajectories for UAV Resilience against GPS Loss
  (03/2026) Status: Active
• Active-Inference Control and Sensor-Fusion Simulation for Bicycle Stabilization in Aging-Rider Mobility Systems
  (03/2026) Status: Active
• Embedding Human-Understandable Symbolic Rules into Vision-Language Decision Systems for Safe, Transparent, and Ethical Autonomous Driving
  (03/2026) Status: Active