Projects

  1. Quantification of Systemic Risk Factors for Pedestrian Safety on North Carolina Roadways. North Carolina DOT, August 2021 – November 2022 (Co-Principal Investigator).
  2. Update of the Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets Guidance on Acceleration/Deceleration and Stopping Sight Distance Criteria (NCHRP 15-75). National Cooperative Highway Research Program, September 2020 – February 2023 (Co-Principal Investigator, PSU, subcontract to Michigan State University).
  3. SMART Intersections. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, October 2020 – August 2021 (Principal Investigator, PSU, subcontract to Kittelson& Associates)
  4. Optimization framework for infrastructure management considering traffic safety costs. Center for integrated asset management for multi-modal transportation Infrastructure systems: Region 3 University Transportation Center, June 2020 – December 2021 (Principal Investigator)
  5. AI-enabled fiscally constrained life-cycle asset management for infrastructure systems. Center for integrated asset management for multi-modal transportation Infrastructure systems: Region 3 University Transportation Center, February 2020 – May 2021 (Co-Principal Investigator)
  6. Identifying transportation options for health care facility. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, July 2019 – December 2019 (Principal Investigator). 
  7. AI for identifying and optimizing interactions between transit systems. Institute for CyberScience, Penn State, May 2019–May 2020 (Co-Principal Investigator). 
  8. Time-based modeling of concrete bridge deck deterioration using probabilistic models. Center for integrated asset management for multi-modal transportation Infrastructure systems: Region 3 University Transportation Center, April 2019–May 2020 (Principal Investigator)
  9. Impact of CAV Technologies on Driver Behavior. College of Engineering, Penn State, May 2019 – May 2020 (Co-Principal Investigator). 
  10. PennDOT Traffic Integration Plan. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, September 2018 – July 2019 (Co-Principal Investigator). 
  11. Building capacity for active living in diverse Pittsburgh neighborhoods through Community-based Participatory Research. Stuckeman Collaborative Design Research Fund, Landscape Architecture, July 2018 – June 2019 (Co-Principal Investigator)..
  12. Enhancing Pedestrian Volume Estimation and Developing HCM Pedestrian Methodologies for Safe and Sustainable Communities. National Cooperative Highway Research Program, April 2018 – February 2020 (Principal Investigator, PSU
  13. Evaluation of Colored VMS Boards. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, December 2017 – June 2018 (Co-Principal Investigator). 
  14. Pedestrian and bicycle safety performance functions for the Highway Safety Manual. National Cooperative Highway Research Program, March 2017 – February 2020 (Principal Investigator, PSU)
  15. Financial benefits of proposed access management treatments. South Dakota Department of Transportation, October 2016 – October 2017 (Co-Principal Investigator, PSU)
  16. Improving bimodal traffic operations at signalized intersections and arterials with pre-signals. General Research Fund Hong Kong Government, August 2017 – August 2018 (Principal Investigator, PSU)
  17. Development of a predictive price model for road salts. Pennsylvania Department of General Services, October 2016 – February 2017 (Principal Investigator).
  18. Regionalized safety performance functions. Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, March 2015—December 2015. (Scientific Investigator)
  19. Empirical evaluation and systematic categorization of dynamic bus priority strategies. In preparation for Swiss Association of Road and Transportation Experts with Monica Menendez and Ulrich Weidmann. November 2014. (Primary Author)
  20. SIGNBUS: Using additional signals to provide priority to buses at signalized intersections. Project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation with Monica Menendez and Kay Axhausen. September 2013—September 2016. (Primary Author)
  21. Traffic flow at uncontrolled urban intersections with attention to different modes of traffic; determination of representative standard values and interrelations. Project funded by the Swiss Association of Road and Transportation Experts with Monica Menendez. May 2013—December 2014. (Main Contributor)