Transportation
Transportation engineers deal with the challenge of meeting increasing travel needs on land, air, and sea. They design, construct, and maintain all types of transportation facilities, including highways, railroads, airfields, and ports. They also work to improve traffic control and mass transit by using new transportation methods, such as high-speed trains and people movers.
Sub-disciplines within Transportation Engineering include:
Peter Martin
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Traffic Operations, and Innovative Transportation Solutions: application oriented research, apply the latest technology to solve problems, validate and evaluate transportation systems and recommended solutions for technological applications.
R.J. Porter
Traffic Safety: Modeling intersections between driver, vehicle, and road.
Performance-based highway design and traffic engineering: Estimating the costs, impacts, and outcomes of highway design and traffic engineering decisions throughout a project's life-cycle.
Project Development and Delivery: Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of highway project development and delivery.
Xuesong Xhou
Advanced traveler information systems: Automotive navigation systems, traffic time estimation nd prediction, on-line and off-line traffic data fusion.
Transportation Operational Planning: Dynamic traffic assignment, traffic demand estimation, traffic flow theory, congestion pricing.
Multimodal transportation system scheduling: Routing and scheduling algorithm development for rail, transit and seaport systems.
