Iowa State and Institute for Transportation researcher Alice Alipour has earned a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation. Funding from the award will support her research team’s goal of creating more resilient electric power networks that can hold up under extreme weather conditions and aging effects. Alipour is an…
Monday marked the beginning of work zone safety awareness week. But for engineers at Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) and staff at the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT), work zone safety awareness is never-ending. Literally. Traffic sensors and cameras are set at specific locations along key traffic critical projects to monitor work zones…
Mark your calendars. In less than two weeks, Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) will host its first ever Innovation Demonstration & Training Day. The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 17 at InTrans, located at 2711 S. Loop Dr., Ste. 4700, in Ames. Attendees are encouraged to…
Advances in concrete specifications are gaining exposure around the country, thanks to a joint government/industry effort—the Performance Engineered Mixtures (PEM) program. The National Concrete Pavement Technology (CP Tech) Center hosted a meeting in Chicago on February 27-28 for members of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) of the PEM pooled fund project. The group of practicing…
While Iowa’s interstates make up a fraction of the state’s overall roadway miles – just 0.7 percent of the system – it has an outsize representation in its usage. Iowa’s interstates support 25 percent of vehicle miles traveled and 56 percent of large-truck vehicle miles. That means the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) has an…
Nearly half of U.S. bridges are nearing the ends of their projected life cycles. An estimated quarter of U.S. bridges are deficient in some fashion. That makes construction of new bridges that are safer, more resilient, and less expensive a high priority for transportation departments all over the country. Three centers at the Institute for…
Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) graduate student Georges Bou-Saab knows first-hand how improvements in transportation can make the world a safer and healthier place. It is the subject of his dissertation. It’s also the subject of an essay he wrote that led him to become a 2018 Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholar. The scholarship…
One of the biggest questions in technological fields today is how to use all of the data that is now readily available to implement practical solutions to pressing problems. Anuj Sharma, Co-Director of REACTOR lab, has been utilizing the cutting-edge technology of deep learning to revolutionize the use of cameras in traffic operations. Sharma, who…
Chris Day already knows “big data” is a big deal. The next step is researching how to use those figures to make roadway systems safer and more efficient. That’s in part what brought Day to the Institute for Transportation (InTrans) this past fall, after seven years as a senior research scientist at Purdue University’s Joint…
Ashirwad Barnwal has worked on several studies to reduce roadway fatalities while working to earn his doctorate under the direction of Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) research scientist Dr. Anuj Sharma. His research at InTrans helped earn him a 2018 Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholarship for $1,000 that will go toward a trip for…