Approximately 40 people aiming to make roadways safer and more efficient met at Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) on Wednesday to discuss future research opportunities to achieve their goals. The objective of the Traffic and Safety Research Focus Group, led by the Center for Transportation Research and Education Director Omar Smadi, was to…
Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) research scientist Basak Aldemir Bektas went to Ankeny High School teacher Joe Carey’s AP Statistics class this week to help his students learn to PANIC. That is, Carey aimed to teach his students about confidence intervals using the PANIC steps of stating their Parameters, stating their Assumptions, Naming…
The Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) at Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) understands that creating a collaborative environment at workshops and other events can be a meaningful way to come up with solutions to complicated transportation and safety issues. Bringing together transportation and road safety professionals, including engineers, law enforcement, and planners, creates…
Can new Iowa State technology that heats runways improve safety and help prevent airport weather delays? NBC’s Jeff Rossen of the TODAY Show talked with Halil Ceylan, professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and director of the Program for Sustainable Pavement Engineering and Research (PROSPER). PROSPER is one of the 15 centers and programs at…
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has chosen Jacob Warner, a graduate student studying transportation engineering at Iowa State University’s Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering Department (ISU CCEE), as a recipient of the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship. Warner conducts research at ISU’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans). Associate Professor Peter Savolainen is his adviser. See the…
How does internal curing of concrete affect performance and long-term stability of concrete? Three new reports from the National Concrete Pavement Technology (CP Tech) Center offer timely assessments of several aspects of the internal curing (IC) process for professionals working with concrete. The reports provide guidance, analysis, and information about impacts of IC on construction…
Several National Concrete Pavement Technology (CP Tech) Center programs and staff members are featured in the Accelerated Implementation and Deployment of Pavement Technologies 2016-2017 Annual Report from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The report touts the work of the AID-PT program in promoting performance-engineered asphalt mixtures, recycled concrete aggregates,…
Gordon Smith is the associate director for the National Concrete Pavement Technology (CP Tech) Center at ISU’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans). He has been associated with the center since its founding in the 1990s, holding various roles, so joining the team as associate director in August seemed like a natural next step. At the CP…
Darwin Daugaard left the classroom for the summer, after his 38th year of teaching, and almost immediately got back to work. He first did training with an education outreach program from American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO). Then, he spent seven weeks building on that knowledge with Iowa State University’s Institute for…
Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans) is mourning the loss of Lowell Greimann, who passed away on Thanksgiving 2017 at the age of 75. Greimann has long been a staple of the ISU’s engineering community. “Lowell was a genuine and caring person who made an impact in numerous ways and provided leadership during a…