Many faculty, staff and students of the Michigan Tech Transportation Institute (MTTI) attended the 93rd Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting in Washington, DC, recently.
Tim Colling, Director of the Center for Technology and Training (CTT) attended the Highway Safety Performance Committee meeting as a subcommittee member of the group.
Rail Transportation Program (RTP) Director and Assistant Professor (CEE) Pasi Lautala participated in committee meetings and co-authored two presentations with RTP PhD student Hamed Pouryousef (CEE), “Operational Performance and Railway Congestion” and “Evaluating Two Capacity Simulation Tools on Shared Use US Rail Corridors.” CEE PhD student member Adriano Rothschild presented his poster “Prospects and Issues for Fuel Cells with Rail Transportation.”
Tribal Technical Assistance Program members John Velat (director), Scott Bershing (technical editor) and Chris DelReal (staff assistant) attended the National Local Technical Assistance Program/Tribal Technical Assistance Program winter business and executive committee meetings where DelReal presented on the NLTPA.org website. In addition, the trio was involved in the meetings of several work groups including the Tribal Safety Issues Subcommittee, Highway Safety Performance Committee, Native American Transportation Issues Committee and Safety Issues in Indian Country session.
Colin Brooks (MTRI) presided over Sensing Technologies Subcommittee meeting as well as the Sensing Technologies for Transportation Applications workshop where he presented “Implementation Assessment of Unpaved Road Condition with High-Resolution Aerial Remote Sensing.” Fellow MTRI member Richard Dobson authored the poster “Collecting Decision Support System Data via Remote Sensing of Unpaved Roads.”
MTTI coordinator Pam Hannon joined the Council for University Transportation Centers (CUTC) winter business meetings and participated in several rail, education and ITS related committee meetings in addition to numerous technical presentations, poster sessions and workshops.
From the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Jake Hiller attended TRB as the newly-elected secretary-treasurer of the International Society for Concrete Pavements and the secretary for TRB committee on Rigid Pavement Design. Hiller also provided a session presentation “Investigation of ESALs Versus Load Spectra for Rigid Pavement Design.”
The poster “Predicting Phase Composition Curve in Frozen Soils Using Index Properties: Physicoempirical Approach” was presented by Zhen Liu.
Amlan Mukherjee co-presided over the Civil Integrated Management: Paradigm Shift, Our Legacy, and Our Future workshop and updated the audience on his “PE-2 Use and Application” research at the Sustainability Assessment of Pavement Systems workshop.
Andrew Swartz authored “Autonomous Scour Sensing for Bio-Inspired Magnetostrictive Flow Sensors” and co-authored, with Colin Brooks, Brian Barkdoll (CEE) and Arthur Endsley (MTRI), “Bioinspired Magnetostrictive Whisker Sensors for Autonomous Bridge Scour Sensing”, both presented by Swartz at the conference.
With current and former CEE graduate students, Zhanping You had multiple papers and posters accepted for recognition; “Fundamental Study of Moisture Susceptibility of Nano-Sized Hydrated Lime-Modified Warm Mix Asphalt,” “Moisture Susceptibility Evaluation of Nano-sized Hydrated Lime-Modified Asphalt Aggregate Systems Based on Surface Free Energy Concept” and “Laboratory Performance Based Cost Assessment of Warm Mix Asphalt Concrete Technologies.”
Kuilin Zhang presided over the Modeling Theories and Practices in Freight Planning and Logistics session.
From the Materials Science Department, Larry Sutter presented two papers “Use of Surface Sealers to Reduce Ingress of Deicing Chemicals on Portland Cement Concrete” and “Field Study of Air Content Stability in Slipform Paving Process,” the latter co-authored with Jerry Anzalone.
Postdoctoral fellow Rudiger Escobar Wolf (GMES) also represented his research at the conference. (TRB) annual meeting in Washington, DC, recently.
Tim Colling, Director of the Center for Technology and Training (CTT) attended the Highway Safety Performance Committee meeting as a subcommittee member of the group.
Rail Transportation Program (RTP) Director and Assistant Professor (CEE) Pasi Lautala participated in committee meetings and co-authored two presentations with RTP PhD student Hamed Pouryousef (CEE), “Operational Performance and Railway Congestion” and “Evaluating Two Capacity Simulation Tools on Shared Use US Rail Corridors.” CEE PhD student member Adriano Rothschild presented his poster “Prospects and Issues for Fuel Cells with Rail Transportation.”
Tribal Technical Assistance Program members John Velat (director), Scott Bershing (technical editor) and Chris DelReal (staff assistant) attended the National Local Technical Assistance Program/Tribal Technical Assistance Program winter business and executive committee meetings where DelReal presented on the NLTPA.org website. In addition, the trio was involved in the meetings of several work groups including the Tribal Safety Issues Subcommittee, Highway Safety Performance Committee, Native American Transportation Issues Committee and Safety Issues in Indian Country session.
Colin Brooks (MTRI) presided over Sensing Technologies Subcommittee meeting as well as the Sensing Technologies for Transportation Applications workshop where he presented “Implementation Assessment of Unpaved Road Condition with High-Resolution Aerial Remote Sensing.” Fellow MTRI member Richard Dobson authored the poster “Collecting Decision Support System Data via Remote Sensing of Unpaved Roads.”
MTTI coordinator Pam Hannon joined the Council for University Transportation Centers (CUTC) winter business meetings and participated in several rail, education and ITS related committee meetings in addition to numerous technical presentations, poster sessions and workshops.
From the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Jake Hiller attended TRB as the newly-elected secretary-treasurer of the International Society for Concrete Pavements and the secretary for TRB committee on Rigid Pavement Design. Hiller also provided a session presentation “Investigation of ESALs Versus Load Spectra for Rigid Pavement Design.”
The poster “Predicting Phase Composition Curve in Frozen Soils Using Index Properties: Physicoempirical Approach” was presented by Zhen Liu.
Amlan Mukherjee co-presided over the Civil Integrated Management: Paradigm Shift, Our Legacy, and Our Future workshop and updated the audience on his “PE-2 Use and Application” research at the Sustainability Assessment of Pavement Systems workshop.
Andrew Swartz authored “Autonomous Scour Sensing for Bio-Inspired Magnetostrictive Flow Sensors” and co-authored, with Colin Brooks, Brian Barkdoll (CEE) and Arthur Endsley (MTRI), “Bioinspired Magnetostrictive Whisker Sensors for Autonomous Bridge Scour Sensing”, both presented by Swartz at the conference.
With current and former CEE graduate students, Zhanping You had multiple papers and posters accepted for recognition; “Fundamental Study of Moisture Susceptibility of Nano-Sized Hydrated Lime-Modified Warm Mix Asphalt,” “Moisture Susceptibility Evaluation of Nano-sized Hydrated Lime-Modified Asphalt Aggregate Systems Based on Surface Free Energy Concept” and “Laboratory Performance Based Cost Assessment of Warm Mix Asphalt Concrete Technologies.”
Kuilin Zhang presided over the Modeling Theories and Practices in Freight Planning and Logistics session.
From the Materials Science Department, Larry Sutter presented two papers “Use of Surface Sealers to Reduce Ingress of Deicing Chemicals on Portland Cement Concrete” and “Field Study of Air Content Stability in Slipform Paving Process,” the latter co-authored with Jerry Anzalone.
Postdoctoral fellow Rudiger Escobar Wolf (GMES) also represented his research at the conference.