UTC Faculty and Staff

Shortline railroad economic simulation studies; Class 1 railroad mergers; economic impacts of highway construction projects; medical service benefits of rural airports; railroad abandonment impacts; economic impacts of highway bypasses; impact of ethanol production on transportation.

Development and application of optical measurement techniques; Experimental measurements using Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV), Particle image Velocimetry (PIV), Laser Speckle (LS), Laser-Induced Florescence (LIF); Laser-based diagnostic testing for industrial applications; Optical strain sensor development for bridge testing, structural analysis, and prestressed concrete diagnostic testing.

Traffic engineering and highway safety; Traffic control systems; Special population groups; Modeling and simulation of transport systems; Access management; Computer applications in transportation engineering.

Physicochemical processes; Water, wastewater, sludges and hazardous waste treatment; Bioprocessing for resources recovery; Sorption effects on sub-surface contaminant transport; In-situ remediation of soils and groundwater.

Accelerated pavement testing; Computer controlled testing of structures; Artificial intelligence and information systems; Non-destructive evaluation of structures; Finite elements and numerical modeling.

Experimental and computational modeling of localized deformation and failure, and instabilities in geo-materials; Scientifically based modeling and development of innovative and sustainable reinforcement systems for civil infrastructure materials; Computational modeling of integral bridges and sustainable bridge design; Characterization of asphalt interfaces subjected to static and dynamic loading; Experimental and computational modeling of geo-materials subjected to monotonic and cyclic loading; Soil structure interaction.

Behavior and analysis of concrete and prestressed concrete structures; experimental testing of structural components; durability of bridge decks; time-dependent deformations in structures.

Behavior of fiber-reinforced composite materials and structures; Stability and buckling of structural components; Nonlinear finite element analysis of structures; Nonlinear constitutive modeling of structural materials.

Roundabout Traffic Operations; Public Acceptance of Roundabouts; Rail-Highway Grade Crossing Warning Systems and Safety; Traffic Signs/Devices; Low-Volume Road Safety; Rumble Strips; Small Community Transportation Planning; Roadside Safety; Highway Infrastructure Deterioration.

Human element in transportation system; Visibility and retro-reflectivity; Rumble strips design and performance; Roundabouts design and performance; Modeling and simulation of natural disasters; Transportation logistics; Experimental design; Benefit-cost analysis.