Other Sustainable Transportation Projects

This project will quantify the ways that crash-related experiences shape the way individuals think about travel, through conducting focus group discussions with people who had been involved in a crash or near miss or whose relatives or friends experienced one.

This research will focus on reconstructing fundamental diagrams of heterogeneous traffic from trajectory data.

This project uses detailed vehicle data and vehicle dealership listings in Colorado, Maine, and Vermont to evaluate the relationship between vehicle options, distances people travel to purchase a vehicle, and the price paid for the vehicle in both urban and rural contexts.

The purpose of this research was to develop new models of downtown rush-hour traffic congestion that account for traffic jams, with the goal of developing a numerical solution for the “bathtub model” of rush-hour traffic dynamics.

This project will enhance and expand the Active Transportation Resource Center (ATRC) for planners to use to plan, develop, apply for, and implement projects and programs that support active transportation. The project will focus on expanding the ATRC's reach and strengthening the ATRC's ties to transport research.

This research examines both passive and active consumer resistance to EVs. Passive resistance may be characterized as never entering a consideration and purchase process, i.e., unawareness. Active resistance is a decision made as the result of evaluation—up to and including the experience of owning and driving an EV.

In this study, the researchers will measure the gaseous emissions from the off-gassing of tires during laboratory and real-world testing conditions. The researchers will also evaluate the secondary organic aerosol forming potential from the off-gassing of tires during only laboratory conditions using state-of-the-art instrumentation.