Extracting Horizontal Alignment Information from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Maps: A Clustering Approach

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Extracting Horizontal Alignment Information from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Maps: A Clustering Approach Roadway horizontal alignment data are crucial and necessary information for various safety analyses. Yet, more often than not this information is not readily available in states’ roadway inventory databases. The necessity of horizontal alignment dataset and the difficulties in obtaining it have…

Learning-based Control: A Tool for Autonomous Driving

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Learning-based Control: A Tool for Autonomous Driving Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang presents recent developments in learning-based control for completely unknown dynamical systems, and how to learn adaptive optimal controllers from limited data. The progress on the topic benefits tremendously from the entanglement of reinforcement learning and model-based control theory. Learning-based design schemes aim to overcome the…

AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) and NBI (National Bridge Inventory) Element Deterioration Rates for Bridge Management System

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AASHTO (American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) and NBI (National Bridge Inventory) Element Deterioration Rates for Bridge Management System Overview The purpose of this study is to develop and implement an analytical framework to calculate deterioration rates for bridges and large culverts based AASHTO-Element inspection data as well as NBI data and demonstrate…

Dan McCabe

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Dan McCabe Research Assistant Contact Dan McCabe earned a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 2017. In between receiving his B.S. and enrolling at UW, he worked for two years as a Research Associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he contributed to optimization-related projects with applications in power systems and national security.…

Ben Noland

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Ben Noland Affiliated Researcher Contact Benjamin Noland is a statistician and research scientist at C2SMART, where he currently serves as the lead data analyst for the Capital Program Resource Model (CPRM) project in collaboration with NYSDOT. He holds a Master’s in statistics and a Bachelor’s in mathematics, both from Rutgers University-New Brunswick. In addition to…

Sandeep Mudigonda

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Sandeep Mudigonda Senior Research Assistant Contact Sandeep Mudigonda is a Senior Research Associate at the University Transportation Research Center at the City College of New York where he researches emerging technologies and policies that help promote efficient, safe and sustainable transportation. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Rutgers University, and an MS in…

Peng Lou

Peng Lou

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Peng Lou Research Associate Contact Peng Lou, PhD. is a Research Associate in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and associate director for research of the Rutgers Infrastructure Monitoring and Evaluation Group at Rutgers University. He has been extensively involved in various projects for NJDOT under…

Statewide Open Source Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) Software Research and Pilot

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Statewide Open Source Advanced Traffic Management System (ATMS) Software Research and Pilot Overview NYSDOT’s Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Strategic Plan identifies the need to upgrade NYSDOT’s existing ATMS software to establish more efficient enterprise-wide approaches to operating the State transportation system. One of the critical foundational systems that TSMO relies on to manage the…