Transportation Engineering Research
Practical Research
- Transportation students with Reflectorless Total Station (Autoscope/ wireless communication van in background)
Faculty researching transportation work closely with hundreds of transportation professionals at local, regional, state, and federal transportation agencies. They are active in both transportation engineering research and outreach, conducting more than $6 million of projects annually.
They specialize in the following areas, followed by the last name of the researcher:
- Transit and transportation policy (Andrle)
- Portland cement concrete pavement design, construction, and pavement rehabilitation (Cable)
- Transportation applications of GIS, air quality issues, highway safety and modeling, remote sensing, vehicle activity modeling and traffic engineering (Hallmark)
- Planning and managing dynamic high growth rate areas, adapting and blending technologies, and creating tools to improve transportation operations (Hawkins)
- Photogrammetry, surveying, GPS, and GIS (Jeyapalan)
- Transportation systems planning, safety, and traffic safety (Kannel)
- Applications of system analysis to transportation problems, transportation policy and economic analysis, and safety (Maze)
- Transportation policy, new transportation technologies, telecommunications and the Internet (Plazak)
- Traffic engineering and geometric design (Smith)
- Asset management, nondestructive pavement evaluation, decision support tools, and infrastructure management (Smadi)
- Transportation applications of GIS, transportation planning and modeling, safety/infrastructure management systems, remote sensing (Souleyrette)
Faculty and Staff
- Cackler, Tom, Adjunct Instructor
- Gkritza, Konstantina, Assistant Professor
- Hallmark, Shauna, Associate Professor
- Hawkins, Neal, Adjunct Lecturer
- Kannel, Ed, Professor
- Maze, Tom, Professor
- Mescher, Phil, Lecturer
- Nambisan, Shashi, Professor and CTRE Director
- Plazak, David, Lecturer
- Smadi, Omar, Adj. Assistant Professor
- Smith, Duane, Adj. Assistant Professor
- Souleyrette, Reginald, Division Leader and Professor
- Stout, Tom, Lecturer
Recent Research
- Low-Cost Strategies to Reduce Speed and Crashes on Curves
- Evaluation of Rumble Strips on Low-Volume Rural Roads in Iowa
- Synthesis of Traffic Calming Techniques
- CP Road Map Administrative Support, Task 2
- Synthesis Study: Effectiveness of Safety Corridor Programs
Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE)
In addition to their teaching positions, several of the faculty hold positions with the Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) and ISU Extension.
Most transportation graduate research assistants hold appointments with CTRE. With a staff of 25 technical and support staff, CTRE maintains an impressive portfolio of transportation research projects.
Related Information
Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering, 394 Town Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
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