Transportation and Infrastructure Systems
Faculty Research Interests/Publications
Transportation and Infrastructure Systems Engineering
Darcy M. Bullock
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Traffic Operations, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Airport Operations, Winter Roadway Maintenance, Crash Scene Forensics
Yiheng Feng
Developing innovative modeling techniques, control strategies, and evaluation methods with a focus on the interactions between smart transportation infrastructure and connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) for the next generation transportation system.
Research interests include: Traffic control with CAVs; CAV trajectory planning and control; Transportation infrastructure cyber-security; CAV testing and evaluation
Konstantina (Nadia) Gkritza
Transportation planning, economics and modeling; transportation energy and sustainability; highway safety; transportation electrification
Samuel Labi
Dr. Labi's research is motivated by the current landscape of transportation policy, practice, and management. This landscape is characterized by increasing demand and loading, aging infrastructure, funding limitations, increasing stakeholder participation, climate change, infrastructure vulnerability to natural and anthropogenic threats, need for sustainable development of resilient infrastructure, traveler security, intelligent autonomous operations, and big data challenges.
These continuing and emerging trends have spawned the need to synthesize or adopt enhanced analytical tools, technology, and businesslike approaches for infrastructure decision making. Examples include data analytics, sensing for smart and intelligent infrastructure, and automation of functions, and connectedness of system components. The goal is to ensure that investment decisions are more efficient, transparent and accountable. That way, infrastructure agencies can render a better account of their stewardship of their facilities.
Dr. Labi’s research uses analytical tools in mathematics, physics, economics, finance, operations research, statistics, and econometrics to address the various tasks faced by civil engineers at the different phases of infrastructure development – needs assessment, planning, design, construction, operations, monitoring, maintenance, and end-of-life.
Andrew P. Tarko
Road safety measurement, modeling, and management; surrogate measures of safety, highway design and evaluation, traffic operations
Satish Ukkusuri
Transportation Network Modelling; Emergency Management Issues; Freight Transportation; Intelligent Transportation Systems; Energy, Environment, Sustainability in Transportation
Ziran Wang
Dr. Wang leads the Digital Twin Lab, which aims to build digital replicas of real-world entities based on AI, big data, cloud/edge computing, and mixed reality. One particular application domain of his research is connected and automated vehicles, where he also gained related experience from his last role as a Principal Researcher at Toyota Motor North America. Besides actively publishing peer-reviewed papers, Dr. Wang has also filed more than 50 patent applications in the U.S., Japan, and China. His primary research interests include: Digital Twin; Autonomous Driving; Human-Autonomy Teaming; Personalized Recommendation