Feb 13, 2024 | Innovation Interview, Innovation Spotlight, Innovative Initiative, News, Research Spotlight
UHPC for Bridge Preservation and Repair is a model innovation that was featured in FHWA’s Every Day Counts Program (EDC-6). UHPC is recognized as an innovative new material that can be used to extend the life of bridges. Its enhanced strength reduces the need for...
Feb 9, 2024 | News, Research Project, Research Spotlight
The State of New Jersey has advanced policies, programs, and projects such as complete streets that encourage greater transportation modal choice and less dependency on the single-occupancy vehicle to address climate change and promote mobility and access for all...
Oct 26, 2023 | News, Research Spotlight
The Complete Streets planning approach pushes for a future in which people of all ages and abilities can safely travel. Recently signed NJ legislation takes an important step toward this vision by ensuring that the travel needs of cognitively divergent individuals are...
Apr 19, 2023 | News, Research Project, Research Spotlight
A recently completed research study on NJ TRANSIT grade crossing safety focuses on identifying locations for rail grade crossing elimination. Researchers from Rutgers’ Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT), Asim Zaman, P.E., Xiang Liu, Ph.D.,...
Aug 25, 2022 | News, Research Project, Research Spotlight
In 2019, a team of researchers from New York University and Rutgers University examined ways to calibrate and develop Safety Performance Functions (SPFs) to be utilized specifically to address conditions on New Jersey roadways. SPFs are crash prediction models or...
Aug 19, 2022 | Innovation Spotlight, News, Research Spotlight
Partnering with the Federal Railroad Administration, New Jersey Transit and New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), a research team at Rutgers University is using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to analyze rail crossing safety issues. Utilizing...