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NewsArticles- Date: Monday, July 15, 2024 Time: 10-11 a.m. Central Time
Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials have been studied and applied to reinforced concrete (RC) structures for strengthening or seismic retrofit for many years. This research is related to using FRP composites in new bridge structures....
- Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 Time: 2-3 p.m. Central Time
The transportation experiences of people with disabilities have improved since the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990. Despite progress, many aspects of the current transportation system still limit people with disabilities...
- Research at the University of Utah will help transportation planners and designers make design choices based on long-term maintenance costs as well as up-front construction and installation costs. In an initial phase of the study, the researchers identified four potential topics for further exploration...
- With the cropping season underway, farm trucks are on the move across the region. Safety experts at North Dakota State University remind other drivers to give trucks extra room to operate.
"Farm trucks are large and heavy," notes Angie Johnson, Farm and Ranch Safety Coordinator with NDSU Extension....
- Routine bridge inspections in the United States are primarily conducted via visual inspection on a fixed two-year cycle. Although this strategy has generally produced a safe bridge network, bridge inspections are expensive and there is a need for an enhanced inspection planning process that could more...
- As roundabouts become increasingly popular, and as many communities promote bicycle use, a major concern is the safety of roundabouts for bicyclists. Researchers at Utah State University studied bicyclists' safety perceptions of and preferences for roundabouts with different characteristics. The researchers...
- Research at the University of Colorado Denver has the potential to help practitioners in the transportation sector reassess how they plan, design, and implement infrastructure for individuals of all abilities, including children, older adults, and people with disabilities. The researchers conducted interviews...
- MPC researcher and CSU civil and environmental engineering assistant Professor Yanlin Guo was recently awarded a five-year National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award of $542,000 to develop new methodologies for assessing wind damage risks to building exteriors.
"With...
- The University of Utah was awarded approximately $600,000 by the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) Deep Technology Talent Initiative to introduce a pioneering Transportation Infrastructure Electrification Joint Certificate Program. USHE's Technology Talent Initiative aims to support the creation...
- MPC researcher Cathy Liu was honored with the Outstanding Educator Award presented by the Mountain District of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The award recognizes Liu's passion for transportation education and her dedication to her students.
Liu is an associate professor in the Department...
- With growing interest in autonomous trucking, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University is partnering with the North Dakota Motor Carriers Association (NDMCA) to better understand the views regarding this emerging technology held by motor carriers and others...
- Researchers at the University of Utah developed a web-based platform, named the Utah Advanced Air Mobility Simulator (UAAMS) to enable researchers, planners, and practitioners to record and update assumptions about the distribution of vertiports, traffic, population, and other requirements that may affect...
- MPC researcher and Utah State University Professor Brady Cox is this year's recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers Prakash Lecturer Award for outstanding research or professional practice contributions in the area of geotechnical engineering or soil dynamics. Only one person is selected...
- A journal paper based on MPC research, "Seismic Column-To-Footing Connections Reinforced with Steel/GFRP Bars and GFRP Spirals," was recently published in the April issue of Engineering Structures. The paper was co-authored by Ph.D. student Duc Tran and MPC researcher Chris P. Pantelides at the University...
- MPC researcher Pedro Romero received the Friend of Industry Award from the Utah Asphalt Paving Association at its annual Utah Asphalt Conference February 27-28.
The honor recognizes individuals who exemplify and champion the spirit of public-private collaboration. The award recognizes the impact that...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University is seeking nominees for its annual awards which honor individuals who have made a significant contribution to transportation in the region.
"Our list of previous award winners is a distinguished list of individuals...
- NDSU will be one of the hosting universities for the on-campus activities/rail field visit the week of June 24-28, 2024. We are happy to announce that registration is open for Tracks to the Future – Railroad Transportation and Engineering Program. The deadline to apply is March 15, 2024. If you have...
- UGPTI State Judicial Outreach Liaison and retired judge John Grinsteiner has recently been named as a faculty member for All Rise (formerly the National Association of Drug Court Professionals). As faculty, Judge Grinsteiner will join the All Rise staff on the road as a facilitator or specialized presenter...
- Researchers at North Dakota State University’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute are using data from autonomous and connected vehicles to learn how to improve evacuation in the event of disasters like wildfire. Use of these data and traffic simulations will significantly improve evacuation...
- Thanks to University of Utah research, traffic cameras coupled with the power of artificial intelligence tools like deep learning and computer vision are giving traffic managers more reliable tools for managing traffic flow on interstate highways. The researchers used surveillance camera videos from...
- Aleks Paskett, a master's degree student in civil engineering at Utah State University, has been named the 2023 Student of the Year for the Mountain-Plains Consortium. He will be honored with other award winners from across the country during an awards ceremony January 6 in Washington, D.C.
Paskett's...
- Two researchers with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU were recently recognized for their support of a captain in the Minnesota Army Reserve.
Alan Dybing and Raj Bridgelall received Patriot Awards from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve program. The researchers were...
- Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU helped promote safety around commercial motor vehicles at the Health, Tech & Trades Career Expo at the Fargodome November 30.
Mark Wolter, UGPTI's truck industry liaison, joined other volunteers from the North Dakota Motor Carriers Association to teach...
- Research at North Dakota State University’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute offers a roadmap for companies and agencies looking to profitably implement the use of autonomous aircraft. This roadmap for advanced air mobility (AAM) adoption pinpoints key economic and regulatory factors that...
- Researchers at Colorado State University developed a system for evaluating the risk of critical infrastructure system disruption from tree damage during windstorms. The research findings can potentially to be applied in future risk assessment and mitigation of urban trees before windstorms. Accordingly...
- Researchers at Colorado State University are studying new traffic control strategies for signalized intersections that may improve traffic safety, reduce congestion, and cut wait times for motorists at intersections impacted by crashes and other traffic disruptions. The new adaptive traffic signal strategy...
- Potential implementation of autonomous trucks in North Dakota and the northern Great Plains is the focus of a new research project at North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI).
The two-year project, led by UGPTI Director Denver Tolliver, is funded by a $750,000...
- Brenda Lantz, associate director of NDSU’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute was recently named to the board of directors of Heartland Express, a trucking company based in North Liberty, IA.
Lantz has extensive research experience focusing on commercial vehicle safety. "Heartland Express...
- Researchers at the University of Utah studied a section of roadway that deteriorated prematurely to learn how to improve road construction where soft subgrades are involved. The researchers studied a geogrid-reinforced pavement system on the section of Utah State Route 10 between Muddy Creek and Emery....
- Researchers with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU surveyed local road managers across North Dakota and with a special emphasis on the oil-producing region of North Dakota to learn about road safety activities. Compared to a previous survey, there was a notable expansion in counties...
- Pan Lu, a transportation researcher at North Dakota State University was recently named to rail-related committees with the Transportation Research Board and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
As a member of the committees, Lu will help identify research needs and set priorities for rail...
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On August 9, 2023, the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) successfully signed the Section 106 Programmatic Agreement (PA). Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 requires Federal agencies to consider the effects of their...
- Liquefaction-induced ground failure and the resulting reduction in shear strength of soils occurring during major earthquakes has caused hundreds of millions of dollars of damage to transportation infrastructure such as bridges, embankments, culverts, and pavements. Researchers at the University of Utah...
- Researchers at North Dakota State University and the University of Utah studied traffic in the Salt Lake City area to learn more about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted traffic and traffic safety. Most transportation research to date has focused on the early stages of the pandemic, but this study examined...
- Brad Wentz, director of UGPTI's Department of Transportation Support Center and Advanced Traffic Analysis Center has been named to the Transportation Research Board's Low Volume Roads Committee. This national committee provides strategic planning for research and serves as a clearinghouse for information...
- Recent research at North Dakota State University to quantify freight flow disruption risks from railroad accidents shows that five U.S. metropolitan areas are at least five times more likely than others to experience a railroad accident.
Raj Bridgelall and Denver Tolliver, researchers with NDSU's Upper...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute will award five scholarships at its annual awards banquet October 12 to outstanding students at NDSU who have interests in transportation, agriculture, and logistics. More info available at the UGPTI Annual Awards Banquet page.
Katerina Dietz and Simon...
- In a study of snowplow routes in northern Utah, researchers at the University of Utah proposed routes that improved the efficiency by an average of 4.87% in terms of vehicle miles, 13.95% in terms of deadhead miles, and 15.38% in terms of turnaround time. The researchers developed an array of computational...
- UGPTI researchers Jill Hough, Jeremy Mattson, and Del Peterson were contributors to the July-August 2023 issue of TR News focusing on Transportation Accessibility. TR News features articles on innovative research development activities in all modes of transportation and is produced by the Transportation...
- Research at North Dakota State University outlines how technology like data mining, machine learning, and geographic information systems can be used by early cargo drone adopters to identify the most profitable products, origins and destinations, and potential routes for initiating service.
Raj Bridgelall...
- Mark Wolter recently joined the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University as a part-time industry liaison focusing on the Rural Truck Safety Education and Outreach Partnership Demonstration Project.
The project is aimed at improving truck safety through a multifaceted...
- With more than 47,000 culverts under highways in Utah, researchers at the University of Utah developed a culvert management system and manual for the Utah Department of Transportation to help prioritize its inspection and maintenance efforts. The research developed methods of predicting culvert deterioration...
- Researchers at Colorado State University are developing improved computer models to better predict precipitation-induced landslides, particularly those in mountainous areas, which can pose risks to property and infrastructure such as roads and bridges and result in injuries and deaths. New modeling techniques...
- Research at the University of Utah is addressing the disconnect between asphalt mixture tests and the inputs for the structure design of pavements. Because of its complexities, the dynamic modulus (which represents the stiffness of the asphalt material when tested in a compressive, repeated load and...
- Bryon Fuchs has been named to lead the North Dakota Local Technical Assistance Program (NDLTAP), a program of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU that provides technical outreach, professional development, and leadership growth opportunities for local road workers across the state....
- In 2021 in North Dakota, a crash involving a heavy truck occurred every 12 hours. Every 33 days, there was a fatal crash involving a heavy truck on the state's roadways. In 2021, there were 734 crashes involving heavy trucks resulting in 11 fatalities and 273 injuries. Although those numbers are down...
- Research at South Dakota State University shows that a new bridge system made with cross-laminated timber (CLT), which exhibits desirable design strength and low environmental impacts, offers a suitable replacement for bridges on low-volume roads. CLT is an advanced wood panel system comprising several...
- Truck crashes on steep downgrades are often caused by brake failures resulting from overheated brakes generated by excessive braking. Research at the University of Wyoming has resulted in a better understanding of the relationship between truck weight and the maximum descent speeds necessary to prevent...
- Crashes at highway-rail grade crossings (HRGCs) often result in severe injuries and fatalities. Researchers at North Dakota State University are developing an innovative computer modeling technique that can serve as an efficient decision-making system to predict crash occurrence and severity, identify...
- The North Dakota Transportation Conference has become the go-to conference for local road professionals across the state who want to network and learn about the latest in road and bridge technology and policies.
"If you are only going to one transportation conference a year this is the one to attend,"...
- When trains and traffic meet, the result is often catastrophic and fatal. There were 203 railroad crossing crashes in North Dakota between 2011 and 2021. Twenty-five of those crashes resulted in fatalities and 67 resulted in injuries.
Consequently, safety at highway-rail grade crossings is a priority...
- A switch to automated parking systems that assess on-street parking fees for the exact amount of time parked would be fairer for drivers and would help transportation planners manage traffic and parking demand better, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Denver. In a study of on-street...
- Yirong Zhou, a civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, was recently awarded a scholarship from the Utah Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. Winners of the $500 scholarships are selected based on outstanding scholarship, work experience, and activity...
- Colorado State University Ph.D. student Mohammad Teymouri was recently awarded the Slag Cement in Sustainable Concrete Research Award from the Slag Cement Association. The work was honored April 5 during the spring American Concrete Institute Convention in San Francisco. Teymouri's research is titled...
- Ziluo Xiong, CSU civil and environmental engineering Ph.D. student, was recently awarded the Jack E. Cermak Wind Engineering Graduate Fellowship by the CSU Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The $2500 fellowship award is named after Dr. Jack E. Cermak, the "U.S. Father of Wind Engineering,"...
- CSU civil and environmental engineering master's degree student Daniel Sanchez earned an honorable mention in the Great Minds in Research category of the CSU Graduate Showcase in November. He received the award with Dr. Karan Venayagamoorthy, professor of civil and environmental engineering, for their...
- Research at the University of Utah shows that introducing connected automated vehicles (CAVs) into traffic flow can elevate safety performance, especially on freeways. CAV adoption will likely reduce rear-end and lane-change crashes. Similarly, less speed variation among vehicles and fewer unexpected...
- A test with known repeatability that can easily and reliably evaluate the potential of asphalt mixtures for cracking will result in significant savings for transportation agencies. The IDEAL-CT test is a promising candidate that has been adopted by many agencies. Research at the University of Utah resulted...
- Researchers at Colorado State University are learning more about the complex hydrology that contributes to stream flows in order to develop recommendations for building bridges that can better withstand the effects of erosion. The most common cause of bridge failure in the United States is the erosion...
- Concrete structures such as bridges play a key role in transportation infrastructure, but as those structures age, transportation agencies seek affordable ways to safely extend their service lives. Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver developed design recommendations for the use of new technologies...
- Building and maintaining the best and safest transportation system with the dollars available is the goal of every transportation agency in North Dakota, from the ND Department of Transportation to local county road departments, tribal reservations, and cities. The Transportation Learning Network (TLN)...
- Researchers at South Dakota State University developed a simple, straightforward benefits estimation methodology for evaluating the financial benefits of proposed access management treatments, including the design, spacing, operation, and locations of street connections, interchanges, driveways, and...
- University of Utah researchers developed and tested a computational modeling technique that can predict the local and global response of column-to-footing joints with recessed grouted spliced sleeves in seismically active areas. The model will facilitate the use of the construction technique in accelerated...
- Researchers from the Mountain-Plains Consortium's eight collaborating universities were among the more than 20,000 transportation administrators, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers who came to Washington, DC, for the Transportation Research Board's 102nd Annual Meeting, January 8–12. The...
- Researchers at the University of Utah found that road efficiency and safety was improved in snowy and icy conditions when variable speed limit signs used amber instead of white lettering on a black background. They found the corridor’s average speed and speed variation are reduced after the implementation...
- University of Utah research will help the Utah Department of Transportation identify freeway bottleneck locations that are suitable for coordinated ramp metering control and evaluate both the safety and operational performances of the system. The work will also study the additional delay created to the...
- Based on recommendation results from University of Wyoming research, engineers at the Wyoming Department of Transportation will be able to specify concrete that resists shrinking and cracking. The result will be longer-lasting bridge decks with reduced maintenance costs. The researchers found that polypropylene...
- Researchers at the University of Wyoming have developed a set of engineering properties for most bedrock encountered by the Wyoming Department of Transportation as they construct transportation infrastructure elements such as bridges. These measured properties will improve design efficiency and increase...
- Researchers at the University of Wyoming surveyed groups from across the state that partner with the Wyoming Department of Transportation on road safety to learn about their needs with regard to the quality, timeliness, completeness, and format of data provided on crashes and roadway inventories. The...
- Carrie Tremblatt, a transportation professional and Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Denver, has been named the 2022 Student of the Year for the Mountain-Plains Consortium. She will be honored with other award winners from across the country during an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., in...
- University of Utah researchers combined off-the-shelf video equipment with machine learning software to develop a system for monitoring operations and small general aviation airports that lack control towers and staff to do so. These airports provide vital services such as aerial firefighting, aeromedical...
- Raj Bridgelall, associate professor of transportation and logistics, has been named a fellow by the National Academy of Inventors. He was among 169 distinguished academic inventors on this year's list of fellows, which was announced Dec. 8.
The NAI Fellows Program highlights academic inventors who have...
- Most bridges are supported on piles, vertical support members driven into the ground that transfer the load to the surrounding rock or soil. Researchers at the University of Wyoming are developing new analysis methods that will improve the consistency and efficiency of driving piles in intermediate geomaterials...
- Researchers at the University of Utah are studying automated data collection technologies that can be used to gather information on roadway assets such as traffic signs, bridges, pedestrian access ramps, and pavement. Their research confirms that LiDAR technology is currently best suited for the in-motion...
- Researchers at Colorado State University developed an integrated tool that provides a more accurate consideration of various adverse driving conditions, including those in work zones. The new tool will allow planners and emergency responders to develop work zones and traffic patterns that reduce the...
- Researchers at the University of Utah are developing bridge designs that dissipate seismic forces during earthquakes so that the bridges can remain operational. The bridge designs are compatible with accelerated bridge construction techniques, which reduce construction costs and traffic disruptions....
- Injuries, deaths, and lost time in the construction industry all occur at alarmingly high rates. More than 6,000 deaths occur on construction jobsites around the world annually. To reduce those deaths and injuries, researchers at the University of Wyoming are tracking eye movements to learn what captures...
- Chris Pantelides, MPC program director and researcher at the University of Utah, was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. ASCE fellows have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that change lives around the world. It is a prestigious honor...
- North Dakota State University will head a consortium that includes South Dakota State University, Montana State University, and the University of Wyoming in providing transportation outreach and technical assistance to tribes across the Upper Great Plains and Intermountain West.
As part of its Tribal...
- Colorado State University Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Becki Atadero will serve as the first program director of the Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering's new Engineering Education Initiative. The initiative is intended to improve retention, close equity gaps, and enhance...
- Researchers at the University of Wyoming are closely examining the characteristics of fatal and severe motorcycle accidents in Wyoming and Utah to identify methods and models that can be used to assess roadways to improve motorcycle safety. They looked at multiple years of crash data and found that the...
- Researchers at the University of Wyoming are developing and improving vehicle communication protocols and creating signal control programs to prepare for the integration of connected and autonomous vehicles into traffic. The work will improve operations and safety at signalized intersections and has...
- North Dakota State University will head a consortium that includes South Dakota State University, Montana State University, and the University of Wyoming in providing transportation outreach and technical assistance to tribes across the Upper Great Plains and Intermountain West.
As part of its Tribal...
- Researchers at South Dakota State University tested new precast column connection details that could potentially reduce the time it takes to construct bridge bents (the combination of posts/piles and caps that support bridge girders) by a factor of three to four while meeting seismic requirements. The...
- UGPTI will honor three long-time champions of transportation in North Dakota with awards this fall.
Terry Traynor, who retired earlier this year after serving for more than 30 years with the ND Association of Counties, will receive the Agrey Award. Jay Fisher, state representative and former director...
- Researchers at South Dakota State University are developing a database to help pavement engineers select the best types and application rates of tack coats, the asphalt-based material applied between pavement layers to improve structural performance. In particular, they are looking at the resulting shear...
- University of Wyoming researchers developed a new system for setting speed limits on roadways that are characterized by steep downgrades and curves. They used high-fidelity dynamic simulation modeling to assess lateral and roll stability of different vehicle types on various road surface conditions....
- Researchers at the University of Utah are developing tests for asphalt that can predict their performance in the field so that optimum life of pavements can be attained, and maintenance investments can be minimized. In this ongoing research, the researchers are looking at asphalt mixtures' flexibility...
- Urban traffic networks are essential to emergency response and recovery, but current traffic simulation models do not adequately address partially blocked roads and other traffic disruptions that may result from disasters and emergencies. Researchers at Colorado State University are developing ways to...
- Asphalt mixes now contain recycled asphalt pavement and less asphalt binder in an attempt to resist rutting and save on materials, however these mixes have resulted in increases in cracking and raveling in pavements. Researchers at the University of Utah are developing performance-related tests that...
- North Dakota will need to invest more than $10.5 billion over the next 20 years to maintain local, township, and tribal roads and bridges according to a study by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. That amount includes $6.5 billion for unpaved roads, $3.29...
- Research at South Dakota State University will provide bridge engineers with design tools that will substantially reduce the cost of some bridge foundations and protect existing bridge foundations from the damaging effects of scour, the erosion of soil from around those foundations. Scour rates in cohesive...
- Researchers at Colorado State University are exploring new ways to limit the damage to transportation infrastructure caused by the expansive soils that are common across the Mountain-Plains region. Four commercially available polymer treatments were tested in comparison with lime and fly ash, two of...
- The draft of "Infrastructure Needs: North Dakota's County, Township, and Tribal Roads and Bridges, 2022-2041" is now available online. Additionally, info from the July regional meetings are also posted online and provide a good means to understand the data collection and analysis processes. The report...
- Ron Hall, president of the Colorado-based Bubar & Hall Consulting, LLC, has been named Manager of the Tribal Transportation Program for North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute.
Hall has an extensive background and expertise in tribal relations related to transportation...
- Researchers at South Dakota State University found that mixed media filtration using steel chips and steel slag can be used as an effective treatment tool to remove E.coli and phosphate from stormwater runoff. This filtration technology will improve stormwater management and protect natural water resources....
- Research at the University of Wyoming will help transportation managers and policymakers decide on strategies for implementing appropriate alternative interchanges in consideration of growing traffic demands, safety, and limited budgets. The researchers introduced two new versions of the Super Diverging...
- Researchers at Colorado State University are developing a method of inspecting infrastructure elements such as guardrails and bridges. The method is more objective than typical visual inspections and has the ability to store and track changes in condition over time. The approach capitalizes on a combination...
- Researchers at Colorado State University developed new modeling techniques to assist in planning emergency medical services (EMS) response. The techniques help predict the resilience of the transportation network in terms of EMS response to help implement optimized post-disaster medical response plans...
- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver developed an analytical model that can be used to improve repair technique designs for concrete suffering from a common reaction between aggregate and Portland cement that can damage and weaken concrete over time. The researchers studied 120 concrete cylinders...
- Hybrid Post Tensioning Columns
Date: Tuesday, August 16, 2022 Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Central Time
This webinar is based on MPC project 588, Hybrid Bridge Bents Using Post-tensioned Precast Columns for Accelerated Bridge Construction in High Seismic Regions. Seismic resilience of bridges improves safety...
- Prasanna Humagain was named "Doctoral Researcher of the Year" because of his impressive publication record (six peer-reviewed articles in 2021); a timely dissertation, which advanced theory and knowledge about COVID's impacts on tourists' decision-making for outdoor recreational travel; and impact on...
- MPC produces volumes of research that is critical to maintaining and improving the transportation systems of our region, the nation and the world. That research would not be possible without the efforts of our students who collect and analyze data, test new ideas and approaches, and help interpret results....
- Researchers at Colorado State University found that urban roadway flooding can be reduced by diverting storm water from just 1% to 5% of directly connected impervious areas (i.e., streets, parking lots, rooftops) to bioretention areas, a part of green stormwater infrastructure (GSI). These results show...
- Thousands of bridges are scattered across North Dakota, ranging from the mile-long Four Bears Bridge to many that are so small and old that they don't show up in state, county, tribal, or township records.
"Bridges are often bottlenecks to mobility and efficiency and they're also where numerous crashes...
- Researchers at Colorado State University used responses to written and oral interviews and questionnaires administered to bridge personnel in state DOTs to identify the reasons behind the gap between researchers and practitioners. The effort helped provide insights about how to facilitate research implementation...
- UGPTI's 26th Annual Awards Banquet will be held October 6, 2022, at the Holiday Inn, in Fargo, ND, to honor individuals who have made significant contributions to the transportation industry in the region. The social begins at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:45 p.m. Nominations for award winners closed earlier...
- The next Western Region Commercial Vehicle Safety Summit will be November 29-30, 2022, in downtown Denver. The Summit is organized and hosted by UGPTI's Commercial Vehicle Safety Center and focuses on efforts to reduce distracted driving by commercial vehicle drivers and others operating around commercial...
- During the past several months, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU hired staff to fill vacant and new positions and several post-doctoral research positions.
Hamad Al Qublan joined UGPTI in November as a post-doctoral research specialist in UGPTI's Small Urban and Rural Center of...
- North Dakota Wheat Commission administrator Neal Fisher will receive an honorary doctorate of agriculture during the 2 p.m. ceremony of NDSU commencement on Saturday, May 14, in the Fargodome.
"NDSU is a great place, where educational opportunities and mentor influences helped build skillsets required...
- Two UGPTI researchers were recently promoted to associate professor with tenure by NDSU. Raj Bridgelall and Ranjit Godavarthy were both promoted to associate professor in the Department of Transportation, Logistics, and Finance. The two were recognized at NDSU's Celebration of Excellence held May 10.
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- UGPTI researcher Satpal Wadhwa and UGPTI graduate research assistant Zhila Dehdari Ebrahimi were recently honored as nominees for NDSU's Mary McCannel Gunkelman Award. Nominees are among those who make significant and unselfish contributions to creating a happy environment for the enjoyment of NDSU students.
From...
- Researchers at North Dakota State University studied crash reporting by four Indian tribes to develop a pragmatic approach that tribes can refine based on objectives related to accountability, sovereignty, and system integrity. With motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of American Indian unintentional...
- Researchers at the University of Utah studied microtransit, riders' use of ride-sharing and short-term rentals of cars, bikes, and scooters, as a way to access traditional transit to learn how it enhances mobility and its impact on transit system use. Their work will help determine the feasibility of...
- Since the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University began conducting statewide road and bridge investment need studies for the ND Legislature more than 10 years ago, it has continually refined and improved its data collection to increase the level of detail...
- Given the growing interest in and promising market for shared autonomous vehicles, metropolitan planning organizations and departments of transportation need to begin modeling how SAV technology would impact regional travel patterns and consider the special needs of automated vehicles in long-range cost...
- University of Utah Ph.D. student Zhao Zhang and his advisor Xianfeng "Terry" Yang were awarded the 2021 Best Dissertation Award from the TRB Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50) at TRB's Annual Meeting in January. The title of the dissertation is "Modeling...
- North Dakota State University Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. student Yun Zhou has been named a 2022 Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholar and attended the Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities, March 12-15, in Chicago. She is one of 43 U.S. and international students selected through...
- For most people, mobility is as simple as climbing into a car or truck and turning the key; but for a significant number of individuals, even in the Bakken region, public transportation, ride sharing, taxis, and other forms of transportation are a critical link to work, recreation, shopping, and medical...
- Researchers at North Dakota State University examined Indian nations' motor vehicle crash reporting systems with the intent of helping them establish systems to gather key information they can use to better understand the causes of crashes and prevent them.
The research was recently published as an...
- Recent advancements in commercial unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have made them ideal for collecting images during bridge inspections. However, measuring the extent of a defect, its growth, and its exact location using those images can be cumbersome. Researchers at Colorado State University developed...
- Researchers from the Mountain-Plains Consortium's eight collaborating universities were among the thousands of transportation administrators, practitioners, policy makers and researchers who came to Washington, DC, for the Transportation Research Board's 101st Annual Meeting, January 9-13. The meeting...
- Researchers at North Dakota State University are refining techniques for using sensors to more safely and precisely identify railroad track irregularities that could lead to derailments or accidents. The current method of inspection and maintenance is expensive, slow, increases the safety risk to workers...
- While autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to become more commonplace in coming years, they will need to share streets and roads with human-operated vehicles for decades. Researchers at North Dakota State University developed an infrastructure support system based on infrastructure sensors and a new...
- John Higgins, a master of science student in civil engineering at the University of Wyoming, has been named 2021 Student of the Year for the Mountain-Plains Consortium. He was honored with other award winners from across the country during a virtual awards ceremony Saturday, January 8.
As a graduate...
- After just over a year with the Western Liaison Program, Matt Johnson and Ed Ryen are familiar faces in county and tribal road departments and county and city meeting rooms across western North Dakota.
In August of 2020, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) in conjunction with the...
- Dynamic message signs provide key information for drivers. Researchers at South Dakota State University tested new signs that are constructed using adhesives rather than welding to assure that the signs will stand up the rigors of roadside use. In research with small-scale panels and full-size signs...
- Researchers at the University of Wyoming are developing tools that local road agencies can use to assess the condition of rural gravel roads. Those user-friendly tools implement smartphones, machine learning, and optimization techniques to help local road managers identify the most appropriate treatment...
- With targeted education related to the accessibility, familiarity, and incentives related to ridesourcing, research at North Dakota State University indicates this mobility option could become a viable impaired driving prevention strategy in rural communities. In a survey of North Dakota drivers, the...
- The North Dakota Local Technical Assistance Program, a program that provides expertise and training to counties, townships, municipalities and other road agencies, has expanded its advisory board to include representation from tribal government. NDLTAP is an outreach program of the Upper Great Plains...
- Ying Huang, associate professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering and Welch Faculty Fellow at North Dakota State University, was recently named the 2021 NDSU College of Engineering Researcher of the Year.
Huang's research interests include intelligent transportation systems, smart...
- Mohamed Ahmed, the Williams and Person Professor/Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, and Construction Management was recently named Wyoming Excellence Chair in recognition of his exceptional scholarship and teaching. He was one of only four University of Wyoming...
- Colorado State University researchers have developed a process to streamline bridge inspections and make them more objective and quantitative. Their method could keep better tabs on deteriorating infrastructure and help bridge owners plan for maintenance.
In an MPC-supported work, Yanlin Guo, assistant...
- Diomo Motuba, assistant professor of transportation and logistics and associate research fellow for the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, gave an invited webinar for the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan - Institute of Civil Engineering on Oct. 28. Motuba was asked to...
- Research at the University of Colorado Denver leverages developments in spatial data to advance the literature and improve the understanding of pedestrian infrastructure, city-wide sidewalk characteristics, and the fair distribution of sidewalks. Researchers derived usable GIS sidewalk data from aerial...
- Christopher Bareither received the ASCE 2020 Associate Editor Award for the 2020 Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering. The award recognizes an associate editor who has provided consistent and exemplary service to a particular journal or practice periodical, or a substantial unique...
- Anas Alrejjal, a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Wyoming's College of Engineering and Applied Science, from Amman, Jordan, was named the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Colorado/Wyoming Section student of the year in May. He received a plaque, $500 and a stipend to attend the 2021 ITE...
- Jimmy Kim, professor of civil engineering at the University of Colorado Denver, delivered a keynote speech during the 11th International Association of Chinese Infrastructure Professionals (IACIP) Workshop, virtually held on January 10 and 17, 2021. The presentation was titled 'Infrastructure Rehabilitation...
- Brenda Lantz, associate director of NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and director of its Commercial Vehicle Safety Center has been named to the advisory board for Bluewire LLC, a new company that deploys data analysis in defense of the trucking industry.
Lantz has been a researcher...
- NDSU researchers developed an analytical process for identifying optimal station locations for scooter and bike sharing systems and other forms of micromobility in small cities and rural areas. They used Fargo as a test case for their research.
"Micromobility Station Placement Optimization for a Rural...
- Research at Utah State University into public perceptions of connected vehicles (CVs) and the data from them that is collected and shared will guide policy making that will make CVs more acceptable to the public and promote their adoption. CVs offer potential improvements, including improved efficiency...
- Transportation researchers at NDSU recently published techniques that will help refine the use of sensors in smart phones to measure road roughness.
"Effects of Smartphone Sensor Variability in Road Roughness Evaluation" by Hafiz Usman Ahmed, Liuqing Hu, Xinyi Yang, Raj Bridgelall and Ying Huang was...
- By Dr. Brenda Lantz, Associate Director, North Dakota State University, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
The second Western Regional Commercial Vehicle (CMV) Safety Summit was held May 25-26 in Denver, Colorado. It brought together approximately 230 representatives from law enforcement and...
- NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute was recently awarded two grants totaling more than $600,000 for projects to improve commercial vehicle safety. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is funding both projects.
In one project, UGPTI will develop and host the third in a series...
- Researchers at the University of Utah are developing and testing innovative systems for accelerated bridge construction that combine precast concrete elements with stretch length anchors. Accelerated bridge construction techniques can dramatically shorten the time required for bridge construction or...
- North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute recently launched a special Tribal Sign Warrior calendar to raise awareness of the dangers of sign damage and vandalism among elementary age students. Illustrations in the calendar were created by fourth graders from tribes across...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University will honor transportation leaders from across the region at its annual awards banquet October 14.
The event will be held at Fargo's Hilton Garden Inn beginning with a social hour at 5:30 and followed by dinner and...
- Because of heightened concerns about the Delta variant, the Transportation Technology Showcase scheduled for October 7 at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute has been postponed until spring. Thank you for your interest in UGPTI's work and we look forward to seeing you at the rescheduled...
- Researchers at Colorado State University developed computer models to evaluate the complex interactions between debris flows and the stress-strain response of steel structures of flexible steel, ring-net barriers, a common form of barrier used to mitigate debris flows and protect transportation infrastructure....
- Researchers at South Dakota State University used data from the South Dakota Department of Transportation to develop a new family of compaction curves to be utilized in base and subbase material compaction quality control. These curves, standards based on the relationship between soil weight and moisture-density...
- Traffic counts and road data collection began early this summer, marking the beginning of work on the 2022 version of UGPTI's local road and bridge investment needs study. This will be the fifth biennial study of local road and bridge investment needs conducted by UGPTI since the first study was conducted...
- UGPTI's Small Urban and Rural Center on Mobility was a national leader in providing education for improving mobility in small urban, rural and tribal communities when the global COVID pandemic halted the center's instructor led, in-person training.
In response, the center and its training coordinator...
- With more than 500 local short-span bridges in need of replacement in South Dakota, federal and state funding falls far short of meeting those replacement needs. Researchers at South Dakota State University developed tools to help local governments make the most effective and economic decisions about...
- Research at the University of Denver demonstrated that the AlertMeter®, a commercially available electronic vigilance test that can assess fatigue/vigilance within two minutes, is a valid measure of fatigue. The researchers collected data on a sample of healthy adults over a 36-hour period of wakefulness...
- UGPTI organized and co-hosted the second Western Regional Commercial Vehicle (CMV) Safety Summit May 25-26 in Denver, Colorado. It brought together approximately 230 representatives from law enforcement and driver licensing agencies, universities, and industry to share research and best practices to...
- Kalpana Katti was recently highlighted by North Dakota State University in a series of highlight articles profiling "Inspiring Teachers."
In the article Katti said, "If a student feels that you are genuinely concerned about them as human beings and engaged in their learning, they are likely to learn...
- The NDSU College of Engineering has announced the creation of the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering. The new department was formed July 1 with the merging of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Construction Management and Engineering.
The...
- Researchers at Colorado State University are testing an innovative building material for its suitability in building lightweight sustainable bridges. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a sustainable, lightweight, high-strength versatile building material that has been used in Europe but has not been tested...
- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver developed an innovative system that can identify commute solutions to reduce negative environmental impacts of business commuting. The Multi-Business Commute Optimization System (MBCOS) consists of three integrated components: a website (www.commuteopt.com)...
- Researchers at South Dakota State University developed a cost-effective method of evaluating the corrosion potential of reinforcing bars in continuously reinforced concrete pavement. They evaluated damage to continuously reinforced concrete pavement to determine if corrosion of the reinforcement within...
- (This article was recently featured on DOTNET, USDOT's internal communications network.)
American Indian reservations have some of the highest COVID-19 infection and fatality rates in the United States and are poorly equipped to deal with pandemics, given the high rates of poverty and limited health...
- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver are studying the use of a sophisticated surveying and remote sensing technology to assess and improve streetscapes.
The researchers investigated methods to extract streetscape features with three different classes of light detection and ranging (LiDAR)...
- The second Western Regional Commercial Vehicle Safety Summit planned for May 25-26 in downtown Denver, Colorado, will bring together representatives from law enforcement, driver licensing agencies, universities, and industry to share research and best practices to improve data quality and the collection...
- North Dakota State University transportation and logistics Ph.D. student Zhila Dehdari Ebrahimi received an academic scholarship from the Transportation Club of Fargo-Moorhead April 29. The scholarship was presented by Mark Wolter, president of the club, and Kris Olson, treasurer.
The $500 scholarship...
- Using virtual meeting technology, staff and students from MPC universities attended and presented more than 40 research Posters and Presentations at the virtual annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in January.
Thousands of transportation professionals from all over the world participated...
- Research at Utah State University is establishing a reference for transportation agencies to use in making budgetary or policy decisions regarding autonomous vehicles and big data management. The researchers collected roadway geospatial data with a simple mobile LiDAR (light detection and ranging) setup...
- A North Dakota State University researcher tested machine learning techniques to identify key causes of railroad accidents in a study recently published in the Journal Accident Analysis and Prevention.
Raj Bridgelall, an assistant professor of transportation, logistics and finance, tested 11 different...
- Researchers at the University of Utah implemented machine learning techniques to optimize snow plow truck life. Snowplow trucks serve a crucial role in winter highway maintenance activities of deicing and snow removal, activities that are essential to public mobility and safety. The researchers showed...
- The Utah Department of Transportation deploys more than 100 continuous count stations to collect traffic volumes at different locations in order to achieve balanced geographic coverage. Even so, it is still difficult to capture traffic characteristics of the entire Utah road network within a short time...
- Researchers at the University of Utah have developed performance-based processes for establishing highway design criteria that would allow designers to consider and balance the accommodation of driver and vehicle operating characteristics, safety, design, and construction costs in any given context....
- Date: Thursday, April 1, 2021 Time: 9:30-10:30 a.m. Central Time
To mitigate crash severity and reduce crash rate, advanced technologies such as connected automated vehicles (CAVs) have shown great potentials in preventing human driving errors. Using real-time data collected via vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)...
- Date: Thursday, March 11, 2021
Time: 10:30-11:30 a.m. Central Time
LiDAR (light detection and ranging) is a mature and efficient technology used by various transportation agencies for highway asset management and data collection purposes. While effective, there are some limitations in using LiDAR...
- Because of their relatively low cost and ease of construction, bridges using double-tee (DT) girders are widely used on local road networks across the United States. It has been found that rapid deterioration of longitudinal joints between DT girders, which can significantly degrade the structural performance...
- NDSU transportation researchers Ying Huang, Raj Bridgelall and Pan Lu were recently selected as editors of a special issue of the journal Smart Cities. The journal's theme is "Advances in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles".
The special issue is intended to create a forum for advancing research related...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute recently awarded several scholarships to outstanding NDSU students with interests in transportation.
Ryan Swanberg and Mackenzie Holkesvig were awarded the $1,500 Transportation Engineering Scholarship which recognizes academic achievement and promotes...
- The limited variability of test results in this University of Wyoming research should alleviate alkali-silica reaction concerns for those who wish to use recycled concrete aggregate (RCA). The Rocky Mountain Region has experienced considerable difficulty due to the presence of alkali-silica reaction...
- The UGPTI recently released a 2019-2021 Biennial Highlights report focusing on efforts to date during the current biennium. The report illustrates how the Institute continues to build on its history of providing research, education, and outreach to support transportation in North Dakota. This report...
- With 8.5 million visitors in 2016, tourism is the second largest industry in Wyoming. Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks were among the top 10 most-visited national parks in 2016. Researchers at the University of Wyoming developed a travel demand model that incorporates tourism-based travel to...
- Researchers at Colorado State University developed a method that engineers can use to optimize a road segment and all bridges on the roadway for height above a river or creek to reduce the potential damage to the transportation network to a consistent level of risk and assure transportation access for...
- NDSU researchers have developed a method to identify and more precisely locate railroad track irregularities using the vast amount of data generated by low-cost sensors or sensors already in use aboard various railroad equipment.
"Signal Feature Extraction and Combination to Enhance the Detection and...
- NDLTAP recently released the RED (Recognize, Eliminate, and Discuss Safety) Book, a new resource designed to help road workers and managers eliminate accidents and injuries.
NDLTAP Road and Bridge Engineer Kelly Bengtson adapted the Minnesota publication for North Dakota workers. The R.E.D. Book program...
- Teaching with real-life experience, pedestrian engineering expert Ron Eck brought home that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements are more than just federal bureaucracy, but bring real benefits to those with disabilities.Eck, a professor emeritus of civil engineering at West Virginia...
- Researchers with UGPTI's Small Urban and Rural Center on Mobility have completed the study, "Assessment of North Dakota Mobility Options, Transit Needs and Characteristics of Users," for the N.D. Department of Transportation. The study analyzed population and demographic trends in North Dakota to identify...
- MPC researchers at the University of Utah are working to eliminate or reduce the bump at the end of Utah bridges caused by settling of soils that can occur long after construction. In some cases, the settling can result in a need to completely reinstall bridge approaches. The researchers studied surcharging...
- A transportation expert at NDSU with expertise in computer modeling and a captain in the U.S. Navy have published research that shows how simple low-cost computer modeling techniques can be combined with practical expertise to assess the threat of terrorist attacks on port facilities.
Raj Bridgelall...
- UGPTI's Transportation Learning Network (TLN) has launched its 2020-2021 training season with an increased emphasis on high-quality, timely, innovative, and practical content that cooperators can use immediately. Upcoming courses include:
Reviewing, Approving and Getting Contractors to Submit...
- The final 2020 version of UGPTI's report on North Dakota local road and bridge investment needs has been completed and posted on the UGPTI website. The report predicts estimated investment needs of $9.3 billion over the next 20 years. Investment needs of $6.14 billion to maintain gravel roads make up...
- MPC research at South Dakota State University will help roadway agencies reduce pavement stripping, a moisture-induced loss of bonding between aggregates and the asphalt binder that typically begins at the bottom of the hot-mix asphalt layer and progresses upward. Stripping is a serious form of roadway...
- NDSU developed and patented a soybean-based dust control product that is being produced by BioBlend, an Illinois-based manufacturer of biodegradable lubricants and industrial products. The product was placed on several test strip gravel road locations in the Upper Midwest including North Dakota, South...
- An NDSU researcher has helped develop a simplified computer modeling technique to help forecast the effects of autonomous vehicles on land use.
Raj Bridgelall, assistant professor of transportation and logistics, says changes in land use and travel habits, driven by the efficiency, safety and convenience...
- Team GRIT — Brad Wentz, Kelly Bengtson, Leanna Emmer and Ed Ryen — has launched a new effort to help local agencies understand and enter data into the Geographical Roadway Information Tool (GRIT). The GRIT team will be reaching out to every county road crew once or twice a month to review data gaps...
- The Wise Roads project was recently featured in the Fall 2020 Basin Bits Magazine. "The Wise Roads project (The Weather Information System to Effectively Reduce Oilfield Delays & Disruptions) will see the installation of 50 research-grade weather stations in the oil-rich Bakken region. The purpose of...
- Work by MPC researchers at Colorado State University was recently published in several journals.
"Streamlined bridge inspection system utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles and machine learning," by Brandon J. Perry, Yanlin Guo, Rebecca Atadero and John W. van de Lindt was published in the journal, Measurement....
- A student design team at the University of Utah is designing a six-block corridor of bike lanes in Salt Lake City. MPC researcher Cathy Liu is the faculty mentor for the Civil and Environmental Engineering senior capstone project (4900 -- professional practice & design). The team of six students is designing...
- For the first time in its history, the AGC of North Dakota has been named the Small Chapter of the Year by the AGC of America. The award recognizes chapters that have developed outstanding programming and excelled at achieving tangible accomplishments during the calendar year. Chapters are judged on...
- A study that will help analysts better use the vast volume of data collected from connected vehicle systems was recently published by NDSU researchers.
"A Review of Usage of Large-Scale Connected Vehicle Data" by transportation and logistics Ph.D. student Yun Zhou and Raj Bridgelall, assistant professor...
- Australia may hold important lessons for improving road safety in the United States, according to MPC researchers at the University of Colorado Denver. Despite similarities to the United States in terms of transportation, land use, and culture, there are 5.3 deaths per 100,000 in population on Australian...
- Two transportation experts were recently added to the staff of NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute to assist with local transportation planning and investments in Dunn, McKenzie, and Williams Counties and with the Mandan Hidatasa Arikara Nation. Matthew Johnson and Ed Ryen will be located...
- Mandated implementation of positive train control technology in the U.S. rail industry will cost billions of dollars. Researchers at NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute developed a computer model to help railroad companies assess the cost effectiveness of using that technology to further...
- Research on methods to calibrate sensor readings from smartphones so that they can be used as a replacement for specialized equipment used for measuring road surface roughness was recently published by NDSU researchers.
"Calibration of Smartphone Sensors to Evaluate the Ride Quality of Paved and Unpaved...
- MPC researchers at Colorado State University are improving the hydrologic analyses used to evaluate dam safety and to design bridges and roads. Many current hydrologic guidelines assume that runoff from design storms is produced by an infiltration-excess mechanism where rainfall intensity exceeds the...
- MPC research in South Dakota regarding tolerances for tie-bar placement in concrete pavements could result in improved pavement service life and reduced maintenance costs. Longitudinal joints in Portland cement concrete (PCC) pavement slabs require tie (dowel) bars to control joint opening resulting...
- MPC researchers at South Dakota State University are developing enhanced technology to improve the quality of runoff water from highway construction sites. The research promises to help maintain the quality of surface waters, promote environmental sustainability, and reduce the need for costly dredging...
- MPC research to calibrate the Highway Safety Manual (HSM) for local roadways in South Dakota will make the manual more useful for the South Dakota Department of Transportation as that agency works to improve highway safety. The calibrated manual will help SDDOT screen roadways to find problem areas for...
- MPC researchers conducted a systematic study on the long-term cost effectiveness of various short-span concrete structures. The research will help state and local governments choose the most cost-effective options when replacing concrete structures on their road networks. The research included analysis...
- More than 85 county and township leaders participated in a July 21 webinar to receive an update on the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute's 2019-2021 Legislative Road Needs Study. The statewide virtual meeting, "Sharing the Vision for North Dakota's Transportation System," provided an overview...
- University of Utah Transportation Engineering Ph.D. Student Zhiyan Yi recently received two honors from the Intermountain Section of the Institute of Traffic Engineers.
Yi was awarded one of two 2020 Ellis L. Mathes Scholarships given by the section. The scholarship is awarded to undergraduate or graduate...
- A recently published study by researchers at NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute suggests that large cities should continue to invest in public transit improvements even as ride hailing services proliferate with the potential to attract users away.
"A fuzzy Delphi analytic hierarchy model...
- How can soybeans help our local road network? For the past three years, UGPTI has supported NDSU efforts to develop, test, and, hopefully soon, market a soy-based dust palliative and asphalt rejuvenating agent. Read the project update.
- UGPTI researchers are adding additional analyses to the statewide study of local road and bridge investment needs to account for the drop in energy prices in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The researchers added two scenarios to their travel demand model that take into account lower oil production...
- Jaclyn Andersen joined UGPTI May 1 as a research support specialist with the UGPTI's Rural Transportation Safety and Security Center. She will be involved in a wide range of rural traffic safety research related to driver behavior and agricultural data collection to support local industry decision-making....
- UGPTI's North Dakota Local Technical Assistance Program is leading efforts to implement a weather monitoring system that will minimize weather-related disruptions in the oil industry and protect roads for other users. Wise Roads (Weather Information System to Effectively Reduce Oilfield Delays and Disruptions)...
- UGPTI's Geographic Roadway Inventory Tool (GRIT) was recently featured in the Crossroads, Minnesota's transportation research blog. The blog highlights efforts by UGPTI, with support from the Minnesota Local Roads Research Board, to add a pavement condition forecasting tool to GRIT. The tool allows...
- Chris Padilla has been named director of UGPTI's Transportation Learning Network (TLN). He had been serving as associate director. He replaces Tim Horner who recently retired. TLN is a partnership with the Departments of Transportation, Mountain Plains Consortium, and the ND Local Technical Assistance...
- North Dakota counties have done an excellent job of updating road and bridge information into UGPTI's Geographic Roadway Inventory Tool (GRIT). GRIT helps county road managers track road and roadway asset data such as surfacing, age, pavement depth, costs, base depth and type, width, shoulders, inslopes...
- UGPTI researcher Kim Vachal's experience in analyzing data from automated traffic recorders around the state to assess speeding issues has been useful in helping the state plan its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. State officials quickly began using daily traffic trends as an indicator of how many...
- Marv Halling, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Utah State University and longtime MPC collaborator and principle investigator has been named MPC director for USU. He currently serves as head of the department's Structures Division. As director, he will coordinate USU's participation...
- The Mountain-Plains Consortium has approved more than 20 research projects at its seven collaborating universities so far in 2020. Projects include:
Effect of Deicing Agents and Environmental Conditions on Performance of Asphalt Pavements in Cold Regions at South Dakota State University
Visible...
- Local road workers, NDDOT employees, contractors and consultants make up the most recent class of 82 "road scholars" who completed a continuing education program for road and highway practitioners in North Dakota. The program, offered by UGPTI's N.D. Local Technical Assistance Program for more than 30...
- Dale Heglund, director of UGPTI's North Dakota Local Technical Assistance Program, has been named to the Transportation Research Board's Low Volume Roads Committee. This national committee provides strategic planning for research and serves as a clearinghouse for information and resources pertaining...
- Mark Watne was recently designated to represent the North Dakota Farmers Union (NDFU) on the UGPTI Advisory Council.
Watne has served as president of NDFU since 2013. In that capacity, he serves as president of Farmers Union Mutual Insurance Company and Farmers Union Service Association, all headquartered...
- Researchers at North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute developed a new modeling approach to more accurately predict the likelihood of accidents at highway-rail grade crossings, locations where a highway and railroad cross at the same elevation. The approach performs...
- Researchers at North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute have developed a framework to help transportation planners and policy-makers guide strategies for implementing technologies for automated, connected, electrified and shared mobility.
The framework, developed by...
- Kelly Bengtson joined UGPTI February 26 as a pavement and bridge engineer. He will assist UGPTI with road and bridge investment needs studies, asset management efforts, and technical assistance to local units of government.
Bengtson, a native of Hallock, MN, has been the Kittson County, MN, Engineer...
- NDSU researchers used innovative modeling techniques to examine the public policy implications of proposed technologies for reducing truck fuel consumption and cutting operating costs.
"Policy implications of truck platooning and electrification" was recently published in the journal Energy Policy....
- Staff and students from NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute attended and presented at the annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) in Washington, D.C., Jan 12-16. The meeting covered all modes of transportation with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800 sessions...
- North Dakota State University transportation and logistics Ph.D. students Ihsan Khan and Yun Zhou have been named 2020 Traffic Safety Scholars. The award includes a $1,000 scholarship to attend the 38th annual Lifesavers National Conference on Highway Safety Priorities, March 14-17, in Tampa, Florida.
Khan...
- UGPTI researchers have developed a system that allows railroad and roadway monitors to use vehicle-mounted sensors to continuously monitor networks for potential problems. A paper recently published in the journal Sensors describes statistical techniques that allow sensors to more precisely identify...
- The Small Urban and Rural Transit Center, a part of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University is changing its name to the Small Urban and Rural Center on Mobility.
The name change reflects the center's expanded focus which now includes all types of personal mobility....
- UGPTI researcher Raj Bridgelall is among the inaugural group of members inducted into the new NDSU chapter of the National Association of Inventors. The group includes the top nine patent holders at NDSU and two honorary inductees from local industry. The members were recognized at the closing ceremonies...
- UGPTI will work with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) in a cooperative effort to improve commercial vehicle safety through sharing research and best practices to improve the quality of data collected on commercial motor vehicles. Cooperators will also share ways to improve methods...
- The dynamic curve warning system developed by UGPTI's Advanced Traffic Analysis Center was featured in a video produced by the Minnesota Local Roads Research Board. The project, which was funded by the board, sends a warning via smart phone app to drivers when vehicle speeds are too high as they approach...
- When the Federal Highway Administration wanted to make a video about low-cost safety improvements for unpaved roads, they came to North Dakota where there are more than 60,000 miles of unpaved roads. They collaborated with NDLTAP and Burleigh County staff. NDLTAP's Denise Brown was featured in the video...
- Kim Vachal, researcher with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, presented her research into improving motor vehicle crash reporting by Native American tribes Nov. 6 at the International Conference on Transport and Health in Melbourne.
American Indian and Native Alaskans experience motor...
- Bhavana Bhardwaj, a graduate research assistant with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, was recently awarded a scholarship at the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Minnesota Fall Forum.
The $1,000 award recognizes Bhardwaj's interest in intelligent transportation systems, her...
- NDSU Transportation and Logistics faculty and students presented their research at the 2019 INFORMS Annual Conference Oct. 20-23 in Seattle. INFORMS is the world's largest professional association dedicated to and promoting best practices and advances in operations research, management science and analytics...
- Ranjit Godavarthy, UGPTI associate research fellow and assistant professor of transportation and logistics was among the recently named 2019-2020 Faculty Fellows with the Sheila and Robert Challey Institute for Global Innovation and Growth. The fellows are a group of NDSU faculty that will contribute...
- Narendra Malalgoda a Ph.D. student in transportation and logistics at NDSU, studied whether the dramatic increase in the use of transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft was linked to significant drops in public transportation ridership. His work will be published in the December issue of Transportation...
- Antenna technology for extending the range of unmanned aerial vehicles without increasing their size or weight was recently patented by researchers at North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota.
"The idea is to turn the entire body of the vehicle into an antenna," according to...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University has recently added three new staff members to assist local transportation leaders across North Dakota.
Jerilyn Swenson is a bridge and pavement engineer who will assist with state and local road and bridge needs...
- At its awards banquet, Thursday, Oct. 3, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University awarded several scholarships to outstanding NDSU students with interests in transportation.
Erika Krieger and Rachel Vogl received the Paul E.R. Abrahamson Transportation Scholarship....
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University honored several transportation leaders at its annual awards banquet Thursday, Oct. 3, in Fargo.
Honorees include State Senator Rich Wardner of Dickinson, Don Andersen, retired long-time professor of civil engineering at...
- Alan Dybing, Tim Horner, and Denver Tolliver of UGPTI met with staff of the Oil and Gas Division of the North Dakota Industrial Division in late August to obtain the latest estimates of energy development in the state. Oil well drilling estimates, along with updated data on inbound and outbound truck...
- UGPTI has put together a great team to accomplish the tasks for the statewide study of road and bridge needs. Jerilyn Swenson was added to the UGPTI staff as a bridge and pavement engineer to help analyze and interpret data collected on the thousands of miles of roads and thousands of bridges in the...
- UGPTI staff members traveled more than 15,000 miles crisscrossing the state to collect data on traffic and pavement condition data on county roads. Students and staff from UGPTI canvassed the eastern third of the state while a consultant gathered data in the western part of the state. NDDOT is assisting...
- NDSU graduate student Fecri Karanki recently received the Graduate Student Best Paper award at the Transportation Research Forum's Annual Forum in Washington, D.C.Fecri, a Ph.D. student in transportation and logistics as well as in statistics, presented a paper that explored the impact that the kinds...
- NDSU's chapter for the Association of Transportation and Logistics recently elected officers for 2019-2020.Seguy Tchakounte-Wakem was elected president. Yun Zhou was elected treasurer, and Xiaoyi Zho was elected secretary. All three are Ph.D. students in transportation and logistics and are doctoral...
- Satpal Wadhwa an NDSU Ph.D. student in industrial and manufacturing engineering and a graduate research assistant with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, received the 2019 Best Ag Transportation Paper Award at the Annual Transportation Research Forum in Washington D.C. May 2-4.His paper...
- UGPTI researcher Raj Bridgelall and NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student Leonard Chia presented papers at the SPIE 26th Annual International Symposium on Smart Structures and Material Systems + Nondestructive Evaluation in Denver, CO, in March.
Bridgelall presented "Sensor System Benefits...
- UGPTI researcher Raj Bridgelall was an invited presenter at the March meeting of the NDSU Student Chapter of the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association. Bridgelall presented on his Railway Autonomous Inspection Localization System (RAILS) research effort to about 18 transportation...
- NDSU transportation and logistics Ph.D. student S. Ali Haji Esmaeili has been selected to present his research on optimizing bioethanol supply chains at the 2019 INFORMS Annual Conference in Seattle in October.
Esmaeili notes that first generation bioethanol is produced from food-based biomass which...
- Md. Daulat Hossain, a Ph.D. student in transportation and logistics, was recently elected President of the NDSU Graduate Student Council. Among other duties, the president presides at all meetings, approves appointments to committees, approves the council's budget and serves as a liaison between the...
- Denver Tolliver, director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, received the 2019 S.S. Steinberg Award from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) earlier this month.
Named after the founding president of ARTBA's research and...
- A research paper on safety at highway rail grade crossings written by two NDSU students was recently featured on the cover of the journal Safety.
The paper, "Developing a Highway Rail Grade Crossing Accident Probability Prediction Model: A North Dakota Case Study" was written by Ihsah Khan, EunSu Lee...
- NDSU researcher Kimberly Vachal recently presented an assessment of North Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Program at the 62nd Annual Scientific Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine in Nashville, TN. Vachal is an NDSU associate professor of transportation at NDSU's Upper Great...
- "Application of Machine Learning Method to Evaluate Road Roughness from Connected Vehicles" was recently published in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements. UGPTI's Raj Bridgelall was a co-author of the article. Zhiming Zhang, lead author on the article, earned his doctorate in...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University recently awarded its first Tribal Transportation Scholarship to Josiah Herrera of Colorado Springs, CO. The scholarship recognizes outstanding Native American students with an interest in transportation engineering...
- Three long-time leaders in the region's transportation industry were honored at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute's 23rd Annual Awards Banquet Oct. 4 in Fargo.
The banquet honored Mark Johnson, Dennis Ming and Dave Leftwich. Johnson retired from the North Dakota Association of Counties...
- The Commercial Vehicle Safety and CDL Compliance Summit will be Nov. 28-29 at the Tivoli Student Union on the University of Colorado campus in Denver, CO. This event will bring together state law enforcement, driver licensing agency, and university representatives from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...
- Staff from the NDSU's College of Business and Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute participated in the National Transportation in Indian Country Conference in Duluth, Sept. 17-20. More than 500 participants attended educational sessions and demonstrations focusing on safety, law enforcement...
- A poster created by UGPTI visual communication specialist Bev Trittin recently won first place in a poster contest at the National LTAP/TTAP Conference in New Orleans in July. The simple, but powerful poster is focused on clay as the "Glue for Gravel Roads" and emphasizes a key point of NDLTAP training...
- UGPTI researcher Alan Dybing was a speaker at the Aug. 21 Rural Transportation Summit hosted by the ND Soybean Council. The event, titled "Road Consumption: Perception, Reality and What We Can Do About It," explored road needs and possible funding options for maintaining the state's rural roads. Dybing...
- "Performance of Hyperspectral Imaging with Drone Swarms" was recently published in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. The article presents a model to compare the performance of hyperspectral-imaging platforms in their spatial coverage and spatial resolution....
- UGPTI researcher Raj Bridgelall was among the speakers at the "Sensors 2018" conference in San Jose, CA, June 26-28. Bridgelall was a feature speaker at a pre-conference symposium: "Democratizing the Internet of Things – Connecting Technology with People." In addition to Bridgelall, the symposium featured...
- NDSU and the University of North Dakota have received a patent for technology that integrates energy-storing capacitors into the body or other large components of manned and unmanned aircraft systems, known as UAS."This capacitor technology, which will supplement batteries, will allow for greater range...
- Dilip Mistry has joined the Small Urban and Rural Transit Center as a postdoctoral research fellow. He has more than 10 years of work experiences in the field of Data Science, GIS Data Analyst, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Consultant, and Oracle Business Intelligence Consultant. He will receive...
- Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. student James Leiman recently accepted a position with the N.D. Department of Commerce. He is the department's senior manager of economic development initiatives. As a member of Commerce's senior leadership team, Leiman will focus on supporting transformational projects...
- NDSU Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. student Bukola Bakare has launched an innovative portable vegetable garden project to help low income families and new Americans in the Fargo-Moorhead area eat healthier food. The project was funded by a grant from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Bakare, left...
- NDLTAP director Dale Heglund was among four invited speakers who were part of a new Visiting Scientists Series at the Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library June 7. The 5-minute "Lightning Talks" are designed to give an overview of hot topics in science and technology. Heglund discussed converting...
- NDSU Transportation and Logistics student Mingwei Guo presented his work on the Geographic Roadway Inventory Tool (GRIT) at the Geographic Information Systems for Transportation Symposium in Little Rock, AR., March 19-22.
His paper, "Analytical Research on Minor Structures in North Dakota for GRIT Database,"...
- NeTia Bauman, Tribal Program Outreach Coordinator recently became a nationally-certified instructor for the North Dakota Safety Council's (NDSC) Alive at 25 defensive driving course. AA25 is a highly interactive 4.5-hour program targeted toward drivers under the age of 25 and helps young drivers take...
- Ph.D in Transportation and Logistics
Yong Shin Park — currently searching for position. Dissertation: Three essays on sustainability of transportation and supply chain.
Nick Muhammad Aslaam Mohamed Abdul Ghani — Returning to Malaysia to work as a professor in Universiti Malaysia Terengganu....
- Gerard Feist will be assisting NDLTAP as an asphalt consultant. NDLTAP is contracting with Feist to provide on-site asphalt and equipment maintenance outreach. For the past 17 years, Feist has led a wide array of asphalt roadway repair and preventive maintenance efforts. Feist has extensive knowledge...
- A delegation from the Central Japan Railway Company visited NDSU April 30 to May 1 to learn more about technology being used in agriculture and transportation that may have applications in railroad operations and safety.
The railway company is primarily a passenger railroad, but, through a visiting...
- Matt Shatzkin, who earned his PhD in transportation and logistics from NDSU in 2014 has joined NDSU as an adjunct professor. Shatzkin has been a U.S. Army logistics practitioner for 27 years, achieving the rank of colonel. He is the author of the book, "Understanding the Complexity of Emergency Supply...
- NDSU transportation and logistics Ph.D. students recently presented research at the 59th Annual Transportation Research Forum April 10-11 in Minneapolis. The event was an opportunity for transportation professionals, academics, students, and graduates to present their work, discuss the latest research...
- A record crowd of more than 200 representatives from road agencies, contracting companies, highway departments, engineering companies contractors and suppliers attended the 2018 ND Asphalt Conference April 10-11. The event was hosted by UGPTI's ND Local Technical Assistance Program. NDDOT Director Tom...
- The 2018 North Dakota Symposium on Transportation Funding was held March 14 in Bismarck and facilitated by staff from the UGPTI. The effort was initiated by the NDDOT to start a conversation on transportation funding today and into the future. For the three months before the symposium, NDDOT and UGPTI...
- SURTC researcher Jeremy Mattson and SURTC training coordinator Rob Lynch conducted the pilot National Transit Institute (NTI) Fare Policy Training in Seattle March 29 and 30. SURTC has been heavily involved in developing the training for the NTI beginning with an initial curriculum meeting in Washington...
- NDSU researchers Ying Huang, Pan Lu and Raj Bridgelall presented the paper "Road sensor network for smart city applications" at the Conference on Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials, Aerospace, Civil Infrastructure and Transportation. The event was organized by SPIE...
- NeTia Bauman, UGPTI's Tribal Program Outreach Coordinator, is representing UGPTI's tribal outreach effort on the 2018 National Transportation in Indian Country Conference (NTICC) planning committee. She will assist with reviewing submissions from potential presenters and participate in other planning...
- Andrew Wrucke and Leanna Emmer are in county shops and offices across the state to help county staff enter information into UGPTI's Geographic Roadway Inventory Tool (GRIT) and to show them how the tool can help counties better manage their roads and budgets. The service is supported in 2018 thanks...
- Transportation and Logistics PhD student Fesseha Gebremikael participated in the Graduate Student Showcase, a part of NDSU's Three Minute Thesis Competition Feb. 22. Part of the Ballroom in the NDSU Memorial Union was used for displaying research posters from current graduate students at NDSU to highlight...
- UGPTI director Denver Tolliver and UGPTI researcher Raj Bridgelall delivered a progress report Feb. 18 on the institute's ITS research for the University of Modern Sciences (UMS) in Dubai.
Tolliver hosted the seminar in Dubai while Bridgelall delivered the talk via a video meeting using the ZOOM conferencing...
- NDLTAP director Dale Heglund and DOTSC/ATAC director Brad Wentz were presenters at the 2018 ND Association of County Engineers annual meeting in Fargo, Jan 24-26.
Wentz provided an update on new features available in the Geographic Roadway Inventory Tool and training that is now available to county...
- The Tribal Transportation Scholarship recognizes outstanding Native American students who will be enrolling at NDSU with an interest in engineering, economics or agriculture. Funding for the $2,000 scholarship will be provided by the Mountain-Plains Consortium through the University Transportation Centers...
- UGPTI associate director Brenda Lantz was awarded a certificate of appreciation recognizing her six years of service as chair of the Transportation Research Board's Truck and Bus Safety Committee. The committee focuses on motor carrier safety in all its aspects and includes research and evaluation in...
- Staff and students from NDSU presented several papers and moderated sessions at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board Jan-7-11 in Washington, D.C. The meeting is the largest gathering of transportation-related event in the world with more than 5,000 presentations in nearly 800...
- Dilip Mistry, a doctoral student in Transportation and Logistics within the College of Business at NDSU was named the Region VIII Mountain-Plains Consortium Student of the Year, Jan. 6 in Washington, D.C. Each year, the U.S. Department of Transportation honors an outstanding student for achievement and...
- UGPTI researcher Kim Vachal attended the statewide roll-out of North Dakota's "Vision Zero" traffic safety initiative at the state capitol Thursday, Jan. 18. Vachal represents UGPTI on the NDDOT's Strategic Highway Safety Plan Steering Committee and serves on the young driver and impaired driving subcommittees.
UGPTI's...
- UGPTI is now an associate member of the National Road Research Alliance (NRRA) — MnROAD. Tim Horner, Andrew Wrucke and Dale Heglund represented UGPTI at MnROAD's open house Oct. 10 to commemorate the new partnership.
NRRA is a pooled fund that will focus on solving problems that impact road owners...
- The National Transportation in Indian Country Planning Committee is seeking dynamic, engaging, and knowledgeable presenters for the 2018 National Transportation in Indian Country Conference (NTICC) that will be held September 17 - 20. 2018 at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center in Duluth, Minnesota....
- In November, NDLTAP launched "Bridge 101," a training to help blade operators, truck drivers, road superintendents, and county, city and township officials learn about bridge basics. Participants who completed the course learned about the key elements of bridges and gained an understanding of scour...
- UGPTI program director Brad Wentz and researcher Al Dybing were featured speakers at the annual meeting of the Western Dakota Energy Association in Dickinson earlier this month.
Wentz presented information on UGPTI's Geographic Roadway Inventory Tool (GRIT). Dybing presented information on UGPTI's study...
- Mohammad Smadi, associate research fellow with UGPTI's Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, was recently invited to speak at the October meeting of the NDSU student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. His presentation on intelligent transportation systems (ITS) covered the newest developments...
- SURTC staff have continued to travel the country for training and outreach events. Examples include:
Rob Lynch attended the Dakota Transit Association annual meeting Sept. 10-13 in Grand Forks. He staffed SURTC's exhibit at the association's trade show.
Lynch attended the Montana DOT's Fall Workshop...
- Transportation and logistics students Fecri Karanki and Fangzheng Yuan presented their research at the 2017 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston, TX, Oct. 22-25. INFORMS is the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals.
Karanki presented a poster titled, "A Spatial...
- UGPTI program director Tim Horner provided background on North Dakota local road and bridge needs and UGPTI's outreach and education related to local roads during KFGO's "Afternoons Live with Tyler Axness." The interview was a follow-up to a county bridge collapse last week near Park River in Walsh County....
- A new online transportation and logistics course will be offered at NDSU for the spring 2018 semester focusing on transportation technology. The course, TL 757: Intelligent Transportation Solutions, will introduce graduate students to transportation solutions that leverage technology to help move people...
- Jody Bohn Baldock and Makenzie Schmidt attended the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington D.C. The three-day meeting drew nearly 26,000 army leaders and industry professionals from around the globe. AUSA is a nonprofit educational and professional development...
- UGPTI program directors Brad Wentz and Tim Horner were invited presentors at the ND Association of Counties annual conference Oct. 8-10 in Bismarck. Wentz presented information on UGPTI's Geographic Roadway Inventory Tool (GRIT). GRIT was also featured in the conference's exhibit hall and generated numerous...
- UGPTI researcher Raj Bridgelall was invited to be a charter member of the NDSU Institute for Cyber Security Education and Research hosted by the Department of Computer Science. The new Institute aims to meet the public need for leading-edge cyber security software development and information technology...
- "Characterizing Pavement Roughness at Non-Uniform Speeds Using Connected Vehicles," was published in the International Journal of Pavement Engineering in August. Authors were Raj Bridgelall, Jill Hough, and Denver Tolliver.
The study evaluated the reliability of a Road Impact Factor (RIF) transform...
- Staff from NDSU including UGPTI attended the "First University of Science and Technology Beijing-NDSU Research and Education Workshop" in Beijing last week. The purpose of the event was to conduct a joint research exchange workshop and begin exploring the potential for collaboration on future research...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute will honor transportation leaders in the region at its 22nd Annual Awards Banquet Oct. 5 at the Fargo Holiday Inn. Award winners will include Grant Levi, former director of the North Dakota Department of Transportation; Niles Hushka, retired CEO of engineering...
- Staff from the UGPTI are attending the 20th Annual National Tribal Transportation Conference this week in Tucson, AZ.
Jeremy Mattson will present "Rural Transit Planning, Demand Estimation, and Cost-Benefit Analysis. His presentation will cover issues related to rural transit planningand design including...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University will celebrate its 50th Anniversary Wed., August 30, from noon to 4 p.m. with safety and transportation exhibits, free food, and information about the Institute and its history.
The celebration will be held on the south...
- Beginning with the fall 2018 semester, UGPTI will offer a $1,500 scholarship to Native American undergraduate students at NDSU with an interest in transportation and enrolled in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering or agricultural and applied economics. The scholarship will...
- NDLTAP helped organize and host the first Dunn County Road Day Open House Aug. 10. The event showcased the county's road equipment, county workers and the skills they use to maintain and improve the county's roads. The road department also employs the ND Employee of the Year, Lori Tabor, who was recognized...
- An article July 31 in the Grand Forks Herald noted a lack of funding for local road agencies struggling to keep up with road maintenance projects. The article cites a study conducted by UGPTI for the North Dakota Legislature that indicated infrastructure needs for roads and bridges in North Dakota cities...
- "Impacts of Mobility Management and Human Service Transportation Coordination Efforts and End-User Quality of Life" was published in the spring edition of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum. Authors were Jeremy Mattson, Jim Miller and Jill Hough as well as Jay Goodwill, senior research...
- NDLTAP training coordinator Denise Brown took office as president of the National Local Technical Assistance Program Association at the group's annual conference in Portsmouth, VA, July 17-20. Brown has served for several years on the NLTAPA board of directors. She also serves as a member of the National...
- Researcher Michal Jarosynski attended the SAP University Alliances North America Faculty Summer Workshops 2017 hosted by the University of Wisconsin Lubar School of Business in Milwaukee July 17-20. The workshop gives college instructors the opportunity to enhance their SAP/ERP (enterprise resource planning)...
- Denver Tolliver, Jill Hough and Jody Baldock represented UGPTI at the Council of University Transportation Centers Annual Summer Meeting June 19-21 in Buffalo, NY. The three-day event featured speakers, presentations, panels, and guided discussions covering a broad range of topics related to transportation....
- Several of our UGPTI students and staff completed the requirements for their degrees during spring semester. Be sure to offer them a hearty "Congratulations!" on their academic accomplishments when you see them next.
Jody Bohn Baldock — Master of Managerial Logistics
Nikki Braaten — Master of...
- Bukola Bakare, a transportation and logistics PhD student at NDSU, was chosen to participate in the Tri-College NEW Leadership Development institute in May. Bakare was one of only 45 participants chosen from among the 109 applicants. The New (National Education for Women's) Leadership Development Institute...
- Ali Rahim Taleqani, an NDSU transportation and logistics PhD student, will present his research at the 8th International Visualization in Transportation Symposium: Visualization in Action July 27-28 in Washington, D.C. Taleqani will present a poster titled "Flight delays and cancellations: What's behind...
- NDLTAP is helping to organize the In-Place Recycling and Reclamation Seminar and Live Demonstration June 27-28 in Dickinson. The event is a forum for pavement professionals representing state, local and federal agencies, contractors, suppliers, consultants, academia and metropolitan planning organizations....
- Leanna Emmer and Tim Horner were presenters at the recent North Dakota Motor Carriers 2017 annual convention May 24-25. Horner provided an overview of UGPTI research while Emmer provided an introduction to UGPTI's online Truck Weight Calculator. Horner said that those attending his presentation were...
- UGPTI researchers are discussing possible areas for collaboration with Pedigree Technologies, a Fargo-based logistics technology solutions provider. Denver Tolliver, Raj Bridgelall and Brenda Lantz from UGPTI attended an open house May 23 at Pedigree celebrating FMCSA certification of the company's ELD...
- UGPTI researcher Raj Bridgelall attended the annual Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Conference in Dallas May 8-11 to promote unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) related transportation research and the ND UAS Test Site. Bridgelall attended by invitation from the ND Department of Commerce....
- Colonel Matt Shatzkin, a U.S. Army logistics expert and graduate of NDSU's Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. program presented a lecture on emergency supply chains Monday, May 8.
His presentation, "Understanding the Complexity of Emergency Supply Chains," defined a framework for emergency supply chains...
- The North Dakota Local Technical Assistance Program, a part of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, was recently awarded the Friend of NDACE Award by the North Dakota Association of County Engineers.
The award is the highest award presented by the organization...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University sent nearly 350 transportation-related educational activity packets to schools across North Dakota to kick off the Institute's 50th anniversary.
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute was established at NDSU by...
- Six North Dakota State University Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. students will present their research at the Transportation Research Forum's 2017 Annual Forum April 20-21 at the University of Illinois in Chicago. The Transportation Research Forum is an independent organization of transportation professionals...
- Staff and students from NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) and Transportation and Logistics graduate program presented their research at the world's largest gathering of transportation researchers and professions. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting was Jan....
- The MPC will receive about 2.5 million per year for the next five years under the U.S. Department of Transportation's University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program. MPC's proposal focuses on preserving the existing transportation system. The MPC, led by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute...
- An MPC doctoral student at North Dakota State University is among 40 graduate students from across the country selected to participate in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's new Health Policy Research Scholars program. Bukola Bakare, a doctoral student in the interdisciplinary Transportation and Logistics...
- North Dakota State University will give students hands-on experience with leading business enterprise software under provisions of its membership in the SAP University Alliances. Membership in the Alliances will give faculty and students access to the software and will allow faculty to integrate SAP...
- Four North Dakota State University undergraduate students were recently awarded $1,500 scholarships funded by the MPC. Agribusiness students Brooks Larson and Jordan Alvin Rolstad received the Paul E.R. Abrahamson Transportation Scholarship. Larson is from Cando, ND. Rolstad is from Sisseton, SD. The...
- MPC Director Dr. Denver Tolliver recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute Advisory Council for his long-term achievements as an educator and researcher. He has been director of the UGPTI since 2012. Under Tolliver's leadership, the MPC has...
- NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral students Yuan Xu and Mingwei Guo presented papers at the 2016 Midwest Academy of Management annual meeting, Oct. 6-8 in Fargo. The professional organization is a forum for the latest management theory and research by members.
The NDSU College of Business was...
- Graduate students in transportation and logistics and several from the NDSU Graduate Student Council are improving their communication skills through monthly study and discussion in a "Mastermind group."
The "Everyone Communicates, Few Connect" John Maxwell mastermind is being facilitated by Jill Hough...
- NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) celebrated transportation in May with activities on campus and outreach to more than 250 elementary schools across North Dakota.
NDSU students Jessica Murray and Ali Rahim Taleqani were selected to win gift cards to the NDSU bookstore for displaying...
- An article by UGPTI researchers Raj Bridgelall and Denver Tolliver was recently published in the International Journal of Pavement Engineering. "Accuracy enhancement of roadway anomaly localization using connected vehicles" describes development of a method to estimate and remove localization errors...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute is offering five scholarships for current NDSU juniors and seniors to be awarded for the 2016-2017 Academic Year. To be considered students should apply by May 1. The application is online at www.ndsu.edu/onestop/scholarships
The Charles E. Herman Scholarship...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute is hosting two emerging issues seminars to mark the beginning of a collaborative educational agreement between NDSU and the University of Modern Sciences - Dubai. Under the agreement, NDSU will conduct research and provide instruction to UMS students...
- NDSU Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. student, Osama (Oz) Khan was recently named a transportation planning engineer with StoneBrooke Engineering in Burnsville, MN.
Khan will assisting with civil engineering projects, developing signing and striping plans, temporary traffic control plans, signal and...
- North Dakota State University will offer two new graduate courses in Transportation this spring. They are "Advanced Public Transportation" and "Academic Conduct, Leadership and Ethics in Transportation."
TL 787 Public Transportation II is a three-credit course focusing on concepts and modeling procedures...
- A study on the accessibility of grocery stores to university students using public transportation was recently published in Cogent Engineering by NDSU Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. student Nimish Dharmadhikari and Dr. EunSu Lee, former researcher with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute...
- Two papers on modeling the petroleum supply chain written by NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student Yasaman Kazemi were recently published in transportation journals.
Kazemi's first paper, "An Optimization Model for Downstream Petroleum Supply Chain Incorporating Geographic Information System...
- A paper written by NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student Sardar Zahid was recently published by the International Journal of Economics and Finance.
The paper, "Capital Adequacy Behavior: Empirical Evidence from Banking Sector of Pakistan" focuses on the capital adequacy behavior of the...
- A convenient online calculator is now available to help the motor carrier industry, agricultural producers and others determine how to comply with legal gross and axle weight limits in North Dakota. The calculator will show the carrier what a vehicle or vehicle combination can legally weigh based on...
- Kate Ferguson, NDSU Ph.D. student in Transportation and Logistics has been named Director of Business Development for the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. She will be the first point of contact with the Port Authority for companies pursuing domestic and international trade opportunities. Additionally...
- Denver Tolliver, director of NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, presented on best practices for working with Native Americans on transportation research, workforce development and education programs Tuesday, June 2, at the summer meeting of the Council of University Transportation Centers...
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Invited speakers, an open house, free floats, and a bus visit to an area middle school were events hosted by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU to celebrate National Transportation Week, May 11-15.
UGPTI staff served more than 300 root beer and orange floats to students, faculty...
- NDSU graduate research assistant Mohammad Molla presented a paper and a poster at the 2015 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Geographic Information Systems for Transportation Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, April 19-22.
Molla's paper, "Transferability of Activity-Based...
- NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student Fesseha Gebremikael was an author of two papers recently presented at the 21st Annual International Conference of Industry, Engineering, and Management Systems (IEMS). The conference was held in Coca Beach, FL, March 22-25.
The first paper, "Risk and...
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NDSU staff members and graduate students presented their latest research at the 56th Annual Transportation Research Forum, March 12-14, in Atlanta, Georgia.
EunSu Lee, an associate research fellow with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute presented, "Feedstock Import Options Regarding...
- North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute will partner with the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University to enhance transportation workforce training in the western United States.WTI and UGPTI were awarded a grant from the FHWA to establish a Regional...
- Major Robert Swearingen will be inducted into the Honorable Order of St. Christopher at the UGPTI Annual Awards Banquet Oct. 16. Swearingen graduated from the NDSU MML program in 2012 and recently returned to NDSU to pursue a PhD in Transportation and Logistics with a research fellowship from UGPTI....
- NDSU transportation and logistics Ph.D. students and staff will present their research at the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) Annual Meeting Nov. 9-12 in San Francisco.
EunSu Lee, an associate research fellow for the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute will...
- The main office of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute has moved to Room 448 of the Quentin Burdick Building. That new office is just down the hall from the previous location, Room 430 which will continue to serve as office space for UGPTI staff. All graduate students and staff that were...
- NDSU is among the institutions offering online courses this fall for a post-baccalaureate certificate program sponsored by the Regional University Transportation Center.
Universities offering courses for the fall semester include NDSU, Kansas State University, Texas A&M University and the University...
- A paper focusing on risk management in the healthcare supply chain written by NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student Fesseha Gebremikael was recently published in the African Journal of Business and Economic Research.
"An Analytical Model for Healthcare Supply Chain Risk Management" was...
- Ju Dong Park, a NDSU transportation and logistics Ph.D. student, recently was awarded the Best Paper Award from the Transportation Research Forum at its 55th Annual Forum.
Park's paper, "The Magnitudes of Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Demand for U.S. Domestic Air Passengers," analyzed air carriers'...
- Members of the NDSU student chapter of the Association of Transportation and Logistics learned how knowledge from transportation and logistics courses are used in the real world during a visit to the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council of Governments.Nine students, all Ph.D. students in transportation...
- NDSU transportation and logistics Ph.D. student Jaesung Choi recently presented two papers and several posters at research conferences in the region.Choi, who is also a research assistant with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, attended the 2014 Montana Association of Geographic Information...
- Several researchers and students from NDSU presented papers at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Forum. The event brings together more than 100 transportation researchers, practitioners and students and was Mar. 13-15 in San Jose, CA.
"An Investigation of Factors Influencing...
- An NDSU researcher combined geographic information systems and computerized spatial analysis tools in a new approach to designing service coverage for emergency medical services in rural areas.
The research and a case study of its use in western North Dakota is described in an article, "Designing Service...
- A paper written by students and staff at NDSU was published in the March 2014 issue of Maritime Economics & Logistics.The article, "A coupled linear programming model with geospatial dynamic trip assignment for global-scale intermodal transportation," shows development of a geospatial origin-destination...
- A paper written by EunSu Lee, associate research fellow at NDSU’s Upper Great Plains Transportation Research Institute, was recently published by the Management Research Review. The paper, "An application of conjoint analysis to explore use perceptions on management information systems: A case study,"...
- Ranjit Godavarthy, associate research fellow with Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, won the Wootan Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation in Policy and Planning from the Council for University Transportation Centers (CUTC). Godavarthy completed his dissertation, "Network and Design...
- Members of the NDSU student chapter of the Association of Transportation and Logistics toured the Fargo location of Microsoft in late October.
The students were particularly interested in changes being proposed and implemented to the company's supply chain structure and facility designs, and to learn...
- Rob Lynch recently joined the UGPTI as training coordinator for the Small Urban and Rural Transit Center (SURTC). Most recently, Rob held the position of transportation manager for North Dakota State University, where he managed transit, parking, bicycle, and pedestrian functions for a growing campus...
- Dale Heglund recently joined the UGPTI as program director of the ND Local Technical Assistance Program. In that position, he will lead outreach and training programs aimed at state, county, and local professionals in the transportation construction industry.
Heglund was the North Dakota sales engineer...
- EunSu Lee, an associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute recently presented research papers at two national meetings.
He presented a paper on the institute's statewide freight modeling effort at the Transportation Research Board's Strategic Highway Research Program...
- Fesseha Gebremikael, an NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral student, has been selected to present his research at the National Decision Science Institute (DSI) Annual Conference in Baltimore, MD, Nov. 16.
His paper, "Decision Support Model for Managing Disruptive Influences in Global Supply Chain...
- The Small Urban and Rural Transit Center, part of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU, will be a partner in a new Small Urban and Rural Livability Center being established with a two-year $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The Western Transportation Institute...
- Several NDSU students and staff presented research at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) in Minneapolis, MN, Oct. 6-9. INFORMS is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.), management...
- Several doctoral students from the NDSU transportation and logistics program presented their research at the North Dakota GIS Users Conference in Grand Forks in September. The students were among the nearly 200 attendees representing higher education, utilities, businesses, local, state and federal agencies...
- A paper written by NDSU transportation and logistics Ph.D. student Yasaman Kazemi was recently published in the Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management.The paper, "Optimal Decisions and Comparison of VMI and CPFR Under Price-Sensitive Uncertain Demand," compares the performance of two advanced...
- Ankush Agrawal, NDSU Transportation and Logistics PhD student, will present a research paper at the 2013 International Conference on Construction and Real Estate Management (ICCREM 2013) Oct. 10-11 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
He was recently notified that his paper, "Developing Evaluation Tools for Achieving...
- Learn more about computerized and quantitative techniques for planning, designing and operating transportation systems in TL 753 Transportation System Modeling. The course is offered during the second summer session, June 12 to August 2.
New instructor Dr. EunSu Lee has revamped the course content to...
- Yasaman Kazemi, PhD student in the NDSU Transportation and Logistics Program and graduate research assistant with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, presented a poster titled "Application of GIS in Modeling the Supply Chain Network for Auto Industry in Midwest" at the North Dakota/South...
- Nimish Dharmadhikari, Ph.D. student in the NDSU Transportation and Logistics Program and graduate research assistant at NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, was recently inducted into the Tapestry of Diverse Talents at NDSU.
The Tapestry of Diverse Talents is a pictorial mosaic that recognizes...
- An NDSU graduate program tailored specifically to logistics professionals in the military is featured in a magazine highlighting higher education opportunities and trends for military students.
Transportation and Logistics Program director Denver Tolliver discussed NDSU's Master of Managerial Logistics...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU has added two members to its research staff. Ranjit Godavarthy will work on public transportation research and Bradley Wentz will direct the institute's Advanced Traffic Analysis Center and its Department of Transportation Support Center.
Godavarthy...
- Transportation and Logistics Students Evaluate Bridge Options in Oil Country Traffic and road issues related to oil development in North Dakota became part of the curriculum for students in an advanced transportation and logistics class last semester.
For a class project, students in TL 752: Transportation...
- "Defense Logistics and National Security," a seminar by retired Lieutenant General Claude V. Christianson will be presented Wednesday, Jan. 30, at 3 p.m. in the Arikara Room of the NDSU Memorial Union.
The seminar will explore the critical nature of the defense logistics enterprise by:
Offering an...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute held its annual awards banquet Oct. 11 at the Fargo Holiday Inn. Tracee Sutton, Gary Berreth and Jim Moench were recognized for their contributions to the region's transportation industry. Five scholarships also were presented to NDSU students.
Sutton...
- Brenda Lantz was recently named associate director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute.
Lantz, with more than 20 years of experience on the UGPTI's research staff, will help lead the UGPTI's research, education, and outreach activities. She will assist in managing and promoting the institute...
- NDSU's Master of Managerial Logistics program was recently highlighted in August issue of Military Logistics Forum, a magazine that bills itself at the "world's largest magazine dedicated exclusively to the military logistics community."
In a feature titled "Educating the Logistician," UGPTI director...
- Three transportation and logistics graduate students recently were awarded honors in a student paper competition sponsored by the Urban and Regional Information System Association.
Nimish Dharmadhikari and Zijian Zheng earned second place for a jointly written paper and Vu Dang earned fourth place....
- The American Public Transportation Association's Public Transportation and Universities Communities Conference was held June 16-19 in Fargo, hosted by MATBUS and Small Urban and Rural Transportation Center, a part of NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. NDSU students, faculty and staff...
- NDSU researcher Jill Hough was elected to the executive board of the Council of University Transportation Centers at the group's annual summer meeting June 20-22 at Michigan Tech in Houghton, Mich.
Hough is director of the Small Urban and Rural Transit Center, a part of NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation...
- For the first time in their collective histories, Metro Area Transit (MATBUS) and North Dakota State University (NDSU) will host the American Public Transportation Association's (APTA) 2012 Public Transportation and University Communities Conference, June 16-19. This national conference is expected to...
- Five NDSU transportation and logistics graduate students attended the American Public Transportation Association's Bus and Paratransit Conference May 6-9 in Long Beach, Calif. The conference included more than 30 specialized educational sessions, covering topics such as policy and planning, operations...
- Robert Prince, vice president of transit business development at Archictecture, Engineering, Consulting, Operations and Management Transportation, spoke with transportation students at NDSU April 30 about a variety of transit issues. He also incorporated a message about diversity.
Drawing from his experience...
- More than 350 high school students from about 20 schools in the Bismarck-Mandan learned about careers related to transportation and construction at the region's first Transportation Technical Career Fair.
The event was Wednesday, May 2, at the Bismarck Public Schools Career Academy at Bismarck State...
- NDSU transportation and logistics graduate student Brett Korporaal earned first place in the student research paper competition for the 20th
National Conference for Rural and Intercity Bus Transportation. Korporaal will receive $1,000 and the opportunity to attend the conference in Salt Lake City in...
- NDSU Provost Bruce Rafert announced Denver Tolliver is the new director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, effective April 2. He has served as the institute's associate director since 2003.
"Dr. Tolliver's contributions to the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute over the past...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU is offering five scholarships for current NDSU juniors and seniors to be awarded for the 2012-13 academic year. To be considered, students should apply by May 1. The application is online at www.ndsu.edu/onestop/scholarships
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- Several NDSU students, researchers and faculty presented research at the annual Transportation Research Forum March 15-17 in Tampa, Fla. The forum is an independent organization of transportation professionals, academics and practitioners. Each spring, it brings together transportation professionals...
- The on-campus interview process has begun for the position of director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. Denver Tolliver was interviewed Feb. 28, and Mark Berndt's interview is set for Thursday, March 1.
Public seminar presentations are part of the process. Berndt's presentation is...
- EunSu Lee, transportation analyst with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, was recognized as an American Production and Inventory Control Society Certified Supply Chain Professional.
As a transportation analyst, Lee contributes to several institute projects that focus on statewide transportation...
- Brenda Lantz, associate research fellow with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI), will become chair of the Transportation Research Board's Truck and Bus Safety Committee in April. The Transportation Research Board is one of six major divisions of the National Research Council....
- Several staff members from NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute participated in the Transportation Research Board's national meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 22-26.
The meeting attracted more than 11,000 transportation professionals from around the world and included more than 4,000 presentations...
- North Dakota State University will lead a consortium of eight universities focused on transportation research under a $3.5 million grant awarded this week by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The grant was one of 22 awarded in the University Transportation Centers Program administered by the DOT's...
- Joseph Zabaldano, a graduate student in the managerial logistics program, was promoted to the rank of major in the U.S. Army on Nov. 17. The promotion ceremony was conducted at NDSU by Lt. Col. Matt Shatzkin and Capt. Josh Smith published the orders.
Zabaldano entered the Army in May 2002. He was promoted...
- Canan Bilen-Green, professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, has been named interim director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU, Provost Bruce Rafert announced Oct. 19.A national search for a permanent director also is under way. Rafert named Gary Smith, dean of engineering...
- Graduate students in the transportation and logistics program at NDSU recently attended a student and faculty retreat hosted by the Mountain-Plains Consortium. Master's degree and doctoral students traveled to Snowbird, Utah, to meet with students and faculty from the five other universities in the consortium.
Each...
- Former NDSU president Jim Ozbun will be among the honorees at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute's Annual Awards Banquet Oct. 6. The banquet honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the transportation industry in the region.
Additional honorees include Neal Fisher...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU has launched a transportation security blog to serve as a go-to source for past and current links to videos, news articles and publications on topics related to transportation security issues both domestically and internationally.
The blog is moderated...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute has scheduled weekly transportation seminars throughout the fall semester. Everyone is welcome to attend the presentations, which will be offered Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the IACC, room 422.
Presenters from within and outside the Upper Great Plains...
- A workshop to help area women enhance their careers is scheduled for Sept. 20 at the NDSU Alumni Center.
The "Woman Up! Take Control of your Career" workshop is sponsored by the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, a program of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU. The workshop is...
- EunSu Lee, a transportation analyst with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, presented his research at the 2011 U.S.-Korea Conference Aug. 10-14, which was hosted by the Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association and the Korean Foundation of Science and Technology Societies.
Lee...
- Kimberly Vachal, director of the Rural Transportation Safety and Security Center, was selected to present "Improving Roadway Safety Programs Through University-Agency Partnerships" at the University Transportation Center's Spotlight Conference in November. The event is hosted by the Transportation Research...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) is pleased to announce that four $1500 scholarships and one $2000 scholarship have been awarded to outstanding NDSU juniors and seniors with an interest in transportation.
The $1500 Paul E. R. Abrahamson Transportation Scholarship is awarded to...
- "Impacts of Ethanol Plants on Highway Networks" was published in the spring issue of the Journal of Transport and Land Use. It was written by Alan Dybing and Denver Tolliver, both of Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, and Subhro Mitra, formerly of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute...
- Denver Tolliver, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute associate director, will receive the 2011 Innovation in Education Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Transportation Education Council at their annual meeting during August in St. Louis.
The award recognizes unique or innovative...
- Jill Hough, director of the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center at NDSU, launched a successful mentorship program with students from her public transportation class during spring semester. Students were paired with an industry leader for eight weeks to discuss topics and learn from the mentors' experiences...
- Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute associate director Denver Tolliver will receive the 2011 Innovation in Education Award from the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Transportation Education Council. The award recognizes Tolliver's work with the Transportation Leadership Graduate Certificate...
- Eunsu Lee, doctoral candidate in transportation and logistics, has been invited to present at the Geospatial Information Systems for Transportation Symposium. Lee will present research from studying flooding in the Red River Valley, "Visualization for Transportation Network in Flood Region."
The study...
- Denver Tolliver, director of the Mountain-Plains Consortium, and John MacGowan, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute's national program coordinator, presented at the 18th annual Northwest Tribal Transportation Symposium in Spokane, Wash. The symposium was hosted by the Affiliated Tribes of...
- Jill Hough, program director of the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center in the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, has matched students from her public transportation course with industry mentors across the country. NDSU is serving as the pilot university for the mentor program that will potentially...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute is offering five scholarships for current NDSU juniors and seniors to be awarded for the 2011-12 academic year. To be considered, students should apply by April 30. Visit www.ndsu.edu/onestop/scholarships, for the online application.
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- Two NDSU transportation and logistics doctoral students presented papers at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Simulation Conference in Austin, Texas, in November.Ieelong Peter Chen presented the paper, "Collaborative Transportation Management in the Supply Chain: Shipper...
- Jarret Brachman, associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, delivered a keynote address at an international counterterrorism conference in Ireland in September. The conference,"Terrorism and New Media," was sponsored by Dublin City University and designed to generate...
- Jill Hough, director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute's Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, is chair of the planning committee for the 19th National Rural and Intercity Bus Conference to be held October 24-27, 2010, in Burlington, Vermont. The conference theme is "Big Ideas – Bold...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU will honor three transportation leaders at its 15th Annual Awards Banquet Oct. 7 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fargo.
Honorees include Dick Johnsen, long-time transportation advocate and president of Johnsen Trailer Sales in Fargo; Herman Schmitz...
- Three NDSU students and faculty attended the International Society of Logistics (SOLE) conference held mid-August in Dallas, Texas. The conference theme "Global Logistics Sustainability" focused on the significance of sustainability in logistics.Sustainability-focused sessions taught attendees about...
- Three transportation and logistics doctoral students recently received awards for their research papers.
EunSu Lee's paper, "Estimating trip diversion by using impedance in flooding regions," was one of the winners in the GIS-T Student Paper Contest. The paper was presented April 12 at the GIS-T Symposium...
- Tools like iPads, Facebook, and Twitter will be used to gather public input on transit in the Fargo-Moorhead area as part of a research project at North Dakota State University.
The project is part of a nationwide effort by the Federal Transit Administration explore innovative ways to improve public...
- The Paul Abrahamson and Transportation Engineering Scholarships are being offered to NDSU students through the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI). These scholarships are offered annually, and are funded by the Mountain-Plains Consortium.
Interested students should be juniors and seniors...
- The Transportation Leadership Graduate Certificate (TLGC) program is a new, online certificate program being offered to professionals and post-baccalaureate students interested in expanding their transportation knowledge. Students will be able to take classes taught by leading professionals from across...
- Gene Griffin, director, and Jon Mielke, research fellow, both from Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI), recently received Dedicated Partners Awards from the North Dakota Association of Counties in recognition of their role in organizing a series of public information and input workshops...
- The anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States and the discovery of an alleged terrorist plot in New York City have prompted a flurry of media appearances for an NDSU faculty member.
Jarret Brachman, associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation...
- Students in NDSU's Association of Transportation and Logistics toured Dilworth's Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway facilities last spring. The tour, which allowed students to interact with yardmasters, gave students a better understanding of railroad terminal operation.
The students study...
- Four transportation leaders will be honored Oct. 8 when the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute holds its annual awards banquet at the Fargo Holiday Inn. Honorees include Steve McCormick Sr., executive vice president of Northern Improvement Co.; Delta Daggett, longtime leader in the trucking...
- NDSU transportation and logistics graduate students attended the International Transport Economics Conference June 15-16 at the University of Minnesota. The Mountain-Plains Consortium sponsored their trip. NDSU is the lead university in the consortium which is one of 10 competitively selected regional...
- Dennis E. Jacobson, a North Dakota National Guardsman and NDSU alumnus, was recently promoted to major general and will begin a two-year assignment as the U.S. Forces Korea deputy chief of staff for Restationing and Tour Normalization Facilities. Maj. Gen. Jacobson is one of two active major generals...
- With fuel price increases, an emphasis on green transportation and a growing reliance on public transportation by retiring baby boomers, public transportation has been in the spotlight like never before. As a result, interest and ridership are up. But a lack of qualified workers may be a roadblock in...
- NDSU’s Graduate School added new graduate programs that will be available for the 2009-10 academic year. The Transportation and Logistics Program in the College of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studies now offers two new graduate degrees and two new certificate programs. The programs will focus on...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU, through its involvement in the Mountain-Plains Consortium, sponsored a two-day workshop to bring together industry, government and academic leaders to address transportation policy and regulation. Beyond the Crossroads: A National Discourse on...
- Jarret Brachman, associate research fellow at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, served as a local media resource throughout Roxana Saberi's detention. Local radio networks, including KFGO, MOJO 104 and AM 1100 featured multiple on-air interviews with Brachman for expert analysis and updates...
- Jill Hough, advanced research fellow, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU, was recently a guest lecturer at the University of Vermont Transportation Research Center.
She presented the seminar "Aging in Rural and Small Urban Environments: Are Travel Needs Being Met?" to faculty and students...
- NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute earned global media exposure in November with the publication of a new article by one of its staff about terrorism in South Asia.
Jarret Brachman, associate research fellow, published an article titled "Al-Qaida's Changing Outlook on Pakistan" for the...
- Jarret Brachman and Subhro Mitra, researchers with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU, recently had their first books published.
Brachman's book, "Global Jihadism," explores the core doctrine and strategy of today's global Jihadist movement. The book is divided into two sections...
- A researcher with NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute was on the agenda of a national security conference in Washington, D.C., Sept. 11 and 12. Jarret Brachman attended the "DNI Open Source Conference 2008," hosted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The conference...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU will host an annual awards banquet Thursday, Oct. 9, at the Fargo Holiday Inn.
Tickets for the banquet are $30 and must be ordered by Sept. 30 by calling (701)231-7767. The event opens with a social at 5:15 p.m. and dinner at 6:45 p.m. The banquet...
- An administrator from the Federal Transit Administration and officials from several national transit organizations gathered at NDSU on Sept. 10 to discuss programs of the university's Small Urban & Rural Transit Center.
"I can see how cutting edge a lot of this work is and how germane it is to transit...
- WDAY News 6 covered the Sept. 8 seminar titled "The Logic and Nexus - Transportation, Disability and Federal Policy" by Dr. Alan Abeson. To view the news coverage, click the play button on the video below.
For more information about Abeson or the seminar, visit the seminar's description page.
- Alan Abeson, a national advocate for rights for the disabled, will present a seminar on transportation, disability and public policy Monday, Sept. 8, at 3 p.m. in IACC 422.
Abeson's presentation will include some of the evolutionary developments in public policy with an emphasis on the Americans with...
- Students from the NDSU Master of Military Logistics Program participated in a radio frequency identification (RFID) course offered by the RFID Solutions Center Dayton. Based in Ohio, the firm is the world's largest and most advanced facility devoted entirely to the application of RFID technology. Alien...
- NDSU's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute has been hosting a statewide discussion on the mobility needs of North Dakota and the state of its transportation infrastructure.
Since March, the Institute has hosted regional workshops in Williston, Dickinson, Minot, Bismarck, Devils Lake, Jamestown...
- Keith "Chad" Mixon was presented with the 2008 Hagen Leadership Award at the NDSU graduation reception for the Master of Military Logistics program on May 9, at Seasons at Rose Creek restaurant, Fargo.
The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) presents the award to the Master of Military...
- Robert Pieri, professor of mechanical engineering, and Subhro Mitra, research assistant for the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, were featured speakers at an international workshop at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, on Feb. 21-22.
The workshop...
- Mobility for residents of North Dakota took a significant move forward last week with pledges from Lieutenant Governor Jack Dalrymple and Dave Leftwich of the North Dakota Department of Transportation to work to improve coordination among transit providers in the state.
"The endorsement of this concept...
- Two speakers hosted by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute were recently guest lecturers for students in the transportation and logistics Ph.D. program and the Masters of Military Logistics Program.
Chris Dager, a national expert on water and barge transportation rate analysis from the Tennessee...
- Several Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute students and staff members participated in the Transportation Research Forum's Annual Forum March 17-19 in Fort Worth, TX.
Meera Singh, a student in the transportation and logistics Ph.D. program, presented her paper, "Statistical Model for Mitigation...
- Charles Briggs, a Ph.D. student in transportation and logistics, presented "Global Supply Chain Risks Management: A New Battleground for Gaining Competitive Advantage" at the 15th Annual Conference of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences. The conference was Feb. 22-24 in Las Vegas.
The...
- Masters of Military Logistics student Joshua LaMotte was promoted to major in the U.S. Army, March 1. Family and friends gathered at the Benson Bunker Fieldhouse on the NDSU campus to celebrate the event.
LaMotte is a former member of the NDSU ROTC program and graduated with a bachelor of arts degree...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU will host a regional trucking conference in June to facilitate an exchange of ideas and information among trucking companies and state departments of transportation.
"Trucks are the primary logistics provider for rural businesses," notes Mark Lofgren...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute is offering the Abrahamson Scholarship and the Transportation Engineering Scholarship. These scholarships are given out each year to recognize academic achievement and promote the education of transportation students at NDSU.
Applicants must be a junior...
- Subhro Mitra, transport engineer with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, has been invited to present information on applications of geographic information systems in transportation at a seminar in India.
Mitra will attend the seminar organized by the Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College...
- Several researchers from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) participated in the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) 87th Annual Meeting Jan. 13-17 in Washington, D.C.
The TRB Annual Meeting brings together more than 10,000 policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers...
- Natalie (Beck) Easterday was named an Outstanding Student of the Year by the U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center program. Easterday received the award Jan. 12 during the Transportation Research Board's Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
The award recognizes Easterday's...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at NDSU is offering a series of transportation-related seminars during the spring semester.
The seminars provide updates on transportation research and issues at the local, regional and national levels. The seminars are open to the public and are...
- Students from NDSU's Master of Military Logistics (MML) program, toured the Bobcat Company production plant in Gwinner, ND, Friday, Nov. 16.
Students toured the production line of three style/size loaders witnessing one ton rolls of raw steel being transformed into bumpers, roll cages, and frames. Student...
- A prestigious Fulbright Scholar grant will allow an Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute researcher to spend 10 months teaching and helping develop research programs at the University of Jordan in Amman.Beginning in January, UGPTI advanced research fellow Ayman Smadi will teach a graduate course...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University will hold its annual awards banquet Thursday, Oct. 11 at the Fargo Holiday Inn.Tickets for the banquet are $30 and should be ordered by Oct. 5 by calling (701)231-7767. Awards at the banquet will recognize Jon Mielke...
- by Rebecca Montgomery, TACOM LCMC Rock Island Public Affairs
FARGO, N.D. - Robert Jurkowski, TACOM Life Cycle Management Command Armament Readiness Team leader and pending graduate of North Dakota State University's Master of Military Logistics program, was recently awarded the MML program's 2007 Hagen...
- Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) is an independent center at NDSU that provides education, research and outreach programs in small urban and rural transportation and logistics to enhance the safety and mobility of people, goods, and agricultural commodities. With the opening of its...
- NDSU Ph.D. student Subhro Mitra was recently a winner in a student paper contest sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.Mitra's paper suggests that satellite imagery used to assess crop conditions and predict yields also could be used to generate data and...
- Did you know that in the years between 1990 and 2004, almost 250,000 miles of rural roads simply vanished? That over those same 14 years, nearly half-a-million miles of urban roads were created? And did you know that, as a percentage of gross domestic income, the nation's transportation outlays in 2004...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at North Dakota State University, in Fargo, partnered with the Eno Foundation to gather, analyze, and publish data for the 20th edition of Transportation in America (TIA). The process called on all the skills of UGPTI's staff, according to Dr. Kim...
- Featured speakers at the Summit were U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, Under Secretary for Rural Development at USDA, Tom Dorr, Congressman Dennis Cardoza, Congressman Jim Costa, and Congressman Baron Hill, members of the House Agriculture and Energy Committees. Other speakers included Andy...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) is sponsoring a series of transportation-related seminars on Fridays at 2:30 p.m. through May 4. The seminars will be in IACC 422.The seminar on March 9 will be presented by Wade Kline, a community planner with the Fargo-Moorhead Metropolitan Council...
- Xinyu (Jason) Cao recently received the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers. Cao is an associate research fellow with the Small Urban & Rural Transit Center, a part of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute.The national award recognizes a student...
- Students from the NDSU Master of Military Logistics program toured the Red River Valley and Western Railroad yard in Breckenridge, Minn., Monday, Oct. 23, to observe rail operations first hand."This was a tremendous opportunity for students to see in real life the rail operations they have been learning...
- During the week of Nov. 6-10, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Department of Civil Engineering will observe "Railroad Week" to raise the awareness of the importance of freight railroad transportation in the United States and draw attention to potential careers in the railroad industry.
"With...
- The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU will host its 11th Annual Awards Banquet Thursday, Oct. 5, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Fargo Holiday Inn.The event will feature recognition for several individuals who have provided leadership in the transportation industry in the region and or...
- A North Dakota Rural Transportation Safety and Security Conference is scheduled for August 23-24 in Bismarck. The conference is aimed at emergency planners and responders, transportation agencies and private transportation firms. The conference will identify and increase awareness of the safety and security...
- Getting military equipment and supplies from point A to point B isn't an easy task on the battlefield.U.S. Army Capt. Jim Gannon said he was often frustrated during his recent tour of duty in Iraq because when a shipment left a distribution site, it was nearly impossible to track or change its direction.That...
- The Fargo District of the North Dakota DOT received advice on its snow removal routes from students at NDSU while the students received a real-world introduction to applications for the theories they're learning in class.Canan Bilen-Green, an assistant professor in NDSU's industrial and manufacturing...
- Bismarck State College (BSC) recently began a new two-year degree program that will educate graduates for work in the transportation industry. Transportation and supply chain management was developed in collaboration with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) and North Dakota State...
- Jill Hough, an associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at NDSU, recently was named to the advisory board of the National Transit Institute at Rutgers University in New Jersey.The NTI provides training, education and clearinghouse services in support of public transportation...
- The Transportation Research Forum Foundation recently awarded a $500 scholarship to David Ripplinger, an associate research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute.Ripplinger is pursuing a doctoral degree in transportation and logistics. He uses his expertise in computer modeling...
- The former president of the Greater North Dakota Association, Dale O. Anderson, is being recognized for his service to transportation by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University.Anderson will receive the institute's Chairman's Award which recognizes individuals...
- In recognition of North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad's efforts on behalf of transportation in the region, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University is giving him its highest award.Conrad will receive the John Agrey award Tuesday, Oct. 11, at the Institute's award's...
- Improving freight movement in the region stretching from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest is the focus of a new research and outreach center at North Dakota State University, Washington State University and the University of Washington.
"Regional freight transportation issues are gaining importance...
- A celebration luncheon and a series of video seminars presented over the Transportation Learning Network highlight National Transportation Week events scheduled for May 16-20. The events are hosted by the Mountain-Plains Consortium (MPC).
The luncheon is scheduled for 11:30 a.m., Thursday, May 19 in...
- Kimberly Vachal recently was named advanced research fellow with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute. She has been an associate research fellow for more than 10 years.Vachal works with local, regional, and national freight groups to identify logistical opportunities and assess policy implications....
- Four researchers from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute presented papers at the Transportation Research Forum's annual meeting March 6-8 at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.Denver Tolliver, associate director of the institute, was part of a panel that discussed the track...
- In wintertime Fargo, the wind slices out of the northwest almost constantly. Snow and sleet ride the wind horizontally and below-zero temps add bite. Transit riders here know bus shelters aren't just about convenience and comfort, they're about survival.Most of Fargo's bus shelters are unheated plastic...
- The Transportation Learning Network (formerly Tel8) is hosting an open house Friday, Feb. 11, to display its new Tandberg video conferencing equipment. The installation of the new equipment marks the network's shift from ISDN technology to Internet-based video conferencing. The open house is from 1...
- Gene C. Griffin, director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI), has received the S.S. Steinberg Award from the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). The award was announced Jan. 10 in Washington, D.C., during the annual meeting of the association's Research...
- Picture this: The year is 1492 and Christopher Columbus is laying claim to the United States; you, on the other hand, are observing a vast expanse of land from a geo-synchronous satellite positioned about 60 miles above the center of the North American continent.What you see from your stratospheric perch...
- The transit director for Wells, Sheridan and Stutsman counties has been selected for an international trip to study transit in Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador.Carol Wright is executive director of James River Transit and Wells/Sheridan Transit headquartered in Jamestown. She left for the 16-day trip on...
- A who's who of transit officials from the national and regional level praised progress of NDSU's Small Urban & Rural Transit Center (SURTC) at its third annual steering committee meeting Sept. 15 at the NDSU Alumni Center."We would like to see SURTC replicated and adopted as a national model," said Pam...
- An official of the U.S. Federal Highway Administration will outline the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Program at NDSU at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28.Michael Freitas, travel management coordinator for the ITS Joint Program Office, will provide a short history...
- Two NDSU staff members were recently recognized for their communications work by the Association for Communications Excellence.Tom Jirik was part of a multi-state team that earned a silver award in the non-credit educational program category. The team developed training materials and a train-the-trainer...
- Ray Zink, retired chief engineer for the North Dakota Department of Transportation will receive the John M. Agrey Award from the UGPTI.The award recognizes significant contributions to transportation. It is named for John Agrey, a pioneer and innovator in North Dakota transportation who worked for more...
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