Articles

• Learning from the Travel Experiences of Persons with Disabilities (May 6, 2024)
  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...
• New Options for Extending Life of Concrete Structures (Apr 6, 2023)
  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...
• MPC Researchers Participate in Annual Transportation Research Board Meeting (Jan 31, 2023)
  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...
• Research Finds Rapid Test Can Measure Fatigue in Transportation Workers (Jul 15, 2021)
  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...
• Researchers Develop Tool for Measuring Safety Culture (Jul 2, 2019)
  MPC researchers at the University of Denver are developing a tool to measure the effectiveness of safety culture within a company or industry. The researchers administered the Safety Culture Assessment Scale to employees of a large regional railroad at two separate times. Results demonstrated the reliability...
• University of Colorado Denver Offers GAANN PhD Fellowships in Transportation Engineering (Mar 6, 2017)
  The Safe, Healthy and Resilient Communities (SHRC) PhD program at the University of Colorado Denver is a US Department of Education-sponsored Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) PhD fellowship program focusing on interdisciplinary training of fellows in areas of transportation engineering...