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  • 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...
  • 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 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • A recently published study by MPC researchers at North Dakota State University'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...
  • Collecting bridge inspection data is essential to bridge asset management and assuring that bridges receive timely maintenance so that highway maintenance investments can be directed most efficiently and bridges remain safe for users. MPC research at North Dakota State University proposed a holistic...
  • Dinesh Katti, professor of civil and environmental engineering and MPC researcher at North Dakota State University, will receive the 2020 NDSU Faculty Lectureship Award. The honor is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the university's awards and recognizes sustained professional excellence in...
  • 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...
  • MPC researchers at North Dakota State University developed and evaluated an automated symptom screening system for railroad tracks and equipment. The system located and characterized possible track surface abnormalities by analyzing the inertial dynamics of a hi-rail vehicle or in-service rail vehicles...
  • MPC researchers at North Dakota State University want to better understand the relationships between roadside inspection data and safety performance data for large trucks. The researchers used data mining techniques and statistical analysis to examine data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Five NDSU students 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, debate contemporary transportation issues...
  • NDSU researchers Ying Huang, Pan Lu and Raj Bridgelall presented their 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, tribal program outreach coordinator for the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University, is serving on the 2018 National Transportation in Indian Country Conference (NTICC) planning committee. She will assist with reviewing submissions from potential presenters...
  • The Tribal Transportation Scholarship at North Dakota State University will recognize 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...
  • 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...
  • The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University celebrated its 50th Anniversary by hosting an interactive outdoor event featuring heavy trucks, emergency response vehicles, transportation safety exhibits and highlights of the Institute's history. Visit the Institute's...
  • 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...
  • Bukola Bakare, a transportation and logistics PhD student at North Dakota State University, 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...
  • 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...
  • Six NDSU 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 dedicated to...
  • Transportation and Logistics Ph.D. student Amin Keramati recently won the 2017 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials GIS for Transportation Student Paper Contest. Kerimati will present the paper, "Solving the log-truck routing problem while accounting for forest road maintenance...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Jill Hough, associate professor of transportation, at North Dakota State University's Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute was named president of the Council of University of Transportation Centers (CUTC) at the group's annual meeting in June in Los Angeles. CUTC provides a forum for transportation...
  • 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...
  • Kate Ferguson, a Ph.D. student in NDSU's Transportation and Logistics Program, was recently named Director of Business Development for the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. She is the first point of contact for companies pursuing domestic and international trade opportunities and also coordinates business...
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