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National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology
The National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology
at the University of Idaho is a center of excellence for transportation
research, education and technology transfer in the state of Idaho, the
Pacific Northwest and Intermountain regions, and in the United
States.
We invite you to explore
our Website to learn more about our research, graduate and undergraduate
opportunities, and the people who work with and for us. Please
contact us if you would like
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FEATURED RESEARCH
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The Federal Highway Administration has made a major shift in its
role in microsimulation modeling of traffic flow. While
previously supporting the development of the CORSIM model, FHWA
is now focusing its resources on the development of core driver
behavior algorithms and the supporting data sets representing
driver behavior in a range of traffic environments.
The NGSIM program has identified a set of priority algorithms
for arterial operations that are yet to be developed. These
algorithms include starting/stopping behavior and permitted left
turns at signalized intersections
Researchers at NIATT are working to develop new insights on the
operation of traffic along arterials, particularly driver
behavior at the beginning and end of green. The project is using
high resolution data sets from California, Georgia, and Idaho to
develop improved algorithms for the starting and stopping of
queues at signalized intersections. This project supports the
FHWA’s goals of reaching out to the university community in
general to support FHWA’s research program and specifically to
support FHWA’s NGSIM program.
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FEATURED STUDENT
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Congratulations to Howard Cooley who is NIATT' s student-of-the-year.
Howard was
honored at the Transportation
Research Board meeting in Washington, DC, in January 2010.
Howard is a civil engineering graduate student at the University of
Idaho and has worked with NIATT on a number of research projects.
Howard holds three degrees in science and engineering, A.A.S.O Yakima
Valley Community College 2002, BS Washington State University 2004, MS
University of Idaho 2007, and is currently working on a PhD.
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FEATURED OUTCOME
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THE CLEAN SNOWMOBILE TEAM SLIDES INTO THIRD PLACE AT
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION Under
the leadership of faculty advisory Karen Den Braven, the sled
team of graduate and undergraduate students designed a
snowmobile with the best acceleration and fuel economy and best
value in the SAE International Clean Snowmobile Challenge,
leading to a third place finish.
Read more at
http://www.today.idaho.edu/Details.aspx?ID-4837 |
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CONFERENCE OUTCOMES
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