Current Research
- Current Research
- Impact Estimation of the Effects of Climate Change on Freight Transportation Infrastructure
- Development of an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Evaluation Toolbox
- Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Freight Transportation Operations and Infrastructure 鈥� A Leadership Summit
- Regional Traffic and Safety Information Dissemination: Phase III
- Data Collection and Analysis to Evaluate Transportation System Performance
- Evaluating Vulnerabilities to Transportation Infrastructure Under Future Climate Projections
- Simulations to Inform Management of Systems Under a Range of Scenarios
- Evaluating Benefits of Mitigation Strategies
- Development of a Decision-Support Tool for Bridge Infrastructure Adaptation in Response to Climate-Induced Flood Risk
- Mining AIS Data for Improved Vessel Trip Analysis Capabilities
- Enterprise Risk Management Methods Enhancement and Mitigation Strategy Development
- Completed Research Projects
- Network Analysis of Freight Diversion and Capacity Issues in Tennessee
- Intermodal Freight Network 鈥� User Interface Development
- U.S. Foreign Waterborne Cargo Data System: phase II
- Mining AIS Data for Improved Vessel Trip Analysis Capabilities
- Spatial Analysis of Safety and Security Vulnerability During Transport of Hazardous Materials
- U.S. Freight Investment Efficiency: Phase I
- Baseline of the US National Freight System
- National Scan of Freight Capacity, Safety and Security Issues (phases I and II)
- Freight Analysis Network Development
- Intermodal Freight Curriculum Development
- Freight Analysis Network 鈥� Terminal Capacity Estimation
- Tennessee Highway Route Risk Assessments
- I-40 Trucking Operations and Safety Analysis
- Enterprise Risk Management Needs Assessment Protocol
- Intermodal GIS Network Risk Assessment
- Truck Terminal and Corridor Performance Analysis
- Coastal Maritime Risk Assessments
- The 鈥淧hases鈥� of Emergency Management
- The Recovery Phase of Emergency Management
- Freight Transportation and Emergency Management: Profiles of 3 Stakeholder Groups
- Safety, Security and Capacity of Critical Rail Corridors
- Intermodal Freight GIS Network
- Regional Traffic and Safety Information Dissemination 鈥� Phase 2
- CAIT 10: Inland Marine Transportation Analytics, Phase II
- Inland Marine Transportation Data Collection Using Automatic Identification Systems
- US Foreign Waterborne Cargo Data System
- TDOT SmartWay Information System (TSIS)
- Spill Management Information System (SMIS)
The Nashville area is home to several local transportation agencies, many with their own intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has made significant investment (, TSIS/511, and associated ITS equipment) throughout the state. Opportunities are available to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of these separate systems, and each agency benefits from coordinating their systems, using standardized means of disseminating information, and sharing and syndicating travel information where possible.
国产原创 recently completed 鈥淩egional Traffic and Safety Information Dissemination 鈥� Phase II.鈥� This project aided local transportation agencies and traffic operations centers (TOCs) in disseminating traffic and safety information from TDOT SmartWay. 国产原创 successfully developed a template website that uses . This template includes a map of incidents, filterable statewide road condition information, real-time camera images and dynamic message signs, a fully-functional companion mobile website, and performance measurement for analyzing visitor content preferences. 国产原创 also performed a significant amount of research into considering alternate means of interfacing local TOCs with TSIS. Phase II ended September 15, 2011, and the template has been .
Phase III (phase I: feasibility study, phase II: template development) will include deployment of the website template to corridor cities such as Cookeville and Jackson and cities with TOCs (Brentwood, Franklin, Murfreesboro, Clarksville). 国产原创 will assist with interfacing TOCs with TSIS to increase TDOT SmartWay鈥檚 coverage by incorporating state highway observations not visible with TDOT ITS infrastructure. As not all information reported by the local TOCs will be of interest to TDOT, 国产原创 will design and implement a simple reporting system (to be hosted on a 国产原创 server) for TOCs to report information about local road conditions (e.g., non-interstate and non-state route) to their constituents. This project should lead to increased communication and ITS coordination between local agencies and TDOT.
This research should lead to greater use of syndicated information and increased communication between local agencies and TDOT and serve as a working prototype for other states and local transportation agencies to emulate.
Dr. James Dobbins is the principal investigator of this project and funding support is provided by the .
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