SPONSORS

 

 

Center for Freight Transportation for Efficient and Resilient Supply Chain (UTC)

Projects YEAR 1: 

  • Generating reliable freight disruption measures with freight telematics data
  • Impact of multimodal freight network on private sector global distribution 

The Pacific Northwest Transportation Consurtium (PacTrans)

Projects: 

  • Confounding Factors of Commercial Motor Vehicles in Safety Critical Events
  • Understanding Truck Parking Behavior and Choice of Commercial Motor Vehicle operators: Impacts on Roadway Safety
  • Understanding Freight Behavior in the Pacific Northwest: An Evaluation and Application of EROAD Data to Freight Demand and Forecast Modeling
  • Measures of Freight Network Resiliency: A Pacific Northwest Expanded Data Capture and Analysis of Truck Drivers and Support Services under Pandemic Distress
  • Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on the Trucking industry: A Spatial and Econometric Framework to Capture the Impacts of the Hours-of-Service (HOS) Emergency Declaration and Congestion Effects on Truck Driver Safety

Oregon Department of Transportation 

Projects: 

  • Pontential for Freight Mode Shifting in Oregon
  • Truck Parking: An Emerging Safety Hazard to Highway Users
  • A Framework To Evaluate Causes and Effects of Truck Driver At-Fault Crashes in Oregon 
  • Develop New Methods to Use ODOT Weigh-in-Motion Data for Predicting Freight Flow and/or Commodity Patterns
  • Expanding the Oregon Motor Carrier Safety Action Plan:  Best Return on Investment
  • Trends and Challenges Posed by Medium-Duty Trucks to the Operation and Safety of Oregon Highways
  • Preliminary Investigation of Heavy Vehicle Parking Design in Oregon Rest Areas
  • Truck Access into Roundabouts
  • Evaluation of Electronic Enforcement of Motor Carrier Compliance and Safety
  • The Impact of Cell Phone Coverage Areas on Distracted Driving, Traffic Accidents, Fatalities, and Injuries

Cascadia Lifeline Program (CliP's) 

Projects:

  • Lifeline Network Resiliency and Recovery for Emergency Response - Yr 1
  • Lifeline Network Resiliency and Recovery for Emergency Response - Yr 2

 

 Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT)

Projects: 

  • Integration of Data Sources to Optimize Freight Transportation in Texas
  • El Paso Regional Ports of Entry Operations Plan
  • Synthesis of Operational Use of Real-Time Commercial Traffic Routing Data
  • El Paso Border Master Plan
 

EL Paso Metropolitan Planning Organizatoin (ELMPO)

Projects:

  • Warehouse Location and Freight Attraction in the Greater El Paso Region (MPO Study) 
  • Systematic Approach to Evaluate Potential Park and Ride Facilities
 

US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Projects:

  • BGREEN – Building A Regional Energy and Educational Network: A Partnership to Integrate Efforts and Collaboration to Shape Tomorrow’s Hispanic Sustainable Leadership 
  • Attitude Towards Green Warehousing in El Paso, Texas: An Exploratory Analysis
 

Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportatoin (CAIT) UTC

Projects:

  • Warehouse Location and Freight Attraction in the Greater El Paso Region (UTC Phase)
 

US Department of Education 

Project:

  • Transatlantic Dual Masters Degree Program in Transportation and Logistics Systems 

Idaho Transportation Department 

Projects: 

  • Idaho Statewide Freight Data & Commodity Supply Chain Analysis