Roadway Safety Showcase: Safety Innovations for Today and Tomorrow

May 21, 2015
Saint Paul RiverCentre
St. Paul, MN

 

About the Event

This showcase convened transportation safety researchers and practitioners to share research results that address the most pressing roadway safety challenges. Researchers from the Roadway Safety Institute shared their latest findings on tribal nation road safety, rail-grade crossings, technology and roadway innovations, safety policy, and human factors. Attendees also heard from featured guest Greg Winfree, USDOT Assistant Secretary for Transportation, who shared the USDOT perspective on transportation safety and research.

The showcase was held as part of the 2015 Transportation Research Conference, sponsored by the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) at the University of Minnesota. The conference acts as a forum for researchers and practitioners from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest to share their research findings in a variety of transportation-related areas. 

• Download the event agenda (1.39 MB PDF)

Presentations

Improving Road Safety in Tribal Nations

Understanding Transportation Safety Risks on Tribal Lands: A Collaborative Research Project with American Indian Communities

• Kathy Quick and Guillermo Narvaez, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (548 KB PDF)

Using GIS to Improve Tribal Traffic Safety

• Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University (684 KB PDF)

Technology and Roadway Innovations

Development and Demonstration of Merge Assist System using Connected Vehicle Technology

• Imran Hayee, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth (579 KB PDF)

Implementation of a V2I Highway Safety System and Connected Vehicle Testbed

• John Hourdos, Minnesota Traffic Observatory and the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota (1.34 MB PDF)

A Positioning and Mapping Methodology Using Bluetooth and Smartphone Technologies to Support Situation Awareness and Wayfinding for the Visually Impaired

• Chen-Fu Liao, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota (844 KB PDF)

Novel Collision Avoidance System for Bicycles

• Rajesh Rajamani, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota (444 KB PDF)

Directional Rumble Strips for Reducing Wrong-Way Driving Freeway Entries

• Huaguo Zhou, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University (734 KB PDF)

Developing and Validating a Model of Left Turn Crashes to Support Safer Design and Operations

• Gary Davis, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota (415 KB PDF)

Safety Policy and Human Factors

Identifying and Reconciling Stakeholder Perspectives in Deploying Automated Speed Enforcement

• Frank Douma, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (519 KB PDF)

Alcohol-Related Hot Spot Analysis and Prediction

• William Schneider, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Akron (879 KB PDF)

Safety in Numbers? Accessibility, Traffic, and Safety of Non-Motorized Travelers

• Andrew Owen, Accessibility Observatory and Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering, University of Minnesota (1.36 MB PDF)

Assessing Factors Affecting Policy Leadership in Adopting Road Safety Countermeasures

• Lee Munnich, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (721 KB PDF)

Performance Measures for Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety: Methodologies for Monitoring Traffic Volumes and Assessing Exposure to Risk

• Greg Lindsey, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota (615 KB PDF)

Older Driver Support System (ODSS) Usability and Design Investigation

• Nichole Morris, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota (745 KB PDF)

Improving Railroad Grade Crossing Safety at the Regional Level

Accident Prediction Models using Macro and Micro Scale Analysis

• Ray Benekohol, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1.27 MB PDF)

Reliable Planning and Coordination of Emergency Responses to Railroad Incidents

• Yanfeng Ouyang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1018 KB PDF)

More Information

For more information or with questions about the showcase, please contact Hannah Grune at 612-626-4965 or grun0199@umn.edu.

Sponsor

The Roadway Safety Showcase is sponsored by the Roadway Safety Institute.