Traffic incidents have significant negative impacts on the safety and efficiency of overall transportation system performance. The transportation community has consistently strive to improve the transportation incident management process. This project demonstrates the ability of the NYSDOT, GDIT and IIMS to improve traffic incident management.
External Collaborators: Yanlin Guo - Assistant Professor, Colorado State University, United States Department of Energy (DOE) Renewables Advancing Community Energy Resilience (RACER)
All nuclear power plants are required to have a significant level of resistance to the effects of earthquake shaking, but the safety-grade nuclear equipment is generally large and routinely custom-made for each nuclear plant. Whittaker’s team will simplify plant design and standardize the equipment to drive down cost and speed construction.
At the 2023 Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) World 2023 Conference in Norfolk, Virginia, ISTL Director Kevin Hulme, PhD, and his team of transportation engineering researchers presented their findings in the application of different video game engine simulations to enhance transportation research.
External Collaborators: Erie County (NY) Department of Environment and Planning, New York State Department of Health, Syracuse University, Ceres Nanosciences
Bloomberg quoted John Atkinson in a report that a plastic drop-off program embraced by 12,000 retail locations and more than 500 brands in the U.S. has been putting packaging into landfills.
The Star (Malaysia) reposted an article on skimmer boats, designed to pick up litter found in waterways, with John Atkinson noting that society’s reliance on plastic is a greater problem to address.
The New York Times quoted John Atkinson, associate professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, in a story about how cities are turning to “trash skimmers” to rid their waterways of plastic waste and how environmentalists say the boats are more of a Band-Aid than a solution.
Engineers at the University at Buffalo are quantifying the chemical leaching behavior and life cycle environmental impacts of rubber modified asphalt (RMA). Findings could highlight benefits of using RMA instead of traditional asphalt to build roadways.
John D. Atkinson, the Scott and Coleen Stevens Chair in Engineering Sustainability has been named associate editor with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)’ Journal of Environmental Engineering.
Phys.org, reported that on a study led by John Atkinson on quantifying the unintended consequences of New York State's Plastic Bag Waste Reduction Law and ways to address those consequences.
Research in environmental engineering seeks to better understand the physical, chemical, and biological processes that influence the health of our environment and to pursue innovative solutions for its protection. Researchers in this area also focus on engineering sustainability.
Research in geosystems engineering addresses computational geomechanics, deep foundations, ground improvement, seismic response of soils, liquefaction, and retrofit of foundations, dams, slopes, and retaining walls.
Researchers in the structural engineering, mechanics and materials group enhance community resiliency to earthquakes, develop design guidelines for buildings and other structures, and conduct vital research in various emerging areas such as wind, fire and materials engineering.
Research in transportation systems engineering focuses on improving the efficiency, safety, sustainability, and resiliency of surface transportation systems.