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)
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.
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.
External Collaborators: Erie County (NY) Department of Environment and Planning, New York State Department of Health, Syracuse University, Ceres Nanosciences
Andrew Whittaker, SUNY Distinguished Professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, co-wrote an opinion piece in Nuclear Newswire that aims to explain the risks of nuclear power plants in war zones.
Nuclear Newswire quotes Andrew Whittaker, SUNY Distinguished Professor of civil, structural and environmental engineering, in a story on a recent earthquake off the coast of Japan.
New Civil Engineer reports that UB is among the partners working with architectural and engineering firm Bryden Woods on a digital platform for its ambitious repowering coal project, which aims to retrofit coal-fired power plants to accommodate modular nuclear reactors.
In a story about how Bill Gates’ company, TerraPower, is building next generation nuclear power technologies, CNBC quotes Andrew Whittaker, SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering.
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.