Graduate Research 2010-11
Research into sustainable transportation combines many disciplines and perspectives. Graduate students in Social Sciences may collect travel survey data, coordinate focus groups, and conduct field studies of human behavior. Engineering students model travel demand, optimize the transportation network system and perform both lab and field experiments on tailpipe emissions. Economic students may delve into transportation financing issues and students in Community Development and Applied Economics may examine transportation impacts on our communities.All TRC graduate students conduct research that addresses critical issues in transportation and solutions for the 21st century.
[Student Project Listings by year: 2011-12 | 2010-11 | 2009-10 | 2008-09 | 2007-08]
| Project Title | Student (Dept/College) |
|---|---|
| Spatial Factors for and Operational Analysis of Single-Lane Roundabouts; Second-by-Second Driving Dynamics of Older Drivers. | *Nathan Belz |
| Tracking the Dynamics of Financial Capital Flows in Transportation Planning Governance Networks Which Actors’ Priorities are Funded? | *Matt Tucker |
| Improved Methods for Cluster Identification And Visualization In High-Dimensional Data Using Self-Organizing Maps. | Narine Manukyan |
| Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization's (CCMPO) Transportation Improvement Project's (TIP) Prioritization Process. | *Tiyasha Depinto |
| Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Stormwater and Surface Water | Joseph Hollis Bartlett |
| Social Network Analysis of Organizations Promoting Sustainable Transportation Policy in Northern New England | *Aaron Witham |
| Development and Characterization of a Portable Instrument (the NanoAPA) for Real-Time Measurement of the Size and Number of Airborne Nanoparticles. | Terrence Barrett |
| Porous Concrete Correlating Laboratory and Field Behavior | *Mark Joseph Suozzo |
| Prediction of Transient Diesel and Biodiesel Particulate through the use of an Artificial Neural Network | Tyler Feralio |
| The Social Context of Tailpipe Emissions | *Elysia Nelson |
| Impact of Road Facility Attributes, Congestion and Temperature upon Changes in Particulate Emission Rates Resulting From Hybrid Engine Re-start Events | *Matt Conger |
| Specifying, Modeling & Monitoring Indicators of Quality for Parks and Outdoor Recreation | Nathan Reigner |
| Investigation into the Optimal Design of Porous Concrete | Christina Syrrakou |
| Design, Fabrication, And Characterization Of A Portable Ultrafine Particle Sizer For In-Situ Engine Exhaust Monitoring | Andrew Vize |
| Measuring Food Access in Northern New England | Qiong Liu |
| Evaluating the Potential for Reduction in Vehicle Miles Traveled in Chittenden County Using an Integrated Land Use - Transportation Model System | *Dale Azaria |
| Indicators to assess induced growth due to transportation network construction | Brad Lanute |
| Accessing Food in Northern Rural Climates How Living in a Food Desert Impacts Obesity | *Faye Conte |
| Policy discourse on tailpipe emissions the role policy actors, problem definition, and framing in the news media | *Jonathan Maddison |
| A Structural Model of BMI from the Seasonal Effects on Mobility and Eating Behavior. | Matthew Putnam |
| Transportation as Recreation An Indicators and Standards of Quality Approach to Managing Transportation in Recreational Settings | Peter Pettengill |
| Characterization of Gas-Phase Emissions from Comparable Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles during Real-World Operation | Karen Sentoff |
| Characterizing Youth Mobility | *Lance Jennings |
| Strength and Durability of Porous Concrete, under Freezing/Thawing and Salt Exposure | Ian Anderson |
* TRC Scholar
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