2019
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Muriel Adams | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Intercity Travel for Metropolitan Access in Northern New England |
| Brittany Antonczak | Civil & Environmental Engineering | |
| Šemsa Dobrača | Masters of Public Administration | Vermont Clean Cities Coalition |
| Elizabeth Duffy | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Evaluating the Relative Carbon Emissions of Intercity Travel Choices |
| Sarah E. Howerter | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Long-distance Travel and Geographic Social Networks |
| Stephen Montano | Civil & Environmental Engineering | |
| Jack Reed | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Oxidation Biodiesel Fuel Composition and Associated Tailpipe Ultrafine Particle Emissions |
| Joey Russo | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Polar organic particle composition by LC |
2018
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Muriel Adams | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Streetscapes |
| Šemsa Dobrača | Masters of Public Administration | Vermont Clean Cities Coalition |
| Sarah E. Howerter | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Long-distance Travel and Geographic Social Networks |
| Jack Reed | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Oxidation Biodiesel Fuel Composition and Associated Tailpipe Ultrafine Particle Emissions |
| Joey Russo | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Polar organic particle composition by LC |
2017
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Kaufman | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Exploration of New Methods in Long Distance Transportation Data Collection and Tourism Travel in Vermont |
| Hannah Ullman | Community Development & Applied Economics | Examining Disparities in Long-Distance Travel Access |
2015
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Paola Rekalde Aizpuru | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Teenagers’ mode choice to and from school, and technology use for transportation: Analysis of students from five high schools in Vermont and California |
| Jim Dunshee | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Particle Emissions from Biodiesel Blends: Measurement and Trends |
| John Kasumba | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Agricultural PM emissions, Herbicide gas-particle partitioning; Biodiesel PM emissions. |
| Sean Neely | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Impact of Information Access on Attitudes about Intercity Travel by Automobile, Bus, and Passenger Rail |
| Saghar Sadeghpour | Civil & Environmental Engineering | The Impact of Network and Demand Disaggregation on Modelling Transportation System Resiliency Measures |
| Anna Schulz | Master of Public Administration; Community Development and Applied Economics | Adapting Bridge Infrastructure to Climate Change in Vermont and Maine |
| Xiao Xiao | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | The relationship between travel distance, transportation preferences and national park visitation for different racial/ethnic visitors |
2014
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Geoff Battista | Community Development & Applied Economics | Assessing the transportation barries to healthcare among Vermont’s rural elderly |
| Dan Hagan | Mechanical Engineering | Applied research on scour phenomena on transportation infrastructure, taking into account he effects of climate change |
| Chester Harvey | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Urban livability and active transportation to determine microscale measures of physical street environments |
| Tim Pede | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Designing an energy use indicator for an integrated land use and transportation model |
| Phoebe Girouard Spencer | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Seasonal walking and bicycling behavior |
2013
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Ben Carlson | Masters of Public Administration | Best practices in transportation communications & applications for the UVM Transportation Research Center |
| Tyler Feralio | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Predicting Transient Particle Number Emissions from Different Blends and Feedstocks of Biodiesel Using an Artificial Neural Network |
| Kristine Harootunian | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Understanding the relationship between familiarity and fault in motor vehicle crashes |
| Isaac Lawrence | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Chittenden County, Vermont implementation of the UrbanSim modeling framework; Development of a model of impervious surface area resulting from development |
| Ben Schilling | Electrical Engineering | Machine-Man Collaboration for Counting Pedestrians, Bicycles, and Cars in Video |
| Dan Sithole | Educational Leadership and Policy | The Effects of Perkins Act Policies on Gender Equity in Vermont High School Career Technical Education: A Hierarchical Linear Model |
2012
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Ian Anderson | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Strength and Durability Of Porous Concrete, Under Freezing/Thawing and Salt Exposure |
| Nathan Patrick Belz | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Opposition to Roundabouts, Driver Behavior and Gap-Forcing at Roundabouts |
| Matt Conger | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Characterization of Restart Events and Tailpipe Particulate Matter Emissions from a 2010 Hybrid Toyota Camry under Real-World Driving Conditions |
| Alex Hilshey | Electrical Engineering | Estimating the Effect of Electric Vehicle Smart Charging on Distribution Transformer Aging |
| Brad Lanute | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Developing Indicators of Urban Sprawl in Chittenden County for Use in Simulation Modeling and Scenario Analysis |
| Qiong Liu | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Characterizing Spatial Variability of Obesity in Northern New England |
| Geoffrey James May | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Vibration Monitoring and Load Characteristics Evaluation of I-89 Bridge 58N |
| Richard Nam | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Intra-household Vehicle Allocation as a Factor of System Efficiency and its Impact on the Vermont Carbon Footprint |
| Tiyasha De Pinto | Masters of Public Administration | Integrating Sustainability with Transportation Asset Management Processes |
| Nathan Reigner | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Specifying, Modeling & Monitoring Indicators of Quality for Parks and Outdoor Recreation |
| Mark Joseph Suozzo | Civil & Environmental Engineering | An Investigation of the Testing Procedures and Field Performance of Pervious Concrete Pavements in Vermont |
| Andrew Vize | Electrical Engineering | Design, Fabrication, And Characterization of a Corona Ionizer for In-Situ Engine Exhaust Monitoring |
| Aaron Witham | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | The Effects of Network Dynamics on Sustainable Transportation Organizations Aiming to Influence the Policy-Making Process |
2011
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Dale Azaria | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Evaluating the Potential for Reduction in Vehicle Miles Traveled in Chittenden County Using an Integrated Land Use – Transportation Model System |
| Terence Barrett | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Development and Characterization of a Portable Instrument (the NanoAPA) for Real-Time Measurement of the Size and Number of Airborne Nanoparticles. |
| Joseph Hollis Bartlett | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Stormwater and Surface Water |
| Faye Conte | Community Development & Applied Economics | Accessing Food in Northern Rural Climates How Living in a Food Desert Impacts Obesity |
| Lance Jennings | Masters of Public Administration | Characterizing Youth Mobility |
| Jonathan Maddison | Masters of Public Administration | Policy discourse on tailpipe emissions the role policy actors, problem definition, and framing in the news media |
| Narine Manukyan | Computer Science | Improved Methods for Cluster Identification And Visualization In High-Dimensional Data Using Self-Organizing Maps |
| Elysia Nelson | Masters of Public Administration | The Social Context of Tailpipe Emissions |
| Peter Pettengill | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Transportation as Recreation An Indicators and Standards of Quality Approach to Managing Transportation in Recreational Settings |
| Matthew Putnam | Community Development & Applied Economics | A Structural Model of BMI from the Seasonal Effects on Mobility and Eating Behavior. |
| Karen Sentoff | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Characterization of Gas-Phase Emissions from Comparable Conventional and Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles during Real-World Operation |
| Christina Syrrakou | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Investigation into the Optimal Design of Porous Concrete |
| Matt Tucker | Community Development & Applied Economics | Tracking the Dynamics of Financial Capital Flows in Transportation Planning Governance Networks Which Actors’ Priorities are Funded? |
2010
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Diana Colangelo | Masters of Public Administration | Assessment of Ultrafine Particle Exposures in Alternate Transportation Microenvironments and an Analysis of Activity Databases for Estimating the Effects of Social Networks on Transportation-related Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
| Jonathan Dowds | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Modeling the Short-Run Impacts of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Charging on Marginal Fuel Costs in the Electric Power Sector under the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative |
| Eric Garza | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Transportation Energy Efficiency |
| Cassandra Gekas | Community Development & Applied Economics | Framework for Addressing Gender & Socio-Economic Equity in Transportation Systems with Time-use Data |
| David Propen | Community Development & Applied Economics | Reconciling the Climate Change Consideration-Behavior Gap in Transportation Modal Choice |
| Kathryn Purchase | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Residual Shear Strength of Cohesive Soils |
2009
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jen Kenyan | Masters of Public Administration | Future Transportation Financing Options: Challenges and Opportunities |
| Shiao-Ke Chin-Lee | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Elements and Outcomes of Varying Financing Scenarios on the Overall Cost of Transportation Capital Programs |
| Matt Davis | Masters of Public Administration | Transportation Impacts of Transit Oriented Design in Rural Towns (Maine) |
| Chris Farmer | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Modeling Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Impacts in Vermont from Empirical Vehicle/User Data |
| Shuan Huang | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Integrated Land-Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling |
| George McCain | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Designing Sustainable Porous Pavement for Northern Communities |
| Brian Miles | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Integrated Land-Use, Transportation and Environmental Modeling |
| Robert Purcell | Masters of Public Administration | Infrastructure Management Systems Enhancement and Integration to Support True Integrated Management System Decision-Making |
| Mitchell Robinson | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Emissions & Performance of Alternative Vehicles in Northern Climates |
| James Sullivan | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Application of the Network Robustness Index to Identify Critical Road Network Links |
| Ruth Willis | School of Nursing | Transportation Access as a Determinant for Care in Patients with Diabetes in Vermont |
2008
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| Student | Department | Project Title or Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Alek Antczak | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Staple Foods and Transportation: An Institutional Analysis of Local Versus Conventional Supply Chains on Carbon Emissions |
| Ken Bagstad | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Integrating Ecosystem Service Impact Assessment into an Integrated Land Use/Transportation Modeling Framework |
| Terry Barrett | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Emissions & Performance of Alternative Vehicles in Northern Climates |
| Cesar Barrios | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Multiple Model Framework of Extended Kalman Filtering for Predicting Vehicle Location Using Latest Global Positioning System |
| Dan Brown | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Intelligent Traffic Signals: Extending the Range of Self-Organization in Models |
| Eleanor Campbell | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Carbon Life-cycle Analysis of Organic Versus Conventional Biofuel Crop Production for Canola and Sunflower Crops Grown in the Northeast |
| Erica Campbell | Community Development & Applied Economics | Pupil Transportation: Travel Impacts and Potentials for Improvement |
| Laura Occasio | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Biodiesel – Application of a Novel Analytical Method – Photoelectron Resonance Capture Ionization Aerosol Mass Spectrometry (PERCI AMS) |
| Keith Pelletier | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Mechanical and Economic Performance of an Electric Car Utilizing the Zebra Battery Technology in Vermont |
| Erin Quigley | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Calculating Sequestration for County-Level Carbon Budgets: A Case Study in Chittenden County, Vermont |
| Alexandra (Lexie) Reiss | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Scenario Land Use and Transportation Modeling for Community Engagement and Understanding at Regional and Local Scales of Governance |
| Erin Roche | Community Development & Applied Economics | A Study on the Incentive Elasticity of Demand for Non-motorized Commuting in a University Community |
| Jane Roodenburg | School of Nursing | Access to Health Care; Does Transportation Play a Role? |
| Brian Voigt | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Implementation and Architecture Development of a Combined Land Use & Transportation Model for Chittenden County, Vermont |
| Elaine Wang | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Mapping Policy Drivers: Discourse Networks in the Formation of Vermont’s Transportation Energy Policy |
| Galen Wilkerson | Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources | Development of an Architecture for Generating Environmental Outputs from an Integrated Land Use and Transportation Model |