UTCM FY10 Projects

The list of projects funded in FY10 appears below. These projects total approximately $1.25 million, span all UTCM's focus areas and include projects in research, education and technology transfer. The projects include collaborative efforts of researchers and students across TTI, the Texas A&M campus and beyond.

UTCM Research Projects - FY10
Name	Location	Title	Co-PIs	Co-PI Locations
Benden, Mark	School of Rural Public Health	Teen Driver Cell Phone Blocker	Rainer Fink, Russell Henk	Eng Tech / Ind Dist TTI - El Paso
Edrington, Suzie	TTI - Houston	Impacts of Rural Funding and Allocation Changes on Rural Transit	none	none
Farzaneh, Reza	TTI - Austin	Use of Performance Measurement to Include Air Quality and Energy into Mileage-Based User Fees	Richard Baker Ginger Goodin	TTI - Austin TTI - Austin
Higgins, Laura	TTI	Examining Long-Distance Express Bus as an Extension of and Feeder to Passenger Rail Systems	Curtis Morgan	TTI
Kuhn, Beverly	TTI	Best Practices and Outreach for Active Traffic Management	none	none
Lomax, Tim	TTI	Real-Timing the 2010 Urban Mobility Report	none	none
Neuman, Michael	Landscape Architecture	Texas Urban Triangle: Pilot Study to Implement a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for Sustainable Mobility	D. Wunneburger Curtis Morgan	Landscape Architecture TTI
Quadrifoglio, Luca	Civil Eng	Evaluating the Use of Transfers for Improving Rural Public Transportation Systems	Suzie Edrington	TTI - Houston
Rajbhandari, Rajat	TTI - El Paso	Development of a Short-Term Prediction Model for Commercial Vehicle Crossing Times	Don Kang	TTI
Vedenov, Dmitry	Ag Economics	Effect of Climate Change on Crop Production Patterns with Implications to Transport Flows and Inland Waterways	Dmitry Vedenov Gabriel Power Bruce McCarl Sharada Vadali	Ag Economics Ag Economics Ag Economics TTI

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UTCM Education Projects - FY10
Name	Location	Title	Co-PIs	Co-PI Locations
Damnjanovic, Ivan	Civil Engineering	A New Graduate Course in Transportation Infrastructure Finance in the Civil Engineering Department at Texas A&M University	Sharada Vadali Erin McTigue	TTI Teaching, Learning & Culture

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UTCM Technology Transfer Projects - FY10
Name	Location	Title	Co-PIs	Co-PI Locations
Cherrington, Linda	TTI - Galveston	Transit Management Certificate Program	Ben Welch	Mays Business School, Ctr for Exec Development
Henk, Russell	TTI - Austin	Activating Teens to Prevent Traffic Crashes, the Leading Cause of Death & Injury for America's Youth	none	none
Ndubisi, Forster	Landscape Architecture	Graduate Certificate Program in Transportation Planning: Phase 2	Eric Dumbaugh	Landscape Architecture
Overman, John	TTI - Arlington	Transportation Plan Repository and Archive	Sandra Tucker	TAMU Libraries
Baker, Richard "Trey"	TTI - Austin	Development of a Mileage-based User Fee Research Website	none	none