North Carolina Department of Transportation
Research & Innovation Summit – 2020
Virtual Poster Gallery
Congratulations to the winners of the poster competition:
First place: “Bathymetric Surveys of Hydraulic Structures Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Sonar”
Submitted by: Tarini Shukla, UNCC
Co-authors: Craig Allan, Wenwu Tang, Shenen Chen, John Diemer, Tianyang Chen, Navanit Sri Shanmugam, Vidya Subhash Chavan, and Matthew S. Lauffer
Second place: “Modeling and Assessing the Impact of a Traveler’s Preference on Transit Route-Choice Behavior”
Submitted by: Justice Darko, NCA&T
Co-author: John Park
Third place: “Stakeholders Perception of the Constructability Review Programs”
Submitted by: Minerva Bonilla, NCSU
Co-authors: William Rasdorf, Nicolas Norboge, Amin Akhnoukh, Daniel Findley, and Clare Fullerton
Environmental & Hydraulics
Bathymetric Surveys of Hydraulic Structures Using Unmanned Aerial Systems and Sonar
Tarini Shukla, UNCC
Degradation of rubber gaskets exposed to water contaminated with Benzene and Perchloroethylene (PCE)
Payam Hosseini, NCSU
Planning, Programming, Policy & Multi-Modal
Modeling and Assessing the Impact of a Traveler’s Preference on Transit Route-Choice Behavior
Justice Darko, NC A&T
Innovative Data Collection and Analysis of Pedestrian Trespassing Along Railroad Right-of-Ways in North Carolina
Sarah Searcy, NCSU
Investigating Cycling Behavior Considering Different Temporal Characteristics Using Crowdsourced Bicycle Data
Zijing Lin, UNCC
Stakeholders Perception of the Constructability Review Programs
Minerva Bonilla, NCSU
Model-Driven Decision Making for Road Asset Protection before a Hurricane
Sachin Mhatre, NC A&T
Using Simulation to Assess Operational Performance of NCDMV
Burcu Adivar, FSU
Estimating Seasonal Population Shifts for the Powell Bill Fund Allocation
Min Liu, NCSU
Automated Manifest System (AMS)
Majed Al-Ghandour, FSU
Bicycling and Walking – Funding, Policies and Practices from DOT Perspective
Sravya L. Jayanthi, UNCC
UAV Pilot Skill Development through Recurrent Training
Songpo Li, Duke
Pavement, Materials, Operations & Maintenance
Calibration of Structural Layer Coefficients for North Carolina Asphalt Pavements
Narges Matini, NCSU
Damage Characterization of Existing Asphalt Concrete for Pavement ME Rehabilitation Design
Zhe “Alan” Zeng, NCSU
Multi-asset Risk-based Hotspot Analysis for Roadway Deteriorations
Omidreza Shoghli, UNCC
Structures, Geotechnical, & Construction
Bridge Pier Scour Induced Loading Effect Using Finite Element Modelling
Vidya Subhash Chavan, UNCC
Can high strength reinforcing steel be used in RC bridge columns?
Jessi Thangjitham, NCSU
Traffic, Safety, & Roadway Design
Evaluation of New Asphalt Concrete Job Mix Formula Specifications
Mayzan Isied, NCSU
Investigating Factors Affecting Injury Severity in Bicycle-Vehicle Crashes: A Day-of-Week Analysis with Partial Proportional Odds Logit Models
Shaojie Liu, UNCC
Extremum Seeking Combined with Filtered Feedback Linearization for Traffic Congestion Control of Heterogeneous Multi Vehicle Networks
Amirhossein Ghasemi, UNCC
Analyzing Injury Severity of Rear-End Crashes involving Large Trucks Using a Mixed Logit Model
Pengfei Liu, UNCC
Roadside Safety Effect of Soft Soils
Boris Goenaga, NCSU
Investigating the Effect of Connected and Automated Vehicles on Urban Arterial Road Operational Performance
Sarvani V. Duvvuri, UNCC
Investigating Link-Level Truck Travel Time Performance Measures and their Association with On-/Off-Network Characteristics
Sarvani V. Duvvuri, UNCC
Evaluation of Motorist Driving Behavior at Highway-Railroad Grade Crossings
Stephen Odom, NCSU
Driver Monitoring System Reliability in an Advanced Driving-Assist System Highway Test
Benjamin Bauchwitz, Duke
Microscopic Traffic Simulation with Transient Mixed Conventional and Autonomous Vehicle Models
Matthew Carroll, ECU
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Connected Vehicle Environment Using the Trajectory Data
Raunak Mishra, UNCC