Programs & Labs
2003 Annual Report
A report of research, education, and technology transfer activities, fiscal year 2002/2003, of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota.
Research
Computing, Sensing, Communications, and Control Systems
2003 Featured Research Projects
Bus Rapid Transit Technologies: Assisting Drivers Operating Buses on Road Shoulders
In the 1997 science fiction film The Fifth Element, the problem of increased roadway demand is solved by creating multiple tiers of moving traffic—in the air—filled with cars capable of flight. Although this film offers a fantasy view of urban transportation for the year 2215, the lesson here is that building more roads to carry more traffic may not be a viable option in the future. Go to article >>
Lateral Stability of a Narrow Commuter Vehicle
Adding to the problem of crowded highways is the fact that often our only transportation option is to get into a vehicle designed to carry five passengers and drive to our destinations alone. But what if you could drive a one- or two-passenger vehicle, narrow like a motorcycle, that was comfortable and safe to operate in any weather, released fewer emissions and achieved higher gas mileage, and virtually doubled the traffic capacity on the roads you travel? Go to article >>
2003 Research Updates
Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Bandwidth and Power-Efficient Modulations for Multimedia
Transmission over Wireless Links
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2003017
Vladimir Cherkassky, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Quality of Service Implementation for Transmission of Video
Data (Phase II)
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2003010
Max Donath, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
A New Approach to Assessing Road User Charges
Project Status: Completed
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=1999002
Max Donath, Craig Shankwitz, Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Driver Assistive Systems for Snowplows
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2000042
USDOT Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) Specialty Field
Operational Test
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2000037
Intersection Decision Support
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2001048
William Durfee, Mechanical Engineering
Optimal Secondary Controls Using a Configurable Haptic
Interface
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2003034
Ravi Janardan, Dept of Computer Science & Engineering
Real-Time Collision Warning and Avoidance at Intersections
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2002025
Taek Mu Kwon, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Duluth)
An Automatic Visibility Measurement System Based on Video
Cameras: Phase II
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2000024
Section Travel-Time Measurement Using Inductance Signatures
of Loop Detectors
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2003027
TMC Traffic Data Automation for Mn/DOT’s Traffic Monitoring
Program
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2001033
Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Computer Science & Engineering
Monitoring Driver Activities
Project Status: Completed
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2002029
Managing Suburban Intersections through Sensing
Project Status: Completed
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2001029
Handling Pedestrian Control Issues at Busy Intersections
and Monitoring Large Crowds
Project Status: Completed
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=1999021
Sensor-based Ramp Monitoring
Project Status: Completed
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2002004
Development of a Tracking-Based Monitoring and Data-Collection
System
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2003042
Recognition of Human Activity in Metro Transit Spaces
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2003030
Finding What the Driver Does
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/research/projects/P2004010.html
Preventing Attacks to Critical Transportation Infrastructure
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2004047
Rajesh Rajamani, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Automated Vehicle Control Algorithms and their Influence
on Traffic
Project Status: Completed
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2001040
GPS-based Real-time Identification of Tire-Road Friction
Coefficient
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2002026
Craig Shankwitz, Dept of Mechanical Engineering
Advanced BRT: Innovative Technologies for Dedicated Roadways
Project Status: Completed
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2002041
Driver Assistive Systems for Rural Applications: A Path
to Deployment
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2002009
Gang Plowing Using DGPS
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2002038
Infrared Sensors for Driver Assistive Systems for Specialty
Vehicles, Including Snowplows
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/research/projects/P2003020.html
Narrow Lane Performance for Bus Rapid Transit
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/research/projects/P2004040.html
Remote Sensing for Bus-Only-Shoulder Operations in Mixed
Traffic
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/research/projects/P2004041.html
Shashi Shekhar, Computer Science & Engineering
Evacuation Route-Schedule Planning for Disasters Damaging
Automatic Traffic Control Systems
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2004051
Jiann-Shiou Yang, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Traffic Flow Modeling and Simulation of the Miller Hill
Corridor
Project Status: In Progress
Project URL: www.its.umn.edu/Research/ProjectDetail.html?id=2001043