Programs & Labs
Research Fact Sheets
Overviews of ITS research projects are available as PDF files which may be viewed online, downloaded, and printed. New fact sheets are prepared and added to this page on an ongoing basis. Additional information about these and other research projects is available in the Research area of this web site.
Ongoing research programs
Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute
Max Donath, Director
Intelligent
Vehicles Laboratory (brochure)
Craig Shankwitz, Director
Northland Advanced Transportation
Systems Laboratories (NATSRL)
Eil Kwon, Director
Research projects
Software Issues in Critical
Transportation Systems
Mats Heimdahl, Computer Science & Engineering
Employment of the Traffic
Management Laboratory (TRAMLAB) for Evaluating Ramp Control Strategies
in the Twin Cities
Panos Michalopoulos, Civil Engineering
Image Compression for Storage
and Transmission of Digital Images
Vladimir Cherkassky, Electrical Engineering
Reassessment of Road Accident
Data Analysis Policy in Minnesota: Do We Use the Data We Have? What
More Can Be Learned?
Eitan Naveh, Center for Development of Technological Leadership
Real-time Traffic Prediction
Gary Davis, Civil Engineering
Capacity Estimation in Freeway
Weaving Areas
Eil Kwon, ITS Institute
Intelligent Vehicles Initiative
Field Operations Test (SAFEPLOW)
Craig Shankwitz, Mechanical Engineering
Evaluating the Equity and
Efficiency of Ramp Meters
David Levinson, Civil Engineering
Monitoring Weaving Sections
Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Computer Science
Computer-aided Testing and Evaluation
of Ramp Control Strategies
Panos Michalopoulos, Civil Engineering
Pedestrian Control at Intersections
Nikos Papanikolopoulos, Computer Science
Spatial Orientation and Navigation
in Elderly Drivers
Herb Pick, Center for Cognitive Science
A GPS-based Failure Identification
System for Intelligent Vehicles
Rajesh Rajamani, Mechanical Engineering
High-performance Spatial Visualization
of Traffic Data
Shashi Shekhar, Computer Science
An Automatic Visibility Measurement
System Based on Video Cameras
Taek Kwon, Electrical and Computer Engineering