EDUCATION, PLANNING & DECISION ANALYTICS
Thoughtful planning is necessary to deliver projects that meet the needs and goals of transportation agencies, diverse system users, and the industries that rely on networks of highways, waterways, railways, and airports. KTC’s Planning program leverages interdisciplinary perspectives to facilitate investment decisions made by local, state, and federal transportation agencies and helps strengthen their planning processes. Researchers address issues pertaining to highway information systems (GIS, LiDAR, remote sensing, Big Data), highway and railroad operations, traffic monitoring and modeling, safety planning, asset management and performance assessment. KTC regularly collaborates with KYTC to develop the Kentucky Strategic Highway Safety Plan and assisted on the SHIFT project – a study of how implementing performance measures can inform the allocation of highway project funds.
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Civil Engineering Education at UK
KTC supports and shares office and laboratory space with UK’s Department of Civil Engineering. Many CE professors collaborate with KTC on research projects, allowing students to be included in transportation research. In addition to serving as program manager of KTC’s Planning group, Dr. Reginald Souleyrette acts as a liaison to Civil Engineering. Visit here for more information on Civil Engineering at UK and training opportunities at KTC.
Research in Progress
- A Method to Estimate Missing ATR Data
- Review and Validation of Current SHIFT Methodologies
- Developing Measures for Highway Criticality Assessment
- Occupational Motor Vehicle Information System
- Estimating Traffic Volume Using Ubiquitous Probe Vehicle Data (AADT)
- Data Linkage to Improve Traffic Safety Data Set Integration in Kentucky
- Assessment of Streetlight data product for KYTC planning applications
- Traffic Records Strategic Plan Update
- Improving Strategic Highway Investment Formula for Tomorrow (SHIFT)
Completed Projects
- Addressing Multimodal Transportation Needs Through Complete Streets Implementation
- Estimation of Benefits from Pedestrian and Bicycle Improvements
- Updating Congestion Performance Measures for SHIFT 2022
- Combined Behavioral and Engineering Approach to Preventing Highway Fatalities
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Improvement Scoring Method for SHIFT–2024
- Incorporating Variability in KYTC Planning and Project Development
- Safety Analysis for SHIFT Implementation
- Pilot Testing of SHRP2 Reliability Data and Analytic Tools (FHWA/KYTC)
- Incorporating Crash Severity and Continuous Improvement of SHIFT
- Estimate Travel Time Savings for Transportation Projects
- Improve Completeness and Uniformity of Kentucky Model Inventory of Road Elements
- Traffic Records Strategic Plan
- Kentucky Traffic Records Strategic Plan Implementation
- Linkage of Crash EMS and Trauma Records
Education, Planning & Decision Analytics Faculty & Staff
Reg Souleyrette
Mei Chen
Teng (Alex) Wang
Research Scientist
Xu Zhang
Research Engineer