Research

Grants seeks better routes to reduce crowding on highways, waterways A major federal grant will fund research into maritime and multimodal transportation at the Vanderbilt Center for Transportation and Operational Resiliency (VECTOR). The $1 million, five-year grant to VECTOR from the U.S. Department of Transportation is through a consortium headed… Read More

Dr. Dobbins completed the following projects before his departure (for the Ingram Barge Company) at the end of June. CAIT 10 – Phase II: Inland Marine Transportation Analytics Corpslocks application with real-time lock performance data… Read More

Two research projects were completed this week related to the use of Internet GIS in transportation analysis. Click on the relevant links below for more information on each project. Intermodal Freight GIS Network: User Interface Development Project page… Read More

Jason Abkowitz, Janey Camp and Lindsey Langsdon will present research at the 11th Annual Middle Tennessee Forum on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The forum will be held at the Rutherford County Lane Agricultural Park in Murfreesboro, TN. Their presentations are scheduled as follows: Wednesday, November 7, 2012: 10:30 a.m. –… Read More

Traffic cameras in Franklin and Murfreesboro were added to the GIS viewer today. Read More

James Dobbins will present his research on inland marine casualty data analysis to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington, DC on December 4th and 5th. The conference is titled “Current and Future Use of GIS Mapping Technology to Increase Transportation Safety.” The press release… Read More

James Dobbins will showcase some of his research applications and demonstrate several research tools including GIS applications, database management systems (DBMS) and data visualization/business intelligence (BI) applications Monday, October 15, at 4:10pm in Featheringill Hall, Room 138. This is part of the Vanderbilt University Civil and Environmental Engineering weekly seminar… Read More

The Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute at the University of Memphis will host its annual Intermodal Conference on October 30, 2012. VECTOR will attend. More information (including free registration) is available here. Read More

VECTOR was successful in its bid for a Tier I University Transportation Center (UTC) with the University of Wisconsin as part of its CFIRE consortium. The UTC will be focused on freight and work is expected to begin soon. The 2012 UTC recipients are listed… Read More

VECTOR has completed phase 2 of the traffic and safety information dissemination project. This work was sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Transportation. The final work product, a template that syndicates TDOT SmartWay information on a local city website, was deployed by the City of Franklin last month. The links… Read More