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2012 UTC Competition Selections
Tier 1 UTCs
Tier 1 Transit UTCs
Regional UTCs
Tier 1 UTCs
| University | Themes | University Transportation Center |
|---|---|---|
| Carnegie Mellon | The Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation (T-SET) University Transportation Center focuses on technologies that will make all modes of surface transportation safer and more efficient through in-vehicle and infrastructure safety technologies, human factors and large-scale mobility and data analytics |
The Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation (T-SET) University Transportation Center Director, Prof. Raj Rajkumar Collaborative Innovation Center 2203 Carnegie Mellon University 4720 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: (412) 268-8707 Fax: (412) 268-9344 Email: raj@ece.cmu.edu Website: utc.ices.cmu.edu |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | Transportation systems performance and management, including addressing the critical interactions between safety, infrastructure and services, and economic competitiveness. |
National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management (NCTSPM) Dr. Michael Hunter, Director Georgia Institute of Technology 790 Atlantic Drive Atlanta, GA 30332 Phone: 404-894-0404 Fax: 404-894-2278 Email: michael.hunter@ce.gatech.edu Website: http://www.nctspm.gatech.edu/ |
| Marshall University | Innovations in multimodal freight and passenger transportation systems and infrastructure to foster sustainable economic development. |
Transportation Infrastructure Systems Director, Dr. Wael Zatar 112 Gullickson Hall 18th St. & 3rd Ave. Huntington, WV 25755‐2586 Phone: (304) 696‐6043 Fax: (304) 696‐5454 Email: zatar@marshall.edu Website: http://www.mticutc.org/ |
| Mississippi State University | Promoting development of an integrated, economically competitive, efficient, safe, secure, and sustainable national intermodal transportation network for both freight and passenger mobility. |
National Center for Intermodal Transportation Director, Dr. John Usher Mississippi State University National Center for Intermodal Transportation for Economic Competitiveness (NCITEC) McCain Hall 479-2 Hardy Rd., PO Box 9542 Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: (662) 325-7624 Fax: (662) 325-7618 Email: usher@ise.msstate.edu Website: www.ncitec.msstate.edu |
| Portland State University | NITC's theme is safe, healthy, and sustainable transportation choices to foster livable communities. NITC emphasizes all modes of transportation, including bicycling, walking, personal vehicles, transit, and freight. |
National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC) Director, Jennifer Dill, Ph.D. Physical Address: 1930 SW Fourth Ave. Suite 301U Portland, OR 97201-5304 Mailing Address: PO Box 751 Portland, OR 97207-0751 Phone: (503) 725-2855 Fax: (503) 725-2880 Email: jdill@pdx.edu Website: otrec.us/NITC |
| Rutgers University | The CAIT consortium comprises leading academic institutions and a national network of laboratories addressing all key aspects of the state of good repair, as well as the promotion of safety and economic competitiveness. |
Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) Director, Ali Maher, Ph.D. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 100 Brett Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (848) 445-2999 Fax: (732) 445-3325 Email: mmaher@rci.rutgers.edu Website: cait.rutgers.edu |
| University of Idaho | TranLIVE (Transportation for Livability by Integrating Vehicles and the Environment) is a university research collaboration focused on developing technologies to reduce the environmental impact of the transportation system. |
TransLive Director, Ahmed Abdel-Rahim University of Idaho 115B Engineering/Physics Bldg. 875 Perimeter Drive Moscow, ID 83844-0901 Phone: (208) 885-2957 Fax: (208) 885-9031 Email: ahmed@uidaho.edu, Website: www.tranliveutc.org |
| University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | The National University Rail (NURail) Center consortium's focus is improving and expanding rail engineering and transport education, research, workforce development, and technology transfer in the U.S. |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Director, Christopher P.L. Barkan, PhD National University Rail Center (NURail) 1245 Newmark Civil Engineering Laboratory, MC-250 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 205 N. Mathews Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 Phone: (217) 244-6338 Fax: (217) 333-1924 Email: cbarkan@illinois.edu Website: https://sites.google.com/site/nurailcenter/home |
| University of Wisconsin, Madison | CFIRE performs research, education and outreach activities designed to make the U.S. multimodal freight system work for economic recovery and quality of life. |
CFIRE/WisTrans Director, Teresa M. Adams 2205 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706-1691 Phone: (608) 263-3175 Fax: (608) 263-2512 Email: adams@engr.wisc.edu Website: www.wistrans.org/cfire |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Advanced operations focused on connected vehicles and infrastructure. |
Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center Director, Dr. Tom Dingus Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) 3500 Transportation Research Plaza Blacksburg, VA 24061 Phone: (540) 231-1501/1547 Fax: (540) 231-1555 Email: tdingus@vtti.vt.edu Website: www.connectedvehicleinfrastructure-utc.org |
Tier 1 Transit UTCs
| University | Themes | University Transportation Center |
|---|---|---|
| San Jose State University | MNTRC focuses on addressing policy and technical matters to deliver solutions that improve public transportation. |
Mineta Transportation Institute (MNTRC Lead University) Executive Director, Dr. Karen Philbrick, 210 North 4th Street, 4th Floor San Jose, CA 95112 Phone: (408) 924-7561 Fax: (408) 924-7565 Email: karen.philbrick@sjsu.edu Website: transweb.sjsu.edu/mntrc |
| University of South Florida | Making public transportation and alternative forms of transportation, including managed lanes, safe, effective, efficient, desirable, and secure. |
National Center For Transit Research Director, Dr. Joel Volinski National Transit for Transit Research 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, USF – CUT 100 Tampa, FL 33620-5375 Phone: (813) 974-9847 Email: volinski@cutr.usf.edu Website: www.nctr.usf.edu |
Regional UTCs
| University | Themes | University Transportation Center |
|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Region 1) | The New England Center focuses its research investments on safety and livable communities. With an emphasis on highways and transit, three integrated technology research categories are addressed by the Center's research, education and technology transfer activities: ubiquitous intelligence, big data and user performance across the lifespan |
New England University Transportation Center Director, Dr. Joseph Coughlin Mailing Address: New England UTC Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E40-279 Cambridge, MA 02139 Physical Address: New England UTC Massachusetts Institute of Technology One Amherst Street E40-279 Cambridge, MA 02142 Phone: (617) 253-4978 Fax: (617) 258-7570 Email: coughlin@mit.edu Website: utc.mit.edu |
| City University of New York (Region 2) | Functioning as a consortium of seventeen major Universities throughout the USDOT Region 2, the University Transportation Research Center's primary focus is the stewardship, management, planning, and future evolution of transportation systems, in the face of emerging policy challenges. |
University Transportation Research Center Marshak Hall, Room 910 Director, Camille Kamga, Ph.D. The City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031 Phone: (212) 650-8087 Fax: (212) 650-7374 Email: ckamga@utrc2.org Website: www.utrc2.org |
| Penn State University (Region 3) | MAUTC is a regionally-based, six-university consortium that conducts surface transportation research related to planning, design, operations, safety, and infrastructure. |
Mid-Atlantic University Transportation Center Director, Dr. Martin T. Pietrucha The Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute The Pennsylvania State University 201 Transportation Research Bldg. University Park, PA 16802-4710 Phone: (814) 863-3954 Fax: (814) 863-3707 Email: mtp5@psu.edu Website: www.mautc.psu.edu |
| University of Florida (Region 4) | The STRIDE regional consortium focuses on research, education, workforce development and technology transfer activities in three major areas critical to the needs of the southeastern U.S.: safety, livable communities and economic competitiveness. |
Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE) Director, Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D. University of Florida 365 Weil Hall Gainesville, FL 32611 Phone: (352) 392-9537, Ext. 1452 Fax: (352) 846-1699 Email: elefter@ce.ufl.edu Website: http://www.stride.ce.ufl.edu/ |
| Purdue University (Region 5) | Integrated and sustainable transportation solutions for policy, planning, design implementation, operations, maintenance and management. |
NEXTRANS Center Director, Dr. Srinivas Peeta 3000 Kent Avenue West Lafayette, IN 47906-1075 Phone: (765) 496-9726 Fax: (765) 807-3123 Email: peeta@purdue.edu Website:www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/nextrans |
| Texas A&M University (Region 6) | Sustainable transportation solutions to enhance economic prosperity and the quality of life. |
Southwest Region University Transportation Center Texas A&M Transportation Institute Texas A&M University Director, Melissa S. Tooley, PhD, PE 3135 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3135 Phone: (979) 845-8545 Fax: (979) 862-1225 Email: m-tooley@tamu.edu Website: swutc.tamu.edu |
| University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Region 7) | Improving safety and minimizing risk associated with increasing multi-modal freight movement on the U.S. surface transportation system. |
Mid-America Transportation Center Director, Laurence R. Rilett, Ph.D., P.E. Whittier Research Center 2200 Vine Street Suite 262 Lincoln, NE 68583-0851 Phone: (402) 472-1992 Fax: (402) 472-0859 Email: lrilett2@unl.edu Website: matc.unl.edu |
| North Dakota State University (Region 8) | Multimodal transportation, energy and sustainable development. |
Mountain-Plains Consortium(MPC) Director, Dr. Denver Tolliver North Dakota State University P.O. Box 5074 430 IACC Building Fargo, ND 58105 Phone: (701) 231-7190 Fax: (701) 321-1945 Email: denver.tolliver@ndsu.edu Website: www.mountain-plains.org |
| University of California, Berkeley (Region 9) | The UCTC consortium focuses on environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and livability—and, importantly, the connections between them. |
University of California Transportation Center (UCTC) Director, Robert Cervero 2614 Dwight Way, 2 Floor - Room #206 Berkeley, CA 94720 Phone: (510) 642-1695 Fax: TBA Email: robertc@berkeley.edu Website: www.uctc.net |
| University of Washington (Region 10) | PacTrans is focused on developing safe and sustainable solutions for the diverse transportation needs of the Pacific Northwest, including interaction among users, vehicles, roadway, and the environment. |
Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium (PacTrans) Director, Yinhai Wang 112 More Hall Box 352700 Seattle, WA 98195-2700 Phone: (206) 616-2696 Fax: (206) 543-1546 Email: yinhai@u.washington.edu Website: www.pactrans.org |