ICT and UIUC Transportation Group Present Research at 88th Annual TRB Meeting; Win Three Best Paper Awards

The ICT/UIUC transportation group had a strong presence at the Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting which convened in Washington, D.C., on January 11-15, 2009. The ICT/UIUC researchers presented their cutting-edge research on over 40 topics (see list below), won three “best paper” awards, and participated in various committee meetings and other conference activities. 

A paper authored by Imad L. Al-Qadi, Hao Wang, Pyeong Jun Yoo (Korea Institute of Construction Technology), and Samer H. Dessouky titled “Dynamic Analysis and In-Situ Validation of Perpetual Pavement Response to Vehicular Loading” was the runner-up for the TRB K. B. Woods Award. The K. B. Woods Award was established by the Executive Committee in 1971 and may be given annually for the outstanding paper published in the field of design and construction of transportation facilities. It honors the 19th chairman of the Highway Research Board, who was professor at the Schools of Engineering at Purdue University and active in the affairs of the Board throughout his career. This award-winning paper was based on the results of ICT project R59, Evaluation of Pavement Damage Due to New Tire Designs. 

Professor Erol Tutumluer and his advisee and co-author, Phillip Donovan, were recipients of the TRB Geology and Properties of Earth Materials Section Best Paper Award for their paper, “Use of Falling Weight Deflectometer Testing to Determine Relative Damage in Asphalt Pavement Unbound Aggregate Layers.” The award was presented at the Mineral Aggregates Committee Meeting during the TRB Meeting. 

Francisco Evangelista, Jeffery Roesler, and Glaucio Paulino received the 2009 Bryant Mather Best Paper Award for “Numerical Simulations of Fracture Resistance of Functionally Graded Concrete Materials,” reviewed by the Concrete Materials and Placement Techniques Committee and judged as the 2009 Best Paper by the Concrete Materials Section. 

The ICT/UIUC attendees also enjoyed mingling with alumni of the UI Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at an alumni reception at New Heights Restaurant on Tuesday evening (see pictures posted). Over 150 alumni attended this reception. 

Approximately 10,000 transportation officials from around the world attended this conference which covers all transportation modes, with more than 3,000 presentations in nearly 600 sessions addressing topics of interest to all attendees that included policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions. For more information on this conference, visit http://www.trb.org/meeting. 

The UIUC-Affiliated research presented at this year’s conference is listed below (submission number in parentheses). Several of these papers were based on ICT-sponsored research. 


Visualization of Construction Progress Monitoring Using Four-Dimensional Augmented Reality Models (P09-1318): Mani Golparvar-Fard and Feniosky Pena-Mora 

Fatigue and Healing in Asphalt Binders (09-1338): Shihui Shen (Washington State University),Ho-Ming Chiu (Washington State University), and Hai Huang 

Selection of Antenna Type and Frequency for Pavement Surveys Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) (09-1541): Zhen Leng, Imad L. Al-Qadi, Jongeun Baek, and Samer Lahouar (Institut Superieur des Sciences Appliquees et de Technologie de Sousse, Tunisia) 

Use of Falling-Weight Deflectometer Testing to Determine Relative Damage in Asphalt Pavement Unbound Aggregate Layers (09-2056) – C9: Phillip Donovan and Erol Tutumluer 

Resilient Behavior Characterization of Naturally Occurring Bituminous Sands (09-2049) – C10:Joseph Anochie-Boateng (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) and Erol Tutumluer 

Numerical Simulations of the Fracture Resistance of Functionally Graded Concrete Materials (09-0870) – B14: Francisco Evangelista, Jeffery R. Roesler, and Glaucio H. Paulino 

Railroad Academic Programs: Status and Progress to Date (P09-1201): Riley Edwards 

Full-Depth Flexible Pavement Fatigue Performance Under Various Tire and Axle Load Configurations (P09-1743): Imad L. Al-Qadi and Hao Wang 

Top-Down Cracking Predictions for Airfield Rigid Pavements (09-3327): Francisco Evangelista and Jeffery R. Roesler 

Laboratory Characterization of Fouled Railroad Ballast Behavior (09-2065): Hai Huang, Erol Tutumluer, and William Dombrow 

Communication and Interpretation of Results of Railroad Hazardous Materials Transportation Route Risk Analyses (09-3110): Athaphon Kawprasert and Christopher P. L. Barkan 

Development of a Benefit-Cost Prediction Model for Hot-Mix Asphalt Overlays in Illinois to Evaluate the Cost Effectiveness of Interlayer Systems on Controlling Reflective Cracking (09-3777): Jongeun Baek, Imad L. Al-Qadi, and William Glen Buttlar 

Growth Management and Sustainable Transport: Do Growth Management Policies Promote Transit Use? (09-3293) – L2: Brian Deal, Jae Hong Kim, and Varkki Pallathucheril (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) 

Enhanced Parametric Railway Capacity Evaluation Tool (09-1161): Yung-Cheng Lai (National Taiwan University) and Christopher P. L. Barkan 

Impact of Operating Heterogeneity on Railway Capacity (09-2652): Mark Dingler, Yung-Cheng Lai (National Taiwan University), and Christopher P. L. Barkan 

Investigation of Working Binder in Hot-Mix Asphalt Containing Recycled Asphalt Pavements (09-1262): Imad L. Al-Qadi, Samuel H. Carpenter, Geoffrey L. Roberts, Hasan Ozer, and Qazi Aurangzeb 

“Sandwich” Model To Evaluate Railroad Asphalt Trackbed Performance Under Moving Loads (09-1416): Hai Huang, Shihui Shen (Washington State University), and Erol Tutumluer 

Comparison of Effects of Automated Speed Enforcement and Police Presence on Speeding in Work Zones (09-3651) – F11: Ali Hajbabaie, Rahim F. Benekohal, Madhav Vijaya Chitturi (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Ming-Heng Wang (University of Kansas), and Juan C. Medina 

Speed Photo-Radar Enforcement and Its Effects on Speeds in Work Zones (09-3649) – F9: Rahim F. Benekohal, Ming-Heng Wang, Madhav Vijaya Chitturi, Ali Hajbabaie, and Juan C. Medina 

Reliable Facility Location Under Risk of Disruptions (09-3408): Tingting Cui (University of California, Berkeley), Yanfeng Ouyang, and Zuo-Jun Shen (University of California, Berkeley) 

Dynamic Programming Approach for a Concierge Service Problem in Location-Based Services (09-3749): Seungmo Kang and Tschangho John Kim 

Roadway Crash Analysis and Decision Support Tools for Illinois (09-3812) – F4: Jang Hyeon Jo and Jong Sung Lee, National Center for Supercomputing Applications 

Strategic Budget Planning for Seismic Retrofit of Bridge Networks (09-2292): Liang Chang, Fan Peng, and Yanfeng Ouyang 

Full-Lane Acoustic Scanning Method for Bridge Deck NDE (P09-0617) – A17: John Popovics 

Active Confinement of Bridge Piers Using Shape Memory Alloys (P09-0618) – A19: Bassem Andrawes 

Machine Vision System for Rail Car Inspection (P09-0629) – A14: Narendra Ahuja 

Geogrid Base Reinforcement with Aggregate Interlock and Modeling of the Associated Stiffness Enhancement in Mechanistic Pavement Analysis (09-2079): Jayhyun Kwon (Tensar) and Erol Tutumluer 

Changes in Video Detection Performance at Signalized Intersections Over Different Illumination Conditions (09-3595): Juan C. Medina, Rahim F. Benekohal, and Madhav Vijaya Chitturi 

Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Fracture Resistance of Illinois Hot-Mix Asphalt Overlay Mixtures (09-3643) – B7: Minkyum Kim, William Glen Buttlar, Jongeun Baek, and Imad L. Al-Qadi 

Direct Observation of Bitumen-Aggregate Interface (09-2558) – C11: Shih-Hsien Yang and Imad L. Al-Qadi 

Automated Inspection of Railcar Underbody Structural Components Using Machine Vision Technology (09-2863): Bryan Schlake, Riley Edwards, John M. Hart, Christopher P. L. Barkan, Sinisa Todorovic, and Narendra Ahuja 

Downstream Effects of Speed Photo Enforcement and Other Speed Reduction Treatments on Work Zones (09-3633): Juan C. Medina, Rahim F. Benekohal, Ali Hajbabaie, Ming-Heng Wang, (University of Kansas), and Madhav Vijaya Chitturi (University of Wisconsin, Madison) 

The Combined Effect of Moving Wheel Loading and Three-Dimensional Contact Stresses on Perpetual Pavement Responses (09-1297): Hao Wang and Imad L. Al-Qadi 

Roadway Crash Analysis and Decision Support Tools for Illinois (09-3812) – F4: Jang Hyeon Jo, Jong Sung Lee, and Yanfeng Ouyang 

Frequency Spectrum Analysis for Traffic Oscillation Measurements (09-2328): Xiaopeng Li, Fan Peng, and Yanfeng Ouyang 

Machine-Vision Inspection of Railroad Track (09-1369) – G5: Steven V. Sawadisavi, Riley Edwards, Esther Resendiz, John M. Hart, Christopher P. L. Barkan and Narendra Ahuja 

Characterizing and Inspecting for Progressive Epoxy Debonding in Bonded Insulated Rail Joints (09-1793) – G4: Daniel C. Peltier (BNSF Railway Company) and Christopher P. L. Barkan 

Chinese Railway Transportation: Opportunity and Challenge (09-2279) – G8: Zheng Wan (University of California, Davis) and Xiang Liu 

Interface Bonding between HMA and Various PCC Surfaces: Accelerated Pavement Testing (APT) Assessment and Interface Strain Measurements (09-2759): Zhen Leng, Imad L. Al-Qadi, Samuel H. Carpenter, and Hasan Ozer 

Numerical Modeling and Life Cycle Cost Analysis of Hot-Mix Asphalt Overlay with Steel Netting Interlayer System for Airport Pavements (09-3679): Jongeun Baek, Hao Wang, and Imad L. Al-Qadi 

Laboratory Characterization of Fouled Railroad Ballast Behavior (09-2065): Hai Huang, Erol Tutumluer, and William Dombrow 

Growth Management and Sustainable Transport: Do Growth Management Policies Promote Transit Use? (09-3293) – L2: Brian Deal, Jae Hong Kim, and Varkki Pallathucheril (American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates) 

Automated Inspection of Railcar Underbody Structural Components Using Machine Vision Technology (09-2863): Bryan Schlake, Riley Edwards, John M. Hart, Christopher P. L. Barkan, Sinisa Todorovic, and Narendra Ahuja