Illinois transportation team takes on the 98th annual Transportation Research Board meetings

Despite the snow, Illinois transportation students and faculty made their way to Washington D.C. to attend the 98th Annual Meetings of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at the Walter W. Washington Convention Center January 13–17, 2019.

The TRB program covered all transportation modes, including topics of interest to policy makers, practitioners, representatives of the government, academic institutions, industry, administrators, and researchers. There were more than 5,000 presentations and close to 800 sessions and workshops. This year’s TRB meeting spotlight theme was, “Transportation for a Smart, Sustainable, and Equitable Future.”

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student and faculty continued to maintain a strong contribution to the TRB program through presenting numerous papers, posters and workshops, and chairing technical committee meetings and sessions. Illinois Center for Transportation affiliated researchers also gave many presentations based on research projects sponsored by the Illinois Department of Transportation as well as other sponsors including the Federal Highway Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and industry.

More than 600 UIUC Civil and Environmental students, faculty, staff, and alumni came together for the annual Illinois transportation group reception held during the Annual Meetings of the TRB on January 13. Year after year, this reception is one of the biggest hits at TRB because it gives all attendees an opportunity to catch up, network, and discuss the latest advancements in the transportation field.

UIUC CEE Department Ph.D. Student Aniruddha Baral received a 2019 Best Student Research Paper Award from the Basic Research and Emerging Technologies Related to Concrete Committee (AFN10) of the Concrete Materials Section (AFN00). The title of his research paper was “Self-Cleaning of Photocatalytic Mortar with Glass Aggregate and Calcium Sulfoaluminate-Belite Cement.” Aniruddha’s work is advised Jeff Roesler.

Additionally, CEE Doctoral candidate Priyanka Sarker won the “Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition: Concise Portrayal of Research Discovery to Non-specialist Audience.” 3MT competition, co-sponsored by TRB Operations and Preservation Group Young Members Council and the Maintenance and Preservation Section (AHD00), was open to all graduate students conducting research in all areas of Transportation Engineering who have made significant progress toward their degrees.

The next TRB annual meeting will take place January 12–16, 2020.

UIUC Presentations at TRB

• Data Driven Damage Prediction Tool for Airfield Flexible Pavements, Three-Minute Thesis Competition: Concise Portrayal of Research Discovery to Non-Specialist Audience, Priyanka Sarker
• Leveraging Autonomy in Truck Platooning to Improve Transportation Sustainability, Osman Erman Gungor
• Aggregate Quality Requirements for Pavements: Findings of NCHRP Synthesis 524, Erol Tutumluer and Maziar Moaveni
• Thermal and Optical Characterization of Chip Seals for Urban Heat Island Impact, Sushobhan Sen and Jeffery Roesler
• Geosynthetic Reinforced Approaches and Bridge Abutments for Railways, Timothy Stark and
  Jennifer Nicks
• Implications of Field Loading Patterns on Different Tie Support Conditions Using Discrete Element Modeling—Dynamic Responses, Bin Feng, Wenting Hou, and Erol Tutumluer
• Data Driven Rut Prediction Methodology for Airfield Flexible Pavements—Utilizing Full-Scale Accelerated Pavement Testing Data and General Linear Models, Priyanka Sarker, Erol Tutumluer, and Navneet Garg
• Dynamic Resource Management for Ridesharing Systems in Urban Transportation Networks, Chao Lei, Zhoutong Jiang, and Yanfeng Ouyang
• Implementation Framework of the UIUC Aggregate Base Rutting Model Using Constrained and Stepwise Regression Statistical Techniques, Issam IA Qamhia, Maziar Moaveni,Yong-Hoon Byun, Bin Feng, and Erol Tutumluer
• Mechanistic Investigation of Timber Crosstie Spike Failures in Elastic Fastening Systems, Thomas Roadcap and Marcus Dersch
• Framework for Benchmarking Pavement Practices in Data-Scarce Regions, Yara Hamdar, Amal Bakchan, Ghassan Chehab, Imad Al-Qadi, and Dallas Little
• Optimization of Lateral Position of Autonomous Trucks (OPLAT), Osman Erman Gungor, Ruifeng She, Imad Al-Qadi, and Yanfeng Ouyang
• Carbon Footprint Estimation in Road–—La Abundancia-Florencia Case Study, José Aguiar-Moya, Marianela Espinoza-Alfaro, Noelia Campos-Campos, Rebekah Yang, Hasan Ozer, Alejandra Baldi Sevilla , Luis Loria-Salazar, and Imad Al-Qadi
• Field Imaging and Volumetric Reconstruction of Riprap Rock and Large-sized Aggregates: Algorithms and Application, Haohang Huang, Jiayi Luo, Maziar Moaveni, John M Hart, Erol Tutumluer, Sheila Beshears, and Andrew Stolba
• Self-Cleaning of Photocatalytic Mortar with Glass Aggregate and Calcium Sulfoaluminate-Beite Cement, Aniruddha Baral and Jeffery Roesler
• Assessment of Airfield Pavement Sections Based on Performance and Environmental Impact—Iterative Framework, Izak Said and Imad L. Al-Qadi
• Predicting Near-Term Train Schedule Performance and Delay Using Bi-Level Random Forests, Mohammad Amin Nabian, Negin Alemazkoor, and Hadi Meidani
• The Effects of Driver Licensing Laws on Immigrant Travel, Jesus Barajas
• Stochastic Analysis of Energy Dissipation of a Tractor-Trailer Mode on Rough Pavement, Seunggu Kang, Hasan Ozer, Imad Al-Qadi, and Billie F Spencer
• Total Recycled Asphalt (TRA) Mixes’ Characteristics and Field Performance, Fazal Safi,
  Imad Al-Qadi, Kamal Hossain, and Hasan Oze,
• Evaluation of Chemical Stabilized Quarry By-Product Applications in Base and Subbase Layers Through Accelerated Pavement Testing, Issam IA Qamhia, Erol Tutumluer, Hasan Ozer, Heather Shoup, Sheila Beshears, and James Trepanie.
• Integration of Non-Contact Ultrasonic and Computer Vision for Sawcut Timing, Quang Tran and Jeffery Roesler
• Prediction of Center Flexural Performance of Pretensioned Concrete Railroad Crossties, Josué César Bastos, Marcus Dersch, and J. Riley Edward.
• Causes of Concrete Crosstie Rail Seat Negative Bending Moments, Yubing Liang, J. Riley Edwards, and Marcus Dersch
• Investigation into the Effect of Lateral and Longitudinal Loads on Railroad Spike Stress Magnitude and Location using Finite Element Analysis, Marcus Dersch, Thomas Roadcap,
  J. Riley Edwards, and Yu Qian
• Discrete Element Modeling of Full-Scale Ballasted Track Dynamic Responses from Zhejiang University High-Speed Rail Testing Facility, Bin Feng, Eun Hyun Park, Haohang Huang, Wei Li,
  Erol Tutumluer, Youssef MA Hashash, and Xuecheng Bian
• Monitoring Fouled Ballast Sites, Timothy D. Stark, Hugh B. Thompson, Theodore R. Sussman Jr.,
  Robert Banister, Yixiong D. Ren, and Zachary Boucias
• Analysis of Geometric Ballast Plate for Laboratory Testing of Resilient Track Components, Jacob Michael Branson, Marcus Dersch, J. Riley Edwards, Arthur de Oliveira Lima, and  Jae-Yoon Kim
• Refueling Infrastructure Planning in Intercity Networks Considering Route Choice and Travel Time Delay for Electric and Conventional Vehicles Mixed Fleet, Mehrnaz Ghamami, Mohammadreza Kavianipour, Ali Zockaie, Laura Hohnstadt, and Yanfeng Ouyang
• Real-Time Monitoring of Asphalt Concrete Pavement Density during Construction Using Ground-Penetrating Radar: Theory to Practice, Siqi Wang, Shan Zhao, and Imad Al-Qadi
• Impact of Quarry Gradations and Material Properties on the Shear Strength and Permanent Deformation Characteristics of Unbound Aggregate Materials, Yong-Hoon Byun, Bin Feng,
  Issam IA Qamhia, and Erol Tutumluer
• Relative Capacity and Performance of Fixed and Moving Block Control Systems on North American Freight Railway Lines and Shared Passenger Corridors, Tyler Dick, Darkhan Mussanov, Leonel Evans, Geordie Roscoe, and Tzu-Yu Chang
• Three-Dimensional Micromechanical Pavement Mode Development for the Study of Block Cracking, He Wang and William Buttlar
• Effect of Mix Design Parameters on Asphalt Concrete Aging Rate Using I-FIT Specimens, Zehui Zhu, Punit Singhvi, Arturo Francisco Espinoza Luque, Hasan Ozer, and Imad Al-Qadi
• Investigating Self-Healing of Thermal Cracks in Asphalt Pavements, Behzad Behnia and
  Henrique Reis
• Empirical Bayes Method for Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Accident Prediction, Jacob Mathew and Rahim Benekohal
• Joint Rotation and Curling Responses in Airfield Rigid Pavement, Jaime Hernandez and
  Imad Al-Qadi
• Investigation of Aggregate Particle and Geogrid Aperture Sizes for Mechanical Stabilization Using Bender Element Shear Wave Transducers, Joon Han Kim, Yong-Hoon Byun, Issam IA Qamhia, Maximilian F Orihuela, Erol Tutumluer, and Mark Wayne
• Track Degradation Monitoring to Assess Proposed Class Specific Ballast Requirements, Hugh B. Thompson, Timothy Stark, Radim Bruzek
• Adaptive Prestressing System for Concrete Crossties (Rail Safety IDEA Project #33), Bassem Andrawes
• Resource Allocation under Reliable Hypercube Queuing Equilibrium with Server Cooperation and Disruptions, Yanfeng Ouyang, Jian Wang, and Han Liu
• Widening the Gap? Area-Level Associations between Bicycle Commuting, Sociodemographic Advantage, and Bike Lane Access in 22 U.S. Cities, Lindsay Braun
• Effect of Specimen Geometry and Test Configuration on Fracture Process Zone for Asphalt Materials, Jose Julian Rivera-Perez, Hasan Ozer, and Imad Al-Qad.
• More than Travel Time: A New Job Accessibility Index Capturing the Connectivity of Transit Services, Junghwan Kim and Bumsoo Lee
• Effects of Pavement Condition on LCCA User Costs, Egemen Okte, Imad Al-Qadi, and Hasan Oze
• Periodic Routing of Waste Collection Vehicles with Recycling Operations: A Discrete-continuous Hybrid Approach, Chao Lei, Zhoutong Jiang, and Yanfeng Ouyang
• Multiline Bunching Control via Vehicle Substitution, Antoine Petit, Chao Lei, and Yanfeng Ouyang.
• Impact of Platooning on Pavement Structure, Imad Al-Qadi
• Platooning Is a Reality – We Must Design for It, Imad Al-Qadi
• Turning Maneuver Effect on Near-Surface Airfield Pavement Responses, Angeli Gamez and Imad Al-Qadi
• Impacts of Laboratory Simulated Long-term Aging (LTA) on Chemistry and Rheology of Asphalt Binder, Punit Singhvi, Hasan Ozer, and Imad Al-Qadi
• Detect and Charge: Machine Learning Based Fully Data-driven Framework for Computing Overweight Vehicle Fee for Bridges, Osman Erman Gungor and Imad Al-Qadi
• Flexible Pavement Compaction Monitoring Using Ground Penetrating Radar, Siqi Wang and Imad Al-Qadi
• Influence of Aircraft Tire Turning Maneuver on Near-Surface Airfield Pavement Response, Angeli Gamez and Imad Al-Qadi