New ICT-IDOT projects
2/13/2024
Illinois Center for Transportation is pleased to announce the start of new Illinois Department of Transportation-sponsored projects, from most recent start date.
R27-SP72: Field and Lab Evaluation of Roller-Compacted Concrete Mixtures for Pavements
Jeffery Roesler, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
John Senger, Illinois Department of Transportation
Applications of roller-compacted concrete pavements have primarily included industrial and port facilities, with recent applications expanding to parking areas, exterior lots of commercial warehouses, residential streets and lower volume roads.
The aim of this project is to evaluate the mixture volumetrics of an IDOT RCC pavement project through field and lab observation and testing as well as evaluate local sources for a potential RCC pavement at the Illinois Certification and Research Track.
The project will end January 2025.
R27-SP71: Advancing our Understanding of Self-Enforcing Streets and the Use of Target Speeds to Improve Safety
Alireza Talebpour, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stephane Seck-Birhame, Illinois Department of Transportation
Victoria Barrett, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
Designing “self-enforcing streets” is one way to increase safety by better informing drivers of safe driving speeds through physical design and informational features.
The aim of this project is to improve our understanding of self-enforcing streets and identify opportunities and barriers to their implementation as future areas of research and needs. Researchers will review the state of the practice and research for self-enforcing streets in the U.S. and abroad.
Better leveraging design to increase speed limit compliance will improve traffic safety by reducing traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
The project will conclude November 2024.