Advanced Transportation Technologies Seminars
by Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute
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Description
This seminar series provides updates on research projects in the ITS Institute's core science and technology areas—human factors, intelligent vehicles, traffic modeling and management, sensing, communications, and controls.
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Video1/31/12 - The Visual Accessibility of Indoor Spaces | Visual accessibility—how effectively vision can be used to travel safely through or complete activities within a space—has an important impact on low-vision mobility. In this seminar, Gordon Legge will describe an empirical approach for studying the v | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Video1/31/12 - The Visual Accessibility of Indoor Spaces | Visual accessibility—how effectively vision can be used to travel safely through or complete activities within a space—has an important impact on low-vision mobility. In this seminar, Gordon Legge will describe an empirical approach for studying the v | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Video12/8/11 - Toward Universal Access to Seamless Travel of Indoor and Outdoor Spaces With and Without Vision | The consideration of vision loss is of growing importance in research, planning, and implementation of travel and transportation needs. There are approximately 12 million people with some form of visual impairment in the United States, and this number is | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Video12/1/11 - Transportation Safety Issues and Priorities in Minnesota | Traffic safety comes in several shapes and sizes. Ask a maintenance worker what safety is and you might hear that it's plowing roads when it snows. A transportation designer might say that safety is designing signposts that break away without intruding in | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Video11/10/11 - Cyclopath: Personalized Routing and Open Collaboration for Bicyclists | Cyclopath is a routing and mapping system for bicyclists in the Twin Cities metro area. The system, developed at the University of Minnesota, generates bicycling routes that can be personalized to meet individual cyclists' preferences. Cyclopath is also t | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Video10/27/11 - Development of a Traffic Information and Dissemination System for Work-Zone Environments | To save lives and prevent injuries on U.S. highways, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication is essential. In this seminar, M. Imran Hayee reviewed the architecture, functionality, and field demonstration results of a ne | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Video10/13/11 - Detection of Road and Bridge Surface Conditions Using Time Domain Reflectometry and Dielectric Relaxation Spectrosco | In this seminar, John Evans will discuss a practical sensor technology to improve public safety through the remote sensing of snow and ice on bridge and road surfaces. A system based on such technology can provide real-time information about the surface c | 10/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Video9/29/11 - Pedestrian and Bicycle Crossing Experience in Modern Roundabouts | Many cities in the U.S. are installing roundabouts instead of traditional signalized intersections, largely due to evidence that roundabouts dramatically reduce fatal and severe injury crashes. However, the impact of roundabouts on pedestrian safety is no | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Video9/15/11 - The Role of Transportation Researchers in Rehabilitation Hospitals to Keep Patients Mobile | Driving is a significant part of independent living for people of all ages and abilities. Within the next decade, a quarter of all U.S. drivers are expected to be over the age of 65. To address the needs of the growing aging driving population, Clemson Un | 9/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Video12/2/10 - Visualization and Assessment of Arterial Progression Quality | Coordination is essential to providing the highest possible quality of service on signalized arterials through movements, and travel time is its most accurate yet most expensive measure. In this seminar, Darcy Bullock will present a methodology for ev | 12/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Video11/18/10 - Automation Mania in the Time of Reason: Considerations for Complex Transportation Problems | Despite a solid body of evidence about distraction and its risks, automobile manufacturers now allow you to update your Facebook page while driving. Positive Train Control systems have been mandated for implementation, yet there has been little if any a | 11/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Video11/4/10 - Camera Networks for Security and Traffic Applications | Computing is ubiquitous in nearly every household. Computers are becoming smaller, more portable, and embedded in many common appliances and devices. In addition, digital cameras are becoming pervasive in society. They are appearing in many varieties, and | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Video10/7/10 - Vehicular Communications for Cooperative Safety Systems | The next quantum leap in vehicle safety is represented by cooperative systems where vehicles exchange critical safety information among themselves and with the roadside infrastructure. The research community has already developed a set of new communicatio | 10/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Video9/23/10 - A Causal Model of Traffic Crashes and Conflicts | In this seminar, Gary Davis will report on the use of data collected in the Strategic Highway Research Program 2 to support microscopic modeling of crashes and near-crashes. In this project, several crashes between a following and leading vehicle were rec | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | Video9/9/10 - Intelligent Decision Support Systems Inside the Vehicle | In this seminar, Hayes will describe a study examining the safety impact of three decision support systems (DSS) used at intersections where a highway crosses a minor road controlled by a stop sign. Many crashes occur at such intersections because even ca | 9/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | Video10/22/09 - Ramp Metering for Postponing Freeway Breakdown | This seminar presented procedures developed through research (NCHRP 3-87) for implementing ramp-management strategies at freeway sections that regularly experience breakdown and operate under congested conditions. For more information, see http://www.its | 10/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 16 Episodes |
