MTC Asset Newsletter Winter 2006

Transportation Scholars Conference 2005

Two students were named co-winners in the student paper competition. Devi Prasad Tulasi, University of Missouri–Columbia, and Tom Stout, Iowa State University, were each awarded $1,000.

Tulasi won for “Asset Management System for Communication Towers Operated by the Missouri Department of Transportation.” Stout won for “Matched Pair Safety Analysis of Four-Lane to Three-Lane Roadway Conversions in Iowa.”

All student papers are available on the MTC website at www.ctre.iastate.edu/mtc/papers/.

Students wrote about

• Dedicated truck lanes on interstates.
• Nighttime road construction.
• Managing data for long-term health monitoring.
• Offsetting opposing left-turn lanes at signalized intersections.
• Taxicab industry’s regulatory structure.
• Modernizing a proven automated transit system to enhance cost effectiveness.