MTC Asset Newsletter Winter 2007
Transportation Scholars Conference 2007
Eight students’ papers were accepted to the 2007 MTC Scholars Conference at Iowa State University last November.
Eric Fitzsimmons, PhD student in civil engineering at Iowa State University, won the student paper competition for his paper, “An Investigation of the Change in Crash Rates at Automated Red Light Running Enforced and Comparison Intersections in Davenport and Council Bluffs, Iowa Using Descriptive Statistics.” He was awarded $1,000.
Other papers included the following:
Back row, left to right: Cari Kinzenbaw, Eric Fitzsimmons, and Ryan Pettit. Front row: Siddharth Sharma and Indrajit Chatterjee. Not pictured: Rebekah Bovenmyer, Josh Hinds, and Craig Mizera.
- Marketing Safety to Teens: State Literature Review and Analysis (Rebekah Bovenmyer, Iowa State University)
- Comparative Analysis of Conventional Diamond Interchange and Contra Flow Left Turn (CFL) Interchange (Indrajit Chatterjee and Siddharth Sharma, University of Missouri – Columbia)
- The Emergency Transportation Operations within the Intelligent Transportation System (Josh Hinds, Iowa State University)
- Effectiveness of Intersection Lighting (Cari Kinzenbaw, Iowa State University)
- Congestion Mitigation: Programs and Strategies (Craig Mizera, Iowa State University)
- Economic Impacts of Highway Bypasses on Communities in Iowa (Ryan Pettit, Iowa State University)
- Performance Evaluation of the Diverging Diamond Interchange in Comparison with the Conventional Diamond Interchange (Siddharth Sharma and Indrajit Chatterjee, University of Missouri – Columbia)
These papers are available at
www.ctre.iastate.edu/mtc/papers/.
