Archive
Before summer 2004, CTRE en Route was published in pdf format. To read pdf files, you may need to download the free Adobe Acrobat reader.
2007
Summer
CTRE en route as pdf: Download this pdf file (307 kb) for printing and archiving.
Yoon-Si Lee gives a presentation during the Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium.
- Director's message: Successful 2007 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium
- New faces at CTRE
- Awards
Award-winning alumnus and staff - CP Tech Center lab scores well
Research projects
- Recently completed
Read about projects completed between February and August 2007. This list includes links to project details, reports, and related publications. - Recently started
Find out about projects begun since winter 2007. This list includes links to brief project statements. - Tech transfer summaries
Download short, 2–4 page summaries of research projects.
Winter
Iowa DOT employee trains in the DOT's snowplow simulator. See the recently completed research project for more information: Evaluation of Virtual Reality Snowplow Simulator Training.
CTRE en route as pdf: Download this pdf file (552 kb) for printing and archiving.
- Shashi Nambisan named CTRE's director
- Director's message
Shashi Nambisan's first message - CTRE’s involvement with Iowa’s biorenewable fuels initiative
How CTRE sees the research that needs to be done - Tooting our own horn: Recent awards
Award-winning faculty, staff, and students - Go! magazine gets going
An update on CTRE's online magazine for teens about careers in transportation - Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium
CTRE's preparing a great symposium for this August
Research projects
- Recently completed
Read about projects completed between August 2006 and February 2007. This list includes links to project details, reports, and related publications. - Recently started
Find out about projects begun since August 2006. This list includes links to brief project statements.
2006
Summer
CTRE en route as pdf: Download this pdf file (162 kb) for printing and archiving.
- Demonstrating the feasibility
of hybrid electric school buses
As part of a national project, CTRE will evaluate hybrid electric school buses in two Iowa school districts. - CTRE’s 2004–2005
biennial report
Light on text, heavy on graphics, easy on the eyes. - CTRE’s director departs
Learn about Steve Andrle's impact on CTRE. - CTRE in transition
CTRE's interim director describes the search for a new director.
Research projects
- Recently completed
Read about projects completed between February and August 2006. This list includes links to project details and related publications. - Recently started
Find out about projects begun since February 2006. This list includes links to brief project statements. - Tech transfer summaries
Download short, 2–4 page summaries of research projects.
Winter
CTRE en route as pdf: Download this pdf file (145 kb) for printing and archiving.
- Go! A teen magazine
about transportation
Go! will open teens’ eyes to the exciting innovations in transportation as well as the human problems that transportation helps solve. - New Center for Weather Impacts
on Mobility and Safety
A new research center at CTRE will bring together scientists and engineers to study how weather impacts transportation systems. That could lead to better and safer ways to travel when weather is a problem. - PCC Center evolution
The Center for Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Technology (PCC Center) has a new name and a new national focus. - Roundabouts in rural America
Hillary Isebrands, an Iowa State University doctoral student in civil, construction, and environmental engineering and CTRE research assistant, is studying whether modern roundabouts on rural Midwest highways can reduce crash severity.
Research projects
- Recently completed
Read about projects completed since August 2005. This list includes links to project details and related publications. - Recently started
Find out about projects begun since August 2005. This list includes links to brief project statements. - Tech transfer summaries
Download short, 2–4 page summaries of research projects.
2005
Summer
CTRE en route as pdf: Download this pdf file (259 kb) for printing and archiving.
- Sharing results: The Mid-Continent
Transportation Research Symposium
CTRE Director Steve Andrle assesses the recent symposium. - Proceedings of the Mid-Continent
Transportation Research Symposium (off site)
Papers from the symposium held at Iowa State University, August 18–19, 2005, are available online. - CP Road Map
The CP Road Map is a comprehensive and strategic plan for concrete pavement research that will guide the investment of approximately $250 million over the next 10 years. - Geotechnical Mobile Lab
A new Iowa State University mobile lab will soon be ready for use in geotechnical construction quality control/quality assurance. - Partnership for Geotechnical Advancement
Improving the quality of construction processes is the primary goal of this new CTRE program. - Bridge Engineering Center
builds latest technology into I-235 bridges
These new bridges are loaded with sensors that record every force and strain. - Bridge Engineering Center
protects the bridges of Madison County
Engineers from Iowa State's Bridge Engineering Center are developing technology to monitor and protect the bridges of Madison County. Three layers of remote monitoring equipment will notify emergency crews of fires and suspicious activity at one of the famous bridges. - New concrete handles a
heavy, heavy load
Iowa State University researchers break a bridge beam made of ultra-high performance concrete. It only took 595,000 pounds of hydraulic load to do it. - Sign up for CTRE's RSS
news feed
Learn about newly published research reports and other transportation-related news year round. - CTRE's new visual identity
CTRE has a new look and feel to its print and web documents.
Research projects
- Recently completed
Read about projects completed since February 2005. This list includes brief summary and links to project details and related publications. - Recently started
Find out about projects begun since February 2005. This list includes links to brief project statements.
Winter
CTRE en route as pdf: Download (121 kb) for printing and archiving.
- Call for Abstracts
(off site)
Submit your 500-word abstract by March 7 for the Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium at Iowa State University, August 18–19, 2005. - Upcoming Events
Brief calendar with events of interest to researchers and educators. - Putting Results of Research to
Use: The Local Technical Assistance Program
Sharing the results of research with local transportation agencies is one of the primary goals of the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), a federally funded program in every state, Puerto Rico, and several tribal governments. - Getting Research in the Hands
of Practitioners: Technology Transfer Summaries
Tech transfer summaries are two-to-four-page summaries of research projects that include color photos, graphs, and illustrations. They convey the gist of the research in an easily digestible format. - Training
Publications from the PCC Center (off
site)
The PCC Center is selling detailed booklets about concrete paving and sturdy reference documents for crew use. Prices are very reasonable. Orders may be placed online (you'll be billed with your shipment). - SUDAS Manuals Have New Owners
Iowa's Statewide Urban Designs and Specifications (SUDAS) manuals are now owned by the SUDAS corporation.
Research projects
- Recently Completed
List of projects completed since August 2004. Includes links to project details and related publications. - Recently Started
List of projects begun since August 2004 with links to brief project statements.
2004
Summer
CTRE en route as pdf: Download (87 kb) for printing and archiving.
- From the director: road weather research
Road weather is now a national priority and for good reason. Adverse weather is associated with over 1.5 million vehicular accidents per year, accounting for about 800,000 injuries and 7,000 fatalities. - Mobile concrete lab to go cross country off site
- Iowa State University’s newest laboratory doesn’t have an address. You won’t find it on a map. But you might see it rolling down the highway in Texas, New York, or North Dakota.
- Statewide Urban Design and Specifications
(SUDAS) program goes corporate
To establish a mechanism for ensuring continuation of this highly successful program, SUDAS (pronounced “soo'dahs”) has incorporated in Iowa. CTRE will continue to administer SUDAS under a new director, Larry Stevens. - Alternatives to truck engine idling
The issue is to save over $2 billion worth of diesel fuel annually, reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and harmful particulate emissions, provide truckers with cleaner air and better places to rest, and to reduce air and noise pollution around truck stops and depots. - Recently completed research
List of projects completed between February and August 2004. - Construction
Management & Technology off site
The CM&T program researches innovative construction technologies and processes for the transportation industry. Visit its new website.
Winter
- A SUDAS primer (89k pdf)
- New SUDAS engineer (89k pdf)
- Recent research (89k pdf)
- CTRE director's message: Developing the work force (84k pdf)
- PCC Center fulfills its mission (84k pdf)
2003
Summer
- Bridge Engineering Center: an introduction (119k pdf)
- Bridge Center's expertise tapped for forest products coalition (119k pdf)
- First ultra-high-performance concrete bridge (119k pdf)
- CTRE director's message: Value of a research sympoium (90k pdf)
- New CTRE staff (96k pdf)
- Neal Hawkins, traffic engineer
- Jim Grove, PCC engineer
- Beth L. Richards, SUDAS program coordinator
- Rebekah Bovenmyer, writer/editor
- Tim J. Morris, financial specialist
- Congratulations, Eisenhower fellows (69k pdf)
- Current research highlights (69k pdf)
Winter
- Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, August 21-22, 2003 (537k pdf)
- Forging ties with India (537k pdf)
- CTRE director's message: Statewide specifications (446k pdf)
- Experimenting with a helikite (531k pdf)
- Maze back at ISU (531k pdf)
- Partnership for Geotechnical Advancement (531k pdf)
- Award-winning publications and website (490k pdf)
- Turning students on to transportation: A pilot program for recruiting high school students (490k pdf)
- Recently completed research (490k pdf)
2002
Summer
- Helping other states locate crashes (86k pdf)
- Green Scholars named (86k pdf)
- Iowa DOT and CTRE library services team up (180k pdf)
- CTRE director's message: A major national project (60k pdf)
- Ali Kamyab leaves for California (155k pdf)
- Hello, Tom Cackler (105k pdf)
- New Construction Management and Technology Group (105k pdf)
- CTRE supporting 60 students (280k pdf)
- $10,000 Francois award to CTRE student (280k pdf)
Winter
- Howard R. Green Compnay sponsors graduate assistantship (131k pdf)
- National award for research (131k pdf)
- New staff (131k pdf)
- CTRE director's message (80k pdf)
- Teaching award goes to . . . (80k pdf)
- Videoconferences a popular option (80k pdf)
2001
Summer
- Integrating spatial and linear referencing data for DOTs (pdf file)
- From the director: Research and the web (pdf file)
- Roadway safety projects in Iowa are effective (pdf file)
- Tools developed to identify potential high crash locations (pdf file)
- Advancing PCC pavement research (pdf file)
- When are three lanes better than four? (pdf file)
- Improving communications between U.S. transportation agencies and tribal governments (pdf file)
- Update on Iowa urban standards (pdf file)
- Farewell to former staff (pdf file)
- TSA honored again (pdf file)
Winter (pdf file)
2000–1997
- July 2000 (pdf file)
- February 1999 (pdf file)
- July 1998 (pdf file)
- February 1998 (pdf file)
- August 1997 (pdf file)
- January 1997 -- the premiere issue (pdf file)