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About Us
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On July 29, 2005, the 109th congress of the United States passed
a major highway legislation, the TEA-LU bill, which authorized the
U.S. Department of Transportation to fund 22 Tier II university transportation
centers (UTC) throughout the nation. The Ohio Transportation Consortium
was designated as one of these Tier II recipients.
The University of Akron was named the lead institution of the OTC,
with Central state University, the University of Cincinnati, the
University of Dayton, Case Western Reserve University, The Ohio State
University, Ohio University, and Kent State University completing
the Consortium. The theme of the Ohio Transportation Consortium is
Transportation Mobility and Infrastructure Management. Our work will
focus on conducting applied research, providing quality education
to the future transportation professionals, and disseminating state-of-the-art
knowledge and technology for implementation in the real world.
The center will work with other university research programs in
Ohio and collaborate closely with the Ohio Department of Transportation
(ODOT) to address problems in areas covering:
1) Traffic operation and system optimization
2) Traffic safety, including work zone and older driver safety
3) Snow and ice control
4) Remote sensing, GIS, wireless data communication, and data management
5) Health monitoring, testing, retrofitting, maintenance, design,
and construction
of bridge systems
6) Alternative fuels and hybrid vehicles
7) Monitoring, assessment and modeling of pavements and materials
8) Economic and homeland security
In addition to research activities, the Ohio Transportation Consortium
will collaborate with other excellent education programs in Ohio
regarding a number of activities including:
1) Offering new multidisciplinary transportation engineering courses
by experts
at our different institutions, and communication to other institutions
through
distance learning
2) Developing mechanisms for liberal sharing of lab facilities and equipment
3) Fostering student organizations and activities in transportation, organizing
student paper/project competitions, and sponsoring students to attend regional
and national transportation conferences
The Ohio Transportation Consortium will also make advancement in
the way of technology transfer, again collaborating with its member
universities and transportation associates through Ohio in order
to:
1) Provide continuing education opportunities (workshops,
seminars, and special
training courses) for local industry
2) Develop web-based delivery of transportation news
3) Sponsor or jointly host transportation conferences to showcase the
work done
within the center
4) Collaborate with local business to promote transportation projects.
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