The Research Team
Kittelson & Associates, Inc. (KAI) provides transportation planning, design, research, and operations analysis services to government and private organizations. Founded in 1985, the firm now has over 60 employees with offices in Portland, Oregon, Baltimore, Maryland, and in Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida. The firm's broad experience encompasses extensive transportation planning, operations, and design. This includes transit planning in both urban and rural areas. The firm recognizes that the goals of efficient, economic, and safe transportation depend on more effectively managing, operating, and enhancing transportation facilities. Thus, the overriding purpose of each project is to contribute to better transportation by systematically developing and applying methods for improving the performance of the existing multi-modal transportation system.
Co-Principal Investigator:
Kent
Kacir
The Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), was established in 1950 and engages in research
pertaining to all forms of transportation - including all phases of activities concerned
with the movement of people, goods, and services - and identifies and helps to solve major
state and national transportation problems. To fulfill its mission, TTI conducts
interdisciplinary and multi-modal research extending into the planning, design,
construction, operation, maintenance, enforcement, economic, environmental, and social
aspects of transportation. At present, TTI employs more than 500 people and has an annual
contract research budget of over $25 million. This makes it the largest university-based
transportation research organization in the United States. The continued growth of TTI's
research program is evidence of the Institute's reputation for producing sound and
meaningful research results.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) was founded in 1863 and is the flagship campus in the commonwealth's University System. A leader in transportation engineering education, UMass remains on the cutting edge of technology. The transportation program at UMass is supported by state-of-the-art computer facilities including the Advanced Transportation Lab, Interactive Teaching Lab, the GIS Lab, and the college-wide Engineering Computing Services. In addition, the program is supported by two full-scale driving simulators in the Human Performance Lab. The transportation program is strengthened by close ties with the academic professional community through the efforts of the University of Massachusetts Transportation Center. [Back] [Continue] with Who is Involved |
