Transportation Research
The Transportation Engineering program at ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓconsiders the entirety of the transportation infrastructure delivery process, i.e., planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance. The program focuses on transportation safety, sustainability, livability, and economics throughout the infrastructure delivery process.
Transportation engineering faculty maintain active research programs. Examples of funding agencies include the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Railroad Administration, Idaho Transportation Department, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, National Science Foundation, ¾«¶«Ó°ÊÓ Department of Transportation, the Portland Bureau of Transportation, Toyota Motor North America’s Collaborative Safety Research Center, United States Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington County, and industry collaborators.
The program is home to renowned facilities, faculty, staff and students, who are conducting impactful research with implications on local, national, and international practice in a variety of more specific areas including:
- Arterial Operations
- Automated and Connected Vehicles
- Commercial Motor Vehicles
- Driver, Pedestrian, and Bicycle Behavior and Crash Injury Severity Modeling
- Freight Transportation and Supply Chain Resilience
- Intelligent Transportation Systems and Digital Infrastructure
- Isolated and Coordinated Intersection Control
- Multimodal Freight Network Modeling and Resilience Analysis
- Non-motorized transportation infrastructure
- Telematic-Based Safety and Performance Analytics
- Transportation Human Factors
Katharine M. Hunter-Zaworski, P.E. (OR)
Associate Professor Emerita
