Transportation

Creative Loafing: Will synced signals improve Atlanta traffic?

Voters in the City of Atlanta will decide in a few weeks on a $250 million bond referendum that includes, among other things, millions to sync the traffic signals across the city. Creative Loafing’s Max Blau asked the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Michael Hunter how syncing works.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

Watkins weighs in on the terrible tweets of transit riders

Apparently public transit agencies around the country get some pretty nasty feedback on social media, especially Twitter. Atlantic Media’s CityLab asked Kari Watkins about the phenomenon.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Fox 5: Do those interstate ramp meters in Atlanta work?

Fox 5 Atlanta wondered if the ramp meters common on the city's interstate on-ramps actually make a difference in traffic, so they asked the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Angshuman Guin.

Thursday, February 5, 2015

IRF fellows vote Wang their 2015 class president

Fifth-year doctoral student Chieh “Ross” Wang spent part of January getting a behind-the-scenes look at the transportation industry in Washington D.C. as a 2015 International Road Federation fellow. Then his classmates elected him their president.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Shaw named an International Road Federation fellow

First-year Ph.D. student Atiyya Shaw has won support for her studies from the International Road Federation as a class of 2016 fellow.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Georgia DOT names first woman as chief engineer — and she’s a Ramblin’ Wreck from CEE

Meg Pirkle takes over as the Georgia Department of Transportation’s chief engineer January 1, the agency’s commissioner announced Dec. 11. Pirkle, M.S. 1996, is the first woman to serve in the position.

Friday, December 12, 2014

Ga. senator outlines state's transportation funding challenges, possible solutions

State Sen. Steve Gooch says Georgia’s facing a billion-dollar transportation problem in the coming years. He would know: Gooch (R-Dahlonega) is one of the co-chairmen of the Georgia General Assembly’s Joint Study Committee on Critical Transportation Infrastructure Funding. Speaking to a group in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Nov. 13, Gooch said the state relies too heavily on federal dollars to pay for transportation needs, so his committee is considering its options.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

PhD student Berrebi collects another award for his work to improve bus transit

Doctoral student Simon Berrebi collected more financial support Nov. 6 for his idea to improve how buses run their routes. The latest, the Wayne Shackelford Scholarship, comes from the Intelligent Transportation Society of Georgia.

Monday, November 10, 2014

Mokhtarian ‘resurrects joy of travel’ in UCLA’s Wachs Lecture

Joy in traveling. Hard to imagine being joyful as you look at a stream of taillights ahead of you during your evening commute. But the idea of travel being less utilitarian and more pleasurable was one of the key themes of Professor Patricia Mokhtarian’s Martin Wachs Lecture last week at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Thursday, October 16, 2014

AJC: Hunter says driverless cars present opportunity, challenges

Imagine sharing the highway with cars driven by computers rather than people. Google is rather famously experimenting with such self-driving vehicles. And a Georgia General Assembly study committee is weighing the issues around allowing these driverless cars on the state’s roads. The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Michael Hunter has served as an expert witness for the committee and outlined some of the issues in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution guest column Oct. 7.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

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