Several researchers with the UGPTI at NDSU were recently appointed to standing committees within the Transportation Research Board (TRB). TRB’s standing committees bring together volunteers from around the world who share interest and expertise in various aspects of transportation.
Input from townships and counties across North Dakota is critical to updating local road and bridge investment needs estimates for the next legislative session, according to researchers at the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI) at NDSU.
With funding from the North Dakota Legislature, the UGPTI recently launched its Transportation Data Intelligence Lab, a high-tech classroom and data center that allows researchers to collect information on traffic and road conditions from a variety of cameras and sensors across the state. The goal is to provide workers and support to transportation agencies in making critical decisions on planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating the state’s roadways system.
The GF-EGF Regional Architecture (RA) aims to guide the implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the region. It focuses on coordinating funding, deployment, information sharing, and operations of ITS technologies. The primary goals for the GF-EGF region include enhancing traveler safety, managing traffic and transit effectively, coordinating both planned and emergency management, and improving traveler information. This fifth iteration of the RA is part of an ongoing maintenance process designed to keep the architecture current by incorporating the latest FHWA reference architecture, identifying recent project updates, and documenting the system architecture of the newest ITS developments in the region.
