Projects & Tools

Since 2013 our work has been funded by 43 projects, 35 of them external, totaling $22.6 million. Sponsors include USDOT, FHWA, the Department of Energy, PennDOT, Pennsylvania DEP, Colorado DOT, Missouri DOT, and the Autonomous Maintenance Technology pooled fund.

Tools and data

PennDOT road friction project

Project site for friction factor interpolation and forecasting.

PA DEP zero-emission vehicle dashboard

Data and analysis for Pennsylvania's medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission vehicle program.

ATMA field dataset (USDOT SMART)

Field data from ATMA deployments in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma.

Lab code on GitHub

Code released with our papers.

Smart Mobility Research Atlas

Plain-language pages for selected papers, with code, slides, and video.

At Penn State

  • Driving PA Forward Program Technical Assistance

    Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

    2026–2031
    PI

  • Friction Factor Interpolation and Forecasting

    Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

    2026
    PI

  • Agentic AI for Autonomous Vehicles: Enhancing Goal-Directed and Cooperative Decision-Making at Penn State

    Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, Penn State (internal)

    2025–2026
    PI

  • Immersive and Interactive Training on Medium and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicles and Infrastructure Technologies for Critical Emergency Response Workers

    U.S. Department of Energy

    2025–2028
    PI

  • ATMA for Work Zone Safety

    U.S. Department of Transportation (SMART Program)

    2024–2026
    PSU PI

  • Harry West Teaching Award: Creating a Shared Automated Vehicle Dataset for Transportation Engineering Teaching

    Penn State (internal)

    2024–2025
    PI

  • PennDOT Act 130 Reporting: Evaluating the Impact of Connected and Automated Vehicles to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

    2024–2025
    PI

  • Pennsylvania Medium and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Program Data Collection and Analysis (Phase 2: Post Award)

    Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

    2024–2026
    PI

  • Development of ATMA/AIPV Deployment Guidelines Considering Traffic and Safety Impacts

    Autonomous Maintenance Technology Pooled Fund, Colorado DOT

    2023–2025
    PI

  • Enhance Autonomous Truck-Mounted Attenuator System Resiliency in a GPS-Denied Environment

    Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development

    2023–2024
    PI

  • Integrating Arts with Autonomous Vehicles for Transportation Engineering Education

    Leonhard Center, Penn State (internal)

    2023–2024
    PI

  • Penn State Zero-Emission Fleet Implementation

    Penn State Student Fee Board (internal)

    2023–2025
    Co-PI

  • AI-Based Prediction Models for Transportation Infrastructure Asset Management Data Hub – Phase I

    U.S. Department of Transportation (NCTriDurLE UTC)

    2022–2023
    PSU PI

  • Field Evaluation of Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator Vehicles During Live Work Zone Operations

    Kratos Defense

    2022
    PI

  • Pennsylvania Medium and Heavy-Duty Zero-Emission Vehicle Program Data Collection and Analysis (Phase 1: Pre-Application Planning)

    Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

    2022–2023
    PI

  • Preparation of Pavement Infrastructure for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Deployment – Phase I

    U.S. Department of Transportation (NCTriDurLE UTC)

    2022–2023
    PSU PI

  • Socially Responsible AI for Autonomous Vehicles

    Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Penn State (internal)

    2022–2023
    PI

  • Analyzing the Impact of Autonomous Maintenance Technology to Transportation Infrastructure Capacity for Condition Monitoring and Performance Management

    U.S. Department of Transportation (NCTriDurLE UTC)

    2020–2022
    PSU PI

  • Electrifying Terminal Trucks in Unincentivized Markets

    U.S. Department of Energy, Metropolitan Energy Center

    2020–2022
    PSU PI

  • Systematic Documentation for Autonomous Maintenance Technology Promotion and Deployment

    Autonomous Maintenance Technology Pooled Fund, Colorado DOT

    2020–2026
    PI

  • Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVSE) Innovation: Streetlight Charging in City Right-of-Way

    U.S. Department of Energy, Metropolitan Energy Center

    2019–2023
    PSU PI

At Missouri S&T

  • GAANN: A Fellowship Program in Civil Engineering for Infrastructure Preservation and Resilience with Emerging Technologies

    U.S. Department of Education

    2022–2024
    Co-PI

  • Electrifying Terminal Trucks in Unincentivized Markets

    U.S. Department of Energy, Metropolitan Energy Center

    2020–2022
    Co-PI (Missouri S&T PI)

  • How Bad is COVID-19 Hurting Electric Vehicle Usage and Mobility Patterns? A Case Study in Kansas City, Missouri for Agency and Industry Decision-Making

    Google

    2020
    PI

  • Inspecting and Preserving Infrastructure through Robotic Exploration (INSPIRE), a Tier-1 University Transportation Center

    U.S. Department of Transportation

    2020
    Co-PI

  • National Center for Transportation Infrastructure Durability and Life Extension (TriDurLE), a National University Transportation Center

    U.S. Department of Transportation

    2020–2022
    Co-PI

  • Optimization of Transportation Infrastructure System Performance with Autonomous Maintenance Technology in Work Zones

    U.S. Department of Transportation (Mid-America Transportation Center)

    2020–2021
    PI

  • Preparing Multidisciplinary Datahub for Digital and Intelligent Infrastructure System – Preliminary Phase

    Center for Intelligent Infrastructure, Missouri S&T (internal)

    2020–2021
    Co-PI

  • Systematic Documentation for Autonomous Maintenance Technology Promotion and Deployment

    Colorado Department of Transportation

    2020–2022
    PI

  • Transportation Safety Training in Rural Areas: An Exploration of Virtual Reality and Driving Simulation in Driver Response and Awareness

    U.S. Department of Transportation (Mid-America Transportation Center)

    2020–2021
    Co-PI

  • Analyzing the Impact of Autonomous Maintenance Technology to Transportation Infrastructure Capacity for Condition Monitoring and Performance Management

    U.S. Department of Transportation (NCTriDurLE UTC)

    2019–2021
    PI

  • Development of ATMA/AIPV Deployment Guidelines Considering Traffic and Safety Impacts

    Colorado Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation (Mid-America Transportation Center)

    2019–2022
    PI

  • Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVSE) Innovation: Streetlight Charging in City Right-of-Way

    U.S. Department of Energy, Metropolitan Energy Center

    2019–2022
    Co-PI (Missouri S&T PI)

  • Evaluation and Behavioral Interventions for Safe Deployment of Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator Vehicles: A Driving Simulator Based Study

    Intelligent Systems Center, Missouri S&T (internal)

    2019–2020
    Co-PI

  • GAANN: Preparing Interdisciplinary Professionals for Rebuilding/Engineering Resilient Infrastructure of the Nation

    U.S. Department of Education

    2019–2022
    Co-PI

  • ConnectSafe: Connect Usage Based Insurance, Transportation Big Data and Socioeconomic Behavioral Research in Building a Safe-Driving Community

    Smart Living Research Center, Missouri S&T (internal)

    2018–2019
    PI

  • Development of Autonomous Trucks Operation Guidelines and Driver Training Process

    U.S. Department of Transportation (Mid-America Transportation Center)

    2018–2020
    PI

  • Evaluation of Route 160 Widening Project: A Before-and-After Study with Driving Simulator

    Crawford, Murphy & Tilly

    2018–2019
    PI

  • Missouri DOT Leader-Follower TMA System

    Missouri Department of Transportation

    2018–2020
    Co-PI (Missouri S&T PI)

At Metropia

  • Utilizing DynuStudio-DynusT Dynamic Traffic Assignment Software Suite to Model the Fuzhou Transportation Network

    Fujian University of Technology

    2016
    PI

  • Exploring Emerging Traffic Data Collection for Transportation Planning and Operations Using the Metropia System

    Pima Association of Governments

    2015–2016
    Co-PI

  • Pay-As-You-Drive-And-You-Save (PAYDAYS) Insurance Actuarial Study

    Federal Highway Administration

    2013–2016
    Co-PI and Project Manager