Research Grants and Awards Received
Current Projects
- Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 2023 – 2024
Sponsor: NSF - CarbonPlay, 2023 – 2023
Sponsor: Georgia Tech Startup Launch - Piloting Augmented Reality Cues for Enhancing Driving Safety in Glaucoma, 2022 – 2023
Sponsor: NIH
Description: This project aims to improve driving safety and performance in older drivers with peripheral vision loss due to glaucoma. Leveraging the ACT Lab’s high-fidelity driving simulator, the potential benefits of incorporating visual/auditory Augmented Reality (AR) cues within the in-vehicle environment will be tested. This investigation will specifically focus on driving performance and mental workload to avoid introducing distraction to the driving task. The experiments will assist in optimizing the modality and quantity of the cues provided to attain a balance between improving driving safety and increasing distraction in an already cluttered driving environment. - Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 2022 – 2023
Sponsor: NSF - SCC-IRG Track 1: Fostering Smart and Sustainable Travel through Engaged Communities using Integrated MultidimensionalInformation-Based Solutions, 2021 – 2025
Sponsor: NSF
Description: This project aims to develop systematic deployment tools that smart and connected communities can use to achieve their sustainable travel goals in a quantifiable manner by leveraging advances in information, communication, and sensor technologies. While the deployment of advanced technological solutions offers great promise for communities to improve residents’ quality of life and prosperity, they are faced with significant challenges in realizing these aspirations due to the diversity in technological and travel needs and barriers faced. Solutions to enhance travel mobility, safety, equity, and access will be developed using the City of Peachtree Corners (GA) as a living lab. Solutions will include building partnerships of emerging micromobility services, behavioral interventions, and public policy interventions. These solutions will be developed using data collected from community residents and other sources, and deployed using an information design system that provides targeted information delivery to various stakeholders. This project draws on methods from multi-objective and multi-agent optimization, machine learning, behavioral economics, and data and policy analytics, to generate multidimensional solutions for the community. - Development of Traffic Dispersion Model with the Aid of Video Records from Multiple UAVs, 2019 – 2023
Sponsor: SPARC, Ministry of Human Resources Development, India
Past Projects
- PIN Summer Internships , 2022 – 2022
Sponsor: Smart CommunitiesCorp - Driving Simulator-Based Study of the Impacts of Various Roadway Design Modifications on the Curiosity Lab Test Track, 2020 – 2021
Sponsor: City of Peachtree Corners (ATCR) - Smartphone-Based Incentive Framework for Dynamic Network-Level Traffic Congestion Management , 2020 – 2022
Sponsor: USDOT (STRIDE Center) - Using Driving Simulator Environment to Determine Interactions Between User Behavior and Infrastructure Design Under Autonomous Vehicles , 2019 – 2022
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center); Purdue Sub-contract (at Georgia Tech) - Modeling and Simulation for Connected and Autonomous Transportation , 2019 – 2022
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center); Purdue Sub-contract (at Georgia Tech) - Statistical Learning, Driving Simulator-Based Modeling, and Computationally Tractable Dynamic Traffic Assignment, 2018 – 2021
Sponsor: NSF (At Georgia Tech) - Development of Dynamic Network Traffic Simulator for Mixed Traffic Flow under Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Technologies – Phase 2, 2018 – 2019
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - Development of In-Vehicle Information Dissemination Mechanisms to Reduce Cognitive Burden in the Information-Rich Driving Environment – Phase 2, 2018 – 2019
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - Non-Connected Vehicle Detection using Connected Vehicles – Phase 2 , 2018 – 2019
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - Cooperative Control Mechanism for Platoon Formation of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles – Phase 2 , 2018 – 2019
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - Design of Urban Landscape and Road Networks to Accommodate CAVs – Phase 2 , 2018- 2019
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - Adapting Land Use and Infrastructure for Automated Driving , 2018 – 2019
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - Purdue CCAT Research, Education and Outreach Management , 2018 – 2019
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (Region 5 UTC), 2018 – 2022
Sponsor: USDOT (CCAT Center) - Affordable Net Zero Housing and Transportation Solutions, 2017 – 2019
Sponsor: Purdue Discovery Park Big Idea Challenge - Enabling High-Efficiency Operation through Next-Generation Control Systems Development for Connected and Automated Class 8 Trucks, 2017 – 2020
Sponsor: USDOE ARPA-E NEXTCAR - USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (Region 5 UTC), 2016 – 2017
Sponsor: USDOT - Driving Simulator Based Interactive Experiments: Understanding Driver Behavior, Cognition and Technology Uptake under Information and Communication Technologies, 2015 – 2017
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Coordinated Real-Time Traffic Management Based on Dynamic Information Propagation and Aggregation under Connected Vehicle Systems, 2014 – 2017
Sponsor: NSF - Intermodal Infrastructure Investment Decisions and Linkage to Economic Competitiveness, 2014 – 2017
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Estimation of Stochastic Network Vehicular Origin-Destination Demands Using Multi-Sensor Information Fusion Approaches, 2014 – 2017
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Information and Transportation Choices, Long- and Short-Term, that Link Sustainability and Livability – Phase II, 2014 – 2017
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Effects of Heterogeneous Information Characteristics and Sources on Evacuation Behavior, 2014 – 2017
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Integrated and Sustainable Solutions – From Concepts to Deployment, 2013 – 2016
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - NEXTRANS: Field Data Based Data Fusion Methodologies to Estimate Dynamic Origin-Destination Demand Matrices from Multiple Sensing and Tracking Technologies, 2013 – 2015
Sponsor: USDOT - Estimation of Time-Dependent Intersection Turning Proportions for Adaptive Traffic Signal Control under Limited Link Traffic Counts from Heterogeneous Sensors, 2013 – 2015
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Developing Operational and Policy Insights into Next Generation Vehicle Needs Based on an Integrated Understanding of the Transportation and Energy System of Systems, 2013 – 2015
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Information and Transportation Choices, Long- and Short-Term, that Link Sustainability and Livability, 2013 – 2015
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Driving Simulator Laboratory: Traveler Behavior Modeling and Interactive Experiments to Address Mobility and Safety Needs, 2013 – 2015
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - NEXTRANS: Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Solutions – From Concepts to Deployment, 2012 – 2017
Sponsor: USDOT - Policymaking Considering Interdependent Infrastructure Systems: An Economic General Equilibrium Approach, 2012 – 2013
Sponsor: Purdue; Global Policy Research Institute (GPRI) - Internal Curing as a New Tool for Infrastructural Renewal: Reducing Repair Congestion, Increasing Service Life, and Improving Sustainability, 2012 – 2014
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Exploring the Opportunities and Barriers to Intermodal Rail Freight, 2012 – 2014
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Integrated Framework to Capture the Interdependencies between Transportation and Energy Sectors, 2012 – 2014
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Predictive Real-Time Traffic Routing Incorporating Human Factors Considerations, 2012 – 2014
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Design of Personal Rapid Transit Networks for Transit-Oriented Development Cities, 2012 – 2014
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Indo-US Joint Center on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2011 – 2013
Sponsor: Indo-US Science & Technology Forum - Identifying Strategies to Improve Road Use Management in Indiana, 2011 – 2013
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - NEXTRANS: Integrated Solutions for Mobility, Safety and Infrastructure Renewal, 2010 – 2011
Sponsor: USDOT - Incorporating High Speed Passenger Rail into a Multimodal Network Model for Improved Regional Transportation Planning, 2010 – 2013
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Field Deployment to Quantify the Value of Real-time Information by Integrating Driver Routing Decisions and Route Assignment Strategies, 2010 – 2013
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Highway Reservation System Design and Its Application to Freight Transportation, 2010 – 2013
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Determination of Network Origin-Destination Matrices Using Partial Link Traffic Counts and Virtual Sensor Information in an Integrated Corridor Management Framework, 2010 – 2013
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Critical Knowledge Gaps Affecting Mobility Issues at U.S./Canada Border Crossings, 2009 – 2009
Sponsor: Department of Foreign Affairs, Canada - System Methods for Uncovering Economic, Technological, and Policy Enablers of an “On-demand Air Service” Regional Passenger Transportation Solution, 2009 – 2010
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Development of a Mobile Probe-Based Traffic Data Fusion and Flow Management Platform for Innovative Public-Private Information-Based Partnerships, 2009 – 2010
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Development of Carrier-Carrier Collaboration and Transfer Location Models for Less Than Truckload Freight Logistics, 2009 – 2010
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Addressing Uncertainties in Travel Time Estimates using Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Intelligent Transportation Applications, 2008 – 2010
Sponsor: Indo-US Science & Technology Forum (IUSTF) - Integrating Supply and Demand Aspects of Transportation for Mass Evacuation under Disasters, 2008 – 2009
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Network Origin-Destination Demand Estimation using Limited Link Traffic Counts: Strategic Deployment of Vehicle Detectors through an Integrated Corridor Management Framework, 2008 – 2009
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - A Decision Support Tool for Vehicle Infrastructure Integration: Advancing Data Fusion Algorithms for Traffic Management Applications, 2008 – 2009
Sponsor: USDOT; NEXTRANS Center - Post-Processing Techniques to Enhance Reliability of Assignment Algorithm Based Performance Measures, 2008 – 2011
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Dynamic Real-Time Routing for Evacuation Response Planning and Execution, 2008 – 2011
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Mechanisms for Collaborative Intermodal Logistics in Indiana, 2007 – 2008
Sponsor: Purdue; Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CAM) - NEXTRANS: Integrated Solutions for Mobility, Safety and Infrastructure Renewal, 2007 – 2014
Sponsor: USDOT - Critical Route Network for Earthquake Response and Dynamic Routes Analysis, 2005 – 2006
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - A Robust, Scalable Transportation System Concept, 2005 – 2006
Sponsor: NASA - Collaborative Research: Stochastic Sensing Control Models for Safe and Efficient Traffic Signal Strategies, 2005 – 2008
Sponsor: NSF - Primary Emergency Route for Transportation Security, 2003 – 2006
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Minimizing Truck/Car Conflicts on Highways, Phase II, 2002 – 2004
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Minimizing Truck/Car Conflicts on Highways, Phase I, 2001 – 2002
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Collaborative Research: A Multilayer Capital Budgeting Model for Comparative Analyses of Infrastructure Networks, 2001 – 2003
Sponsor: NSF - Efficient and Robust On-Line Control of Large-Scale Dynamic Traffic Systems with Information Systems, 2001 – 2002
Sponsor: NSF - Criteria for Selection of Primary Routes for the State of Indiana, 2001 – 2004
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Counting Device Selection and Reliability, 2001 – 2002
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Real-time Data Link, 2001 – 2001
Sponsor: Kresge Challenge Grant - Efficient and Robust On-Line Control of Large-Scale Dynamic Traffic Systems with Information Systems, 2000 – 2001
Sponsor: NSF - Upgrade Existing Beowulf Network, 2000 – 2000
Sponsor: Kresge Challenge Grant - Validation, Calibration, and Evaluation of Intelligent Transportation Systems Technologies on the Borman Corridor, 1999 – 2001
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Development of a Congestion Management System for Indiana – Phase II, 1999 – 2000
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Efficient and Robust On-Line Control of Large-Scale Dynamic Traffic Systems with Information Systems, 1999 – 2000
Sponsor: NSF - Research Experiences for Undergraduates, 1999 – 2002
Sponsor: NSF - Efficient and Robust On-Line Control of Large-Scale Dynamic Traffic Systems with Information Systems, 1998 – 1999
Sponsor: NSF - Development of a Congestion Management System for Indiana – Phase II, 1998 – 1999
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Providing Real-time Traffic Advisory & Route Guidance to Manage Borman Incidents using Hoosier Helpers Program, 1998 – 2000
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Control of Large-Scale Dynamic Traffic Networks, 1998 – 2000
Sponsor: PRF Grant - Development of a Deployable Real-Time Dynamic Traffic Assignment System – Phase I, 1997 – 1998
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) - CAREER: Efficient and Robust On-Line Control of Large-Scale Dynamic Traffic Systems with Information Systems, 1997 – 2002
Sponsor: NSF - Development of a Congestion Management System for Indiana – Phase II, 1997 – 1998
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Development of a Congestion Management System for Indiana – Phase II, 1996 – 1997
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - A Methodology for the Analysis of Intelligent Transportation Systems Impacts on Mobility, Air Quality, and Safety, 1996 – 1998
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Development of a Deployable Real-Time Dynamic Traffic Assignment System – Phase I, 1996 – 1997
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE) - Stochastic Dynamic Traffic Assignment in Congested Networks under Advanced Traffic Management Systems, 1995 – 1997
Sponsor: PRF Grant - Development of a Congestion Management System for Indiana – Phase II, 1995 – 1996
Sponsor: FHWA & INDOT - Borman Expressway Advanced Traffic Management Systems Equipment Evaluation, 1994 – 1996
Sponsor: FHWA