Institute for Transportation Centers & Programs

InTrans can quickly tackle new or persistent challenges, often assembling ad hoc agency-industry-university partnerships to meet specific needs as they are identified. These centers and programs secure funding and stakeholder buy-in, sponsor or manage focused research, and ensure that results become conventional practice. Sometimes related needs spin off into separate efforts.

The creation of new "centers" at InTrans is due, in part, to the maturation of research into conventional practice. For example, InTrans' research in linking traffic crash databases to geographic information systems (GIS) led to the Traffic Safety Data Service. Research on automated techniques to detect pavement distress combined with GIS technology led to the pavement management program.

As a result, InTrans now manages an in-flux, resilient cluster of programs that produce implementable products and meet real needs and that can dissolve or evolve as needs are met and new ones identified. Synergy among these efforts is fostered by sharing InTrans's physical space, academic and technical expertise, and support services.

Centers

• Bridge Engineering Center
  Director: Brent Phares, 515-294-5879, bphares@iastate.edu
• Center for Nanotechnology in Cementitious Systems
  Co-directors: Krishna Rajan, 515-294-2670, krajan@iastate.edu and Peter Taylor, 515-294-9333, ptaylor@iastate.edu
• Center for Transportation Research and Education
  
  • Geospatial Safety Information Systems Program
    Comprises the Iowa Traffic Safety Data Service (ITSDS)
    Program Manager: Zach Hans, 515-294-2329, zhans@iastate.edu
  • Roadway Infrastructure Management & Operations Systems (RIMOS)
    Program Co-Managers: Neal Hawkins, 515-294-7733, hawkins@iastate.edu and Omar Smadi, 515-294-7110, smadi@iastate.edu
  • Sustainable Transportation Systems Program (STSP)
    Program Manager: Nadia Gkritza, 515-294-2343, nadia@iastate.edu
• Center for Weather Impacts on Mobility and Safety (CWIMS)
  Director: Neal Hawkins, 515-294-7733, hawkins@iastate.edu
• Center for Earthworks Engineering Research (CEER)
  Director: David White, 515-294-1463, djwhite@iastate.edu
  
• Midwest Transportation Consortium (MTC)
  Director: Shauna Hallmark, 515-294-5249, shallmar@iastate.edu
• National Center for Wood in Transportation Structures
  Director: Terry Wipf, 515-294-9501, tjwipf@iastate.edu
  
• National Concrete Pavement Technology Center (CP Tech Center)
  Director: Tom Cackler, 515-294-3230, tcackler@iastate.edu

Programs

• Asphalt Materials & Pavements Program
  Program Manager: Chris Williams, 515-294-4419, rwilliam@iastate.edu
• Construction Management & Technology (CM&T) program
  Program Manager: Jennifer Shane, 515-294-1703, jsshane@iastate.edu
• Iowa Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
  Program Manager: Keith Knapp, 515-294-8817, kknapp@iastate.edu
• Iowa Statewide Urban Design and Specifications (SUDAS)
  Program Manager: Paul Wiegand, 515-294-0419, pwiegand@iastate.edu