Staff News
Gordon Smith joins National CP Tech Center as associate director
August 28, 2017
Gordon Smith has been associated with the National Concrete Pavement Technology (CP Tech) Center since the late 1990s. A CP Tech Center board member throughout its existence, he played roles in the Center’s founding and in building its long-term ...
Gordon Smith
Making work zones ‘work’: FHWA awards $1.5M safety grant to ISU-InTrans
March 06, 2017
Introducing changes to the normal driving experience presents a variety of safety risks, and work zones are no exception to this rule. While work zone fatalities have been trending down since reaching a high of 1,186 in 2002, a recent plateau has ...
From left, ISU-InTrans team members Anuj Sharma, Jennifer Shane, Peter Savolainen, and David Jeong
Safety takes front seat in second phase of national highway program
March 02, 2017
Iowa State SHRP2, or second Strategic Highway Research Program, projects deal with pressing safety issues like rural intersection crash risk, driver behavior, and driver/roadway characteristics during crash or near-crash situations.
In ...
Flags placed on rural road traffic signs. Used in an early SHRP2 project
5 Questions with Travis Hosteng concerning the National Center for Wood Transportation Structures
February 14, 2017
Working primarily with the Bridge Engineering Center at Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation, Travis Hosteng serves as the lead timber research engineer for bridges and structures, working with practitioners in ...
Travis Hosteng
Professor Peter Savolainen joins Presidential Flipped and Hybrid Course Initiative
January 09, 2017
ISU’s classrooms aren’t stuck in the past. Instead of learning curriculum content through a lecture and then homework outside of class, students at Iowa State are engaging in the classroom like never before.
Because of the ...
Peter Savolainen
Calendar of Events
- Iowa Streets and Roads Workshop and Conference is Sept. 19-21 (Sep 2017)
- Research symposium keynote tells of using transportation to address societal challenges (Aug 2017)
- GO! Magazine’s August issue further explores Seven Great Transportation Feats (Aug 2017)
- Gordon Smith joins National CP Tech Center as associate director (Aug 2017)
- Making work zones ‘work’: FHWA awards $1.5M safety grant to ISU-InTrans (Mar 2017)
- Safety takes front seat in second phase of national highway program (Mar 2017)
- Tingting Huang wins top student paper in ITE Midwest District competition (Jun 2017)
- Engineering students take Great Britain by plane, train, bus or bust! (Jun 2017)
- TSA wins section and district Best Chapter awards for 2016-17 (Jun 2017)
- Tingting Huang wins top student paper in ITE Midwest District competition (Jun 2017)
- TSA wins section and district Best Chapter awards for 2016-17 (Jun 2017)
- Morgan State University to be first HBCU with a Chi Epsilon Chapter, thanks to current ISU-InTrans students (Mar 2017)
- Iowa State researchers take new long-lasting highway findings on the road (Jul 2017)
- Researchers seeking new way for counties to recycle gravel on roads (Jul 2017)
- Full-depth reclamation with cement publication now online (May 2017)
- Iowa Streets and Roads Workshop and Conference is Sept. 19-21 (Sep 2017)
- REACTOR sponsors June 28 lecture by data visualization expert (Jun 2017)
- April 14 Tom Maze seminar to feature Bijan Khaleghi, state bridge engineer for WSDOT (Apr 2017)
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