Research Impact Briefs
The Institute for Transportation (InTrans) is dedicated to sharing new research knowledge with decision-makers to implement new transportation findings. Research impact briefs are publications that describe how InTrans innovations positively impact safety, asset management, mobility, and other key transportation areas. These one-page research impact briefs show how our research improves transportation, and they were created for broad distribution among technical and nontechnical audiences.
Featured Impact Briefs
Additional Research Impacts
Rural communities don’t often have the resources necessary to address slowing high-speed through traffic. However, researchers at the Midwest Transportation Center (MTC) at Iowa State University have examined several methods of traffic calming in the hopes of making these communities’ roads safer.
The Bridge Engineering Center (BEC) at Iowa State University’s Institute for Transportation and the Iowa Department of Transportation, are getting closer to making their continuous, real time, and autonomous bridge structural health monitoring system ready for mainstream use.
Iowa rural two-lane highways are safer today because of research and marketing by the Midwest Transportation (MTC) at Iowa State University on a roadway design feature called the Safety Edge, a low cost countermeasure to roadway departures.