Research Themes
Asset Management
Asset management, a strategic approach for investment decision making, offers institutional resources, planning methodologies and information technology capabilities to agencies to, 1) increase the value obtained from infrastructure expenditures, 2) demonstrate accountability more clearly, 3) earn increased credibility with elected officials and their constituencies, while 4) achieving a progressively higher quality of infrastructure services for communities.
Aviation
Innovation and analysis of freight and passenger air travel demand and impacts within the transportation network is an area of interest at Georgia Tech. Developing products and tools to provide a safe, secure, efficient, and environmentally acceptable global aviation system is the purpose of this research area.
Design and Environment
Context Sensitive Solution (CSS) is a burgeoning field of study and application in Design. The objective is to develop a transportation facility that fits its physical setting and preserves scenic, aesthetic, historic, and environmental resources, while maintaining safety and mobility.
Finance and Administration
The benefits of transportation investment are often easy to see: highways open up new markets, improve accessibility, and create jobs for the American economy. The measurable impacts of these investments are less understood. Innovative Finance is a major area of concern nationally. Georgia Tech recognizes the need to find appropriate applications and viable options for its partners.
Materials and Construction
The study of innovative ways to enhance the performance and longevity of materials and construction techniques is of major interest to Georgia Tech engineers. Research on areas such as bridge coatings, asphalt concrete and asphalt binders, portland cement concrete, high-performance materials for bridge construction, and waste and byproduct materials are of vital importance to the transportation industry. Construction technology and innovation in nondestructive and noninvasive applications, accelerated construction technology and work zone management are also prevalent areas of research.
Operations, Safety, and ITS
Providing effective solutions to restore optimum highway performance during events that interrupt service: construction, maintenance, weather, natural disasters, and incident management while minimizing traffic flow disruption is the objective of Operations Research. Analyzing usage of advanced technologies like ITS is a method to achieve this goal.
Policy and Planning
Strategic planning processes provide the vehicle for identifying priorities, determining direction, key objectives, and resource requirements to integrate emerging issues and long-run trends, providing crosscutting policy initiatives.
Security, Evacuation Planning and Modeling
Securing critical infrastructure, resources and people is the goal of research in this area. Evacuation planning, secure border crossings, emergency training and response planning are areas of ongoing research.
Structures and Bridges
Description coming soon.