Research Focus Area: Transportation Engineering

Our faculty and graduate students work on all aspects of transportation engineering, including traffic safety, highway design, traffic data analysis and sustainable transportation systems. Our faculty are closely associated with Iowa State’s Institute for Transportation (InTrans), with transportation engineering centers at Iowa State’s Research Park and with other units across campus. This collaboration encourages multi-disciplinary and high-impact research.

Research Faculty

Christopher Day Assistant Professor	Performance measures Intelligent transportation systems Connected and automated vehicles
Jing Dong Assistant Professor	Transportation energy analysis Travel demand modeling Intelligent Transportation Systems
Shauna Hallmark Director of Institute for Transportation, Robert J. and Roxann L. Paulsen Fellow for CCEE Excellence, Professor	Development of analytical tools to evaluate road departure crashes using naturalistic driving study data Integration of analysis methods and development of analysis plan Evaluation of speed activated displays on curves
Anuj Sharma Associate Professor	Big data analytics in transportation and data-driven decision making Safety and efficiency of traffic operations Smart rural transportation
Omar Smadi Center for Transportation Research and Education Director, Associate Professor	Transportation asset management Transportation safety
Jonathan Wood Assistant Professor	Connected and autonomous vehicles Data-driven decision making with uncertainty Transportation safety analytics