The system be down for regular maintenance on April 3rd, 2024 from 8:00-10:00am.
Browsing Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of by Author "630df03b-a53a-426b-bd33-5798249f32bd"
Now showing items 1-10 of 10
-
DEVELOPING DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLE ENVELOPES ON URBAN STREETS
McCormack, Edward Donald; Goodchild, Anne; Hurwitz, David (2020-02)This report presents research to improve the understanding of curb space and delivery needs in urban areas. Observations of delivery operations to determine vehicle type, loading actions, door locations, and accessories ... -
Digital Dissemination Platform of Transportation Engineering Educational Materials
Brown, Shane; Hurwitz, David; Kyte, Michael; Hallenbeck, Mark; Perkins, Robert (2014)National agencies have called for more widespread adoption of best practices in engineering education. To facilitate this sharing of practices we will develop a web-based system that will be used by transportation engineering ... -
Educating Teenage Drivers in the Pacific Northwest Regarding the Dangers of Distracted Driving (Phase I)
Hurwitz, David; Boyle, Linda; Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed; Brown, Shane (2014)The goal of this outreach project was to examine driver distraction among teenagers in the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, to identify secondary tasks they consider distracting and determine their self-reported engagement ... -
IMPACT OF BICYCLE ROLLING STOP LAWS ON SAFETY-RELEVANT BEHAVIORS IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Hurwitz, David; Chang, Kevin; Young, Rhonda; Jashami, Hisham; Woodside, Jasmin (2023)Bicycle Rolling Stop (BRS) laws refer to legislation that allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs. Many states have passed statutes or attempted to pass similar statutes with varying permissive actions for ... -
Insights from Driver Parking Decisions in a Truck Simulator to Inform Curb Management Decisions
Goodchild, Anne; McCormack, Ed; Hurwitz, David; Ranjbari, Andisheh; Verma, Rishi; Liu, Yujun; Jashami, Hisham (2023)As e-commerce and urban deliveries spike, there is an increasing demand for curbside loading/unloading space. However, commercial vehicle drivers face numerous challenges while navigating dense urban road networks. Literature ... -
INTEGRATING DRIVING SIMULATOR EXPERIMENT DATA WITH A MULTI-AGENT CONNECTED AUTOMATED VEHICLES SIMULATION (MA-CAVS) PLATFORM TO QUANTIFY IMPROVED CAPACITY
Wang, Haizhong; Hurwitz, David; Chand, Cadell; Jashami, Hisham; Koll, Charles (2020)Autonomous vehicles (AVs) at varying market penetration rates will change traffic flow and highway performance. At AV market penetration rates of between 0 percent and 100 percent, human-driven vehicles (HVs) will be ... -
MICROMOBILITY PROMISES AND CHALLENGES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Wang, Haizhong; Hurwitz, David; Belz, Nathan; Chen, Chen; Cadell, Chand (2022)This study used a questionnaire survey method to understand how people use micromobility and the opportunities and challenges associated with its adoption in the Pacific Northwest (Alaska, Oregon, Washington, and Idaho). ... -
Mitigation of Lane Departure Crashes in the Pacific Northwest through Coordinated Outreach - Phase II
Hurwitz, David; Barlow, Zachary; Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed; Belz, Nathan; Boyle, Linda; Hajibabai, Leila (2018)There are multiple approaches available to roadway safety officials to reduce the 17,000 average annual fatalities that occur because of roadway departure crashes (FHWA 2016). One of these approaches is educating the driving ... -
Mitigation of Lane Departure Crashes in the Pacific Northwest through Coordinated Outreach - Phase III
Hurwitz, David; Abdel-Rahim, Ahmed; Belz, Nathan; Boyle, Linda; Hajibabai, Leila; Fleskes, Kayla (2018)A heavily interactive transportation safety presentation was developed by the research team. The safety presentations focused on local transportation safety issues, using images of locations that students might recognize ... -
Streamlining the Crash Reporting Process in the Pacific Northwest
Chang, Kevin; Hurwitz, David; Warmbrodt, Shane; Simpson, Ellen (2018)Over five million traffic crashes are reported annually in the United States, and the documentation process for every single crash begins at the scene of the incident with information gathered by a member of the law ...