REPS Research Projects

Thrust Area 1: Safe Design and Systems to Increase Transportation Safety 

Investigating the Impact of Enforcement and Education on Reducing Drug-Impaired Driving

Lead Institution: Howard University 

Effective Practices to Integrate Traffic Citation and Adjudication (TCA) Data 

Lead Institution: University of Nevada las Vegas 

Mental States & Machine: Enhancing Driver Engagement in Automated Vehicles for Safer Transitions

Lead Institution: San Jose State University

Thrust Area 2: Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

Smart AI-Technology Employment for Crash Data Analysis

Lead Institution: University of Nevada Las Vegas

Quantum Machine Learning and Railway Deterioration and Operations

Lead Institution: University of Maryland College Park 

Machine Learning and Railway Track Deterioration Part1:  Degree of Railroad Ballast Fouling Using Gaussian Process Regression

Lead Institution: University of Maryland College Park 

Machine Learning and Railway Track Deterioration Part2:  Multiway Analytics Applied to Railway Track Geometry and Ballast Conditions

Lead Institution: University of Maryland College Park

Thrust Area 3: Safe Public – Protecting Communities from Safety Risks

Freeway and Arterial Performance and Safety Analysis with High-Resolution Vehicle Trajectory Data 

Lead Institution: University of Nevada Las Vegas

Protecting Low Income Road Users   

Lead Institution: University of Nevada Las Vegas

Building AI and Machine Learning Technologies for Enhancing Transportation Station Area Safety in San Jose, CA

Lead Institution: San Jose State University