Research
Geospatial Crash Analysis - COVER Lab staff is currently working on geospatial analysis of CMV crashes in North Carolina. A number of different techniques are being explored and will be deployed as web map layers when complete.
rvi mapRoad Vulnerability Index - aims to quantify road vulnerability as a function of truck volume, pavement condition, and bridge condition to aid in the identification of facilities and roadway segments that are most susceptible to damage from overweight vehicles.
tactTicketing Aggressive Cars and Trucks (TACT) is a safety program that is focused on ‘aggressive’ driver behaviors that take place in the ‘shared use’ car/truck operating environment. While 'obvious' violations (e.g., following to close, erratic lane change behavior, etc.) can be detected by direct visual observation, uniformed enforcement personnel are unable to provide continuous wide spread visual surveillance of the entire traffic stream moving through a corridor.
Past Research - includes I-95 and US Highway 74 Corridor studies, as well as "Estimating the Off-Network Presence of STAA Dimensioned Vehicles on North Carolina Roadways Using CMV Crash Crash Data, 2001-2005"