UTC Project Information
Project Title
University
Campus Transit Laboratory: Infrastructure for Research, Education,
and Outreach
NEXTRANS
The Ohio State University
Principal Investigator
Mark R. McCord, Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic
Engineering, The Ohio State University,
PI Contact Information
mccord.2@osu.edu
Funding Source(s) and
Amounts Provided (by each
agency or organization)
$567,031
NEXTRANS
Total Project Cost
$312,031
The Ohio State University
$879,062
Agency ID or Contract
Number
DTRT12-G-UTC05
Start and End Dates
09-01-2015
Brief Description of
Research Project
The Ohio State University (OSU) Campus Transit Laboratory (CTL) is a living
laboratory that provides the infrastructure for integrated transit-related research
investigations, educational activities, and applied studies. The CTL benefits
from advanced automatic data collection and information technologies
deployed on the OSU Campus Area Bus Service (CABS), accessibility of the
CABS system and the OSU community to researchers, instructors, and students
for data collection and in situ observations, and regular interaction between
CTL investigators and CABS operators and decision makers. This
NEXTRANS project would continue to: Sustain, develop, and showcase the
CTL; Collect, process, and archive CTL data; Exploit the CTL for research,
education, and outreach activities; and Develop collaborations with transit
agencies and investigators.
This project is expected to have impacts related to transit planning and
operations on each of the research, education, and outreach dimensions.
Improvements in transit planning and operations should lead to a more
efficient, sustainable, and environmentally responsive balance in the use of
urban transportation modes. It is also hoped that publicizing a set of integrated
activities centered on the use of a living lab would result in the expanded
development and use of such labs in multiple transportation areas.
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