Welcome

ATTAP is jointly initiated by the Office of Traffic and Safety at the Maryland State Highway Administration and the Traffic Safety and Operations Laboratory at the University of Maryland - College Park.

Recent Activities  (More)

 

1. Two research topics have been presented at INFORMS in Oct. 2009 by the ATTAP research team

2. Dr. Chang's Traffic Safety and Operations Lab has recently been awarded a research project of 1.23 million from MSHA/FHWA for design and implementation of a real-time traffic monitoring and traval time prediction system for Ocean City(more)

3. Four papers produced by the ATTAP research team have been accepted for presentation at the 15th World Congress on ITS

4. Eight papers produced by the ATTAP research team have been accepted for presentation at the 88th TRB conference in 2009:

 

 

Program Managers

Professor Gang-Len Chang

Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Univ. of Maryland - College Park

Email: gang@glue.umd.edu

 

Saed Rahwanji

Office of Traffic and Safety

Maryland State Highway Administration

Email: srahwanji@sha.state.md.us  

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Research Areas

  • Traffic control and operations
  • Traffic simulation modeling
  • Travel time estimation and prediction system
  • Real-time traffic monitoring and emergency evacuation
  • Traffic safety analysis and evaluation
  • Intelligent transportation systems
  • Innovative highway geometric design and simulation

 

  In ATTAP

What's New

 

 

 Variable Speed

 Limit Control

 System

 

 

 Sensors keep

 cars on the move on

 the way to the beach

 

 

 TV interview

 By Discoveries

 & Breakthroughs

 Inside Science (DBIS)

 

 ATTAP and UAID

 programs were interviewed

 by TV station

 

 

 Framework of the I-695

 Simulation-based Traffic

 Management System

 

 

 Introduction to UAID

 System

 

 

 

 Lane Closure Analysis

 Program (LCAP)

 

 

 

 Summary of research

 activities

 

 

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