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.   A workshop for the Maryland Capacity Analysis Program (MDCAP) and the Maryland Unconventional Intersection Design program (MUID) was hosted by ATTAP on November 17th 2011 at University of Maryland, with over 20 officials from MD SHA in attendance.

2.   3 new sensors have been deployed in the Eastern Shore Region.

3.   2 new papers have been accepted for the 18th Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) World Congress by ATTAP members.

4.   Computer simulation based Baltimore Evacuation System, developed my ATTAP members, has been applied to evaluate the traffic impact study during Grand Prix (September 2-4 2011) in Baltimore City for traffic management plan.

5.  Traffic volume data (inbound/outbound) in Ocean City, Maryland during the hurricane Irene evacuation is now available.

6.   A new report on developing evaluation models for CFI and DDI designs has been completed and place on the ATTAP website.
7.   The project, "Integration of VSL with travel time information for non-recurrent congestion" by Dr. Chang, Park, and Nan, has received the 1st rank among all projects submitted by all nationwide university research centers for the USDOT sponsored 2011 Research Demonstration/Exhibition event, and is invited to make the podium presentation at USDOT on April 6th.

8.   Maryland Unconventional Intersection Design (MUID) presentation.

9.   New Dilemma Zone Protection Project on MD 40 @ Red Toad Rd.

10.  ATTAP Kick-Off meeting on October 7th 2010 at University of Maryland
 
 

 

Program Managers

Professor Gang-Len Chang

Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering

Univ. of Maryland - College Park

Email: gang@umd.edu

 

Saed Rahwanji, Team Leader

Office of Traffic and Safety

Maryland State Highway Administration

Email: srahwanji@sha.state.md.us  

 

Tom Hicks, Director

Office of Traffic and Safety

Maryland State Highway Administration

Email: THicks@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

 Traffic volume data

 (Inbound/Outbound) in

 Ocean City, MD during hurricane Irene evacuation

 

 Integration of VSL with

 Travel Time Information

 for non-recurrent

 Congestion (US DOT)

 MUID (Maryland  Unconventional

 Intersection

 Design) 

 Development of

 a Hybrid Model for

 Prediction of

 Freeway Incident Duration

 

 Variable Speed

 Limit Control

 System, Experimental

 Results

 

 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

 

 

 A Region-wide

 Evacuation & Traffic

 Monitoring System

 

 

 I-270 Intelligent

 On-Line Traffic

 Management System

 

 

 Introduction to UAID

 System

 

 

 

 Lane Closure Analysis

 Program (LCAP)

 

 

 

 Summary of research

 activities

 

 

Updated Mar. 09, 2011. Copyright ©2004-2011 ATTAP. All rights reserved.