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Presentation to Spotlight Honda Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicle Research
PTI to Host Hybrid, Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicle Workshop
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PTI to Host Hybrid, Electric, and Fuel Cell Vehicle Workshop
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 The
Transportation Infrastructure Program (TIP) at the Pennsylvania Transportation
Institute focuses on the analysis, design, behavior, and evaluation of transportation-related
structures. Facilities enable a full range of scale and full-size testing
of steel, concrete, wood, masonry, and composite structures and subassemblies,
including
in-situ bridge and structural monitoring and evaluation; load testing;
bridge instrumentation; and non-destructive evaluations. Expertise includes
testing and evaluation of the effects of materials, construction practices,
design parameters, static/dynamic/repeated loadings, environmental effects
and life-cycle costs. The program has access to
Cato Park Infrastructure Research Building, a state-of-the-art facility
for conducting advanced research on
bridges, structures, and materials. A key
TIP center is the Northeast
Center of Excellence for Pavement Technology (NECEPT). Serving as the
Northeast Regional Superpave Center, NECEPT promotes the design, specification
and construction of more durable, longer-lasting pavements through the full
implementation of the Superpave system and other technologies. |
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 The
Transportation Operations Program (TOP) conducts research in a broad array
of essential domains, including highway geometric design, traffic engineering
and operations, human factors and highway safety, transportation planning,
transportation economics and policy, highway infrastructure management,
Geographic Information Systems, and public transit. Centers located within
the program include the Center for Intelligent Transportation Systems. CITranS serves as Penn
State's focal point for advanced technologies research and their application
to surface transportation systems, encompassing intelligent transportation
systems (ITS) applications to all surface transportation modes, including
highways, railroads, and transit. The Center for Traffic Operational Analysis directs its primary energies toward addressing problems of traffic operational quality and capacity. The Mid-Atlantic
Universities Transportation Center, a five-university consortium led
by The Pennsylvania State University, seeks to attract talented researchers
and students to the study of transportation, and to engage them in new approaches
to the transportation issues of today and tomorrow. The consortium includes
the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Virginia, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University, and West Virginia University. The Transportation
Survey Research Center performs all the tasks required to design, conduct,
and analyze transportation-related surveys, including traditional mail surveys,
telephone interviews and computer-aided surveys (CAS). |
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The
Vehicle Systems and Safety Program studies the design, simulation, and
testing of vehicle components and of vehicles interacting with their environment.
Facilities maintained by the program permit research and testing on buses,
trucks, trains and locomotives, and automobiles, including hybrid, electric,
and other alternative-fuel vehicles. A major center of the program is
the 
PTI's