Research Highlights

Congratulations to Andrew Tarko, Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering and Director of the Center for Road Safety (CRS), recognized with an honorable mention by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) for high value research conducted with the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) on suburban arterial safety performance.

For most of automotive history, civil engineers and automotive engineers have operated independently. Civil engineers have built and maintained roads, bridges, and traffic systems, while automotive engineers have designed the vehicles that travel on them. Both have worked towards safer and more efficient transportation, but rarely shared data, tools, or common perspectives on the problems they were trying to solve.

Pedestrian bridges have evolved from merely functional to works of art that often integrate with a city’s design plan. With improved appearance come more complex structural design elements and construction challenges. Ensuring bridge integrity and pedestrian safety becomes more significant with more complicated fabrication. Surprisingly, pedestrian bridges have no standard in-service inspection criteria, often leaving inspectors to resort to implementing highway bridge standards.

A team of Purdue University researchers has received the Technology Innovation Award at the 2025 IEEE PES Energy and Policy Forum Innovation Showcase for their work on Dynamic Wireless Power Transfer (DWPT). The technology allows electric vehicles to receive power directly from the roadway while in motion, potentially transforming how we approach charging electric vehicles (EVs).

The 111th Purdue Road School Transportation Conference and Expo was held on March 18-19, 2024, with more than 3,300 transportation professional representatives from state and local agencies, industry, and academia who attended.

A midwestern winter is no joke, especially for people driving through it on daily commutes and grocery trips. Not only must individual Hoosiers prepare for snowy roads, but so must the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT).

An interdisciplinary research team led by Sogand Hasanzadeh (CCE), Yiheng Feng (CCE), Behzad Esmaeili (IE/CCE), and Lu Su (ECE), in collaboration with INDOT and industry partners, has been awarded a nearly $2M SMART Stage 1 Grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation for their project Smarter and Safer Workzone Through Multimodal Intrusion Detection.

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This study was conducted to measure Indiana’s highway user cost responsibilities, revenue contributions, and equity for cars, trucks and buses using Indiana highways. This study comes at a particularly important time as the nation is transitioning to alternative fuels that do not collect tax revenue

Emerging C-V2X (Cellular vehicle to everything) technology uses cellular networks to enable communication between vehicles and infrastructure.