Research Highlights

June 19, 2025

First-ever pedestrian bridge inspection process proposed

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.
June 2, 2025

Purdue University researchers win IEEE award for highway charging technology

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).
April 11, 2025

2025 Purdue Road School Transportation Conference and Expo

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.
March 25, 2025

Using sun shadows and simulations to combat snowy roads

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).
November 11, 2024

How equitable are our road revenue contributions and expenditures?

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
October 8, 2024

Statewide Screening of Signalized Intersections

Approximately 2300 signalized intersections (Figure 1) were analyzed using Purdue Connected Vehicle Signal Analytics to screen all 8 movements, to determine if all 8 movements were operating satisfactorily (Figure 2a), or if any movement at an intersection had a split failures (Figure 2b). For
September 27, 2024

Towards Pavement Milling Specifications

Milling can be defined as a process of removing the pavement surface, and other layers, using drum-mounted carbide steel cutting bits attached to a milling machine. Pavement milling may alter the surface texture of the remaining structure, creating differences from the original surface which can
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