As of October 1, 2016, the SWUTC concluded its 28 years of operation and is no longer an active center of the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. The archived SWUTC website remains available here.

2016

Dissertation: Modeling Deformation of Freezing Concrete: Towards the Identification of D-cracking Susceptible Aggregates and Construction of all Concrete LNG Tanks, Syeda Farhana Rahman, Texas A&M University, Product of SWUTC Ph.D. Candidate Assistantship Program, December, 2016, 187 pp. (600451-00053-1)
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Dissertation: Integration of Heuristics and Statistics to Improve the Quality of Network-level Pavement Condition Data, Salar Zabihi Siabil, Texas A&M University, Product of SWUTC Ph.D. Candidate Assistantship Program, December, 2016, 172 pp. (600451-00052-1)
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Compendium of Student Papers: 2016 Undergraduate Transportation Engineering Fellows Program, H. Gene Hawkins, editor, Texas A&M University, August, 2016, 50 pp. (600451-00003-5)
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  • Generalized Trends in Wrong-Way Driving, Mitchell P. Fisher, II
  • Travel Rates of an Aging Population:  A Texas Analysis, Christopher Garcia

Dissertation: Waterway System Maintenance Optimization, Mohammadadel Khodakrami, Texas A&M University, Product of SWUTC Ph.D. Candidate Assistantship Program, August, 2016, 205 pp. (600451-00039-1)
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High Speed Rail Distribution Study, Carol Abel Lewis, Latissha Clark, Grace Asanaenyi, and Wu Ying, Texas Southern University, August, 2016, 18 pp. (600451-00050-1)
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Dissertation: Real Option Analysis to Value Managed Lanes Using Big Data, Sunghoon Lee, Texas A&M University, Product of SWUTC Ph.D. Candidate Assistantship Program, May, 2016, 205 pp. (600451-00036-1)
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The Contribution of Micro- and Macro-texture to the Skid Resistance of Flexible Pavement, Pedro A. Serigos, Prasad Buddhavarapu, Grant M. Gorman, Feng Hong, and Jorge A. Prozzi, University of Texas at Austin, February, 2016, 54 pp. (600451-00085-1)
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Boundary Conditions Estimation on a Road Network Using Compressed Sensing, Michele Simoni, Ofer Eldad, Andrew Alexander and Christian Claudel, University of Texas at Austin, February, 2016, 29 pp. (600451-00090-1)
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Quantification of Infrastructure Consumption under Different Axle Configurations and Wheel Loads, Ambarish Banerjee, Maria Burton, and Jorge Prozzi, University of Texas at Austin, January, 2016, 56 pp. (600451-00071-1)
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Analysis of Evacuation Clearance Time under Megaregion Disaster Threats, Zhao Zhang and Brian Wolshon, Louisiana State University, January, 2016, 44 pp. (600451-00114-1)
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