NDSU Faculty/Staff Research & Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Hyperspectral Imaging Utility for Transportation Systems
(2015)The global transportation system is massive, open, and dynamic. Existing performance and condition assessments of the complex interacting networks of roadways, bridges, railroads, pipelines, waterways, airways, and ... -
Context Sensitive Solution: A Case Study of Northwest Highway White Rock Lake, Dallas in Texas
(2015)Loop 12 is the first ring around the city of Dallas. The project is a three-quarter mile section of Loop 12 on Northwest Highway. The project section of Northwest Highway is a set of six bridges that cross a 100-year ... -
Hyperspectral Applications in the Global Transportation Infrastructure
(2015)Hyperspectral remote sensing is an emerging field with potential applications in the observation, management, and maintenance of the global transportation infrastructure. This study introduces a general analytical framework ... -
Hyperspectral Range Imaging for Transportation Systems Evaluation
(2016)Transportation agencies expend significant resources to inspect critical infrastructure such as roadways, railways, and pipelines. Regular inspections identify important defects and generate data to forecast maintenance ... -
A Connected Vehicle Approach for Pavement Roughness Evaluation
(2014)Connected vehicles present an opportunity to monitor pavement condition continuously by analyzing data from vehicle-integrated position sensors and accelerometers. The current practice of characterizing and reporting ... -
Campus Parking Supply Impacts on Transportation Mode-Choice
(2014)Parking demand is a significant land-use problem in campus planning. The parking policies of universities and large corporations with facilities located in small urban areas shape the character of their campuses. These ... -
Precision Bounds of Pavement Deterioration Forecasts from Connected Vehicles
(2014)Transportation agencies rely on models to predict when pavements will deteriorate to a condition or ride-index threshold that triggers maintenance actions. The accuracy and precision of such forecasts are directly proportional ... -
Inertial Sensor Sample Rate Selection for Ride Quality Measures
(2014)The Road Impact Factor is a measure of ride-quality. It is derived from the average inertial response of vehicles to road roughness. Unlike the International Roughness Index, the most common measure, the road impact ... -
Precision Bounds of Pavement Distress Localization with Connected Vehicle Sensors
(2014)Continuous, network-wide monitoring of pavement performance will significantly reduce risks and provide an adequate volume of timely data to enable accurate maintenance forecasting. Unfortunately, transportation agencies ... -
Precision Enhancement of Pavement Roughness Localization with Connected Vehicles
(2016)Transportation agencies rely on the accurate localization and reporting of roadway anomalies that could pose serious hazards to the traveling public. However, the cost and technical limitations of present methods ... -
Accuracy Enhancement of Roadway Anomaly Localization Using Connected Vehicles
(2016)The timely identification and localization of roadway anomalies that pose hazards to the traveling public is currently a critical but very expensive task. Hence, transportation agencies are evaluating emerging alternatives ... -
Error Sensitivity of the Connected Vehicle Approach to Pavement Performance Evaluations
(2016)The international roughness index is the prevalent indicator used to assess and forecast road maintenance needs. The fixed parameters of its simulation model provide the advantage of requiring relatively few traversals ... -
Use of Connected Vehicles to Characterize Ride Quality
(2016)The United States rely on the performance of more than four million miles of roadways to sustain its economic growth and to support the dynamic mobility needs of its growing population. The funding gap to build and ... -
Resolution Agile Remote Sensing for Detection of Hazardous Material Spills
(2016)Traffic carrying flammable, corrosive, poisonous, and radioactive materials continues to increase in proportion with the growth in their production and consumption. The sustained risk of accidental releases of such ... -
Sourcing Strategy for Asphalt Production Feedstock Considering Multimodal Transport Options
(2016)This paper examines the logistics and distribution channels for importing heavy crude oil, which is a source of bitumen. The study conducts a sensitivity analysis to assess the suitability of existing or new distillery ... -
Rapid Hyperspectral Image Classification to Enable Autonomous Search Systems
(2016)The emergence of lightweight full-frame hyperspectral cameras is destined to enable autonomous search vehicles in the air, on the ground, and in water. Self-contained and long-endurance systems will yield important new ... -
Wavelength Sensitivity of a Connected Vehicle Method of Ride Quality Characterizations
(2017)Researchers previously demonstrated that a roughness index called the road impact factor (RIF) is directly proportional to the international roughness index (IRI) when measured under identical conditions. A RIF-transform ... -
Characterizing Pavement Roughness at Non-Uniform Speeds Using Connected Vehicles
(2017)Methods of pavement roughness characterizations using connected vehicles are poised to scale beyond the frequency, span, and affordability of existing methods that require specially instrumented vehicles and skilled ... -
What's in Your Discovery Layer?: An Introduction to Format
(2016)The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to the “Information Creation as a Process” frame using the variety of resources retrieved from a discovery layer. Students are asked to use a discovery layer record to ... -
Estimating Potential for Nutrient Delivery to Surface Water Resources in North Dakota
(North Dakota State University, 2003)The relationship between nutrients and water resources may be described in terms of availability, mobility, and accessibility. There are many factors that influence nutrient behavior in the environment and their ...