Transportation research includes a study of the safety impact of median designs
on vehicular and pedestrian traffic; an evaluation of stop signs at rail-highway
grade crossings; and the development of a training course on highway safety appurtenances,
a program on rail-highway safety, a textbook on pedestrian and bicycle transportation,
and materials for a traffic engineering handbook. The transportation program sponsors
technical seminars and distributes videotapes and publications.
Equipment includes standard traffic measuring devices (traffic counters, recorders,
ball bank indicator); traffic signal controllers; surveying instruments (transit,
theodolites, levels, total stationing); roadway design CADD software; and time-lapse
still and video photographic equipment.
