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National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology
The National Institute for Advanced Transportation Technology
at the University of Idaho is a center of excellence for transportation
research, education and technology transfer in the state of Idaho, the
Pacific Northwest and Intermountain regions, and in the United
States.
We invite you to explore
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opportunities, and the people who work with and for us. Please
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NIATT's Clean Snowmobile Challenge Team Takes 3rd
Place at the 2013 SAE CSC
Good news from Michigan! The UI Clean Snowmobile
Challenge team has brought home a record number of
awards from the Society of Automotive Engineers
sponsored event. The NIATT-sponsored team took
third place overall and won ten individual awards,
including:
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Michigan Snowmobile Association
Endurance Award for finishing
endurance
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NGK spark Plus/NTK Sensors Cold
Start Award
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Society of Automotive Engineers
Award for Best Design
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Schwegman, Lundberg, and Woessner
Patent Attorneys Award for Best
Paper
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Michigan Tech Keweenaw Alumni Award
for Best Static Display
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BASF Corporation Award for
Innovation (comes with $500)
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Talon Research Safety Award
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Aristo Catalyst Award for Most
improved Snowmobile
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DENSO Award for Best Ride
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Emitec Award for Best Value
Congratulations to advisor Karen Den Braven and
everyone involved on the Clean Snowmobile team!
Pictured
(top) are the 2013 team members who attended the
competition (left to right) Alex Fuhrman, Amos
Bartlow, Tony Keys, Dillon Quenzer, Trevor Lutz,
Chris Farnetti, Alex Wright, Tygh Weyand (far back),
Crystal Green, Dillon Savage, Joel Long, and Andrew
Hooper (not pictured Chris Hill). Pictured below is
Andrew Hooper finishing the endurance run. Photos
courtesy of KRC/MTU.
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NIATT Researchers Awarded Major Equipment Grant
Researchers in the
Center for Clean Vehicle Technology recently
received a $292,000 award for equipment from the
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust. Equipment purchased
with the award will significantly expand the group’s
research capability by allowing acquisition of a
high-resolution infrared camera and engine exhaust
analyzers. These acquisitions will assist in
completing the Small Engine Research Laboratory at
the Moscow campus and the Combustion Laboratory in
the Bio-Energy and Efficiency Research Group at the
University of Idaho facility in Boise. For several
years, NIATT faculty have been developing
innovations using alternative fuels and ignition
technology in internal combustion engines. This
equipment will help researchers and students to
better quantify improvements in fuel economy and
pollution emissions while studying the fundamental
mechanisms of combustion and pollution production.
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FEATURED RESEARCH |
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Integrating Vehicle
Emissions and Fuel Consumption Data with Microscopic
Simulation
Researchers
in NIATT are conducting the second phase of an
exploratory research effort that focuses on
understanding and quantifying the relationship
between vehicle fuel use and emissions, and its
trajectory throughout signalized intersection
approaches. This is an important step toward
accurately quantifying the environmental impacts of
different signal improvement and sustainable
mobility projects. Most of the vehicle emissions
data used in emission and fuel consumption modeling
are collected in a controlled laboratory
environment. With the rapid technological changes to
vehicles design that lead to reduction in vehicle
emissions and fuel use, it is necessary to develop
cost-effective real-time emission and fuel
consumption data collection methods in the field to
support microscopic traffic modeling applications.
Matt Ricks working on VISSIM.
The aim of this phase of
the UTC project is to develop a microscopic emission
and fuel consumption model that can describe various
traffic conditions based on the detailed simulation
of vehicle activity on a traffic network. This
project seeks to address one of the major
shortcomings associated with the use of existing
microscopic and macroscopic models by integrating
currently available and updated U.S.-based vehicle
emissions and fuel consumption data into the VISSIM
microscopic simulation model.
NIATT researchers
working on the project will also examine the
validity of using onboard vehicle diagnostics to
collect real-time emissions and fuel consumption
data from vehicles operating in the field and the
possibility of integrating this real-time data with
microscopic simulation models. An objective of this
project is to provide transportation operators with
a model that is capable of reliably estimating the
environmental impact of various traffic management
policies and fill a gap that currently exists in
traffic modeling capabilities.
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FEATURED ALUMNI
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 Samantha
Campbell (MSCE ‘11, BSCE ‘10) is currently working
as a Transportation/ Traffic Engineer Intern with
Ayres Associates in Cheyenne, WY. Her
responsibilities include construction engineering,
transportation engineering, and traffic
engineering. The majority of her work involves
traffic engineering and includes the evaluation of
traffic issues on transportation projects,
collecting and analyzing traffic counts and surveys
of existing traffic conditions, as well as studying
traffic engineering problems and developing plans
for improvement.
Samantha's thesis work focused on railroad
preemption. Her research was used to develop a
curriculum utilizing visualization to teach students
and professionals the complex process of railroad
preemption. Her
graduate school research was funded by NIATT through
a University Transportation Centers (UTC)
grant. Samantha said, "Without the funding provided
to me, it would not have been possible to attend
graduate school and receive a master’s degree. My
educational experience was greatly enhanced and I
was able to focus solely on my research and studies
with the fellowship NIATT provided me. The
education I was able to obtain from the professors
working with NIATT has greatly helped me in my
career and will continue to help me in the future."
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