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Corporate Creators:
Midwest Transportation Consortium
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Annual Annual Reports Annual Reviews Documents Education Education And Training Planning Reports Reviews Training
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Iowa
Corporate Publisher:
Midwest Transportation Consortium
Abstract:
Introduction: The Midwest Transportation Consortium (MTC) recently completed its sixth year of

operation. The MTC has become an established portion of the research and educational

programs at ISU and its partner universities. The MTC continues to emphasize its

primary focus of developing human capital. For example, this semester, Fall, 2005, ISU

has graduate scholars in its educational program. However, we also recognize that the

federal grant is an opportunity to build programs at our respective universities that

continue after the U.S. DOT UTCP may end. An example of building a long lasting

program is the University of Missouri – St. Louis’ (UMSL) and its development of a

transportation Ph.D. program in their business college. Admittedly, this program could

have been started regardless, but Dr. Ray Mundy, Director of UMSL’s Transportation

Scholars Program, believes that the MTC support of the transportation educational

program at UMSL was the essential component in establishing a Ph.D. program.

At ISU, the MTC has been instrumental in establishing two research and outreach

programs, and both have themes that are related to the MTC’s theme of “Transportation

System Management and Operation.” The Center for Weather Impacts on Mobility and

Safety (C-WIMS) was recently established, and the Center for Road Infrastructure

Management and Operations (RIMO) is in the process of being established. The MTC

has a critical role in establishing each of these two programs.

As part of the on-going MTC program, we have established an effective network that

promotes the education of future transportation professionals and the development of new

knowledge on how to manage transportation infrastructure and services in a more

sustainable manner. The MTC has a track record of developing outstanding students;

these students are now becoming leaders in the private sector, government, and academia.

The MTC has also supported the development of an extensive research portfolio related

to sustainable transportation asset management. More research projects are in the

pipeline. Finally, the MTC has dedicated itself to the dissemination of asset management

research results through an ongoing technology transfer program. This document

provides a progress for the latest fiscal year of operation of the MTC, which ran from

October 2004 through September 2005.


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