Midwest Transportation Consortium : 2007-2008 annual report.

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• Corporate Creators:
  Iowa State University. Center for Transportation Research and Education
• Corporate Contributors:
  Midwest Transportation Consortium
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• Resource Type:
  Organization Info
• Geographical Coverage:
  Iowa
• Corporate Publisher:
  Iowa State University. Center for Transportation Research and Education
• Abstract:
  In October 2007, Iowa State University’s Midwest Transportation Consortium (MTC) entered its ; first year as a Tier I University Transportation Center (UTC) under the theme “Transportation ; Safety through Improvements in Management Information Systems.” Because of the MTC’s ; location in a largely rural region, the center has focused generally on intercity/rural traffic safety ; for motor vehicles. ; The MTC’s specific theme makes it easy for its partner universities to work with each other and ; with the Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT), the center’s major funding match ; partner. The MTC is composed of the three Iowa Regents universities: Iowa State University ; (lead), the University of Iowa, and the University of Northern Iowa. All three universities have ; conducted and are currently conducting traffic safety research, each within a specific niche: ; • Human factors to improve safety—University of Iowa ; • Crash statistics and analysis to support safety design in the design and operations of ; roadways—Iowa State University ; • Geographic information systems and statistical tools to conduct safety analysis— ; University of Northern Iowa ; The focused theme also enables the three partner universities to integrate classes and student ; supervision among the universities. For example, Iowa State University students have taken ; safety-related courses to broaden their educational experience at the University of Iowa, and ; vice versa. In addition, an Iowa State University student has participated in University of Iowa ; research projects, and a member of the Iowa State University management team is a member of ; the University of Iowa graduate college and serves on Ph.D. committees at the University of ; Iowa. ; In terms of research, having a narrow focus with a specific objective has been advantageous. ; With the emphasis on safety under the current federal transportation policy bill (SAFETEA-LU), ; the MTC has found that its focus on safety has been important and popular.
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  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
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