Alaska University Transportation Center

Transportation Safety, Security and Innovation in Cold Regions

Researchers install remote instruments on an Alaska glacier as part of a study to improve snow melt and flood forecasting for transportation planners. (Photo: A. Liljedahl)

An interactive driving simulator developed by AUTC's partners at the University of Idaho. The facility is integral to an ongoing project on Alaska passing lane safety. (Photo: AUTC)

AUTC’s partners at North Carolina State University conducting seismic testing during research on bridge performance. Shown above: NCSU’s Constructed Facilities Laboratory. (Photo: E. Marx)

Graduate Student Nathan Stephan conducts field research as part of AUTC’s Umiat Corridor Study on Alaska’s North Slope. (Photo: W. Schnabel, WERC)

David Barnes and a team of UAF student researchers conduct lab experiments as part of a project on rural dust reduction. (Photo: AUTC)

A remote rainfall measurement gauge used to calculate statewide precipitation rates for Alaska transportation planners. (Photo: S. Stuefer)

Johannes Eising flies his Airship Prototype at the 2012 Airship Workshop sponsored by NASA, INE and AUTC in Anchorage Alaska. (Photo: AUTC News)

Sample of coconut matting used to mitigate thermal erosion and permafrost degradation near highway embankments in Alaska. (Photo: AUTC News)

AUTC Researcher Xiong Zhang and student researchers install instruments at the Permafrost Research Tunnel in Fox, AK. (Photo: X. Zhang)

An AUTC research team conducts lab tests on the durability of concrete used in cold-region construction. (Photo: AUTC)

Dave Brailey and Emily Youcha take discharge measurements on Alaska’s Shaviovik River as part of AUTC’s Umiat Corridor Study. (Photo: W. Schnabel)

Pavement Preservation Practices in Cold Regions

Pavement Preservation Practices in Cold Regions 12-05-12

May

Develop Guidelines for Pavement Preservation Treatments and for Building a Pavement Preservation Program Platform for Alaska

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May

How Do Higher Fuel Prices Affect Alaska’s Transportation System and Economy?

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Apr

Wearing Surface Testing: Yukon River Bridge

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ADN Features UAF-UAA Research Partnership

The Anchorage Daily News featured a story in its recent Sunday edition about how UAF and UAA are partnering to help the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities address a peculiar loosening of high-mast light posts around Anchorage and the Kenai Peninsula. A statewide research organization, AUTC works through its counterparts at UAF, UAA, and UAS to address transportation challenges that, in this case, have both cost and public safety implications for Alaska. Read the story here.

May

MPC and Alaska’s Bridge Decking Innovation

Preserving infrastructure assets in Alaska is fraught with extreme challenges, most often borne by the region’s harsh and variant climates. Bridge decking—the focus of multiple AUTC studies—has become an increasingly important area of interest for Alaska DOT&PF. It has also risen to the fore of national transportation policy, as pavement and bridges have become a focus of one of seven target areas for Congress’ recently enacted funding under Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21^st Century Act (MAP-21).[1] For Alaska, these concerns are not new. (more…)

May

UAF Steel Bridge Team Wins 4 Regional Titles

A fabled tradition, the UAF Student Steel Bridge Competition Team recently returned from Corvallis, Oregon, at the 2013American Society of Civil Engineers’ Pacific Northwest Regional competition, where they took four winning titles, including best in the General Excellence Award. (more…)

Apr

Frank Moolin Mega-Project Lecture Series

The University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Engineering and Mines and the Alaska Society of Professional Engineers are co-sponsoring the Frank P. Moolin Jr. Seminar Series on Mega-Project Management in Juneau (May 8), Anchorage (May 14), and Fairbanks (May 23). (more…)

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