Airport Infrastructure

Research Areas

  • Sustainable materials
  • Green buildings – design, construction, operation, and maintenance
  • Pavements – design, construction, operation, and maintenance
  • Resilient infrastructure and land use planning
  • Smart transportation
  • Advanced Construction Technologies

Project Examples

  • Identification and Prioritization of Vulnerable Roadway Segments for Proactive Resilience Planning and Response, North Carolina Department of Transportation via North Carolina State University, August 2023 to July 2025.
  • Quality Control and Quality Acceptance of Concrete Airport Pavement – Federal Aviation Administration Airport Concrete Pavement Technology Program, administered by National Concrete Pavement Technology Center at Iowa State University, August 2022 to February 2025.
  • Performance Engineered Mixtures for Airfield Pavements – Federal Aviation Administration Airport Concrete Pavement Technology Program, administered by National Concrete Pavement Technology Center at Iowa State University, April 2022 to June 2025.
  • Field and Laboratory Testing to Assess Airfield Concrete Pavements – 2022 Pavement Management Program, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport – Aviation Infrastructure Solutions,  May 2022 to May 2023.
  • Modeling and Evaluating Alternatives to Enhance Access to an Airport and Meet Future Expansion Needs, United States Department of Transportation Tier 1 University Transportation Center led by San Jose State University, March 2021 to March 2023.
  • Mini-Roundabout CMF Development, Funded by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, August 2019 to May 2021.
  • Continuing Toward Durable and Sustainable Concrete Through Performance Engineered Concrete Mixtures, North Carolina Department of Transportation, August 2019 to December 2021.
  • Predictive Highway Maintenance Through AI-enabled Visual Analytics and Hotspot Analysis, Virginia Department of Transportation & Leidos, 2018 to 2022.

Facilities

SIAM Laboratory
Advanced Infrastructure Materials Laboratory
Transportation Modeling & Simulations Laboratory
Undergraduate Traffic and Instruction Laboratory Faculty

Faculty

Tara Cavalline
Don Chen
Gongfan Chen
Yuting (Tina) Chen
Chau Le
Xuyang Li
Vincent (Tobi) Ogunro
Jose Martins do Outiero
Srinivas Pulugurtha
Omidreza Shoghli
Jake Smithwick
Brett Tempest
Aivars Vilguts