Midwest Transportation Consortium : 2009 annual report.

PDFOrganization InfoAnnual reportsReportsAnnual reviewsReviewsDocumentsAnnualEducation and trainingEducationTrainingPlanningIowaIowa State University. Institute for TransportationMidwest Transportation ConsortiumNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICYNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-EducationUS Transportation CollectionIn October 2008 the Midwest Transportation Consortium (MTC) began itssecond of three years as a Tier I University Transportation Center (UTC).Its theme, \ue2\u20ac\u153Transportation Safety through Improvements in ManagementInformation Systems,\ue2\u20ac? reflects the strong emphasis on safety in the currentfederal transportation policy bill (SAFETEA-LU).The MTC is composed of Iowa\ue2\u20ac\u2122s three Regent universities: Iowa StateUniversity (ISU) (lead organization), The University of Iowa (UIowa),and the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Located in a largely ruralregion, the MTC generally focuses on intercity/rural traffic safety formotor vehicles. All three universities have conducted and are conductingtraffic safety research, each within a specific niche:\ue2\u20ac\ua2 ISU\ue2\u20ac\u201dCrash statistics and analysis to support safety in the designand operations of roadways\ue2\u20ac\ua2 UIowa\ue2\u20ac\u201dHuman factors to improve safety\ue2\u20ac\ua2 UNI\ue2\u20ac\u201dGeographic information systems and statistical tools toconduct safety analysi