Midwest Transportation Consortium : 2009-2010 annual report.

PDFOrganization InfoAnnual reportsReportsAnnual reviewsReviewsDocumentsAnnualEducation and trainingEducationTrainingPlanningIowaMidwest Transportation ConsortiumMidwest Transportation ConsortiumIowa State University. Institute for TransportationNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICYNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-EducationUS Transportation CollectionIn October 2009, the Midwest Transportation Consortium (MTC) began its third yearas a Tier I University Transportation Center (UTC). Its theme, \ue2\u20ac\u153Transportation Safetythrough Improvements in Management Information Systems,\ue2\u20ac? reflects our strongemphasis on safety.The MTC is composed of Iowa\ue2\u20ac\u2122s three Regent universities: lead organization IowaState University (ISU), the University of Iowa (Iowa), and the University of NorthernIowa (UNI). Located in a largely rural region, the MTC generally focuses its activitieson intercity/rural traffic safety for motor vehicles.All three universities conduct traffic safety research, each within a specific niche:\ue2\u20ac\ua2 ISU \ue2\u20ac\u201c Crash statistics and analysis to support safety in the design and operationsof roadways\ue2\u20ac\ua2 Iowa \ue2\u20ac\u201c Human factors to improve safety\ue2\u20ac\ua2 UNI \ue2\u20ac\u201c Geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical tools to conductsafety analyse