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Transportation and Maritime Analytics Partnerships Hub
Conducted through the Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC), the Transportation and Maritime Analytics Partnerships Hub (TransMAP) project is led by the University of Arkansas in partnership with the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. This presentation will share ongoing research working to make available large-scale data and visualization tools related to maritime freight transportation on infrastructure, systems, and networks accessible to humans and machines through the Internet of things, in order to enable improved resilience, planning, investment and operational decisions.
TransMAP’s goal is to develop a ‘visual decision space’ for effective planning, management, and advancement of efficient, resilient, and sustainable multimodal transportation systems including highway, rail, maritime, and pipeline. Efficient, resilient, and sustainable multimodal transportation is a national priority. To meet the challenging environment of the Nation’s complex and ever-changing transportation system, large-scale data sets need to be captured and analyzed to support research and planning, and made available for real-time access for use by government agencies, industry and citizens. Intelligently using big data is critical to manage, improve, maintain, design and build our transportation infrastructure.
The research objectives of the TransMAP Hub are to:
• Curate, archive, and disseminate transactional and dynamic data across multiple software platforms to make a variety of transportation data sets accessible on a real-time basis to government agencies, industry and citizens
• Improve visualization of physical and socioeconomic data related to multimodal transportation in three-dimensional space and over time
• Develop interactive map animations so researchers, citizens, and current and future industries can access data-rich maps to make informed decisions for effective planning, management, and advancement of efficient, resilient, and sustainable multimodal transportation systems including highway, rail, maritime, and pipeline.
This presentation will share the goals of the project, discuss ongoing progress, and invite stakeholder input from the audience.
TransMAP’s goal is to develop a ‘visual decision space’ for effective planning, management, and advancement of efficient, resilient, and sustainable multimodal transportation systems including highway, rail, maritime, and pipeline. Efficient, resilient, and sustainable multimodal transportation is a national priority. To meet the challenging environment of the Nation’s complex and ever-changing transportation system, large-scale data sets need to be captured and analyzed to support research and planning, and made available for real-time access for use by government agencies, industry and citizens. Intelligently using big data is critical to manage, improve, maintain, design and build our transportation infrastructure.
The research objectives of the TransMAP Hub are to:
• Curate, archive, and disseminate transactional and dynamic data across multiple software platforms to make a variety of transportation data sets accessible on a real-time basis to government agencies, industry and citizens
• Improve visualization of physical and socioeconomic data related to multimodal transportation in three-dimensional space and over time
• Develop interactive map animations so researchers, citizens, and current and future industries can access data-rich maps to make informed decisions for effective planning, management, and advancement of efficient, resilient, and sustainable multimodal transportation systems including highway, rail, maritime, and pipeline.
This presentation will share the goals of the project, discuss ongoing progress, and invite stakeholder input from the audience.
About the Presenter
Heather Nachtmann
Professor
University of Arkansas
Dr. Heather Nachtmann is the Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, the Earl J. and Lillian P. Dyess Endowed Chair in Engineering, and a Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Nachtmann serves as director of the Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC), a U.S. Department of Transportation University Transportation Center, and the Mack-Blackwell Transportation Center. She previously served as the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering from 2014 to 2020. Her research includes economic and operations analysis of inland waterways, intermodal network optimization, and vulnerability assessment and emergency preparedness for transportation networks. Dr. Nachtmann has published more than ninety peer-reviewed publications and led over eighteen million dollars in research grants as principal investigator. Dr. Nachtmann has taught in the areas of operations research, engineering economics, and cost analysis. She is a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) and Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), a member of the Arkansas State Highway and Transportation Department Research Advisory Council, and a Editor-in-Chief for The Engineering Economist journal. Dr. Nachtmann was recognized with the 2019 ASEM Bernard R. Sarchet Award and the 2018 IISE Engineering Economy Division Wellington Award. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Transportation and Maritime Analytics Partnerships Hub
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