Aviation

• Multimodal Airport Charging Station Deployment – Phase I
• Unmanned Aircraft System Communications Mesh Test

Bridges & Special Structures Design

• Repair of Bridge Deck Fascias
• Enhanced Bridge Cost Estimating
• Electronic Water Level Sensors for Monitoring Scour Critical Structures
• Improving MDOT's Moveable Bridge Reliability and Operations
• Operational Baseline and Structural Health Monitoring for the 2nd Avenue Network Arch Bridge
• Capacity Prediction of Repaired and Unrepaired Bridge Beams with Deteriorated Ends

Construction

• Michigan (One Point) Cone Test for Evaluating the Density of Open-Graded Drainage Course (OGDC) Materials

Environment

• Eastern Massasauga (Sisturus Catenatus) Road Ecology and Population Dynamics in Michigan

Finance

• Bonding vs. Pay-Go

Fleet/Facility Management & Operations

• Fleet Electrification Strategies 

Intelligent Transportation Systems & Signals

• Effective Bridge Deck Weather Warning Technologies
• Utilizing Video Analytics with Connected Vehicles for Improved Safety
• Automatic Signal Retiming Using Vehicular Trajectory Data
• Effectiveness of Inductive Vehicle Charging to Alleviate EV Range Anxiety

Local Transit

• Determining State and Federal Transportation Responsibilities to Residents on Islands
• Marketing and Education Budget for Implementation of New Transit Technology

Mobility & Traffic Incidents

• Identify Best Locations for New Flex-Route Projects Throughout the State of Michigan
• Optimizing Work Zone Conditions to Maximize Safety and Mobility

Nonmotorized Planning & Development

• Leveraging Crowd-sourced Data in Planning, Design, Analysis, and Evaluation of Pedestrian and Bicycle Traffic 

Pavement Design and Pavement Performance

• Testing Protocol, Data Storage and Recalibration for Pavement-ME Design
• Establish Policies and Procedures for Use of Subgrade Stabilization in Michigan
• Evaluation of MDOT’s Methodologies for both Quantifying Pavement Distress and Modeling Pavement Performance for Life- Cycle Cost and Remaining Service Life Estimation Purposes
• Enhancing MDOT’s Pavement Management Tool (PMT) Inputs Through Data-Driven Analysis
• Pavement-ME Rehabilitation Design Protocols for MDOT Implementation
• Finite Element Method (FEM) Matrix Study for Rapid Travel Profiler Curl/Warp Correlations
  
  

Program Development

• Multi-Objective Decision Analysis and Optimization Model for Transportation Investment Decision-Making at MDOT

Project Development

• Improving Cost Estimation and Budget Planning with New Michigan Highway Construction Cost Index
  
• Corridor and Systemwide Application of Performance Based Practical Design
• Slope Restoration on Urban Freeways
  
   

Roadway & Roadside Maintenance

• Winter Severity Index with Winter Maintenance Expenses and Material Usage
• Identify Mapping Techniques of Invasive Plant Species Within the MDOT Right-of-Way

Surveys and Automated Design

• Construction Digital Delivery Technology Scan
  
• Digital Collaboration using Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) and Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology

Transportation Safety

•  Evaluating the Performance and Safety Effectiveness of Roundabouts – An Update
• Effective Pedestrian/Non-Motorized Crossing Enhancements along Higher Speed Corridors
• Examination of Lighting Practices at Crosswalks Corridors
• Efficacy of Speed Warning Technologies
• COVID and Traffic Crashes/Impact on Safety Targets
• Safety Effectiveness of Non-Freeway Sinusoidal Shoulder Corrugations
  

Travel Demand Forecasting

• Research and Development of a 3-Item Transportation Security Index Mobility Measurement Test
• End-to-End Learning Framework for Transportation Network Equilibrium Modeling