Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
-- The Joint Highway Research Project, based at Purdue University, has a new name -- the Joint Transportation Research Program. The new name reflects a change in the scope of the program, which is a 60-year-old research effort of the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) and Purdue's School of Civil Engineering. Kumares Sinha, professor of transportation engineering and director of the program, said the mission of INDOT has changed significantly over the years from a highway agency to a transportation agency, and the scope of its research needs has changed as well. "Our research will no doubt remain primarily highway in nature," he said, "but the scope change will enable us to do research involving other modes of transportation." The program's research projects include intelligent transportation systems, recycling of waste materials for highway construction, and the development of safety and congestion management systems for Indiana highways.
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