Unpublished Technical Research Reports and Working Papers

Employment Transportation, Socially and Economically Marginalized Communities and Individuals

Thakuriah, P., P.S. Sriraj, S. Soot and J. Persky (2008). Economic Benefits of Employment Transportation. Summary of Final Report to Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT and Community Transportation Association of America, June for Grant No's DOT IL-37-X007-00 4 and DOT IL-37-5002-00. [Report to the U.S. Department of Transportation that has been summarized in DOT's report to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Government Accountability Office and U.S. Department of Labor. The analysis in the report has led to the introduction of a U.S. Senate Bill S. 3466 on September 10, 2008 by Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI)]( Click here for the full report.)

Thakuriah, P., P.S. Sriraj, S. Soot and J. Persky (2008). Economic Benefits of Employment Transportation. Full of Final Report to Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT and Community Transportation Association of America, June for Grant No's DOT IL-37-X007-00 4 and DOT IL-37-5002-00. ( Click here for the full report.)

Thakuriah, P., S. Soot and P.S. Sriraj (2008). Partnerships for the Job Access and Reverse Commute Program: A Multi-Site Study of the Institutional and Coordination Processes behind Employment Transportation for Low-Income Workers. Final Report to Federal Transit Administration, U.S. DOT and Community Transportation Association of America, June for Grant No DOT IL-37-X007-00 4 and CTAA 918.

Rashidi, T., A. Mohammadian and P. Thakuriah (2007). Effectiveness of Transit Strategies Targeting Elderly People. Final Report submitted to the Illinois Center for Transportation.

Soot, S., A. Sen, P. Thakuriah and others (1998). Highways and Urban Decentralization. Final report to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority.

 

Technologies in Transportation

Thakuriah, P. and S. Niumpradit (2003). The Analysis of the Impact of Intelligent Transportation Systems to the Economy: The Case of Electronic Toll Collection systems. Report III to the Metropolitan Transportation Support Initiative (METSI), August.

Thakuriah, P., J. Lee and S. Niumpradit. (2003). Development, Testing and Evaluation of Intelligent Databases for Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety. U.S Department of Transportation, BTS, Grant Number DTTS-00-B003-IL Final Report.

Graves, T. L., A. F. Karr, N. M. Rouphail and P. Thakuriah (1998). Real-time Prediction of Incipient Congestion on Freeways from Detector Data.  Technical Report #79, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Research Triangle Park.

Graves, T. L., A. F. Karr and P. Thakuriah (1998). Variability of Travel Times on Arterial Links: Effects of Signals and VolumeTechnical Report #86, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, Research Triangle Park.

Thakuriah, P. (1996).  Travel Time Estimation with Imputed Signal Control InformationWorking Paper # 52, National Institute of Statistical Sciences.

Sen, A., P. Thakuriah, X. Zhu and A. F. Karr. Frequency of Probe Vehicle Reports and Variance of Arterial Link Travel Time Estimates. NISS Working Paper Series #54.

Thakuriah, P. and A. Karr. (1996). Analysis of Probe-Based Information on Signalized Arterials.

NISS Working Paper Series #48

 Sen, A., S. Soot, Thakuriah, P. and A. Karr. (1996). Estimation of Static Travel Times in a Dynamic Route Guidance System – II. NISS Working Paper Series #49.