1. Brian Smith MATS UTC Director August 4, 2016
STATE OF THE CENTER
Brian Smith
MATS UTC Director
August 4, 2016

2. MATS UTC Mission
The Mid-Atlantic Transportation Sustainability University Transportation Center (MATS UTC) serves the region through applied research, education, workforce development, and technology transfer focused on environmental sustainability in the provision of transportation services.

3. Timing Center started August 2014 Funding expires September 2018
So we’re exactly half-way
The Center was allocated three years of funding. Much of this has been distributed as “base funds” to all six member universities
We have approximately $1.8M to spend on three sets of competitive collaborative projects We expect at least one more RFP this fall.
We have a lot more to deliver to fulfill this grant

4. Research 36 projects (20 a year ago)
14 final project reports; most on MATS UTC website
32 Annual Meeting Posters
53 Investigators
40+ Students
Interdisciplinary and Collaborative
Projects funded through annual competitive
collaborative RFP or each university’s base
allocation. All monies must be fully
matched.
Current emphasis (for example,
last competitive collaborative RFP) on
two focus areas:
Urban Energy Efficiency
Coastal Infrastructure Resiliency

5. 11 (two new half-week with new instructors)
Education
Semester-Long Graduate Sustainability Course (Offered online, asynchronously)
Fall 2015
Fall 2016
Instructors (from all 6 consortium universities) 9 10
Modules 8
11 (two new half-week with new instructors)
Students 24 ?

6. Education (cont) Undergraduate Summer Research Program
2015: 11 students from 6 universities at 2 univ
2016: 11 students from 7 universities at 4 univ
USRIP End of Summer Symposium July 28, 2016
Webinar with all 11 presentations (4 universities)
Web page includes all presentations, papers, posters from 6 UVA participants:
undergraduate-research-end-of-summer-symposium/

7. Education (cont) Careers in Transportation Webinars (2) K-12 Outreach
Structures and materials testing modules
Career Fair participation
WV Bridge Testing
Summer and Teacher Transportation Institutes

8. Workforce Development -Webinars
Webinars concurrent with Undergraduate Symposium and Annual Meeting
Research Webinar Series—Spring 2016 (Archived recordings available on matsutc.org ) (Details on next slide)
Feb. MATS UTC Overview (Parkany)
Mar. Eco-Routes (Rakha); CV Fuel Cells (Wang)
Apr. ZVI and Biochar (Chiu, Imhoff, Culver); Bike and Ped Counts (Hankey)
May Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Impacts (Goodall, Sridhar)
June LiDAR for AQ Measurement (Elbakary, Abdelghaffar)

9. You can get the presentations and archived recordings of all of these webinars at:
Feb 24 MATS UTC Overview, Emily Parkany, University of Virginia
Mar. 23
“Network-wide Impacts of Eco-routes and Route Choice Behavior/Evaluation of AERIS Applications” Hesham Rakha, Virginia Tech
 “Connected Vehicle Technologies for Energy Efficient Urban Transportation” Ajay Prasad, Yongqiang Wang, and Suresh Advani, University of Delaware
April 27
“Simultaneous Removal of Nitrogen and Phosphorus from Stormwater by Zero-Valent Iron and Biochar in Bioretention Cells” Pei Chiu, Paul Imhoff, University of Delaware, Teresa Culver, University of Virginia
 “Designing Bicycle and Pedestrian Traffic Count Program to Estimate Performance Measures on Streets and Sidewalks in Blacksburg, VA” Steven Hankey, Ralph Buehler, Virginia Tech; Andrew Mondschein, University of Virginia
May 25
“Impact of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise on Stormwater Design and Reoccurring Flooding Problems in the Hampton Roads Region” Jonathan Goodall, University of Virginia; Venkat Sridhar, Virginia Tech
June 22
“LiDAR for Air Quality Measurement” Khan Iftekharrudin, Mohamed Elbakary, Mecit Cetin, Old Dominion University; Hesham Rakha, Virginia Tech

10. Technology Transfer Webinars Dissemination of Final Research Reports
Annual Meeting and Open House
Looking for “Champions” to get excited about certain projects and help them get implemented/carry forward
Project Data on MATS UTC Dataverse

11. Outreach/Communication

12. Outreach/Communication
19, Website Visits
127 Followers
Daily Posts
3,819
Newsletters
Sent
10, Outreach s Sent
350 Distributed

13. Additional Activities
MATS UTC Annual Meeting and Open House
Career Fairs
UVA at VDOT NoVA Career Fair
Marshall

14. Changes Resulting from Last Year’s Annual Meeting Discussions
Monthly Internal News ed to all researchers, Advisory Board, and Exec Team
Competitive collaborative RFP:
Provide scoring criteria to proposers
Weight agency and other “hard” match higher than in-kind match
Diversity emphasis in newsletter and faculty/student profiles
Expansion of summer undergraduate research internship program
Tried to include VDOT/VTRC interns
Additional university hosts; joint events with all 11 at all four universities
Tech transfer that is not “one size fits all”