The Mineta Transportation Institute (MTI) conducts research, education programs, and information and technology transfer, focusing on multimodal surface transportation policy and management issues. The Lucas Graduate School of Business at San José State University is the Institute’s academic home.

This collection consists of MTI research publications from 1996 to the present.

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Submissions from 2024

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Understanding Workforce Diversity in the Transit Industry: Establishing a Baseline of Diversity Demographics, Asha W. Agrawal, Evelyn Blumenberg, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Brittney Lu

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How Will California’s Electric Vehicle Policy Impact State-Generated Transportation Revenues? Projecting Scenarios through 2040, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Hannah King, and H. A. “Burt” Tasaico

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What Do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options to Support Transportation? Results from Year Fifteen of a National Survey, Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Hilary Nixon

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Traffic Sign Extraction from Mobile LiDAR Point Cloud, Yushin Ahn, Riadh Munjy, and Ziyuan Li

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Impervious Surfaces from High Resolution Aerial Imagery: Cities in Fresno County, Yushin Ahn and Richard Poythress

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Exploring Equity Frameworks for a Cross-Jurisdictional Vehicle Miles Traveled Mitigation Program in Santa Clara County, Serena Alexander, Luana Chen, and Maxwell Belote-Broussard

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Ten Years Forward: An Evaluation of California’s Active Transportation Program, Bruce Appleyard, Mario Carbajal, Madison Swayne, Nell Ahangarfabrik, and Megan Honey

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Mapping of Pavement Conditions Using Smartphone/Tablet LiDAR Case Study: Sensor Performance Comparison, Calvin Beavers, Chad Day, Austin Krietemeyer, Scott M. Peterson, Yushin Ahn, and Xiaojun Li

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Experimental Investigation of the Self-Healing Potential of Bacteria for Sustainable Concrete Structures Phase 2, Andrea Calabrese, Pitiporn Asvapathanagul, Nisarg N. Patel, Nanubala Dhruvan, Austin Adams, Michael Hernandez, and Douglas S. Lopez-Cruz

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Exploring Performance-Based Contracts: A Good Option to Address Long-Term Road Maintenance in California?, Maria Calahorra-Jimenez and Richard Poythress

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Examining Transit Service Improvements with Internet-of-Things (IoT): A Disparity Analysis, Shailesh Chandra, Robert Valencia, and Vamsi Krishna Oruganti

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Development of the Roadway Pothole Management Program, DingXin Cheng

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Forecasting Commercial Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) in Urban California Areas, Steve Chung, Jaymin Kwon, and Yushin Ahn

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Moving Towards the Electrification of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles in the Inland Empire, Kimberly Collins, Raffi Der Wartanian, Francisca Beer, and Yunfei Hou

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Investigating the Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Manual and Automated Driving: A Systematic Review, Miaomiao Dong, Yuni Lee, Jackie Cha, and Gaojian Huang

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Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) Guidance for Railroads, Frances L. Edwards and Daniel C. Goodrich

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Battery Electric Vehicles: Travel Characteristics of Early Adopters, Yunwen Feng, Jean-Daniel Saphores, Hilary Nixon, and Monica Ramirez Ibarra

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Transit Workforce Development Challenges and Mitigation Practices, Jodi Godfrey

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Effects of Low-Cycle Fatigue Fracture of Longitudinal Reinforcing Steel Bars on the Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Piers, Yu-Fu Ko and Jessica Gonzalez

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Smart Robot Design and Implementation to Assist Pedestrian Road Crossing, Hovannes Kulhandjian

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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Roadside Transportation-Related Air Quality (StarTraq 2022): Data-Driven Exposure Analysis by Transportation Modes, Jaymin Kwon, Yushin Ahn, and Steve Chung

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The Transportation Sector, Cap-and-Trade and Blockchain: A Carbon Credit Trading Platform, Aditya Mankar and Forouzan Golshani

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Time-To-Failure Prediction of Fine-Grained Soil Slopes Subject to Weather-Driven Deterioration, Arm M. Morsy

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Assessing GTFS Accuracy, Gregory L. Newmark

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Addressing Transportation Construction Workforce Needs Through Innovative Policies and Practices, Thomas O'Brien, Ben Olson, and Devin Martinez-Flores

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Is Parking Cash-Out Worth It? Comparing Cost-Effectiveness and Climate and Equity Benefits in the Bay Area and South Coast Air Quality Management Districts, Fynnwin Prager, Tianjun Lu, Ashley Membere, and Parveen Chhetri

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A Practical Framework for Component-Level Structural Health Monitoring of the Gerald Desmond Bridge, Mehran Rahmani, Vesna Terzic, Andrea Calabrese, and Brittany Cambell

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Governing Structures for Successful Regional Transit Coordination and their Formation, Charles Rivasplata, Richard Lee, Michelle DeRobertis, and Christopher Ferrell

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Enhancing Evacuation Warning Responsiveness: Exploring the Impact of Social Interactions through an Agent-Based Model Approach, Alessandro Toledo Salazar, Matthew Medrano, Mathias Duque Medina, Julio Roa, and Jorge E. Pesantez

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Beneath I-280: Excavating a Neighborhood Lost to San José Freeways, Leila Ullmann and Gordon Douglas

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Fresno County Afterschool Transportation Education, Christian Wandeler and Felipe Mercado

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Does California High-Speed Rail Promote Accessibility for Station Cities?: Case Study of Fresno and Merced, Chih-Hao Wang and Na Chen

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Battery Management System Development for Electric Vehicles and Fast Charging Infrastructure Improvement, Yu Yang, Hen-Geul Yeh, and Cesar Ortiz

Submissions from 2023

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Learning about Street Harassment on Transit: A Survey Instrument for Transit Agencies, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Jon Canapary, Carol Anne Caroll, Tam J. Guy, and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris

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Investing in California’s Transportation Future: 2022 Public Opinion on Critical Needs, Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Hilary Nixon

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What Do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options to Support Transportation? Results from Year Thirteen of a National Survey, Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Hilary Nixon

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What Do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options to Support Transportation? Results from Year Fourteen of a National Survey, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Hilary Nixon, and Adam Azevedo

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Pay-As-You-Go Driving: Examining Possible Road-User Charge Rate Structures for California, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Samuel Speroni, Michael Manville, and Brian D. Taylor

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Understanding the Effect of Pervasive Events on Vehicle Travel Time Patterns, Chirag Akbari, Ninad Gore, and Srinivas S. Pulugurtha

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Examining the Externalities of Highway Capacity Expansions in California: An Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Using Remote Sensing Technology, Serena E. Alexander, Bo Yang, Owen Hussey, and Derek Hicks

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Evaluating Benefits from Transportation Investments Aligned with the Climate Action Plan for Transportation Infrastructure (CAPTI), Serena Alexander, Shams Tanvir, and T. William Lester

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Incorporating Public Health into Transportation Decision Making, Bruce Appleyard and Tim Garrett

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Influence of Pavement Conditions on Commercial Motor Vehicle Crashes, Stephen Arhin, Babin Manandhar, and Adam Gatiba

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Experimental Investigation of the Self-Healing Potential of Bacteria for Sustainable Concrete Structures, Pitiporn Asvapathanagul, Simone Galano, Andrea Calabrese, Mehran Rahmani, Maggie Ly, Daniela Flores, Michael Hernandez, and Nicholas Banuelos

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A Guide to Navigating Existing and Emerging Sources of Local VMT and Travel Data, So-Ra Baek and Dohyung Kim

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System-of-Systems Integration for Civil Infrastructures Resiliency Toward MultiHazard Events, Vahid Balali

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Preconstruction Support Cost Hours Estimating on Caltrans Pavement Rehabilitation Projects, Nigel Blampied, Tariq Shehab, Elhami Nasr, and Laxmi Sindhu Samudrala

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Evaluating Automated Truck Platoon (ATP) Deployment for the Los Angeles–Inland Empire Trade Corridor Enhancement, Shailesh Chandra, Aastha Chaudhary, Prakhar Srivastava, and Jose Torres-Aguilera

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Evaluation of Left Shoulder as Part-Time Travel Lane Design Alternatives and Transportation Management Center Staff Training Module Development, Zhuohang Deng, Zhiliang Luo, Neil Hockaday, Ahmed Farid, and Anurag Pande

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Autonomous Shuttle Implementation and Best Practices, Dil Samina Diba, Ninad Gore, and Srinivas S. Pulugurtha