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.
Submissions from 2026
Preparing Today’s Workforce for Tomorrow’s Autonomous Transportation: Bridging Electrical and Civil Engineering Disciplines, Masoud Ghodrat Abadi and Rohollah Moghadam
Equity Evaluation of Residents’ Transit+Walk Accessibility to Sacramento Healthcare Facilities, Masoud Ghodrat Abadi, Ahoura Zandiatashbar, Aaron Pickett, Stephanie Nemet, and Soheil Sharifi
Dynamic Flood Risk Assessment for Transportation Infrastructure in Fresno, CA, Yushin Ahn and Fayzul Pasha
Routes to Sustainable Goods Movement: How Local and Regional Governmental Agencies Can Plan for the Sustainable Freight System of the Future, Serena E. Alexander and Avante Grady
Mind the Gap: Freight and Rail System Resilience between Planning and Practice A Synthesis of Freight Plan Best Practices and Survey Results from U.S. Transportation Professionals, Serena Alexander and Carmella Uwineza
Development of a Framework for Identifying Asphalt Pavement Cracking Distresses Using Machine Learning, DingXin Cheng
The Future of Transit, Adam Cohen
Enhancing Sustainability and Durability in Asphalt Pavements: Evaluating the Impact of Low-Carbon Sulfur Polymer Modifiers and Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement, Mohammad Doroudgar, Shadi Saadeh, and Elham Fini
Measuring Multimodal Equity in Resource-Challenged MPOs, Christopher Ferrell, David Reinke, and John M. Eells
Alternative Project Delivery Methods in California: The Path Forward, Ghada M. Gad, Maria Calahorra Jimenez, Chaimae Nacir, and Ronald Shrestha
Workforce Development Academy for Youth, Hassan Hashemian
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Passenger Rail: How Central Valley Communities are Preparing for High-Speed Rail, Josephine K. Hazelton-Bpyle and Naomi Bick
Sensing Safety: Developing a Flexible, Portable Alcohol Detection Patch for Community Wellness, Ava Hedayatipour, Ryan Huynh, and Wahaab Ademola
Cycling Past 50: A Closer Look into the World of Older Cyclists, Year 5 Survey, Carol Kachadoorian
AI-Based Environmental Code Checking Tool for Sustainability Best Management Practices of Infrastructure Construction Projects, Joseph J. Kim and Pooja D. Chavan
Wildfire Risk & Preparedness for Urban Rail Operators Supporting Large Stadium Events, Karl Kim, Eric Yamashita, Daniele Spirandeli, and David Rother
Enhancing Wildfire Resilience in the Rail Industry: Developing a Community Resilience Extreme Events Portal (CREEP), Karl Kim, Eric Yamashita, Daniele Spirandeli, David Rother, Chris Chiesa, Greg Hampe, and Michele Toner
SMART-TWIN: Systematic Modeling and Real-Time Transportation with Digital Twins, Hovannes Kulhandjian
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Daily and Per Capita VMT in California: A County-Level Analysis (2019–2023), Yong Lao and Bo Yang
Mitigating Negative Consequences of New Urban Growth in Disadvantaged Communities, SHISHIR MATHUR, Christopher E. Ferrell, and Cindy Adrian
The Use of Foamed Glass Aggregate (FGA) as a Lightweight Fill Above Culverts, Amr Morsy
Steel Corrosion in Underground Transportation Infrastructure, Amr M. Morsy, Islam A. Ebo, and Shiv K. Janardhanan
Numerical Modeling of Climate Change Impacts on Transportation Embankments, Amr Morsy, Mamata Sapkota, Emma Varela, and Odalys Portillo
Automated Battery Management Systems for Electric Vehicles, Woonki Na and Yuanyuan Xie
Equitable Estimation of Accurate High Injury Networks (HINs) for Vulnerable Road Users, Anurag Pande, Anandamayee Majumdar, and Lucas Roman Kantorowski
Studying Extreme Weather Event Impacts for Transit-Reliant Unhoused Populations, Costanza Rampini, Serena Alexander, Jeff Wootton, and Amruta Ashish Gandhi
A Hydrogen Hub Blueprint for the California Supply Chain, Tyler Reeb and Barbara Taylor
What Holds High-Speed Rail Back: Lessons from Global Systems and California’s Experience, Deepak K. Sharma, Rajnish Lekhi, and Scott Parr
Exploring the Stress-Strain Relationship of Lightweight Concrete to Enhance the Lifecycle Performance of Transportation Highways and Bridges, Fariborz M. Tehrani
Advancing Clean Mobility: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Bus Workforce Development for Transit Agencies, Manideep Tummalapudi, Shantanu Kumar, and Jaskaran Singh
Identification of At-Risk Rail Network Segments and Development of Fragility-based Resilience Metrics, Haizhong Wang, Brian M. Staes, and Benyamin Ghoreishi
Scoring Equitable Transit: A Data-Driven Framework for Affordable Transit-Oriented Development in California, Ahoura Zandiatashbar, Anton Rozhkov, Stephanie Nemet, Atticus Washington, and Mounashree Prasanna
Submissions from 2025
Exploring Electric Bicycle Safety Performance Data and Policy Options for California, Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Kevin Fang
What Do Americans Think About Federal Tax Options to Support Transportation? Results from Year Sixteen of a National Survey, Asha Weinstein Agrawal and Hilary Nixon
Roadside Asset Extraction from Mobile LiDAR Point Cloud, Yushin Ahn, Riadh Munjy, and Stephen Choi
Assessing the Perceived Safety of Cyclists with Virtual Reality, Vahid Balali
Assessing Perceived Safety of Non Motorized Travel with Virtual Reality, Vahid Balali and Sahand Fathi
Does the Transit Industry Understand the Risks of Cybersecurity and are the Risks Being Appropriately Prioritized?, Scott F. Belcher, Terri Belcher, James Grimes, Lusa Holmstrom, and Andy Souders
Survey of Building Information Modeling for Infrastructure (BIM4I), Maria Calahorra-Jimenez, Nigel Blampied, Elhami Nasr, and Tariq Shehab
Latent Active Transportation Methodology, Maria Chierichetti and Fatemeh Davoudi Kakhki
A Holistic Inquiry of Intelligent Speed-Assist Technology: Safety Impacts, Technology Implementation, and Challenges, Sahar Ghanipoor Machiani, Nusheen Baradaran, and Arash Jahangiri
Broadening Workforce Participation in Transportation: Challenges and Strategies, Jodi Godfrey and Stephanie Ivey
Understanding Residential Development in a High-Quality Transit Area (HQTA): An Application of Deep Learning, Dohyung Kim
Conceptual Critical Success Factors Model on Infrastructure Sustainability Rating System for California Construction Projects, Joseph J. Kim and Jose A. Arroyo-Turcios
An Assessment of the Viva CalleSJ September 2025 Event in San José, Richard Kos and Adam Cohen
Frameworks and Life Cycle Assessment for Reinforced Concrete Bridges for Sustainability in Transportation, Yu-Fu Ko and Jessica Gonzalez
Wildfire Emergency Response and Evacuation Framework Using Drones: Phase I, Hovannes Kulhandjian
The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Transit in the San Francisco Bay Area, Richard W. Lee, David B. Reinke, Christopher E. Ferrell, Charles Rivasplata, John M. Eells, and Luana Chen
Addressing Urban Traffic Congestion: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach, Tairan Liu
