TRAFFIC LAB

The Traffic Lab is a unique applied research facility at the University of Utah. It is supervised by faculty and staffed by graduate students, mostly from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The heart of the lab is a Traffic Operations Center. With equipment, software, hardware, and communications infrastructure costing nearly three quarters of a million dollars, the lab is connected to Utah State and city traffic control centers. In an emergency, it can serve as a temporary communications center. Its role is to serve local, regional, and international constituencies in developing new approaches to the control, monitoring, and management of road traffic. The lab has a long standing relationship with the Utah Department of Transportation, which has commissioned over 40 studies.

Also known as: Utah Traffic Lab

Primary location: Salt Lake City United States