Freight Transportation Data Research Lab

Sarah Hernandez, University of Arkansas, Department of Civil Engineering

Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter

Student Design Competition Winning Team at MOVITE Spring 2022

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UA ITE Chapter Activities

UA ITE Student Chapter Members engage with MOTIVE and ARITE professional members at the MOVITE Fall Meeting in Oklahoma City.

UA ITE Student Chapter win the Student Traffic Bowl at the MOVITE Spring Meeting.

UA Chapter Members

The UA Student Chapter of ITE is active on campus. Contact Dr. Hernandez or any of our student officers to get involved.
Student Chapter Officers

President: Geoffery Agorku
Treasurer: Pratik Pokharel

 

ITE Organization

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

K-12 Outreach Activities

MarTREC sponsored the development of six traffic sensor build kits and associated lesson plans.  Each of the two lesson plans describes how inductive loop sensor technology can be used to monitor the use of inland waterway ports.  Students get to build mini-inductive loops and measure how inductive changes can be used to determine the body characteristics of a truck. The activities are hands on and introduce the importance of our inland waterway system.  The final report describing this project can be found here: Interdisciplinary Education Outreach with Traffic Sensor Build Kits

Teaching Materials

Teaching materials are available for middle school and high school audiences and include instructions to use our kit for building a loop detector.

Presentation Script
Introduction to Inductive Loops Introduction to Inductive Loops Script
Getting Set Up Getting Set Up Script
The Case of the Blueberry Farm The Case of the Blueberry Farm Script
The Case of the Jonesboro Tornado The Case of the Jonesboro Tornado Script

 

 

 

The Hernandez Research Team participated in the STEM Girls Day “Girls Just Wan’na Have Fun” hosted by the University of Arkansas. We hosted 60+ high school girls and teachers from Northwest Arkansas. Girls used online traffic control simulation games to explore traffic engineering concepts. The materials were prepared using the University of Minnesota’s STREET Simulation Tools.
Teaching Materials

STEM Day Presentation (pdf) and STEM Day Presentation (ppt)

STEM Day Instructor Guide

STEM Handout (Yellow)

STEM Day Handout (Green)

The Hernandez Research Team participated in GirlTREC hosted by MarTrec in July 2017 and again in 2019. We hosted 30+ middle school girls and engaged them in traffic signal timing simulation and live role-play activities. Materials prepared for the event can be downloaded and used for outreach and educational activities.

Teaching Materials

Teaching Materials including game:

Lecture Slides (pdf) and Lecture Slides (ppt)

GirlTREC 2019 Lesson Plans

GirlTREC 2019 Handout Packet

Transit Trouble Game (links to a Box Folder; Download the folder and unzip the file; Open the file TransitTroubleStandAlon.exe file to play the game)