Current Research
CFIRE Current Projects – Grant Year 1
| CFIRE 01-03 | Assessing Environmental Impacts Associated with Bases and Subgrades Stabilized with Coal Combustion Products (CCPs) |
| CFIRE 01-08 | Effective Depth of Soil Compaction in Relation to Applied Contactive Energy |
CFIRE Current Projects – Grant Year 2
| CFIRE 02-02 | Rapid Replacement/Construction of Bridges |
| CFIRE 02-03 | Bridge Analysis and Evaluation of Effects Under Overload Conditions |
| CFIRE 02-06 | Understanding and Modeling Stakeholder Behavior |
| CFIRE 02-08 | Traffic Management of Heavy Vehicles in Work Zones |
| CFIRE 02-09 | Long Term Environmental Sustainability for Freight Transport |
| CFIRE 02-11 | Implementing DTMs for Construction Plans and Earthwork Quantities |
| CFIRE 02-14 | Great Lakes Timber Professionals |
| CFIRE 02-15 | Innovative Bridge Research and Construction |
| CFIRE 02-16 | Rapid Repair and Replacement Techniques for Transportation Infrastructures Damaged from Natural and Man-made Disasters |
| CFIRE 02-17 | Deck Truss Monitoring |
| CFIRE 02-18 | Analytical Model Development and Analysis of the McCleary Bridge |
| CFIRE 02-19 | Structure B-37-364 – McCleary Bridge |
| CFIRE 02-20 | Developing a Rational System for Rating Wisconsin Bridges for Truck Loads |
| CFIRE 02-23 | Establishing Intermodal Service on the Prince Rupert Gateways |
| CFIRE 02-24 | Evaluation of Air Emission Modal Models |
| CFIRE 02-25 | Using Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) in Supply Chain Education |
| CFIRE 02-26 | Using a Rail Simulator in Teaching Land Transportation |
| CFIRE 02-27 | Writing a Land Transportation Textbook |
| CFIRE 02-28 | Making Truck-Rail Intermodal Competitive |
| CFIRE 02-29 | Freight Planning Support System for NE Illinois |
| CFIRE 02-30 | The Cost of Shipping Commodities |
| CFIRE 02-33 | Midwest FreightView |
CFIRE Current Projects – Grant Year 3
| CFIRE 03-02 | Managing Challenges of Import Safety in a Global Market |
| CFIRE 03-04 | Recycled Unbound Materials |
| CFIRE 03-05 | Evaluation of Wisconsin Bridges for Truck Loads |
| CFIRE 03-10 | An Innovative Focus on Highway Bridge Approach Slabs |
| CFIRE 03-14 | Broad Economic Benefits of Freight Transportation Infrastructure Improvement |
| CFIRE 03-16 | Enhancing Behavioral Realism of Urban Freight Demand Forecasting Models |
| CFIRE 03-17 | Aligning Oversize and Overweight Truck (OSOW) Permit Fees and Policies with Agency Costs |
| CFIRE 03-19 | Environmental and Energy Benefits of Freight Delivery Consolidation in Urban Areas |
| CFIRE 03-20 | WisDOT Major Highway Cost Estimating Workgroup |
| CFIRE 03-22 | WisDOT Geotechnical Manual Development |
| CFIRE 03-24 | AASHTO Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide Parametric Study |
CFIRE Current Projects – Grant Year 4
| CFIRE 04-02 | Great Lakes Maritime Education for K-12 Teachers |
| CFIRE 04-04 | Southeast Wisconsin Freight Access and Mobility Study |
| CFIRE 04-06 | Impact of Overweight Vehicles (with Heavy Axle Loads) on Bridge Deck Deterioration |
| CFIRE 04-07 | A Novel Approach to Mitigating Ballast Fouling and Enhancing Rail Freight Capacity |
| CFIRE 04-08 | Feasibility Study for a Freeway Corridor Infrastructure Health Monitoring Instrumentation Testbed |
| CFIRE 04-09 | Superhydrophobic Engineered Cementitious Composites for Highway Bridge Applications: Phase I |
| CFIRE 04-10 | Improving Log Transportation with Data Based Monitoring and Analysis in Northern Wisconsin and Upper Peninsula of Michigan |
| CFIRE 04-11 | Air Cargo in the Mississippi Valley Freight Coalition Region |
| CFIRE 04-12 | Freight Routing for Efficient, Sustainable and Reliable Travel |
| CFIRE 04-13 | A GPS-Based Survey of Freight Movements in the Midwest Region |
| CFIRE 04-14 | Measuring Shippers’ Value of Delay on the Freight System |
| CFIRE 04-15 | Developing Safety Risk Index for Truck Preferred Arterial Corridors |
| CFIRE 04-16 | Development of an Areawide Estimate of Truck Freight Value in the Urban Mobility Report |
| CFIRE 04-17 | Heavy vehicle performance during recovery from forced-flow urban freeway conditions due to incidents, work zones and recurring congestion |
| CFIRE 04-18 | Development of Next Generation Intersection Control |
| CFIRE 04-19 | Evaluation of the effect of gate strategies in drayage related emissions |
| CFIRE 04-20 | Freight From Space: Evaluating Freight Activity and Emissions Trends from Satellite Data |
| CFIRE 04-21 | Cone Penetrometer Comparison Testing |
| CFIRE 04-22 | Does Natural Gas Make Sense for Freight? Environmental and Resource Implications of the “Pickens Plan” |
| CFIRE 04-25 | Farm-based Bioenergy Infrastructure for Wisconsin: Too Big, Too Little, or Just Right? |
| CFIRE 04-26 | HMA Longitudinal Joint Deterioration Investigation |
| CFIRE 04-27 | Impact of Heavy Vehicles on Early Pavement Distress of Asphalt Overlays |
| CFIRE 04-28 | Policy Sensitivity for Commodity Flows |
| CFIRE 04-29 | Truck Weight-in-Motion Statistical Analysis |
| CFIRE 04-30 | Microsimulation of Commodity Flows |
CFIRE Current Projects – Grant Year 5
| CFIRE 05-01 | Longer Combination Vehicles: Do They Improve Freight Flows and Operational Efficiency and Reduce Highway Congestion? |
| CFIRE 05-03 | Cost Effective Maintenance Strategies of Managing Pavements in Poor Condition |
| CFIRE 05-04 | Compass 2010 Data Analysis and Reporting |
| CFIRE 05-05 | Great Lakes Maritime Education for K-12 Teachers (2011) |
| CFIRE 05-06 | Guide for Selecting Level-of-Service Targets for Maintaining and Operating Highway Assets |
| CFIRE 05-08 | Evaluating the Methodology and Performance of Jetting and Flooding Granular Backfill Materials |
| CFIRE 05-09 | Lateral Deflection Contribution to Settlement Estimates |
| CFIRE 05-10 | Superhydrophobic Engineered Cementitious Composites for Highway Bridge Applications: Phase II |
| CFIRE 05-11 | Warning System for Safety and Maintenance of Freight Railways |
| CFIRE 05-12 | Protecting Prestressing Strand in Transportation Structures and Improving Strand-Concrete Bonding |
| CFIRE 05-13 | Evaluating Export Container Pooling Options in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula |
| CFIRE 05-14 | Preserving Vital Great Lakes Infrastructure: Assessment of Asset Management Activities in Great Lakes Ports |
| CFIRE 05-15 | New Framework and Decision Support Tool to Warrant Detour Operations during Freeway Corridor Incident Management |
| CFIRE 05-16 | Incorporating Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Consumption Measures into the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report |
| CFIRE 05-17 | Maximizing Freight Movements in Local Food Markets – Phase Two |
| CFIRE 05-18 | Toolbox for Strategic Truck Forecasting |
| CFIRE 05-20 | Evaluation of Pavement Design using MEPDG |
| CFIRE 05-21 | Synthesis of Evidence of Truck Diversion through Work Zones |
| CFIRE 05-22 | Further Investigation on Urban Cooperative Delivery Strategies at the Firm Level |
| CFIRE 05-23 | Guide for Effective Tribal Crash Reporting |
MAFC Current Projects
| MVFC 07 | 2008 Workshop on Responding to National Transportation Initiatives |
| MVFC 12 | Critical Sections and Resiliency of Freight Corridors in the Mississippi Valley Region |
