Mn/DOT FY09 Successful Research Awards
Mn/DOT’s Research Services is pleased to announce the successful research awards for FY09. The research projects selected to date are listed in the table below. For more information on these projects, contact Administrative Liaison (AL) listed. Their contact information can be found under ‘About RSS’.
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Project Title |
Scoping Description |
Principal Investigator (PI) |
Technical Liaison |
Administrative Liaison ( |
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An Evaluation of the Right
of Way Plats and Legal Description Process Using the Mn/DOT
Distributed Services Business Model |
Evaluates the current Mn/DOT distributed services model for plat drawings and
legal descriptions work responsibilities |
Diwakar
Gupta |
Rick Morey |
Alan Rindels |
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Assessment and
Recommendation for Operation of Standard Sumps as Best Management Practices
for Stormwater Treatment |
Quantifies the water
quality benefits for the most common existing sump manholes |
Omid Mohseni, |
Barbara Loida |
Shirlee
Sherkow |
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Best Value Granular
Material for Road Foundations |
Collects and synthesizes
all of the existing Resilient Modulus lab tests for all types of materials
and modifies MNPAVE software |
Erol Tutumluer |
John Siekmeier |
Nelson Cruz |
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Development of a Weigh-Pad
Based Portable Weigh-In-Motion (WIM) System |
Builds a prototype,
portable weighing pad for a WIM system |
Taek
Kwon |
Matt Oman
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Cory Johnson |
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Bridge Health Monitoring -
A Survey of Methods |
Develops a decision
framework for the selection of the best health monitoring system for a given
bridge |
Arturo Schultz, Carol Shield |
Todd Niemann, Gary Peterson |
Shirlee
Sherkow |
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(Phase 2) |
Evaluates data collected in
Phase 1 and determines if the rest area truck parking issue is a real and
compelling issue for Mn/DOT to resolve. |
Tom Maze |
Robert Gale |
Alan Rindels |
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Evaluation and
recommendation of bridge scour depth monitoring technologies for safety
evaluation and monitoring of river bridges in |
Develops a decision
framework for the selection of the best scour monitoring device for a given
bridge and river location |
Jeffrey Marr, Chris Ellis, Vincent Winstead |
Andrea Hendrickson, Paul Rowekamp |
Shirlee
Sherkow |
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Statistical Analysis of the
Soil Chemical Survey Data |
Collects and synthesizes
all of the existing soil chemistry testing data that have been completed
throughout the state |
Vladimir Cherkassky, Matt Simcik |
Robert Edstrom |
Dan Warzala |
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Access to Destinations:
Phase 3: Measuring Accessibility by Automobile |
Evaluate the effectiveness
of Mn/DOT efforts to improve accessibility |
David Levinson, Henry Liu,
John Hourdos, Chen-Fu Liao, Michael Iacono |
Paul Czech |
Sue Lodahl |
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Traffic Flow and Road User
Impacts of the Collapse of the I-35W Bridge over the |
Evaluate the traffic flow,
road user, and business impacts of the 35W bridge collapse using GPS equipped
probe vehicles. |
David Levinson, Henry Liu,
Kathleen Harder |
Rabinder
Bains |
Alan Rindels |
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Research Test Section
Tracking Phase-II |
Continuation of an existing
project the purpose of this project is to continue locating, monitoring and
mining data from old test sections. In
addition, provide a new and a GIS based internet access. |
TBD |
Ben Worel |
Alan Rindels |
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Case Law Reference Research
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Research and update OLM's Case Law reference collection pertaining to land boundaries,
roads, and transportation land management court cases. The collection has not been updated since
its initial publication 40 years ago.
In addition, develop a training program for OLM staff, and Minnesota
Surveyors |
Eileen Roberts |
Jay Krafthefer |
Alan Rindels |