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A “mixed traffic connected autonomous vehicle infrastructure” launched at an intersection on Morgan’s campus this April enables vehicles to communicate with each other and may be used to enhance safety and transportation equity far and wide. A COVID-19 dashboard recently made by researchers at the NTC is designed to show policy makers the effect of the illness on transit riders in different cities, including Baltimore. An autonomous wheelchair created by the center will soon be tested at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, taking disabled travelers from the airport arrival areas to the gates. The center has two current utility patents and four provisional patents, with more on the way. Technology transfer - development of ideas initiated at NTC into products and processes for broad use - has accelerated greatly during the past decade. In addition, the strong partnership of NTC with the Maryland Department of Transportation ( MDOT) has benefited more than 660 Morgan transportation students with internships at MDOT. The NTC’s National Summer Transportation Institute, launched in 1997, has brought more than 600 Baltimore area high school students to the National Treasure, and recently has expanded to include middle school students, and teachers, to engage with a curriculum designed to diversify the nation’s transportation engineering workforce.

In 2016, the NTC founded a second subunit, the Urban Mobility & Equity Center, a multi-university partnership, led by Morgan, that “conducts research to improve urban mobility of people and goods in an environmentally sustainable and equitable manner.” During the last three decades, the NTC has completed 117 research projects with total funding of approximately $40 million and has published 160 journal articles, conference papers and technical reports in the last five years alone. The center’s growth and achievements have mounted at an increasing rate through the years. The center’s current research focus areas include connected and autonomous vehicles transportation and traffic modeling safety and distracted driving and transportation equity. Supported by earmarked funds from its opening in 1992 until 2012, the NTC has thrived at Morgan since then through the University’s successful nationwide competition against other higher education institutions. Jeihani is enjoying her third year as the center’s director, as it conducts its innovative work around the theme, “Transportation: A Key to Human and Economic Development.” The NTC at Morgan State University, one of only 35 University Transportation Centers nationwide, was established by the United States Congress under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on April 20, and Dr. This year, the NTC is celebrating its 30th anniversary, a milestone highlighted by a two-hour visit to the center by U.S. I did several research projects and then started expanding, and asking for creation of a lab, which I initiated in 2012, the Safety and Behavioral Analysis Center.” I was hired by Morgan’s Department of Transportation, and I got involved with the National Transportation Center right away.

“My goal was to be in academia, to be a professor, and I preferred to be in a minority school. That’s why, to me, it was something interesting and something I wanted to do something about, especially the congestion and urban transportation problems…,”says Dr. “Transportation is part of everyone’s life every day, when we are faced with traffic issues, supply chain issues. At Morgan, she leaped at the research opportunities provided by the National Transportation Center (NTC), which was then headed by its founding director, Z.

Jeihani, a new professor of transportation, had seen her strong interest in computer engineering evolve into a passion for transportation research, and for empowerment of women and people of color, during her 16-year journey through higher education in her home country of Iran and at Virginia Tech. When Mansoureh Jeihani, Ph.D., came to Morgan’s faculty in 2007, the National Transportation Center at Morgan State University was already in its 15th year.