HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND BEHAVIOR Chromatic perception effects on collisions with snowplows

RESEARCH Institute research is centered on safety-critical technologies and systems for efficiently moving people and goods in the following areas: • human performance and behavior • technologies for modeling, managing, and operating transportation systems • computing, sensing, communications, and control systems • social and economic policy issues related to ITS technologies The Institute’s research program joins technologists—for example, engineers and computer scientists—with those who study human behavior to ensure that new technologies adapt to human capabilities, rather than requiring people to adapt to technology. The Institute’s geographic location gives it a unique advantage for developing research applicable to transportation in a northern climate and transportation in rural environments in addition to the metropolitan Twin Cities area. The ITS Institute research program includes research projects funded by various partners, including federal funds from TEA-21 legislation, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration. Other funding partners include the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT), the Minnesota Local Road Research Board, and Metro Transit, in addition to local governments, agencies, and private companies that contribute funding and in-kind match. Activities undertaken by the Institute support all current ITSrelated research projects, regardless of funding source; all current ITS-related projects are listed in this annual report. The research section comprises two parts. The first highlights in detail a selection of projects underway, while the second briefly describes other Institute projects either recently completed, in progress, or selected to begin this coming year.