Projects

Sponsored research projects led as principal investigator (PI) or co-PI, totaling more than $15M, for DOE, USDOT (FHWA, BTS), NYSDOT, and ORNL LDRD.

Active

2026–2031 Research for Truck Size and Weight Limits
Federal Highway Administration, USDOT
PI
$6.5M
2026–2029 Multi-Agent AI System for Resilient and Energy-Efficient Regional Transportation Operations
DOE Transportation Technologies Office
PI
$2.5M
2026–2028 Coupled Water, Freight, and Passenger Resilience Modeling for the Southeast
ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development
PI
$1.0M
2026–2029 Corridor-Level National Freight Flow Model Development
Federal Highway Administration, USDOT
PI
$1.0M
2023–2028 Freight Analysis Framework (FAF) Data and Model Development Support
Bureau of Transportation Statistics, USDOT
Co-PI (2023–2025); PI (2026–2028)
$4.2M

Completed

2024–2026 Mining Waste–Driven Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Co-PI
$875K
2020–2025 Research, Analysis, and Program Support for NYSDOT
New York State Department of Transportation
Team Member (2020–2021); PI (2022–2025)
$3.8M
2023–2025 Coupled Ecosystem-and-Engineering Decision-Making Framework for Enhanced Weathering
ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Co-PI
$1.2M
2023–2025 Non-Highway Gasoline and Special Fuel Consumption Estimation Model Study
Federal Highway Administration, USDOT
PI
$320K
2022–2023 Modeling a Gigaton CO2 Economy
ORNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development
Co-PI (2022); PI (2023)
$490K