Thesis Topics List

This is a list of topics that would be interesting to pursue for masters thesis research. Many of the ideas originated from the following documents:

 Document 1: Evaluation of Alternative Performance Measures and Urban Street Management Applications

 Document 2: Review of Techniques for Urban Street Performance Measurement

Any additional topic ideas are welcome. If any faculty, student, or professional has an idea that they would like to undertake, or have considered, as a research topic, e-mail them to [email protected].

Topic 1. Explore the effect of alternative advance detection distances and access point densities on the accuracy of the arrival flow profile for delay/queue estimation. (see page 8 in Document 2)

Topic 2. Explore the effects and settings of saturation flow rate and turn percentages on delay/queue estimation using advance detection. (see page 8 in Document 2)

Topic 3. Explore the capability to estimate delay/queue using stop bar detection. (see page 11 in Document 2)

Topic 4. Explore the capabilities of estimating delay/queue combining advance detection and stop bar detection. It would be best to coordinate with Darcy Bullock to augment the control laboratory setup that he has in Indiana. (see page 12 in Document 2)

Topic 5. Quantify the speed measurement accuracy of video detection whose primary purpose is traffic control. (see page 21 in Document 1)

Topic 6. Correlation of intersection performance measures with system detector location, number of lanes detected, signal timing, and traffic volume. (see page 27 in Document 1)

Topic 7. Explore accuracy of newer counter classifiers for counts at stop bar. (see page 20 in Document 1)

Topic 8. Accurate estimation of arterial travel time using bus probe data. (see page 26 in Document 1)