Archive for the 'Research' Category

Paper Accepted to TRB

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

I received notice today that my paper on my overcrowded Bangladesh bus research has been accepted to be presented at the Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting. The paper is titled “Levels of Overcrowding in the Bus System of Dhaka, Bangladesh” and is co-authored by my advisor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology [...]

Bangladesh bus data processing complete

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Last Friday I finally wrapped up the data processing for my Fulbright research. The hundreds of hours I put in riding buses in Dhaka, Bangladesh did not end my project there. Processing the data by entering it into my main spreadsheet and database was the next step before I start my analysis. Having this step [...]

RPA High Speed Rail Report Posted

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The final study report from my internship over the winter at the Regional Plan Association has been posted in the Writings section. Entitled Assessing Increased Rail Speeds in the Northeast Corridor, it summarizes the issues facing the Northeast Megaregion’s rail backbone, and what could be done to improve it.

Summer Research Assistant at ITRE

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

For the summer, I have come on board as a research assistant on a project at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education. This research center is located on NC State’s Centennial Campus. I found myself here after emailing my friend and former classmate (while he was still a PhD candidate) Dr. Bastian Schroeder who [...]

Northeast Corridor “Site Visit”

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

This weekend I am doing a “site visit” on the northern end of the Northeast Corridor (NEC). As I am writing a report on high speed rail, yet have never ridden an Amtrak train at all on the NEC, my supervisor at RPA offered this chance to experience it first hand. I am getting the [...]