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Research Showcase & Latest Updates
CATT Lab students among 2008 Graduate Research Interaction Day winners
Graduate research assistants Michael VanDaniker and Darya Filippova were among the 2008 UMD GRID award winners. They presented their individual research in poster sessions, gave 5-7 minute long presentations, and were judged by a committee of inter-disciplinary faculty at the 2008 Graduate Research Interaction Day exhibition/competition.
Michael VanDaniker's research entitled "Real-time and Historic Incident Visualization Using Timelines" came in 1st place, and Darya Filippova's research entitled "Accident Analysis Data Mining and Visualization Tool" came in 3rd place in the "Smart Computers" category.
The CATT Lab is teaming up with the I-95 Corridor Coalition and Forterra Systems, Inc. to develop a massively multi-player virtual incident management training system for transportation first responders.(RITIS) Regional Integrated Transportation Information System project
Here you will find detailed information on our the $1.9 million dollar RITIS prototype which will significantly aid the region in information sharing and data integration.Television Coverage of the CATT Lab
See recent television coverage from numerous stations of the CATT Lab and the Baltimore Multi-Modal Traveler Information System (MMTIS) project.Real-time, 3D visualization system
Click here to see a list of exciting downloadable videos of our 3D transportation visualization system currently under development in our 3D visualization laboratory.Incident Data Query & Visualization Tools
This Flash and ColdFusion-based application allows users to query our incident databases to graph incident statistics, derive performance measures, or to create time-lines of individual incidents.Traffic Data Query & Detector Health Visualization Tools
This Flash and ColdFusion-based application allows user to query our traffic detector databases to download and graph traffic-flow data for the Washington Metropolitan region.Open-Source Incident Management Software
Find out more about the impressive incident management software suite we recently developed for the Northern Virginia Smart Traffic Center. Though this software was meant to be a temporary system, it has grown and may be adopted by other "start-up" traffic management centers.