CATT LABORATORY
A RESEARCH CENTER AT THE UNIV. OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK

Summer Internships


We are looking for UNDERGRADS, GRADS, and FULL-TIME employees to conduct research using the latest in information technology. Students are given a great deal of responsibility and freedom to expand their engineering and computer science abilities while developing and integrating usable systems and tools for the lab.

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The Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory (CATT Lab) was featured on CNN, NPR, and ABCNews.com for its role in providing situational awareness and transportation m anagement tools to FEMA DHS, the US Secret Service, the US Army, and numerous emergency operations centers throughout the National Capital Region.

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Archived Data User Services


Automated TMC Performance Measurement System
Fundamental functions of a transportation management center (TMC) include monitoring traffic conditions, responding to incidents, and ge  . . . Read More

Incident Data Extraction Software (Web Based)
This research strives to develop comprehensive, user friendly online methods for querying and reporting archived incident data to transp  . . . Read More

Multi-Agency Transportation System Data Archiving
The CATT Lab is acting as the regional transportation data archiving center for the State of Maryland and Washington Metropolitan area t  . . . Read More

Traffic Data Extraction Software (Web Based)
The CATT Lab's databases continually archive traffic data such as speed, volume, and occupancy. This research strives to develop online  . . . Read More

Data Visualization


3-Dimensional Traffic Data Spatial & Temporal Graphing
Transportation data is inherently spatial in nature; however, most archived transportation data systems display transportation data in o  . . . Read More

3-Dimensional, Real-Time Traffic Monitoring (Virtual Helicopter)
This research explores an approach to making traffic management systems more interactive and intuitive via dynamic 3D visualization. Our e  . . . Read More

Dependency Graphing of Incident Datasets
This project is developing a circular dependency graph that allows users to view variable dependencies and  . . . Read More

Explore and Visualize Accidents (EVA)
Police accident records contain a vast amount of information describing almost every aspect of the accident, however...  . . . Read More

Graphical Incident Timeline Generation (Real-time & Archived)
This research is developing methods for visualizing incident data in an interactive, timeline fashion. This tool generates a graphical ti  . . . Read More

Wide-area, Archived Travel Time & Bottleneck Analysis Tools
The CATT Laboratory is exploring wide-area speed and travel-time data from the I-95 Corridor Coalition’s Probe Monitoring Project. T  . . . Read More

Deployment Initiatives


Incident Management "Starter" Software
The CATT Lab recently developed a prototype incident management system for the VDOT Northern Virginia Smart Traffic Center. This software  . . . Read More

Regional Integrated Transportation Information System
RITIS has two primary capabilities--the exchange of real-time transportation information and the archiving of said data.  . . . Read More

Virtual Incident Management Training
This initiative is aimed at testing, validating, certifying, and reinforcing the dissemination of best incident management practices...  . . . Read More

Traveler Information


3-Dimensional, Virtual Commute Fly-Over
This research expands upon the 3-dimensional, "virtual helicopter" research to automatically create flyover videos of typical commuter rou  . . . Read More

Mobile Traveler Services
This research takes live traffic and incident data from the RITIS databases and creates an RSS traffic feed that can be subscribed to an  . . . Read More

Regional Traffic Mapping
A significant research sub-initiative within the larger RITIS research initiative is to combine all of regional traffic incident data into  . . . Read More

Visual Analytics


Incident Cluster Explorer (ICE)
The Incident Cluster Explorer (ICE)is an interactive application that affords sophisticated yet user-friendly analysis of...  . . . Read More

Temporal Event Pattern Recognition
While transportation events like accidents, construction, weather, signal malfunctions, etc have spatial characteristics,  . . . Read More

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