March 24, 2025

Researchers using lidar and AI to advance transportation engineering and safety

Mizzou engineers are using advanced technology to help make our roads safer by better understanding how pedestrians, cyclists and vehicles interact.

Jan. 15, 2025

Mizzou civil engineering students shine at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 

Four civil engineering PhD students attended the conference presenting their research around improvements in transportation and safety. Two of the students received an award for their co-authored work.

April 5, 2024

Mizzou Engineers hold key roles in international data science symposium

Nearly 350 Transportation officials from across the globe discussed smarter ways to build and maintain roads during the third annual Data Science for Pavements Symposium (DSPS24) last month.

Feb. 6, 2024

Mizzou Engineers attend Transportation Research Board Meeting; earn second in Transportation Forecasting Competition

Mizzou Engineers last month attended the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, the largest gathering of transportation researchers and practitioners in the world with more than 13,000 attendees. TRB is part of the National Academies of Science.

June 9, 2023

Civil Engineering team develops realistic artificial data set for road safety studies

A Mizzou Engineering team is hoping artificial intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to prevent vehicle crashes in the future. To that end, they’ve developed realistic artificial data sets (RAD) that can be used to train machines to predict the factors that cause wrecks. These data sets are now available through the U.S. Department of Transportation. The three-year $1.1M project was supported by the US DOT’s Exploratory Advance Research Program.

Feb. 21, 2023

Engineering team develops autonomous alarm system for work zone vehicles

A Mizzou Engineering team has developed an innovative alert system that tells drivers when they’re in danger of colliding with a mobile work zone vehicle.

Jan. 17, 2023

Mizzou Engineers recognized at Transportation Research Board meeting

Several faculty from Mizzou’s civil and environment engineering department were recognized and presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB)’s 102nd Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. last week.

Sep. 11, 2022

Civil engineering team at Mizzou completes NSF I-Corps, earning Spirit Award

Bill Buttlar A team of Mizzou Engineers recently completed the National Science Foundation I-Corps program, earning a Spirit Award and gaining important insights as the researchers launch a new company. Civil engineering faculty members Bill Buttlar and Yaw Adu-Gyamfi, along with post-doctoral fellow Hamed Majidifard, formed Tiger Eye Engineering, LLC, last year. The company offers transportation departments, cities and counties the service of monitoring road distresses. “We decided to write a grant proposal to the highly competitive National NSF I-Corps program after having a very positive experience with a more regional ‘mini-I-Corps’ program in 2022, which…

March 28, 2022

Buttlar gives keynote at International Data Science for Pavements Symposium

A civil engineering professor gave the keynote address around using big data to inform transportation decisions.

Oct. 13, 2021

Civil engineers use artificial intelligence to classify pavement cracks

Traffic engineers could have a smarter way of identifying asphalt problems and prioritizing pavement projects, thanks to research from Mizzou Engineering.