RURAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY
Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Department of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering
Assistant Director, Center for Safety Equity in Transportation
Assistant Director, Alaska Region TTAP
1764 Tanana Loop, 128 JUB, Fairbanks, AK 99775-5900
Phone: 907.474.5765 | email: npbelz-at-alaska-dot-edu
Publications: 41 | Citations: 119 | h-index: 5.0
Funding to Date (as PI or co-PI): $3.5 million | Funding to Date Total (including centers): $12.6 million
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Transportation safety; transportation in rural and isolated contexts; the overlapping area between driver behavior and traffic operations; driver behavior and gap-acceptance at roundabouts; operational analysis and microscopic modeling of roundabouts; transportation applications of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Civil Engineering | Transportation Engineering | University of Vermont, August 2013
M.S. Civil Engineering | Transportation & Geotechnical Engineering | University of Maine, May 2008
B.S. Civil & Environmental Engineering | University of Maine, May 2006
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