Janice Daniel

Janice Daniel is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey where she teaches courses in Traffic Control and Capacity Analysis. Her research interests are in the areas of Traffic Operations and Control as well as in the area of Transportation Safety. She is a member of the Transportation Research Board Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee where she serves as the Chair for the Urban Streets Subcommittee.

Ph.D.; Texas A&M ; Civil And Environmental Engineering; 1995

M.S.; Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Transportation Planning And Engineering; 1989

B.S.; Princeton University; Civil Engineering; 1985

My primary teaching responsibility is teaching courses in Transportation. In this role, I have taught primarily graduate level courses including TRAN 615/CE 660 (Traffic Studies and Capacity), as well as TRAN 752 (Traffic Control). These courses comprise two of the three core course requirements for students focusing in the area of transportation engineering. The courses are designed to expose students to principal methodologies used by transportation engineers performing transportation operation analyses. At the undergraduate level I have taught Transportation Engineering and Geometric Design.

My research is focused in the areas of transportation safety and operations. Transportation safety deals with design, operation and policy changes that reduce the number or severity of motor vehicle crashes. Transportation operations involve the development, deployment and evaluation of policies and strategies that affect traffic flow at a transportation facility. Some of the research projects I have been involved in with an emphasis on transportation safety include: investigating truck safety within the State of New Jersey, developing policies for implementing shoulder rumble strips without unduly creating unsafe conditions for bicyclists, evaluating the safety and operational impacts of a bus stop design, and investigating design solutions for reducing vehicle speeds. These safety problems are not only of concern to the State of New Jersey, but are recognized as national transportation safety issues. One of my specific research interests in the area of transportation operations focuses on the development of strategies for implementing and evaluating adaptive traffic control systems. Adaptive traffic control systems are control systems that monitor traffic conditions and implement appropriate control strategies that serves current traffic demands. Despite the recognized benefits of adaptive traffic signal systems over fixed-time control strategies, there has been limited implementation of adaptive control in the United States. One reason for the limited deployment is the lack of control strategies that can handle a variety of traffic flow conditions including congested conditions as found in many urban areas. My research interests involve the development of control strategies for use in adaptive control systems under congested operation. Through research grants from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), the National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity (NCTIP) at NJIT, New Jersey Department of Transportation, and the National Science Foundation, I have been able to perform research projects applying adaptive control to traffic signals, freight movement, and to transit.

Schachter, Hindy, & Daniel, Janice, & Liu, Rongfang (2017). Win-Win Agreements and Public Private Infrastructure Partnerships: Managerial and Governance Concerns. Public Administration Quarterly, 41(4), 34-60.

Forde, Albert, & Daniel, Janice, & Maina, Eugene (2017). Modeling Automobile Interference Due to Mid-block Pedestrian Activity on Urban Street Segments. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 144(1),

Hao, Wei, & Kamga, Camille, & Daniel, Janice (2015). The Effect of Age and Gender on Motor Vehicle Driver Injury Severity at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings in the United States. Journal of Safety Research, 55, 105-113.

Hao, Wei, & Daniel, Janice (2014). Motor Vehicle Driver Injury Severity Study under Various Traffic Control at Highway-rail Grade Crossings in the United States. Journal of Safety Research, 51, 41-48.

Speed-Flow Relationships under Adverse Weather Conditions
Transportation Research Board, the 89th Annual Meeting, January 2010, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2010

“Visual Preference Survey of Traffic Calming Measures in New Jersey.” Proceedings of the 85th Annual Conference of Transportation Research Board
2006

“Motorized Scooters Safety and Regulation.” Proceedings of the 85th Annual Conference of Transportation Research Board
TRB, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2006

Customer Behavior Relative to the Gap between the Platform and the Train
July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2009