运输研究涉及人员和货物从A点到B点的移动。一方面，运输工程师的职责一直是考虑潜在的社会，经济和环境挑战，设计安全，高效和可持续的运输系统。另一方面，全球城市人口增长的趋势给运输工程师，规划人员和政策制定者带来了更多挑战。如今的工程师不仅面临着解决多个管辖范围内的大规模问题的挑战，而且还面临着设计/维护考虑到气候变化等全球性问题的可持续城市的挑战。多方面的城市问题需要一种跨学科的方法，这种方法需要有关人类行为和相互作用的社会科学知识以及运筹学，经济学和高级统计学等技术知识。同时，更高的渗透率和对诸如先进的交
Transportation research is concerned with movement of people and goods from point-A to point-B. On one hand, transportation engineers' responsibility has always been to design safe, efficient, and sustainable transportation systems considering potential societal, economic and environmental challenges. On the other hand, the worldwide trend of increasing population in urban areas poses additional challenges for transportation engineers, planners and policy makers. Today's engineers not only face the challenge of solving larger scale problems falling under multiple jurisdictions, but they also experience the challenge of designing/maintaining sustainable cities considering the global issues such as climate change. The multifaceted urban problems require an interdisciplinary approach which requires social science knowledge of human behavior and interaction as much as technical knowledge such as operations research, economics and advanced statistics. Meanwhile, higher penetration and use of new technologies such as advanced traffic sensors, information communication technologies help transportation engineers/planners develop better informed strategies to overcome the aforementioned challenges. Transportation group at SBU Civil Engineering Department embraces the multidisciplinary nature of the transportation field and develops technology and data driven approaches for better analysis and modeling of transportation problems. In this vein, SBU researchers tackle transportation problems of various nature and scale ranging from the use of emerging technologies in day-to-day transportation operations, to emergency evacuation management under extreme events.