NLR Research at Transportation Research Board Meeting

NLR will showcase its transportation and mobility research at the 105th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Jan. 11–15, 2026.

Held in Washington, D.C., TRB's annual meeting draws thousands of transportation professionals from around the world. Presentations by NLR researchers will focus on a variety of topics including transportation modeling and analysis, autonomous vehicles, on-demand transit, traffic congestion mitigation, charging infrastructure, and more.

Monday, Jan. 12

NLR Topic: Applying the Consequence of Failure Score Framework to Assess Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Resilience: A Colorado Long-Distance Corridor Case Study

NLR Presenters: Fan Yang, Cemal Akcicek, and Tim Jonas
TRB Poster Session: Evaluating Traffic Operations for Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

NLR Topic: SMART Dashboard: Sensor-Based Monitoring and Analytics for Road Traffic

NLR Presenters: Thomas Masha, Faizan Mir, Stanley Young, Rimple Sandhu, and Qichao Wang
TRB Poster Session: Traffic Monitoring: Tools, Models, and Applications
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

Eastern Transportation Coalition Topic: Evaluating Crowdsourced Traffic Volume Estimation Products: A Cross-Vendor Comparison in Georgia

NLR Presenter: Stanley Young (holds a dual appointment at the Eastern Transportation Coalition)
TRB Poster Session: Traffic Monitoring: Tools, Models, and Applications
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

NLR Topic: Understanding Sectoral Variations in Advanced Vehicle Technology Adoption

NLR Presenters: Alicia Birky and Kyungsoo Jeong
TRB Lectern Session: Advancing Fleet Transitions: Data–Driven Approaches to Vehicle Replacement and Technology Adoption
Time: 4–5:45 p.m. ET

NLR Topic: Beyond the Route: Measuring Transit Accessibility in the Age of On-Demand Services

NLR Presenter: Sailesh Acharya
TRB Lectern Session: Emerging Transit Technologies: A Dynamic Discussion on Electrification, Automation, and Beyond
Time: 4–5:45 p.m. ET

Tuesday, Jan. 13

NLR Topic: Mitigating Traffic Congestion Through Visual Cues: Advancing Transportation Safety and Efficiency

NLR Presenters: Todd Osborn, Faizan Mir, Stanley Young, Qichao Wang, and Andrew Duvall
TRB Poster Session: Pedestrian Research Roundup
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

NLR Topic: A Data-Driven Approach to Public Opinion Mining on Autonomous Vehicles: Sentiment Analysis of Social Media Comments Using Large Language Models

NLR Presenters: Mostofa Najmus Sakib, Andrew Duvall, Stanley Young, Faizan Mir, and Qichao Wang
TRB Poster Session: Advances in Vision and Language Models for Autonomous Driving Perception
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

NLR Topic: Diving into Freight Demands and Trends Across United States Using an Open-Source Agent-Based Freight Model

NLR Presenters: Kyungsoo Jeong and Alicia Birky
TRB Poster Session: Freight Methods, Models, and Optimization Frameworks
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

University of Missouri–Kansas City Topic: Methodology for Using Embedded Resistance for Concrete Curing Management

NLR Presenter: John Kevern (presentation covers research conducted prior to joining NLR)
TRB Poster Session: Concrete Curing
Time: 6:15–7:45 p.m. ET

Wednesday, Jan. 14

NLR Topic: Towards Benchmarking EVSE Project Timelines: Preliminary Results

NLR Presenters: Ashok Sekar and Ranjit Desai
TRB Lectern Session: Lightning Insights: Innovation in Transportation Energy
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

University of Missouri–Kansas City Topic: Using Resistivity Sensors to Quantify Curing During Construction

NLR Presenter: John Kevern (presentation covers research conducted prior to joining NLR)
TRB Lectern Session: Lab and Field Assessment of Pavement Durability
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

NLR Topic: Automated Classification of Vehicle Movements at Signalized Intersections Using Vehicle Trajectories

NLR Presenters: Faizan Mir, Joshua Hoshiko, Stanley Young, Joseph Fish, and Jacob Holden
TRB Poster Session: Advanced Modeling, Optimization, and Safety for Signalized Intersections
Time: 8–9:45 a.m. ET

NLR Topic: A Comparative Analysis of Infrastructure-Based Perception Sensors for Intelligent Transportation Systems

NLR Presenters: Todd Osborn, Faizan Mir, Stanley Young, Rimple Sandhu, and Qichao Wang
TRB Poster Session: Data-Driven Approaches for Performance Evaluation of Autonomous Vehicles
Time: 10:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. ET

NLR Topic: Quantifying Disparities in Workplace EV Charging Access: A High-Resolution National Analysis Using Synthetic Travel Demand Modeling

NLR Presenters: Yuqiang Ning, Qichao Wang, Joseph Fish, Bo Liu, and Joseph Severino
TRB Poster Session: Electric Vehicle Charging and Adoption: Infrastructure, Behavior, and Policy
Time: 10:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. ET