Laurence Rilett

Contact Information:

City Campus (Lincoln)

262D WHIT

(402) 472-1992

lrilett2@unl.edu

Personal Links:

• Nebraska Transportation Center

Adjunct Professor

Academic Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy, Civil Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1992
M.A.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 1988
Honours B.A.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, 1987

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

Multimodal transportation systems analysis
Transportation planning and operations
Dynamic network modeling and optimization
Intelligent Transportation Systems

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Jan 21, 2022: Moving to new challenge, founding director Rilett creates lasting legacy at NTC

Mar 29, 2021: Rilett earns NU President's Excellence Award for Innovation, Development and Engagement

Jan 11, 2021: MATC, NTC director Rilett selected as ASCE Fellow

Jan 31, 2020: MwRSF director Faller earns prestigious Stonex Award for lifetime contributions to roadside safety

Jun 11, 2018: Nebraska Engineering key component as national defense research readies for second phase

Jul 26, 2017: Weeklong academy teaches Native American youth leadership skills, introduces possibilities in STEM majors

Apr 12, 2017: Civil Engineering faculty and staff honored with awards

Dec 09, 2016: MATC to develop roadway safety upgrades in four states

Oct 16, 2015: NSRI at UNL awarded $1 million contract for research into safety at military entry control points

Dec 12, 2007: College Announces First-Quarter Top Grantees

Honors and Awards

Zachry Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997
Dick and Joyce Birdwell Endowed Teaching Award, 1998-1999
Texas Transportation Trinity Researcher Award, 2002
UNL College of Engineering Research and Creative Activity Award, Professor, 2007
UNL College of Engineering Faculty Service Award, 2008
UNL College of Engineering Research and Creative Activity Award, Professor, 2017

Selected Publications

Zhao, Li, L. R. Rilett, and E. Tufuor. “Calibrating The Robertson’s Platoon Dispersion Model at Coordinated Corridor with Advance Warning Flashers,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2623 (2017): DOI 10.3141/2623-02.

Tufuor, Ernest, L. R. Rilett, and P. TenHulzen. “In-Vehicle Evaluation of Milled Rumble Strips at Pre- and Post-Chip-Sealed Maintenance Periods,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2612 (2017): 47-59.

Anusha, Nair, Lelitha Vanajakshi, Shankar Subramanian and L. R. Rilett. “Cycle-by-Cycle Analysis of Signalized Intersections for Varying Traffic Conditions with Erroneous Detector Data,” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 143, Issue 8, (August 2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.0000059.

Chen, Yifeng and L. R. Rilett. “A Train Data Collection and Arrival Time Prediction System for Highway-Rail Grade Crossings,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2608 (2017): 96-104.

Appiah, Justice, Bhaven Naik, L. R. Rilett, and Scott Sorensen. “Calibrating Truck Characteristics into Traffic Microsimulation,” Transport, Volume 169 Issue 4 (August, 2016): 187-194.

Anusha, Nair, Anuj Sharma, Lelitha Vanajakshi, Shankar Subramanian and L. R. Rilett. “A Model Based Approach for Queue and Delay Estimation at Signalized Intersections with Erroneous Automated Data,” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 142, Issue 5 (May 2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)TE.1943-5436.0000835.

Eisele, William, B. Naik, and L. R. Rilett. “Estimating Route Travel Time Reliability from Simultaneously Collected Link and Route Vehicle Probe Data and Roadway Sensor Data,” International Journal of Urban Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 3 (November 2015): 286-304.

Appiah, J., L. R. Rilett, B. Naik, and R. Wojtal. “Driver Response to an Actuated Advance Warning System,” ASCE Journal of Transportation Engineering, Volume 139, Issue 5, (May 2013): 433-440.

Lahiri, S. N., C. Spiegelman, J. Appiah, and L. R. Rilett. “Gap bootstrap methods for Massive Data Sets with an Application to the OD Matrix Estimation Problem in Transportation Engineering,” Annals of Applied Statistics, Volume 6, Number 4 (2012): 552-1587.

Appiah, J, B. Naik, R. Wojtal and L. R. Rilett. “Safety Effectiveness of Actuated Advance Warning Systems,” Transportation Research Record, no. 2250 (2011): 195-204.

Spiegelman, C. H., E. S. Park, and L. R. Rilett. Transportation Statistics and Microsimulation. Chapman and Hall / CRC Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4398-0023-2