Her research has also been presented at the WCTR, World Conference on Transport Research, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in July 1998. It was also presented and published as a refereed paper at the ASCE 5th International Conference on Applications of Advanced Technologies in Transportation Engineering, held in Newport Beach, California, in April 1998. She is an active member of ITS-Massachusetts. Presently she is the Vice Chair of the ITS-MA Technical Advisory Committee. TPQueue is a software developed to simulate traffic flow through a toll collection facility.
Traffic is categorized according to the average processing times at toll collection facilities.
The model is a hybid of macroscopic and microscopic simulation. In order to include ITS in the Commonwealth's Transportation Strategic Plan, an inventory of existing ITS projects is now going on. Two undergraduate students are assisting with the information gathering. Travel to the different ITS implementation sites is essential. This is a nine month project supported by MassHighway.