Kelly Pitera
Background and activities
Research Interests:
- urban transport
- freight transport
- street and road planning and design
Teaching:
- TBA 4203 Geometric Design of Roads (3rd year course)
- BA6057 Road Building (EVU, Experienced based masters program)
- BA8616 Geometric Design of Roads (PhD course)
- Lecturer in TBA4204 BM3 Transport Infrastructure, TBA4345 Sustainability Issues in Transport, BA6052 Strategic Planning of Transport Infrastructure
Education and Employment:
- Professor, NTNU, September 2021 - present
- Associate Professor, NTNU, January 2013 - September 2021
- PhD Civil Engineering, University of Washington (Seattle, US), 2008 - 2012
- Masters Civil Engineering, University of Washington (Seattle, US), 2006 - 2008
- Senior Engineer (bridge and roadway design), Berger/ABAM Engineers (Seattle, US), 2001-2006
- Bachelors Civil Engineering, Villanova University (Villanova, PA, US), 1997-2001
Project Websites: InRoad (Erasmus+ 2020-2023), Research for Advancing Automated Road Transport
Courses
- TBA4203 - Geometric Design of Roads
- BA8616 - Geometric Design of Highways
- BYGT2314 - Highway Engineering
- BA6017 - Urban logistics
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) Opportunities and Barriers for Truck Platooning on Norwegian Rural Freight Routes. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2676 (6).
- (2022) Sustainable Project Management: Reducing the Risk of Cost Inaccuracy Using a PLS-SEM Approach. Sustainability. vol. 14 (2).
- (2021) Safety Effects of Horizontal Curve Design and Lane and Shoulder Width on Single Motorcycle Accidents in Norway. Journal of Advanced Transportation.
- (2021) Investigating the use of visualization to improve public participation in infrastructure projects: how are digital approaches used and what value do they bring?. Urban, Planning and Transport Research. vol. 9 (1).
- (2021) Camera-Based Lane Detection—Can Yellow Road Markings Facilitate Automated Driving in Snow?. Vehicles. vol. 3 (4).
- (2021) The automated driver as a new road user. Transport reviews. vol. 41 (5).
- (2021) Using ADAS to Future-Proof Roads—Comparison of Fog Line Detection from an In-Vehicle Camera and Mobile Retroreflectometer. Sensors. vol. 21 (5).
- (2020) Shared mobility and public transport –foe or friend?. Proceedings from the Annual Transport Conference at Aalborg University.
- (2020) Safety effects of traffic lane and shoulder widths on two-lane undivided rural roads: A matched case-control study from Norway. Accident Analysis and Prevention. vol. 144.
- (2019) The potential for coordinated logistics planning at the local level: A Norwegian in-depth study of public and private stakeholders. Journal of Transport Geography. vol. 76 (4).
- (2019) Road Planning and Route Alignment Selection Criteria in the Norwegian Context. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. vol. 471 (5).
- (2019) Observations of truck-bicycle encounters: A case study of conflicts and behaviour in Trondheim, Norway. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour. vol. 60.
- (2019) Truck-bicycle safety: an overview of methods of study, risk factors and research needs. European Transport Research Review. vol. 11 (29).
- (2018) Conflicts between bikes and trucks in urban areas—A survey of Norwegian cyclists. Case Studies on Transport Policy. vol. 6 (1).
- (2017) The complexity of planning for goods delivery in a shared urban space: a case study involving cyclists and trucks. European Transport Research Review. vol. 9 (46).
- (2017) Accidents between freight vehicles and bicycles, with a focus on urban areas. Transportation Research Procedia. vol. 25.
- (2017) Evaluation of bicycle sharrows within the Norwegian context. Transportation Research Procedia. vol. 27.
- (2014) Changing University Student Perceptions of Freight Transportation. Journal of professional issues in engineering education and practice. vol. 140 (1).
- (2013) Economic Analysis of Onboard Monitoring Systems in Commercial Vehicles. Transportation Research Record. vol. 2379.
- (2013) Process comparison of hours of service recording for commercial vehicle operations: electronic versus paper. Journal of Transportation Engineering. vol. 139 (3).