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Welcome to ATRC, the World Leader in Route Optimization

ATRC provides specialty research and consulting services in route optimization for highway, transit, robot movement, and military path planning. The firm has extensive core competence in route design using the state-of-the art artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and Geographic Information System (GIS).

Our Mission

ATRC seeks to be a world leader in route optimization technology. We are currently developing the state-of-the art model for optimizing highway alignments, and provide consulting services in various route optimization and complex transportation research problems.

We approach transportation consulting from a holistic point of view, emphasizing win-win partnerships and cooperation to address customer needs at a higher level.

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Product

Highway Alignment Optimization Model (HAO v1.0)

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Rail Transit Optimization Model (RTO v1.0)

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What's New

New Paper Publication

Kang, M.-W., N. Yang, P. Schonfeld, and M.K. Jha (2010). Bi-Level Highway Route Optimization, Proceedings of the 89th TRB Annual Meeting, Paper No. 10-1330 on CD-ROM, Washington D.C. (2010 TRB Poster)

Yang, N., M.-W. Kang, P. Schonfeld, and M.K. Jha (2010). Multiple Objective Optimization of Highway Alignments Incorporating Preference Information, Proceedings of the 89th TRB Annual Meeting, Paper No. 10-1128 on CD-ROM, Washington D.C., (2010 TRB Poster)

Kang, M.W., P. Schonfeld, N. Yang (2009). Prescreening and Repairing in a Genetic Algorithm for Highway Alignment Optimization, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 24(2)

Jha, M. and M.W. Kang (2009). A GIS-Based Model for Highway Noise Analysis, Journal of Infrastructure Systems-ASCE, 15(2)

New Research Proposals Submission

NSF-STTR-Phase I: Optimizing Locations for Rail Transit

Routes and Stations, 2010-2011

U.S. DoD-SBIR-Phase I: Experience-Based Advisory Systems for Ground Operations, 2010-2011

Jan. 2008 - ATRC got a research fund from the US federal government (National Science Foundation) for developing a state-of-the art of highway alignment optimization model (more..).

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Key Milestones

	Jan. 2009 - June 2009: Improve the highway alignment optimization model with Bi-Level Optimization Approach; Funding resource: National Science Foundation (see, NSF-STTR-Phase IB Final Report).
	2008 - 2009: Develop a prototype of the Multi-Objective & Bi-Level optimization approach for highway alignment optimization; Funding resource: National Science Foundation (see, NSF-STTR-Phase I Final Report).
	2006 - 2007: Develop a preliminary user-interface of a highway alignment optimization model; Funding resource: Maryland State Highway Administration (see, Final report)
	2004 - 2005: An initial version of the highway alignment optimization model was tested on a real highway project in Brookeville, Maryland. Funding resource: Maryland State Highway Administration (see, Brookeville Bypass Final Report).
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