MPC Region Info
Meet Our Researcher

Denver Tolliver, Ph.D.
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute
Director - UGPTI
Program Director - CTIPS/MPC
Phone: (701)231-7190
denver.tolliver@ndsu.edu

In addition to being the director of the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute, Denver Tolliver is the director of the Mountain-Plains Consortium (MPC)—a multi-university consortium that serves as the university transportation center in federal Region 8.

Final Reports (View All)

• Autonomous Aircraft: Challenges and Opportunities (Nov 2023, MPC-23-506)
• Safety Support System for Highway Rail Grade Crossings (Feb 2023, MPC-23-493)
• Benefit Cost Analysis of Railroad Track Monitoring Using Sensors Onboard Revenue Service Trains (Dec 2021, MPC-21-446)

Research Projects

• MPC-673 — Multimodal, Multistate Corridor Modeling for Long-Distance Movements of Food and Containerized Goods
• MPC-666 — Autonomous Aircraft Logistics: Challenges and Opportunities
• MPC-665 — Remote Sensing of Transportation Assets Using Drones and Artificial Intelligence
• MPC-601 — Sensitivity and Accuracy Assessment of Vehicle Weigh-in-Motion System Measurement Errors Using In-Pavement Strain-Based Sensors
• MPC-551 — Automated Track Geometry Monitoring System
• MPC-550 — Safety Support System for Highway-Rail Grade Crossing