Exhibit D - Research Project Requirement: PDF Link

Project Outcome Brief: PDF Link

Final Report: Will be released in Aug 2026

Designing Tools for Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies, Asad Khattak (UTK), April 15, 2026, Southeast Annual Symposium  on Freight and Mobility, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Developing a Framework for Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies-A Text Analysis and Synthesis of the Literature, Assad Khattak (UTK), Sheikh Usman (UTK), Jerry Everett, Joint CATM and CR2C2 Symposium,  April 17, 2024. 

• Usman, S. M., Khattak, A. J., & Patwary, A. L. (2025). Are there differences in public interest toward automated vehicles’ ownership in burdened and non-burdened communities? Transportation Planning and Technology, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/03081060.2025.2546096

• Alaka, O. B., Pandey, V., & Khattak, A. (2025, in press). Investigating automated shuttle readiness for rural areas: A North Carolina case study. Transportation Research Record, 2680(5), 214–235. https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981251378138

• Adeel, M., Khattak, A., Usman, S. M., & Moradloo, N. (2025). Are We Ready for Highly Automated Vehicles? Evaluating Automated Driving Systems’ Safety and Reliability Using Inverse Probability Weighted Regression Adjustment. Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2025.2602132

• Patwary, L., Usman, S., & Khattak, A. (2025). Exploring the Relationship between Transportation Cost Burden and Mental Health in Burdened Communities: Addressing Endogeneity using Two-Stage Residual Inclusion Approach. Under review.

• Usman, S. M., Khattak, A. J., & Everett, J. (2025). Enhancing Rural Transportation Planning: A Suite of Innovative Readiness Assessment Tools for Emerging Transportation Technologies. Under review.

• Saeidi, S., Manikkavasagam, N., Nagarajan, S., & Kaisar, E. (2025). A Spatial Framework for Evaluating Autonomous Shuttle Readiness Across Rural Counties in Florida. Revising. Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, 152(7), 05026003. https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/JTEPBS.TEENG-9535 

• Usman, S., Khattak, A., & Everett, J. (2026). Advancing Sustainable Mobility in Rural Areas: A Suite of Innovative Readiness Assessment Tools for Emerging Transportation Technologies. International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (under review)

• Saeidi, S., Manikkavasagam, N., Nagarajan, S., & Kaisar, E. (2026). A Data-Driven Spatial Framework for Autonomous Shuttle Readiness in Rural Florida. Accepted for presentation at the ASCE Transportation & Development Conference 2026, Detroit, Michigan, USA.

• Adeel, M., Khattak, A., Usman, S. M., & Moradloo, N. (2025). Are We Ready for Automated Vehicles?: Evaluating Automated Driving Systems’ Safety and Reliability Using Propensity Score Matching. The 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, D.C.

• Patwary, L., Usman, S., & Khattak, A. (2025). Exploring the Relationship between Transportation Cost Burden and Mental Health in Burdened Communities, while Addressing Endogeneity. The 104th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, D.C.

• Patwary, A., Khattak, A., Usman, S., & Mahdinia, I. (2024). A Framework to Assess Readiness of Intelligent Mobility Technologies—Data Needs and Results of a Readiness Survey. The 103rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), Washington, D.C.

• Saeidi, S., Manikkavasagam, N., Nagarajan, S., & Kaisar, E. (2026). A Spatial Framework for Evaluating Autonomous Shuttle Readiness Across Rural Counties in Florida. The 105th Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, January 5–9, 2026, Washington, D.C.

• Alaka, O. B., Manikkavasagam, N., Quansah, D., Pandey, V., & Nagarajan, S. (2026). A multi-criteria corridor readiness framework for autonomous vehicles: A rural North Carolina case study. The 2026 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board.

• Oladimeji Basit Alaka, Nithish Manikkavasagam, David Quansah, Venktesh Pandey, Sudhagar Nagarajan, Jerry Everett, Asad Khattak, Sheikh Muhammad Usman, Soheila Saeidi, A Multi-Criteria Corridor Readiness Framework for Autonomous Vehicles: A Rural North Carolina Case Study, April 15, 2026, Southeast Annual Symposium  on Freight and Mobility, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Asad Khattak, Designing Tools for Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies, April 15, 2026, Southeast Annual Symposium  on Freight and Mobility, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Assad Khattak, Sheikh Usman, Jerry Everett, Developing a Framework for Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies-A Text Analysis and Synthesis of the Literature, Joint CATM and CR2C2 Symposium,  April 17, 2024.

• Oladimeji Basit Alaka, Nithish Manikkavasagam, David Quansah, Venktesh Pandey, Sudhagar Nagarajan, Jerry Everett, Asad Khattak, Sheikh Muhammad Usman, Soheila Saeidi, A Multi-Criteria Corridor Readiness Framework for Autonomous Vehicles: A Rural North Carolina Case Study, Southeast Annual Symposium  on Freight and Mobility, April 14-16, 2026, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Sheikh Muhammad Usman, Asad Khattak, Jerry Everett, Venktesh Pandey, Oladimeji Alaka, Sudhagar Nagarajan, Soheila Saeidi, Designing Tools for Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies,   Southeast Annual Symposium  on Freight and Mobility, April 14-16, 2026, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

• Oladimeji Alaka , Venktesh Pandey, Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies, Joint CATM and CR2C2 Symposium, April 17-18, 2024.                                                         

• Sheikh Usman, Asad Khattak, Jerry Everett, Designing Tools for Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies, Joint CATM and CR2C2 Symposium, April 17-18, 2024.   

• Sheikh Usman, Asad Khattak, Jerry Everett, Assessing Readiness of Rural Communities for New Technologies: Text Analysis & Framework Development, Joint CATM and CR2C2 Symposium, April 17-18, 2024.                    

• Jerry Everett, Asad Khattak, Sudhagar Nagarajan, Venktesh Pandey, Sheikh Muhammad Usman, Soheila Saeidi, Review and Synthesis of Data Analysis Methods for Rural Transportation Technology Readiness: Development of a Tool, Joint CATM and CR2C2 Symposium, April 17-18, 2024.