Exhibit D - Research Project Requirement: PDF Link

Project Outcome Brief: PDF Link

Final Report: Will be released in Aug 2026

• North Carolina Rural Autonomous Vehicle Readiness Assessment Tool (Ar2tdashboard)

• Techniques for Assessing Community Technology Readiness

• 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.

• 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. 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.

• 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. 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. Under review.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Review and Synthesis of Data Analysis Methods for Rural Transportation Technology Readiness: Development of a Tool, Dr. Jerry Everett (PI), University of Tennessee; Dr. Asad Khattak (Co-PI), University of Tennessee; Dr. Sudhagar Nagarajan (Co-PI), Florida Atlantic University; Dr. Venktesh Pandey (Co-PI), North Carolina A&T State University, Sheikh Muhammad Usman (UTK), Soheila Saeidi (FAU), Joint CATM and CR2C2 Symposium, April 17-18, 2024.