The Center for Innovative Transportation Solutions has completed a number of projects for various agencies and municipalities to analyze traffic situations potential scenarios.

CITS is developing city-wide macroscopic and microscopic models for Virginia Beach. These can be used for advancing the planning and operation of transportation systems. Specifically, CITS has established a Transportation Applications Program, which includes an innovation test-bed with the City of Virginia Beach. The test-bed provides a natural and virtual environment for field testing of new transportation technologies (e.g., eco-technologies), modeling and simulation tools applications, and experimentation with innovative development strategies, e.g., testing smart growth concepts.

CITS conducts research in support of the U.S. Department of Transportation's TranLIVE University Transportation Center. Old Dominion University is part of TransLIVE's consortium of five leading national universities, whose purpose is to utilize data systems and innovative transportation applications to better address congestion and environmental concerns. As an active research participant in the consortium, CITS performs studies involving alternative fuels and technologies, fuel conservation, urban form, land use and public policy to support transportation decision making at the local, regional and national levels.

CITS includes the Transportation Research Institute in the ODU Civil and Environmental Engineering Department. The Institute actively supports formation of multi-disciplinary transportation research teams and provides research services to private and public sector clients. TRI research activities are focused in the following areas: transportation operations, including intelligent transportation systems, transportation safety, transportation planning, freight, and environment, energy and sustainable transportation.

The Hampton Roads Full Scale Exercise included a senior executive tabletop exercise and three live training simulations: Active Shooter live simulation at a community college; mass casualty live training simulation; and maritime incident live training simulation. Under this project, sponsored by the Virginia Office of Commonwealth Preparedness, VMASC served as the central hub for planning all aspects of the exercise.

In addition to hosting and providing IT and facility support, VMASC handled subcontracts for numerous organizations and brought together diverse participants from 16 local jurisdictions: Virginia state-level emergency management, the Virginia National Guard, and representatives from the US Departments of Homeland Security and Defense.

VMASC developed constructive simulations to assist in the senior executive tabletop exercise and provided simulation results for the damage to the region from a category 3 hurricane and the subsequent restoration over a 45 day period.

The Hampton Roads Hurricane Evacuation Simulation was completed for the Virginia Office of Veteran Affairs and Homeland Security. The simulation used mesoscopic modeling techniques (in which multiple vehicles are grouped into single entity platoons to reduce computation complexity and accelerate analysis) to forecast evacuation flows from the region during Class 1-4 hurricanes.

One of the first projects to complete such a model for a large area, the simulation included 1.7 million residents with locality-identified evacuation rates and destination patterns. Subsequent extensions of the project allowed simulations of expected driver responses (route changes) to different distribution modes of Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) guidance when congestion is encountered during an evacuation. This extension allows emergency planners to anticipate the impact of route changes on overall evacuation success and supports planning to improve the use of various ATIS strategies.