The University of Delaware College of Engineering Transportation Engineering Program developed this project as a state-of-the-art research and teaching facility for the management and communication of traffic control information, and for the development of traffic control strategies. The lab receives real-time video images of highway and public transit traffic conditions from the Delaware Department of Transportation, and allows traffic controllers in the lab to monitor traffic and service conditions, to enforce regulations and controls, and to conduct research in traffic management.
The facility is built within the limits of a former classroom, transformed into a high-tech, light-controlled laboratory, control room, and presentation space by the insertion of clear glass and hard maple partitions and cabinetwork, an acoustically corrective suspended stainless steel panel ceiling, and a lining of light-managing fixed metal louvers along the inside face of the entire west-facing exterior wall.