Month: December 2019

Project C2 (Urban Freight and Planning; Principal Investigator: Dr. Noreen McDonald, UNC Chapel Hill) Dr. Noreen McDonald of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill along with Dr. Ruth Steiner of the University of Florida, are working to develop guidelines that will assist local governments with increases in freight movements to mitigate congestion. More […]

Project K2 (Assessing and Addressing Deficiencies in the HCM Weaving Segment Analyses; Principal Investigator: Dr. Behzad Aghdashi, NCSU) Dr. Behzad Aghdashi of North Carolina State University is the lead researcher in a STRIDE funded project that is looking at deficiencies in the Highway Capacity Manual’s (HCM) weave segment analysis. As weave segments are one of […]

STRIDE researchers in North Carolina, Georgia and Florida wanted to understand how shifting demographics and new mobility services were impacting public transit ridership, particularly for the transportation disadvantaged, including low-income populations and paratransit users. Through a four-part effort, researchers created analytical tools that transit and regional planning agencies can use to improve their services. Part […]

A group of high school friends led by Michael Zhou, a senior at Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, got together to develop a concept design with safety implications that would alert drivers when students were crossing a road or using crosswalks. The high school student team, which included three other friends (Eric Mao, senior; […]

Dezhong (Tony) Xu is a graduate student at North Carolina State University. He played an important role in a comprehensive study related to STRIDE Project K2 titled “Assessing and Addressing the Deficiencies of HCM Wave Analysis”, led by Dr. Aghdashi and with collaboration from Dr. Nagui Roupahil of NCSU and Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, professor and […]

By Thomas Chase and Shoaib Samandar/North Carolina State University The 2019 summer meeting of the Traffic Signal Systems Committee (TSSC) of the TRB was themed “Big Data Analytics applied to Signalized Intersections” and provided a venue for researchers and professionals to apply their expertise to help mitigate the identified problems using high-resolution traffic signal datasets. […]

STEM in Motion Teacher Workshop Tennessee Tech University (TTU) College of Engineering, College of Education, and the Oakley STEM Center collaborated to lead a two-and-a-half-day teacher workshop, STEM in Motion, on June 25-26 and August 24, 2019. Sixteen middle school teachers learned about tools and resources to incorporate transportation topics into their science and math […]

Touch-A-Truck Community Event The UF student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), in conjunction with the STRIDE Center, hosted a children’s activity booth on Saturday, September 14, 2019, at the 10th Annual Fun 4 Gator Kids Touch-A-Truck event held on the Santa Fe College campus. Nearly 10,000 people attended the event, where children […]

Engineering Boot Camp The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) launched an Engineering Boot Camp program with 17 local middle and high school students on September 21, 2019. Program participants are scheduled to attend 10 monthly workshops between September 2019 and May 2020 and a week-long summer program in June 2020. During the program, students […]

Tour of Engineering Summer Camp A total of 16 students in grades 9th and 10th participated in The Citadel’s “Tour of Engineering” week-long (30 hrs) summer camp at the South Carolina Governor’s School of Science and Mathematics (SCGSSM) in Hartsville. Led by Dr. Dimitra Michalaka, students learned about engineering and participated in hands-on projects. Topics […]