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… Read More
Month: December 2019
The Revised Highway Capacity Manual’s Freeway Weave Segments Analysis
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… Read More
Researchers Create Analytical Tools for Improving Services in Transit & Regional Planning Agencies
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… Read More
Auburn High School Students Showcase Work at STRIDE Poster Session
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… Read More
Student Spotlight: Dezhong (Tony) Xu, NCSU
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… Read More
STRIDE Project Selected as Finalist for TRB Signal Systems Big Data Challenge
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… Read More
K-12 at Tennessee Technological University
STEM in Motion Teacher Workshop Tennessee Tech University (TTU) College of Engineering, College of Education, and the Oakley STEM Center collaboratively led a two and a half-day teacher workshop called STEM in Motion on June 25-26 and August 24, 2019.… Read More
Touch-A-Truck Community Event and Future City Club
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… Read More
K-12 at University of Alabama at Birmingham
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… Read More
K-12 at The Citadel
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.… Read More