Month: December 2020

COVID-19 has created enormous challenges for communities, households, workers, and businesses in North Carolina. A team of researchers from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has launched a website called Carolina Tracker: A Resource for Recovery, which includes a dashboard to track indicators across different domains such as employment and the economy, travel […]

Dr. Ruth Steiner, a professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida, is leading a STRIDE-funded project that aims to understand the workforce development needs for transportation professionals in the Southeastern U.S. as it relates to congestion mitigation. Project C4 (Transportation Workforce Development for State DOTs to Address Congestion […]

The STRIDE Center provided funding for Capstone Projects at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Capstone Projects are required of students in the urban planning master’s program. “Students at UNC ‘bring it all together’ by working on a Master’s Capstone Project during their final year of the program,” said Dr. Noreen McDonald, professor […]

Dr. Ali Hajbabaie of North Carolina State University (NCSU) and a team of researchers, which include Dr. Lily Elefteriadou of the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) and Dr. Mohammed Hadi of Florida International University (FIU), are working on a STRIDE-funded project that aims to reduce congestion along freeway and arterial facilities. Specifically, the research […]

Dr. Ali Hajbabaie is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, & Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) who specializes in traffic operations and control. He and his team develop distributed optimization algorithms for real-time traffic control in transportation networks focusing on traffic signal control, speed harmonization, traffic metering, and traffic […]

During the week of June 22-26, 2020, Dr. Dimitra Michalaka of The Citadel, taught a “Tour of Engineering” virtual summer camp organized by the South Carolina Governor’s School of Science and Mathematics (SCGSSM). In the past, this camp was held in-person. With the restrictions due to COVID-19, the camp was restructured to a completely online […]

Tennessee Technological University developed and implemented an innovative, online STEM in Motion teacher training during the summer of 2020. The workshop engaged high school mathematics and science teachers in transportation related activities and subsequently encouraged them to incorporate transportation topics into their classroom lessons. The workshop included 11 unique modules created by experts in education […]

While many educational outreach efforts to local K-12 schools have been cancelled due to COVID-19, the STRIDE Center has remained engaged with students remotely. STRIDE K-12/Technology Transfer Coordinator, Ondine Wells, mentored the Howard Bishop Middle School Future City Engineering Club twice a week through the summer via Zoom. Started last year, Howard Bishop’s Future City […]

Dr. Xilei Zhao of the University of Florida is leading a STRIDE-funded project that is looking at how Mobility-on-Demand (MOD) transit systems can contribute to building smart, sustainable, and equitable cities in the U.S. The project includes a large groups of researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Alabama […]

Mosammat Tahnin Tariq is a doctoral student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Florida International University working on developing signal timing strategies during non-recurrent congestion in the arterial network by using advanced analytics and emerging data sources. Her doctoral adviser is Dr. Mohammed Hadi at FIU. Tariq is motivated by the challenge […]