Month: May 2022

Tabitha Combs is a research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research activities focus on transportation and land use planning as she works to address the barriers to safe, affordable, and sustainable mobility for society.   “Recently, that includes trying to understand how COVID-19 has affected the ways in which […]

Muhammad Sherif is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). His research program is dedicated for the development of novel multifunctional materials and smart infrastructural systems. The main interests of Sherif’s research program include: 1) Development and Characterization of Resilient, Sustainable and […]

Subid Ghimire is a doctoral student at North Carolina State University working under the guidance of Dr. Eleni Bardaka. Ghimire is specializing in transportation planning. His research focuses on studying the determinants of travel behavior of individuals/households which are disadvantaged (i.e., those who don’t own a car, the elderly, the disabled, and those who fall […]

When Ehsan Amini was an undergraduate student in Iran, a close family member died as a result of a traffic accident. To better understand what had transpired, he set off on a journey that took him to the site of the accident. “I traveled to the scene near Tabas, one of the ancient cities in […]

The Engineering Club at Howard Bishop Middle school in Gainesville, FL has a lot to cheer about this year. After finishing second place in the Tampa Bay regional Future City CompetitionTM the last two years, the team finished first this year and went on to compete at the national competition. Ondine Wells, STRIDE K-12 Coordinator […]

Massive amounts of data points are generated by transportation infrastructure, traffic, travel demand, autonomous and connected vehicles (CAVs), and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). This data must be processed and analyzed. The question is, how can all this data be captured and processed in an efficient way to solve transportation engineering’s most pressing issues? That is […]

In China, the use of public transportation to facilitate a variety of activities related to daily life is the norm.  With a wide-range of alternatives such as light rail, underground metro systems, high-speed rail, bus rapid transit, bike-sharing programs, and e-bikes, most Chinese travelers can get around places easily even if they do not have […]