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Faculty: Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, UFASCE Harland Bartholomew AwardRecognition for Past President of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Students Leila Azizi, FIU3rd Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRBPoster Title: “Use of Connected Vehicle Data for the Estimation of Safety Performance Considering Emerging Technology Adoption” Abhilasha Jairam Saroj, GaTech2nd Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRBPoster […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., STRIDE Research Coordinator The COVID-19 pandemic generated a sense of longing for the outside world as opposed to being cooped up inside our homes. Reacting to the general public’s desires, cities around the world acted quickly and created outdoor spaces for recreation and commerce. Street space was reallocated to support recreational […]

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 […]

Dr. Nithin Agarwal joined the UFTI in 2017. His expertise in traffic operations, highway safety, and evaluation of emerging technologies was a perfect fit with UFTI’s projects. He became manager of the Transportation Safety Center, which delivers advanced safety analysis and recommendations to under-resourced communities and counties. In 2019, he became director of the UFTI-T2 […]

He doesn’t quite remember the exact moment he became fascinated by transportation, but what he does remember were the frequent trips with his father to San Francisco, the hustle and bustle of city life, trolleys with their clanging bells, the buses passing by. “When I was a kid, my dad used to take me to […]

Yiming Xu is conducting research to explore how micromobility is impacting the transportation system and its effectiveness in potentially reducing congestion. Xu is a doctoral student working under the guidance of Dr. Xilei Zhou, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Micromobility is a type of […]

Mahmoud Arafat is a Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Florida International University (FIU). His passion for transportation engineering dates back to his undergraduate days, where he scored straight “As” in all transportation-related classes. Building upon his academic success as an undergraduate student, he went on to receive a master’s […]

Ali Hajbabaie, Ph.D., 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 […]