Category: People

By: Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S. Earlier this year, STRIDE spearheaded a project led by Dr. Nithin Agarwal, director of the University of Florida Transportation Institute’s (UFTI) Technology Transfer (T2) Center, which focused on transforming transportation education and practices in the southeastern United States. The “Transportation Workforce Development Related to Traffic Signal Systems – Phase II (Technology)” […]

By: Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S. Each year, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) University Transportation Center’s (UTC) program recognizes a student from each UTC across the nation for their achievements and promise for future contributions to the field of transportation. This year, the UFTI’s STRIDE Center has selected Bryce Grame, a concurrent degree master’s student in […]

By: Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S. Researchers from the University of Florida Transportation Institute’s (UFTI) I-STREET Living Lab traveled in May 2023 to the SunTrax Test Facility in Auburndale, Fla., to test an algorithm they created that optimizes and operates traffic signals, thus improving safety and traffic performance at intersections. The critical component of this new algorithm […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., STRIDE Research Coordinator Jeremy Griffith is a master’s student in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida (UF). He completed his undergraduate studies in 2020 majoring in Sustainability and the Build Environment, a degree program in the UF College of Design, Construction and Planning. Griffith considers […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., STRIDE Research Coordinator After spending years living in one of Latin America’s most congested cities, Agustin Guerra, a transportation doctoral student in the University of Florida (UF) Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, set his sights on pursuing a degree in in transportation engineering. Guerra’s early years were spent in Panama, […]

Malikia Cherubala is a senior at Appalachian State University, working with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at NC State University. An international student from the Democratic Republic of Congo, she is currently earning her bachelor’s degree in Community and Regional Planning, with a minor in Sustainable Development as well as a certificate in […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., STRIDE Research Coordinator The Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) is a guide for transportation practitioners that includes concepts, guidelines, and computational procedures for calculating the capacity and quality of service for highways, freeways, roads, roundabouts, intersections, and interchanges. It also includes guidance on transit and non-motorized modes such as pedestrians and bicyclists. […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., STRIDE Research Coordinator Congratulations to Matteo Saracco, a master’s student at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), for being selected as the STRIDE Center 2022 Student of the Year. For more than three decades, the U.S. Department of Transportation has honored students affiliated with University Transportation Centers (UTCs) who have […]

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 […]