Category: Projects

(STRIDE Project G5) This STRIDE education/workforce development project led by Dr. Robert Whalin analyzes 12 years of data (2009 through 2020) from a unique summer bridge program at Jackson State University. The project is designed to increase the graduation rates of engineering and computer science students who are not calculus ready and with less than […]

Dr. Pruthvi Manjunatha’s fascination in transportation engineering evolved out of his curiosity for the subjects of geography, economics, and sociology while pursuing his undergraduate studies at Visvesvaraya Technological University, India. His interest in the world of research was further piqued while working as an undergrad in a soils science laboratory. When the first Intelligent Transportation […]

Dr. Shuang Tu is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering & Computer Science at Jackson State University (JSU). Apart from his teaching and service responsibilities, his research activities focus on high-performance scientific computing. What brought Dr. Tu to shift some of his research interests into the world of transportation engineering? It […]

Dan Xu has spent the past couple of years working on naturalistic driving study (NDS) data applications. This is the focus of her doctoral dissertation work at Auburn University. NDS enables researchers to evaluate human driving behaviors and characteristics using advanced instrumentation under real-world driving conditions. Xu is currently working on a STRIDE-funded project related […]

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 patterns, […]

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 includes 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 […]

The STRIDE Center featured student research during the 2021 Virtual Student Poster Showcase & Competition held during a live, online event on Friday, January 29, 2021, in conjunction with TRB. Congratulations to the winners of the event! 1st Place – Lucas Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology (Poster: AI-Based Work Zone Traffic and Driver Behavior Extraction […]

Principal Investigators:  Nina Barker, UFTI/T2 and Leslie Washburn, P.E., UFTI The University of Florida STRIDE effort will participate in the four K-12 outreach activities and propose another activity. We will work with local engineering firms and alumni to subsidize these outreach activities whenever possible with sponsorship and donations, which can be counted as STRIDE match […]