Dr. Xilei Zhao is an assistant professor at the University of Florida’s Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. She specializes in data science applications for innovative mobility and evacuation. Dr. Zhao came to UF after graduating from Johns Hopkins University,… Read More

A B M Tausif Ullah Chy completed his graduate work this spring and graduated with a master’s degree in transportation engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). As a research assistant, he mostly concentrated on traffic operations and… Read More

Kai Monast, MRP, is the interim director of the School Planning and Transportation Group and the director of the Public Transportation Group at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education (ITRE) at North Carolina State University. At ITRE, Kai specializes… Read More

This spring, Sahila Sarjana graduated with a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also worked as a graduate research assistant on a STRIDE-funded project titled “Technology Influence on Travel Demand and Behavior”, a… Read More

Project C2 (Urban Freight and Planning; Principal Investigator: Dr. Noreen McDonald, UNC Chapel Hill) Dr. Noreen McDonald of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill along with Dr. Ruth Steiner of the University of Florida, are working to develop… Read More

Project K2 (Assessing and Addressing Deficiencies in the HCM Weaving Segment Analyses; Principal Investigator: Dr. Behzad Aghdashi, NCSU) Dr. Behzad Aghdashi of North Carolina State University is the lead researcher in a STRIDE funded project that is looking at deficiencies… Read More

STRIDE researchers in North Carolina, Georgia and Florida wanted to understand how shifting demographics and new mobility services were impacting public transit ridership, particularly for the transportation disadvantaged, including low-income populations and paratransit users. Through a four-part effort, researchers created… Read More

A group of high school friends led by Michael Zhou, a senior at Auburn High School in Auburn, Alabama, got together to develop a concept design with safety implications that would alert drivers when students were crossing a road or… Read More

Dezhong (Tony) Xu is a graduate student at North Carolina State University. He played an important role in a comprehensive study related to STRIDE Project K2 titled “Assessing and Addressing the Deficiencies of HCM Wave Analysis”, led by Dr. Aghdashi… Read More

By Thomas Chase and Shoaib Samandar/North Carolina State University The 2019 summer meeting of the Traffic Signal Systems Committee (TSSC) of the TRB was themed “Big Data Analytics applied to Signalized Intersections” and provided a venue for researchers and professionals… Read More