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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 to apply their expertise to help mitigate the identified problems using high resolution traffic signal […]

Research posters showcasing STRIDE-funded and cost-share projects were displayed at the 2019 Autonomous Vehicles Symposium in Orlando, FL on July 16. The poster session contained work from students affiliated with University Transportation Centers (UTCs) in the Southeastern region. A total of 23 posters were displayed during the summit focusing on AV, CV and other advanced […]

STRIDE researchers in Alabama used open data as well as daily travel activity data collected for Project B titled “Technology Influence on Travel Demand and Behaviors”,  led by Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to create a prototype agent-based simulation model of the Birmingham metropolitan region. The Birmingham Metro Area model […]

Dr. Sherrilene Classen, professor and chair of the UF Department of Occupational Therapy, is the lead investigator on STRIDE Project D2 titled “Older Driver Experiences with Autonomous Vehicle Technology”. Her co-principal investigator is Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Classen’s team has been researching how older drivers experience autonomous vehicle […]

Upon graduating high school, two years after 9/11, James Wersal joined the US Army.  He spent two rigorous years at Wentworth Military Academy and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant at 20 years of age due to an early commissioning program. Military service and the duties that come along with being responsible for the safety and […]

Mary Wolfe is interested in how people interact with their living environment. Her research focuses on how those interactions are reflected in the health outcomes of a community, particularly when transportation barriers to health care exist. In the field of transportation planning, research on health outcomes often involves questions related to walking, biking and increasing […]

Dr. Allie Thomas is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently a co-PI working on STRIDE Project E2 titled “Establishing a Dual Generational Modality Dataset: Comparing the Ride-Sharing Adoption Trends and Perspectives of Consumers from Two Generational Cohorts, Millennials and Gen X’ers”. The project is led by […]

Dr. Eleni Bardaka is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is part of the team working on STRIDE Project A2 titled “Changing Access to Public Transportation and the Potential for Increased Travel”. Dr. Kari Watkins of Georgia Institute of Technology is the lead […]

STRIDE Project C (Performance Measurement & Management using Connected & Automated Vehicle Data), Principal Investigator: Dr. Mohammed Hadi, FIU In this day and age, we are beginning to see vehicles on our roads with several levels of connectivity and/or autonomy.  And as these cars, buses or trucks start navigating alongside conventional vehicles, they will be […]

Faculty: Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (UF) ASCE James Laurie Prize Students: Thomas Chase (UF) ITE FL Section Institute Traffic Scholarship Xuanwu Chen (FIU) 3rd Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRB 2015; Poster title: Improved Macroscopic Vehicle Emission Model Utilizing MOVES Estimation based on Operation Mode Distribution Somaye Fakharian Qom (FIU) 3rd Place, Best Student Essay Award, Intelligent Transportation […]