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Faculty: Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (UF) ASCE Harland Bartholomew Award Recognition for Past President of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Students: Leila Azizi, FIU 3rd Place, STRIDE Student Poster Competition, TRB Poster Title: “Use of Connected Vehicle Data for the Estimation of Safety Performance Considering Emerging Technology Adoption” Abhilasha Jairam Saroj, GaTech 2nd Place, […]

The research team at the University of Florida’s Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP), which include Dr. Sherrilene Classen (Principal Investigator), Dr. Justin Mason and Dr. James Wersal, are collaborating with the City of Gainesville and Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku of the University of Alabama at Birmingham to elucidate older drivers’ (> 65 years) perceptions […]

  Natcha Luechakiettisak is an undergraduate student at Auburn University working with Dr. Huaguo Zhou and Dr. Rod Turochy on a STRIDE project titled Evaluation of Work Zone Mobility by Utilizing Naturalistic Driving Study Data. On this project Natcha is tasked with observing videos of roadways to determine work zone issues and categorizes these observations into […]

Ghazaleh Azimi is a doctoral student at Florida International University working on a STRIDE-funded project tilted Discovering a Potential Market for the Integration of Public Transportation and Emerging Shared Mobility Services. She is working on the literature review and data analysis. From surveying the literature on this topic she has learned that by integrating new […]

Troyee Saha is a Graduate Research Assistant at UAB’s Transportation Engineering and Development Lab (TREND Lab). Troyee is also the ITE Student Chapter President at UAB. She won Best Oral Presentation Award (1st Place) at the 6th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region at Clemson, S.C., for her paper on “Investigating the Impact of Lane Closure […]

Growth in urban population is directly correlated with growth in traffic congestion, and most large U.S. cities are experiencing this phenomenon. Traffic congestion causes not only traffic jams but also economic losses, such as waste of fuel, (Schrank et al., 2015; INRIX, 2018) and changes to our travel behaviors. For instance, as demand for public […]

This multi-disciplinary STRIDE-funded project is led by Dr. Dimitra Michalaka and her co-PI, Dr. Jeff Davis of The Citadel (TC). Other team members include Dr. Kweku Brown (TC), Dr. Daniel Bornstein of the Department of Health and Human Performance at TC, and Dr. John Vena of the Medical University of South Carolina. The purpose of […]

The University of Florida’s Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation, under the leadership of Dr. Sherrilene Classen, is collaborating with Dr. Virginia Sisiopiku of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and with support from the City of Gainesville to understand the perception, beliefs, and attitudes of older drivers (≥ 65 years) as they relate to […]

STRIDE hosted a workshop on “Managing Performance – From Active Transportation Management to Connected Vehicle Applications” at the ITS5C Summit on Oct. 7, 2018, in Jacksonville, FL. This workshop presented findings from recent work conducted by the Center to support the planning, deployment, and operations of existing and emerging management strategies. The workshop covered topics such […]

This year’s UTC Conference was hosted by the Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility (C2M2) at Clemson University, which attracted students, faculty, staff, state DOT representatives, and other transportation professionals in the southeast region. The STRIDE Center was one of the co-sponsors of this event, and several students, faculty and staff representing the Center were in […]