Category: Education

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 […]

TRANSPORTATION EQUITY FUNDAMENTALS CERTIFICATION Part I: February 8 & 9, 2023 Part II: March 8 & 9, 2023 Register: Access to safe, reliable and affordable transportation is a right for all individuals – yet it is particularly difficult to provide in many areas, particularly rural locations. This can mean the difference between access to medical […]

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 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 […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a partner in the STRIDE Consortium. In the Spring 2022 semester, two students affiliated with STRIDE were recognized for their achievements. Mithila Hasan of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is the recipient of the inaugural 2022-2023 Civil Engineering Graduate Recruitment Initiative (CE-GRI) Fellowship. She joined UAB in the Spring 2022 […]