Month: June 2019

Ten teachers from Alachua County in Florida attended a one-day workshop on June 6, 2019 at the University of Florida that focused on science and technology concepts for grades levels 4th through 7 and explored transportation as a career option for their students.   The teachers heard about the latest in transportation research taking place at […]

On June 13, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed CS/HB 311: Autonomous Vehicles, which will expand testing of autonomous vehicles. The bill signing took place at the SunTrax facility in Polk County, Florida. “Signing this legislation paves the way for Florida to continue as a national leader in transportation innovation and technological advancement,” said Governor DeSantis. […]

The Automated Vehicles Ecosystem is composed of three components: the vehicle itself, an infrastructure, and users. It is paramount to design an end-to-end security solution to ensure resilience of the whole system. We have seen some solutions, but they are all designed in silos. Where do we go now and how will regulation and policy […]

This June 17-21 webinar series presents lectures, software demonstrations and application examples on the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) procedures – including upcoming 6th Edition updates. Step-by-step instruction of the HCM methodologies will be provided for each analytical chapter with demonstrations of the Highway Capacity Software (HCS) that implements and automates the HCM procedures.  Click Here […]

Abi Komma graduated from the UF with a Masters of Science in Transportation Engineering in August 2008. Komma is currently employed as a senior data scientist on the Computer Vision Platform team at Uber in San Francisco. The team is responsible for developing core computer vision capabilities such as text recognition, image classification, object detection […]

The STRIDE Center will be hosting a webinar on June 12, 2019 at 12 p.m. ET on “Comparing Transit Agency Peer Groups using Cluster Analysis”. The speaker is Dr. Kari Watkins of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The webinar is related to Dr. Watkins’ STRIDE-funded project on “Transit in the Era of Shared Mobility”. She […]