Month: December 2019

Asean Davis is a charismatic second-year Ph.D. student. Academically, Asean likes to focus his energies looking at the issues surrounding autonomous freight transportation. Specifically, he is interested in how driving on a road with autonomous freight affects the behavior of non-autonomous vehicle drivers and how perceptions about autonomous freight play a role in driver behavior. […]

Video Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management Dr. Sanjay Ranka (PI), Dr. Anand Rangarajan (co-PI), Dr. Sivaramakrishna Srinivasan (co-PI), Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (co-PI), and Daniel Hoffman (co-PI)Funding Source: NSF This project explores a fairly new area of research: looking at near-misses as a metric of safety. Researchers at the UFTI are collaborating […]

Dr. Nithin Agarwal gave a presentation during the Florida Puerto Rico ITE District Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His presentation, “UF Transportation Safety Center’s Effort on Improving Rural Road Safety in Florida” was given during the Safety and Vision Zero Initiatives Session. Presentation Abstract Crashes on roadways are random events and with extensive […]