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By: Dr. Sandip Ray, Professor & Endowed IoT Term Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida How would you feel if a hacker could remotely push a button that would cause your vehicle to veer off the highway into a ditch?  Research over the last decade has shown that not only is […]

This study was recently published in IEEE – Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9312471) Doctoral candidate Stephen Spana and his adviser, Dr. Lili Du of the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, worked on a National Science Foundation study aimed at mitigating system traffic congestion by leveraging users’ reaction to real-time traffic data provision […]

Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies present great opportunities for reducing traffic congestion through advanced sensors, communication, and portable computing devices – those which assist with conducting cooperative or coordinated driving. However, much of the CAV-related work focuses on assisting self-driving maneuvers and an individual vehicle’s safety. The technology does not promise traffic stream efficiency […]

Several apps such as Waze and Google Map provide ways for travelers to share routing decisions with each other. These apps aggregate the data to provide information on the best routes to take and the time it takes to arrive at their destinations. Apps do this via coordinated routing schemes (CRMs).  But exactly who are […]

Urban traffic control is one of the most important and challenging issues facing cities. Increases in the volume of traffic has significant impacts on congestion and consequently in the amount of time that travelers spend on the road. Furthermore, traffic signal control timing does not change in real-time based on changes in traffic patterns or […]

These days, road networks in our cities contain a variety of smart and connected infrastructure which generate an abundance of Big Data. This data can be processed to improve the flow of traffic and safety for both vehicles and pedestrians. At the UFTI, transportation and computer science engineers are working on a Florida Department of […]

Leonie Barkakati has a bachelor’s degree in Family, Youth, Community Sciences (FYCM) from the University of Florida. She is a graduate student in the civil engineering program specializing in transportation. Her advisor is Dr. Xilei Zhao. Barkakati is the first graduate student in the transportation program to come from FYCS. Making the jump from a […]

For his master’s thesis, civil engineering graduate student Shinya Maehara is developing car-following models in the presence of an Autonomous Transit Shuttle (ATS). He is looking at how the autonomous shuttle in Lake Nona, Florida behaves when sharing the road with human-driven vehicles. Maehara’s thesis is titled Calibration of Car-Following Models under Traffic Flow with […]

Akhilesh Moreshwar Shastri is a master’s student in the civil engineering transportation program. He worked with Dr. Scott Washburn on a ramp signal timing project that aimed to create algorithms and an on-ramp metering operations design. The project, Interchange Design to Accommodate Ramp Metering System, was funded by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). “We […]

COIVD-19 continues to affect the lives of millions of people around the world with deleterious effects to the economy. Understanding where people are traveling to, and the decision-making process associated with travel, including the effects on transit and ridership, will be key to assisting agencies in assessing emergency responses and preparing for major public health […]