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UF & University of Kansas Researchers Advance to Semifinals of USDOT Inclusive Design Challenge

University of Florida faculty Dr. Sanaz Motamedi, Dr. Eakta Jain, Dr. Xilei Zhao, Dr. Wayne Gian and Dr. Boyi Ju were selected as semifinalists as part of the Inclusive Design challenge team led by the University of Kansas. The research… Read More

NSF-Funded Study Creates Strategy to Improve System Performance of Traffic Apps

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… Read More

Coordinated CAV Platooning Driving Using Real-Time Learning & Distributed Optimization

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… Read More