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The University Transportation Center (UTC) Conference for the Southeastern Region was held March 24-25, 2014 and hosted by the National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management (NCTSPM), a Tier-1 UTC at Georgia Tech. Approximately 160 people attended the conference. There were 36 papers and 47 posters presented. Sessions included Operations and Management, Bike/Pedestrians, Transit, […]

With summer vacation only months away, children are already anticipating how they will spend their newfound hours of freedom from school. UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital held a Bike Rodeo and Summer Safety Fair on Saturday, March 22, in the O’Connell Center parking lot to touch and impact the lives of the community, especially children, […]

After a comprehensive and thorough review of 18 scholarship applications, the WTS Central Florida Chapter in Orlando selected three UF students as winners of scholarships for graduate and undergraduate students. The scholarships and the winners are summarized below. Frankee Hellinger Graduate Scholarship –  Zhuofei Li (doctoral student) Zhuofei, a transportation engineering student, has worked diligently […]

Each January, as it is customary, transportation professionals and practitioners from all over the world convene in Washington, D.C. for the Transportation Research Board’s (TRB) annual meeting. It is easy to spot a “TRBer” busily walking in and out and around the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel or the Omni Shoreham or others, with their name […]

Title:  Regional Cooperation in Transportation Planning (FDOT Project BDK77-977-16) Authors:  Ruth L. Steiner, Kathryn I. Frank, Josette N. Severyn, Amy Cavaretta, Jessica L. Mackey, Sara R. Perch, Forrest K. Eddelton The Florida Transportation Plan 2060 calls for making the state more economically viable, communities more livable and environments more sustainable for future generations as related […]

Title: Expanded Transportation Performance Measures to Supplement Level of Service (LOS) for Growth Management and Transportation Impact Analysis (FDOT Contract BDK77 977-14) Authors:  Lily Elefteriadou, Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan, Ruth L. Steiner, Patricia C. Tice, Kwangkyun Lim Many jurisdictions in Florida are moving toward multimodal transportation systems that provide users with viable travel options in an effort […]

Siva Srinivasan, Ph.D.Assistant Professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering The impact of a development (for example, a shopping center) on the transportation system is typically captured as the number of additional trips added to the network. While the trip rate is appropriate to capture the effect of a development locally (say, at a nearby intersection), it […]

Lihui Zhang, Yafeng Yin and Scott WashburnDepartment of Civil and Coastal EngineeringUniversity of Florida Traffic congestion is one of the most severe problems that threatens the economic prosperity and quality of life in many societies. According to a report by the Federal Highway Administration, traffic congestion in the U.S. costs approximately $200 billion a year […]

By: Panos Pardalos, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor (ISE), and Ashwin Arulselvan, doctoral student (ISE) Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering This article is based on ongoing research under CMS Project # 2008-005 Purpose of study: Minimize the total evacuation time for a given highway network Approach: Make traffic flow more efficiently by identifying lanes to be […]

The USDOT has established strategic goals for livability and environmental sustainability to minimize the significant impact of transportation systems on the environment. These goals have motivated the need for accurate measurements or estimates of micro-scale (i.e., second or sub-second) vehicle Energy Use and Emissions (EU&E). The availability of such data is especially important considering the […]