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

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 regarding livability and environmental sustainability in order to minimize the significant effect 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 […]

Amy Cavaretta, M.S. (UF 2013), UF Department of Urban & Regional Planning As a little girl, Amy Cavaretta loved to draw and color on her father’s engineering blueprints, imagining communities neatly arranged with roads and sidewalks, attractive homes and buildings, and lots of green grass. “It was my amateur attempt to design livable and attractive […]