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Optimization Models for Problems in Emergency Situations
October 1, 2013By: 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 […]
Read more »UF and NCSU Team up to Produce Tool to Estimate Vehicle Emissions using CORSIM Simulation Software
May 14, 2013The 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 […]
Read more »Student Spotlight
May 14, 2013Amy 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 […]
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