Safety UF Transportation

Group Leader: Dr. Siva Srinivasan

Dr. Siva Srinivasan is an associate professor in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering with an affiliate appointment in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning. His research expertise is in the areas of travel demand forecasting, transportation safety, and transportation analytics. He was the former chair of the TRB committee on Effects of Information and Communication Technologies on Travel Choices and is a current member of the editorial advisory board of the journal Transportation Research Part B. In March 2023, Dr. Srinivasan was appointed as Associate Director of UFTI.

Mission

To develop and deliver databases, analytical methods, software tools, and professional capacity to provide end-to-end solutions (problem diagnosis to countermeasure deployment) for enhancing safety in all transportation modes and to facilitate integrated assessments of traffic operations and safety benefits of transportation projects.

Organization

Our Team

Data

FLORIDA TRAFFIC SAFETY DASHBOARD. SIGNAL 4 Analytics

BIG DATA ANALYTICS

Projects

Topic	Projects	Status	PI
HSM	Transportation Safety Center (Phase 3)	Ongoing	Nithin Agarwal
HSM	Crash Prediction Method for Freeway Facilities with HOV and HOT Lanes	Completed	Sivaramakhrishnam Srinivasan
HSM	GIS-Based Instructional Tool for Crash Prediction Methods	Completed	Ilir Bejleri
HSM	Highway Safety Software (HSS)	Completed	McTrans
HSM	Development of Case Studies, Numerical Exercises	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
HSM	Instructional Modules for Teaching Roadway Safety Analysis	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
HSM	FDOT #82013 Development and Calibration of Highway Safety Manual Equations for Florida	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
HSM	Characterizing Curve Crashes in Florida (AWD08322)	Ongoing	Ilir Bejleri
Safety and Traffic operations	Before and After Implementation of Advanced Signal Control	Completed	Lily Elefteriadou
Safety and Traffic operations	Warrants, Design, and Safety of Road Ranger Patrols	Completed	Sivaramakhrishnam Srinivasan
Safety and Traffic operations	Road Ranger Program for Arterials (AWD10023)	Ongoing	Sivaramakhrishnam Srinivasan
Safety and Traffic operations	Crash Prediction Method for Freeway Facilities with HOV and HOT Lanes	Completed	Sivaramakhrishnam Srinivasan
Safety and Traffic operations	Traffic Study on Lawrence Street in Spring Hill, FL for the Hernando County Department of Public Works (AWD09721)	Completed	Sivaramakhrishnam Srinivasan
Safety and Traffic operations	Video Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management (AWD06024)	Ongoing
Safety and Traffic operations	Before and After Study of Gainesville Pedestrian-Bicyclists Connected Vehicle Pilot (AWD06406)	Ongoing
Safety and Traffic operations	Evaluating the Operations and Safety Benefits of AI-driven Driver Information-focused Countermeasures for CAV Technologies (AWD10000)	Ongoing	Eakta Jain
Safety and Traffic operations	I-STREET Initiative Evaluation of Intelligent School Zone Beacon and Vehicle - Cyclist Detection and Warning System (AWD04951)	Completed
Safety and Traffic operations	Florida ATMA demonstration and Evaluation	Completed	Nithin Agarwal
Tool	Crash Prediction Method for Freeway Facilities with HOV and HOT Lanes	Completed	Sivaramakhrishnam Srinivasan
Tool	GIS-Based Instructional Tool for Crash Prediction Methods	Completed	Ilir Bejleri
Tool	Highway Safety Software (HSS)	Completed	McTrans
Tool	Development of Case Studies, Numerical Exercises,	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
Tool	Instructional Modules for Teaching Roadway Safety Analysis	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
Tool	Development of Support Systems, Instructional Modules, and a Case Study for the Enhanced Driving Simulator at the Gator Tech Smart House	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
Instructional material	Highway Safety Software (HSS)	Completed	McTrans
Instructional material	Instructional Modules for Teaching Roadway Safety Analysis	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
Instructional material	Development of Support Systems, Instructional Modules, and a Case Study for the Enhanced Driving Simulator at the Gator Tech Smart House	Completed	Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
Instructional material	Highway Safety Analysis	Training	McTrans
Analytics / surrogate measures	Video Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management (AWD06024)	Ongoing
Analytics / surrogate measures	Evaluating the Operations and Safety Benefits of AI-driven Driver Information-focused Countermeasures for CAV Technologies (AWD10000)	Ongoing	Eakta Jain
Analytics / surrogate measures	I-STREET Initiative Evaluation of Intelligent School Zone Beacon and Vehicle - Cyclist Detection and Warning System (AWD04951)	Completed
Analytics / surrogate measures	Big Data Management Pilot, Florida Department of Transportation	Completed
Vulnerable road users	Transportation Safety Center (Phase 3)	Ongoing	Nithin Agarwal
Vulnerable road users	I-STREET Initiative Evaluation of Intelligent School Zone Beacon and Vehicle - Cyclist Detection and Warning System (AWD04951)	Completed
Vulnerable road users	Before and After Study of Gainesville Pedestrian-Bicyclists Connected Vehicle Pilot	Ongoing	Lily Elefteriadou
Vulnerable road users	Projects on safe routes to school	Ongoing	Ruth L. Steiner

More projects can be found on the TRID database at https://trid.trb.org/

Selected Papers

1.Bejleri, I., Xu, X., Brown, D., Srinivasan, S., Agarwal, N (2021) Automatic Horizontal Curve Identification for Large Areas from GIS Roadway Centerlines, Transportation Research Record.

2.Krasniuk, S., Classen, S., Morrow, S. A., Alvarez, L., He, W., Srinivasan, S., & Monahan, M. (2021). Clinical predictors of driving simulator performance in drivers with Multiple Sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. Online First (February 10, 2021). doi: 10.1177/1352458521992507.

3.Carrick, G. Srinivasan, S. and Jermprapai K (*) (2018) Safety of Freeway Service Patrol Operations: a Case Study of Florida Road Rangers, Transportation Research Record. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118789952

4.Sun X. (*), Shahabi, M., Carrick,G. , Yin Y., Srinivasan, S., and Shirmohammadi N (*) (2018) Methods for Design of Safety Service Patrol Beats: the Florida Road Ranger Case Study Transportation Research Record https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118788183

5.Carrick, G, Jermprapai, K (*), Srinivasan, S., and Yin Y. (2017) Development of Guidance for Deployment Decisions on Safety Service Patrols in Florida, accepted for publication on Transportation Research Record.

6.Jemprapai, K (*) and Srinivasan, S (2014) “Planning-Level Model for Assessing Pedestrian Safety”, Transportation Research Record Vol 2464, pp 109-117.

7.Zhu, X. (*) and Srinivasan, S. (2011) “Modeling Occupant-level Injury Severity: An Application to Large-Truck Crashes”, Accident Analysis and Prevention. Volume 43, Issue 4, pp. 1427–1437

8.Zhu, X. (*) and Srinivasan, S. (2011) “A Comprehensive Analysis of Factors Affecting the Injury-Severity of Large-Truck Crashes”, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol. 43, Issue 1, pp. 49-57.

9.Carrick, G. (*), Srinivasan, S., and Washburn, S. (2010) “Descriptive Analysis and Characterization of Law Enforcement Vehicle Crashes in Florida” Transportation Research Record, Vol. 2182, pp. 40-47.

10.Langford, J., McCarthy, D., Koppel, S., and Srinivasan, S. (2008) “In Defense of the Low Mileage Bias”, Accident Analysis and Prevention, Volume 40, Issue 6, pp.1996-1999.