News & Events
April 2013
Symposium on "Transportation Safety: From Research to Practice" (6 PDHs). The Transportation Research Center will host a day-long symposium titled “Transportation Safety: From Research to Practice” on April 3, 2013, at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Fla. This event will feature presentations based on a variety of projects related to transportation safety undertaken by researchers affiliated with the University of Florida. The topics covered will include data, predictive methods, driving simulation, GIS-based analyses, older driver needs, safe routes to school, evacuation modeling, and outreach to small agencies. The presentations will be made by researchers with expertise in transportation engineering, urban and regional planning, GIS, and occupational therapy. This symposium follows in a series of annual conferences organized by the Transportation Research Center on various themes. The Safety Symposium will immediately precede the UTC regional conference (to be held on April 4 and 5). For more information, visit:
/transportation-safety-symposium.
REGISTER NOW! Regional Conference for University Transportation Centers (UTCs) in the Southeastern Region, April 4-5, 2013 at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando, Fla (9 PDHs). The conference is hosted by four UTCs located in Federal Region 4 (southeast): The Southeastern Transportation, Research Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE), the National Center for Intermodal Transportation for Economic Competitiveness (NCITEC), the National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management (NCTSPM), and the National Center for Transit Research (NCTR). For more details, including registration and hotel information, visit
/utc-conference-for-the-southeast.
Webinar and Computer Lab Workshop on Managed Lanes Operations and Simulation using CORSIM, April 29 & 30, 2013 (6 PDHs: workshop + webinar). This is a UF TRC/ T2 collaborative effort. If you are interested in attending this 2-day workshop, please visit the following website for more information and to register:
http://www.t2events.ce.ufl.edu/assnfe/ev.asp?ID=2317
January 2013
Congratulations to the STRIDE Student Research Poster Competition Winners! 1st Place, Jay Shannon, Mississippi State University; 2nd Place, Tabitha Combs, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; 3rd Place, Xuanwu Chen, Florida International University. The poster competition was held at the University of Florida's reception during the 92 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Resarch Board in Washington, D.C.
TRC/STRIDE Reception and Student Poster Competition at TRB. The UF Transportation Research Center and STRIDE, the new regional (southeast) USDOT/RITA University Transportation Center housed at the University of Florida, will host a reception and student poster competition at the Mezzanine of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Monday, January 14, 2013 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm during the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board. The Invitations will be emailed soon. For more information, contact Ines Aviles-Spadoni at
iaviles@ce.ufl.edu.
November 2012
Webinar on "Improved Timeliness and Accessibility to Crash Data and Tools for Safety." STRIDE will host a webinar presented by Ilir Bejleri, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida on Nov. 29, 2012 from 11 am to 12 pm. Reserve your webinar now at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/473149626. (via GoToMeeting)
RS&H Seminar. Richard Tillery and David Stroud of RS&H will be presenting a seminar on travel demand forcasting and managed lanes, Nov 27, 2012, from 11 am to 12 pm in 513 Weil. For the abstracts, visit /seminars.
WTS UF Transportation Symposium on Ledership: The student chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) at the University of Florida is hosting a Transportation Symposium with a focus on leadership. The FREE event will take place on Tuesday, November 6, 2012 from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Matthews Suite, Reitz Union (4th floor) on campus. The even aslo will be available as a live webcast via Adobe Connect (details below). The goal of the symposium is to discuss the importance of leadership and to provide a social networking opportunity among established transportation professionals and college students. A panel of three very distinguished women in transportation-related careers will discuss their leadership experiences and styles and provide advice. A reception will follow the event with heavy hors d'oeuvres.
Transportation Symposium Speakers:
-Kathy Caldwell – ASCE National Past President
-Marcia Ferranto – WTS International President
-Laura Kelley – Deputy Executive Director of Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority
To participate via live webcast go to http://t2ctt.adobeconnect.com/ufwts/
If you are interested in attending the WTS UF Transportation Symposium, please email dezsoriano@bellsouth.net.
October 2012
LEGO Robotics Basic Programming Course at Cade Museum (October). This one-day course for middle schoolers (grades 6-8) will be taught on Friday, October 26th. Kids will learn how to program robots to follow basic commands.[view flier] [register for Oct. 26th]
Exploring Engineering - Carnival Style. STRIDE-affiliated students at UF, including several members of the student chapters of the WTS and ITE will be at the PK Yonge Developmental Research School on October 25th from 3 pm to 7 pm during the school's Annual Carnival to bring hands on engineering activities to the kids and their families. The school is associated with the university and is close to campus.
Transportation Seminar. Krishna C. Jha of Innovative Scheduling presents "Optimization Problems in Rail Transportation" on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, 11 am to 12 pm, 513 Weil.
September 2012
LEGO Robotics Basic Programming Course at Cade Museum (September). This one-day course for middle schoolers (grades 6-8) will be taught on Saturday, September 29th. Kids will learn how to program robots to follow basic commands.[view flier] [register for Sept. 29th]
August 2012
STRIDE Projects Awarded. STRIDE projects were selected in late June and master contracts for the partnering institutions (Auburn, Florida International University, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) have been prepared. Sub-contracts are in the process of being awarded through the UF Office of Engineering Research. To view the complete list of STRIDE projects, go to Current Projects.
Cancelled! Workshop on Freeway Management Strategies. The workshop will take place at the Royal Plaza Orlando Hotel located in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on Friday, August 17, 2012. The intended audience for this workshop are freeway operations managers, analysts, researchers and educators. Six PDHs will be offered for attending the entire one-day workshop. The workshop is hosted by The Transportation Research Center (TRC), the Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center, and McTrans at the University of Florda. For more information visit, News & Events on the TRC website.
July 2012
STRIDE Website Launched. The STRIDE Region 4 University Transportation Center launched it's website in late July. The site is easy to navigate and contains information on recently selected projects, education, workforce development and technology transfer activities. The site also has links to the STRIDE center's Twitter and Facebook pages.
June 2012
Transportation Summer Seminars. Robin Osborne, a recent master's degree graduate, will present a seminar on the Integration of Toll Plazas Modeling into CORSIM, Implementation of Toll Plaza Analysis into FREEPLAN. The seminar will be held in 513 Weil Hall on Thursday, June 7, 2012 starting at 11 am. For a schedule of the Transportation Summer Seminars, visit Seminars on the STRIDE website.
May 2012
STRIDE Proposals. Invited full proposals are currently under review. The STRIDE proposal review committee expects to announce funded projects by early June 2012.
April 2012
"Biofuel Supply Chain Design under Competitive Agricultural Land Use and Feedstock Market Equilibrium."Yanfeng Ouyang, an associate professor and the Paul F. Kent Endowed Faculty Scholar of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) will be the speaker of a STRIDE-sponsored transporation seminar hosted by Mississippi State University, a STRIDE consortium member. The seminar will be held on April 13, 2012 at 1 pm (Central Time) via live webcast. For a information on how to access the presentation, including a complete abstract and bio, visit Seminars on the STRIDE website.
March 2012
"Geometric Design, Speed, and Safety - TRB Paper 12-4151."John M. Mason, Jr., PhD, PE, will be the seminar speaker on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. The seminar will be held in 513 Weil Hall from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm. Dr. Mason is the Associate Provost and Vice President for Research at Auburn University. For a complete abstract on Dr. Mason's talk, go to News & Events and visit Seminars.
"Auction Use in the Supply Chain among Buyers, Suppliers and Transportation Service Providers: Can Sustainability be Incorporated in a Multiple Criteria Approach?" Suzanne Andrews, MEng. (MIT) and MSc. (ITESM), will be the seminar speaker on Thursday, March 22, 2012 from 11:20 am to 12:20 pm in 513 Weil Hall. She will be presenting on the use of the electronic reverse auction (eRA), which is a fast and single-round mechanism that selects suppliers who bid the lowest prices. Suppliers have oftern perceived the eRA as exploitative and unfair. This seminar proposes an interactive multiple criteria decision-making method (IMCDM) to improve the eRA. The use of auctions in the procurement of transportation services is briefly discussed, as well as some of the sustainability considerations that take place in the shipper-carrier relationship. For a complete abstract, go to News & Events and visit Seminars.
Transportation Seminar: "Data-driven Analysis, Modeling and Design for Future Mobile Networking." Dr. Ahmed Helmy, an associate professor at the UF Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, will be speaking on the future of network services and how they will be expected to function efficiently and void of errors and adapt to online behavioral and mobility patterns. Understanding and realistically modeling this multi-dimensional space is essential to the design and evaluation of efficient protocols and services of the future Internet. The seminar will be held in 513 Weil from 11:20 am to 12 pm on Thursday, March 15, 2012. For a complete abstract, go to News & Events and visit Seminars.
Transportation Seminar: "Development of Autonomously Navigating Ground Vehicles." The guest speaker is Carl D. Crane, Ph.D., professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering/Director of the Center for Intelligent Machines and Robotics (CIMAR) at the University of Florida. The seminar describes the technologies that are needed for vehicles to drive autonomously in structured urban environments and in unstructured fieldsuv environments. The first part of the seminar focuses on Team Gator Nation's entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. The second part of the seminar describes current work that automates range clearance operations for the military. For a complete abstract, go to News & Events and visit Seminars.
February 2012
Transportation Seminar: "Evacuation Planning for Livestock in a Case of a Nuclear Power Plant Accident." This project considered the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown that led to the loss of thousands of livestock in prefectures affected by the nuclear plume as a consequence of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Two mathematical models using integer programming over networks were considered to create an evacuation plan for livestock in the area around a nuclear power plant. This work was produced by Chrysafis Vogiatzis of the University of Florida, Ruriko Yoshida, assistant professor, University of Kentucky, and Ines Aviles-Spadoni, University of Florida. For a complete abstract, go to News & Events and visit Seminars.
STRIDE Call for Pre-proposals. The Southeast Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE) at the University of Florida is in the process of soliciting pre-proposals for transportation-related projects with focus on safety, livable communities, and economic competitiveness in the following categories: research, education, workforce development and technology transfer. Submission deadline is February 29, 2012 by 5 pm. Pre-proposals that show collaboration among researchers in the STRIDE Consortium, are highly encouraged. If you would like to discuss a potential proposal, please contact Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., professor and STRIDE center director, at 352-392-9537, Ext. 1452 or at elefter@ce.ufl.edu or contact the STRIDE center manager, Ines Aviles-Spadoni, at Ext. 1409 (iaviles@ce.ufl.edu).
Transportation Seminar. Jennie Oxley, Ph.D. and Judith Charlton, Ph.D., researchers in behavioral safety science at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC) in Australia, will be presenting on "Urban Planning for a Safe System for Older Road Users" from 11 am to 12 pm on Thursday, February 2, 2012, in Weil 513. The seminar is sponsored by the Institute for Mobility, Activity and Participation (I-MAP) at UF, the Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation, and the Transportation Research Center (TRC). For speaker bios, go to News & Events and visit Seminars.
January 2012
TRC awarded $3.5 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation. A grant by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) of the U.S. Department of Transportation has been awarded to the Transportation Research Center (TRC) at the University of Florida. UF will lead a consortium of universities within the established southeast federal Region 4. The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center (STRIDE) includes: Auburn University, Florida International University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mississippi State University, North Carolina State University, University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of North Carolina. The center will receive approximately $3.5 million from federal Fiscal Year 2011 funds expendable up to two full years from the date of the award. Matching funds from non-federal sources are expected to be obtained by STRIDE in an amount at least equal to the U.S. DOT grant amount. STRIDE’s research, education, workforce development and technology transfer activities will focus on three major areas critical to the needs of Region 4: safety, livable communities, and economic competitiveness. This announcement soon will invite pre-proposals for each of these categories for work to be conducted starting in the 2012 calendar year. For more information, contact Ines Aviles-Spadoni at iaviles@ce.ufl.edu or at 352-392-9537, Ext. 1409.
UF Reception at TRB. The Transportation Research Center (TRC) and the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering in the Engineering School for Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) at the University of Florida, are hosting a reception on January 23, 2012 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm at the Mezzanine of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel during the 91st Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB).