Dr. Cong Chen attended the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Leader Orientation at the ASCE Headquarters in Reston, VA on September 21, 2019. Dr. Chen has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the designated Younger Member seat on the ASCE Transportation and Development Institute (T&DI) Board of Governors and the Chairperson…
CUTR was pleased to welcome Professor David Kan from Florida Atlantic University to campus on Friday, September 13, 2019. Dr. Ken presented an excellent seminar entitled “Improving Fuel Efficiency Through Traffic Management: Case Study of Freeway Ramp Metering,” and we enjoyed our interactions! Welcome to Florida, Professor Kan! 🌴
CUTR colleagues Sara Hendricks, Jason Jackman, Julie Bond and Dr. Robert Bertini joined in celebrating the retirement of Barbara Donerly, AIA, AICP, Assistant Director for Campus Planning at USF after 27 years of service. CUTR warmly congratulates Barbara and thanks her for all of her dedication toward making the USF campus what it is…
Motorcycles and Horizontal Curves – A Literature Review Zhenyu Wang, Changyoung Lee, Pei-Sung Lin, Rui Guo, Chunfu Xin, Rama Durga Tammayya Naidu Kolla, Runan Yang, Abhijit Vasili Accident Reconstruction Journal, Volume 29 Issue 5, September 2019 Motorcycle ownership and use is increasing nationwide, leading also to an increase in motorcycle-related crashes, injuries and fatalities.…
Congratulations to CUTR’s Dr. Shaw Li’s team and Connected Wise. They were selected to receive Corridor matching funds for their proposal entitled “On-Board Smart Vision System to Support Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Communication.” Congratulations teams!
Assistant Professor Dr. Michael Maness and Trang Luong, E.I.T, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering presented their research entitled “Using Social Capital Data to Account for Heterogeneity in Activity Behavior Within and Between Genders” at the 6th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation. #WIiT2019
CUTR Research Associate Jodi Godfrey presented on her research entitled “Attracting and Retaining Women in the Transportation Industry” at the 6th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation. View the final report.
Hi, I am Peng Chen, and I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of South Florida and affiliated faculty at CUTR. I have interdisciplinary backgrounds in urban planning, transportation engineering, human geography, and statistics. Right now, I teach Transportation and Land Use, Economic Development, and Quantitative Analysis…
Together with FSU and UF, USF MURP and the Center for Urban Transportation Research – CUTR received the APA Florida Student Project Award for research in support of the FDOT Future Transportation Plan update USF Student Planners Earn State Outstanding Student Project Award This September, students from the USF Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP)…
September 12, 2019, 12:00PM (ET) Transit and Livability: Results from the National Community Livability Survey This session will present results from a national survey that was conducted to understand factors important to livability in both urban and rural areas across the country and to study the role of transportation and public transit. While many factors…
September 10, 2019, 7:00PM (ET) – Special date and time Shared (Smart) Mobility, MaaS and Public Transport – A new Future! This talk focuses on Mobility as a Service (MaaS), and what it might mean for the future role of conventional public transport. We present evidence on potential user support for MaaS subscription plans and…
Research Associate Jason Jackman, MPA and Research Support Specialist Rebecca Liller, MPH presented “We Are Traffic! Safety Education and Advocacy Strategies for Vulnerable Road Users” at the USF College of Public Health Activist Lab Seminar on August 30, 2019. We are always excited to partner with our colleagues at the College of Public Health!