CUTR’s Sean Barbeau, Ph.D., is joining the Google Location team as a visiting researcher to improve and study GPS accuracy. For the next year, Dr. Barbeau will work with the “blue dot” and precision on your smartphone. Good luck, Dr. Barbeau, and we look forward to seeing you back at CUTR next year!
Now available: FTA Standards Development Program: Medical Fitness for Duty and Fatigue Risk Management (Report 0223). The FTA-sponsored report assesses current standards and identifies gaps in practices for fatigue risk management, hours of service for transit workers, route and personnel scheduling, medical examination certifications, testing for sleep disorders, and training. Read the full report
While Florida transit agencies are required to develop a 10-year transit development plan intended to support the development of an effective multi-modal transportation system, no such requirement exists for commuter assistance programs (CAP), including transportation management organizations (TMO). The CAP program, including the TMOs, operate with one-year planning horizons making long-term plans and initiating projects…
The Florida Department of Health and Florida Department of Children and Families worked in tandem to develop materials to address the current overdose crisis affecting not only Floridians, but the nation. Responding to overdose requires education and readily available resources at the hands of communities, families, law enforcement, emergency medical services, and health care providers.…
Developed by Sisinnio Concas, Ph.D., and Phil Winters, TDM-CP, the Trip Reduction Impacts of Mobility Management Strategies (TRIMMS) model is a visual basic (VB) application spreadsheet model that estimates the impacts of a broad range of transportation demand initiatives and provides program cost-effectiveness assessment, such as net program benefit and benefit-to-cost ratio analysis. The U.S.…
The University of South Florida has ranked #6 in the United States and #27 in the world for the Shanghai Ranking’s “Transportation Science and Technology” subject area. This prestigious ranking uses a range of objective academic indicators such as influential publication impact and awards as their major criteria. Read more: https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2022/RS0223
This talk addresses four key issues in transportation data analytics; Unobserved heterogeneity, Data size, and prediction/causality trade-offs, Temporally shifting model parameters, and compensating behavior of users. A description and explanation of these issues are provided along with ideas as to how they might be addressed.
Connected vehicles can not only help improve the safety and mobility of our transportation system but generate valuable data that can help transportation agencies plan and respond to unexpected events, such as the COVID0-19 pandemic. Led by Sisinnio Concas, Ph.D., CUTR’s Autonomous-Connected Mobility Evaluation (ACME) program has recently published the article “A Longitudinal Study of…
Fun at the Fairgrounds: Clean Fuel School Bus Expo Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm Location: Special Events Center West Florida State Fairgrounds; 4800 US 301, Tampa, FL 33610 Parking: A designated parking area will be marked in front of the mall area adjacent to the alternative fuel school bus ride and drive. Hosts: Florida Transportation Systems…
Congratulations to graduate students Huang Feng and Pengli Zhao on their winning submission to the Transportation Research Board Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs. “Design the Allocation of External Alternative Aircraft Taxiing System at Airports” was selected as the first-place winner in the “Airport Operation and Maintenance” design challenge…
[ultimate_spacer height=”25″] S1E1: What are CUTR and NICR? Guests: Xiaopeng “Shaw” Li, Ph.D., NICR Director, Susan A. Bracken Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor; Fred L. Mannering, Ph.D., CUTR Executive Director, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Producers: Wayne Garcia, Blake Smallen, and Christina Loizou Available on Transcript Announcer: The following research is part of the National Institute…