On August 4, 2023, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced the selection of the new team that will carry out its FTA Standards Development Program. The Team will be led by Brian Alberts, APTA’s Sr. Director of Safety and its lead for safety-related standards, and Lisa Staes, CUTR’s Associate Director and lead for FTA’s prior…
Abstract Asleep/fatigued driving has proven to be a serious and persistent highway-safety problem. This study investigates aspects of this problem by studying the temporal changes in driver-injury severities in single-vehicle crashes that involve asleep/fatigued driving. To do this, random parameters logit models with unobserved heterogeneity in means and variances were estimated to compare injury-severities in…
Assessing traffic conflict/crash relationships with extreme value theory: Recent developments and future directions for connected and autonomous vehicle and highway safety research
With the goal of fostering safer campuses, providing peer-to-peer led safety education, and promoting safe travel behaviors, the Campus Peer to Peer Campaign has brought together four prominent Florida universities, including Florida International University (FIU), University of Central Florida (UCF), University of South Florida (USF), and Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). University students lead bicycle…
Pei-Sung Lin, PhD, has attended several conferences this summer. He gave three presentations related to nighttime pedestrian safety and pedestrian safety at signalized intersections at the 14th Asia Pacific Transportation Development Conference and the 35th International Chinese Transportation Professionals Association (ICTPA) Annual Conference held in Taichung, Taiwan on May 27–29, 2023. He was…
We are delighted to announce “Organizational Structures of Statewide Associations of MPOs Across the U.S.” project has been selected for CUTR’s esteemed Internal Grant Award Program under the Transportation Planning, Policy, and Processes (TP3) program. CUTR’s Internal Grant Award Program is dedicated to advancing research scholarship, fostering new endeavors, and exploring potential opportunities for external…
We are excited to announce the selection of the Autonomous-Connected Mobility Evaluation (ACME) program’s project “Intelligent Intersection Safety System: Improving Vulnerable Road Users’ Safety Through Advanced Technologies” for CUTR’s Internal Grant Award Program. CUTR’s Internal Grant Award Program aims to promote research scholarship, the creation of new work, and secure possible external funding. Congratulations to…
[ultimate_spacer height=”25″] S2E5: Student Spotlight: Rakesh Rangaswamy’s journey into transportation engineering Guests: Rakesh Rangaswamy, doctoral candidate Producers: Wayne Garcia Available on Transcript Season 2, Episode 5 [00:00:00] Announcer: The following research is part of the National Institute for Congestion Reduction funded by the United States Department of Transportation through the University Transportation Center Program. Learn more…
