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…
Safety By Design Florida, a program housed at CUTR and managed by Jason Jackman, collaborated with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office and the Florida Department of Transportation District 1 (FDOT Southwest Florida) to emphasize the importance of safe driving to help reduce deaths and serious injuries. Special thanks to Polk County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff…
Congratulations to CUTR’s Associate Director Lisa Staes on her recent publication for the Federal Transit Administration. Ms. Staes is a co-author with K&J Safety and Security Consulting Services, Inc. on FTA’s “Rail Transit Agency Accident Investigations— Background Research.” Read the full report
Congratulations to CUTR’s Autonomous-Connected Mobility Evaluation (ACME) program on their recent publication. “Securely Sharing and Visualizing Connected Vehicle Analytics: THEA CV Pilot Performance Evaluation Dashboard” is now available online. This paper details the development of an innovative interactive #dashboard to process connected vehicle (CV) data securely, report CV application evaluation analytics, and monitor CV infrastructure system performance.…
