Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Transportation Achievement Awards was focused on CUTR’s engineering and planning students. This virtual event was held online on Thursday, November 12, 2020. CUTR presented the first CUTR Transportation Scholarship Awards to three deserving students; two students earned the Georgia Brosch Memorial Transportation Scholarship; and ELEMENT Engineering awarded Daniel Robu with
Read more →The Center of Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida looks forward to the Transportation Achievement Awards each year. However, with the current pandemic, CUTR will not host a 2020 Transportation Achievement Awards. With safety as our top priority, we will monitor the pandemic during the upcoming year and hope to meet in-person for the 2021 Transportation Achievement Awards.
Read more →2020 CUTR Transportation Scholarship Opportunities The Center for Urban Transportation Research at the University of South Florida is excited to offer two scholarship opportunities for transportation students this year. Educating students for careers in transportation is vital to enhancing the quality of life for our state and the nation. To assist in that education, and to help attract the best
Read more →Congratulations Kevin Dennis! Kevin Dennis completed a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 2018 at the University of South Florida and is currently a graduate student at USF. Kevin’s research interests are in the area of cyber-physical system security, with a recent focus on the security of intelligent transportation systems. In 2017, Kevin worked as an intern at LGS
Read more →Thank you to our silent auction sponsors for the 2019 Transportation Achievement Awards! We double scholarship money from 2018 auction with your generous donations!
Read more →27 student posters entered this year’s poster competition. Congratulations to the 2019 Transportation Achievement Awards poster competition winners: Tied for 1st: Hualong Tang: https://pos.li/2dxkz8 Chunfu Xin: https://pos.li/2dxkza 2nd place: Rakesh Rangaswamy: https://pos.li/2dxkz9 Thank you to Dr. Cong Chen, Dr. Pei-Sung Lin, and Dr. Achilleas Kourtellis for organizing the competition!
Read more →The 2019 Transportation Achievement Awards was held Thursday, November 7, 2019, and it was the second-highest-grossing event in CUTR’s history! CUTR was thrilled to host several transportation officials including U.S.DOT Deputy Assistant Secretary Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation Kevin J. Thibault, Florida Department of Transportation District Seven Secretary David Gwynn, and many, many others! CUTR is
Read more →The Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) at the University of South Florida is pleased to partner with Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), the Central Florida Chapter of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) to present the second annual New Voice in Transportation Award. This award is to recognize an individual at
Read more →View the 2018 Sponsors The 2018 Transportation Achievement Awards event, in partnership for the first time with TEAMFL, recognized Bob Hartnett as the recipient of the Florida Transportation Hall of Fame award. The event also presented the 2018 Georgia Brosch Transportation Scholarship, the New Voice in Transportation Award, the Student Research Poster Awards, and the National Center for Transit Research
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