2021 Fall Friday Transportation Seminar Series

The goals of the weekly Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/Center for Urban Transportation Research Friday Seminar Series are:
- Provide transportation students with seminars, presentations, and discussions of contemporary transportation research, technology and implementation issues, presented by local, regional and/or national level speakers and visiting scholars.
- To increase knowledge at the local and regional levels on issues related to transportation research, technology and implementation.
- To increase the reach of technology transfer, especially to those transportation professionals who are unable to travel to state and national conferences, due to time and cost constraints.
- To encourage discussion among participants and receive input on subjects requiring future research.
The seminar is offered as TTE 6930 Graduate Transportation Seminar for 1 credit.
The CEE/CUTR Friday Transportation Seminars are held every Friday during the USF semester from 12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM (ET). For Fall 2020, please join us virtually on Microsoft Teams. The link will be posted on our website and Facebook pages.
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Spring 2021 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
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1/15/2020 | Xiaopeng Li, Ph.D. and Yu Zhang, Ph.D. | Introduction to Friday Transportation Seminar Series | USF |
1/22/2020 | Thomas Van Dam, Ph.D., Dhanushika Mapa, Ph.D., Qing Lu, Ph.D. | Environmental and Water Resources and Transportation Engineering - please note time change | Various |
1/27/2020 | Prof. Monica Menendez | Automated modular vehicles: Some future applications | NYU-Abu Dhabi |
2/5/2020 | No seminar | ||
2/12/2020 | No seminar | ||
2/19/2020 | Daniel Friedenzohn | UAS Delivery Services are Coming to a Home Near You (I think) | ERAU |
2/26/2020 | Fin Bonset | The Airport Master Planning Process – A Review in Times of COVID | VHB |
3/5/2020 | Kelli Bradley | TBD | FDOT District 7 |
3/12/2020 | TBD | TBD | |
3/19/2020 | Bhat, Chandra R | TBD | UT Austin |
3/26/2020 | TBD | TBD | |
4/2/2020 | TBD | TBD | |
4/9/2020 | Larry Head | TBD | University of Arizonia |
4/16/2020 | USF Spring Break | TBD | |
4/23/2020 | Henry Liu | TBD | University of Michigan |
4/30/2020 | Mike Cassidy | TBD | UC Berkeley |
5/7/2020 | Spring end of term | TBD |
Fall 2020 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
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8/28/2020 | Prof. Yu Zhang | Introduction of Seminar and Sponsors: ITE, WTS, FAC, CUTR, CTECH, CTEDD, TOMMET, NICR | USF |
9/4/2020 | Saeid Soleimaniamiri | Cooperative Control of Connected and Automated Vehicles at General Conflict Areas (not recorded) | USF |
9/11/2020 | Xiaowei(Tom) Shi | The impacts of the automated vehicles on future traffic flow | USF |
9/18/2020 | Ming Gao | A transit project as part of interstate improvements | FDOT District 7 |
9/25/2020 | Jean Duncan | Infrastructure and Mobility in the City of Tampa | City of Tampa |
10/2/2020 | Jay Merkle | Current Status of Policies and Regulations of UAS | FAA |
10/9/2020 | Zhiqiang (Adam) Wu | Exploration of On-Demand Urban Air Mobility: Network Design, Operation Scheduling and Uncertainty Considerations (not recorded) | USF |
10/16/2020 | Kenneth Kuhn | Fieldnotes on Online Optimization of Shared Mobility Systems | Scoop Technologies Inc. |
10/23/2020 | Amanda Irini Blomberg Stathopoulos | Modeling ridesourcing effects on different communities: opportunities and challenges for urban mobility systems | Northwestern University |
10/30/2020 | Huiwei Shen | M-CORES, COVID 19, and Planning of State Transportation Agency | FDOT |
11/6/2020 | Michael Patterson | NASA UAS and UAM Activities | NASA Langley Research Center |
11/13/2020 | Hualong Tang | Design of Automated Advance Air Mobility Planning System | USF |
11/20/2020 | Panagiotis Ch. Anastasopoulos | Advanced Air Mobility Rises | University at Buffalo |
12/4/2020 | Mouyid Islam | Updates on Traffic Safety Research | USF |
12/11/2020 | End of term | End of term | End of term |
Spring 2020 Seminars
Spring 2020 Seminars | |||
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
1/17/2020 | Ms. Danya Shi, AICP | Walk Your Way | BCC Engineering |
1/24/2020 | Dr. Xiaopeng Li | Trajectory Planning for Connected Autonomous Modular Vehicles: Theory, Modeling, and Experiments | USF |
1/31/2020 | Tolga Ercan | Connected Wise LLC | UCF Business Incubation Center |
2/7/2020 | |||
2/14/2020 | Steve Lockwood | Beyond ITS: Major Trends in TSMO and CAV | CUTR |
2/21/2020 | Trang Luong Divyamitra Mishra | Analysis of Leisure Activity using Social Capital Measures/An Inferential Study of the Potential Consumer Value of Free Charging for Users of Public EV Charging Infrastructure | USF |
2/28/2020 | Susan Spencer | ||
3/6/2020 | Jiangchuan Hu | Forecasting Florida State Safety Performance | |
3/13/2020 | Yanshuo Sun | FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University | |
3/20/2020 | Spring Break | ||
3/27/2020 | Dr. Cara Wang | The Evolving Freight Demand | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
4/3/2020 | Chunfu Xin | Post-Overlay Flexible Pavement Performance Modeling | USF |
4/10/2020 | Jim Halley, A.A.E., ACE | Considering Technology and Resilience in the Florida Transportation Plan | FDOT |
4/17/2020 | Brian Staes | Measuring Transportation Network Performance During Emergency Evacuations | USF |
4/24/2020 | Xiaowei Shi | Measuring Trajectory Planning for an Autonomous Vehicle with Conflict with Moving Objects over a Fixed Path | USF |
5/1/2020 | USF Reading Day | ||
5/8/2020 | End of Term |
Fall 2019 Seminars
Fall 2019 Seminars | |||
Date | Speaker | Topic | Affiliation |
8/30/2019 | Rahul Razdan | Autonomous Vehicle Verification and Validation | Florida Polytech University |
9/6/2019 | Yu Zhang | Introduction (seminar and student chapters) | University of South Florida (USF) |
Rob Bertini | UTC on Congestion Relief | ||
Yu Wang | Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) | ||
Runan Yang | Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) | ||
Hualong Tang | Florida Airport Council (FAC) | ||
9/13/2019 | David Kan | Improving Fuel Efficiency Through Traffic Management: Case Study of Freeway Ramp Metering | Florida Atlantic University (FAU) |
9/20/2019 | Joseph Post | Advanced Air Traffic Management | FAA, NextGen Office |
9/27/2019 | Tingting Zhao & Di Zhuang | Learning to Identify Critical Link Combinations of Roadway System through Network Embedding | University of South Florida (USF) |
10/4/2019 | ITS Student Chapter | Student Competition | University of South Florida (USF) |
10/11/2019 | Alfredo Cely | Pavement, Construction | AlfKa, LLC |
10/18/2019 | Peng Chen | Personalized Incentive-Based Peak Avoidance and Driving Time-Savings | University of South Florida (USF) |
10/25/2019 | Sean Qian | Connected/Automated Vehicles | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) |
11/1/2019 | Sarah Brammell | Environmental Analysis of Transportation Systems | Blue Wing Environmental |
11/8/2019 | Dave Knorr | NextGen Implementations and Further NAS Moderation | FAA, NextGen Office |
11/15/2019 | TBA | ||
11/22/2019 | TBA |
Spring 2019 Seminars
Spring 2019 Seminars | ||
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Date | Speaker | Topic |
1/11/2019 | Qing Lu | Seminar introduction |
1/18/2019 | Hung Nguyen | Optimized Maintenance and Rehabilitation Strategies for Co-Located Water and Transportation Networks |
1/23/2019 | Simon Washington | Moral and Management |
1/25/2019 | Larry Hagen | The Importance of Ethics in Engineering |
2/1/2019 | Anthony Perl | Exploring High-Speed Rail’s urban impacts across China |
2/8/2019 | Marshall T. Hampton | Current interstate modernization program called Tampa Bay Next |
2/15/2019 | Claude Villiers | TBA |
2/22/2019 | Satya S. Lory | TBA |
3/1/2019 | Yafeng Yin | Transportation Network |
3/8/2019 | Eyra Cash | Pinellas Gateway Design-Build Project in Pinellas County |
3/15/2019 | Spring Break, no seminar | - |
3/22/2019 | Zhaomiao Guo | A stochastic general equilibrium approach to competitive facility location problems, with application in charging infrastructure planning |
3/29/2019 | ITE Data Visualization Competition | Data Visualization Competition |
4/5/2019 | Mark Peronto | State Road 37 (SR-37) Full Depth Reclamation Project |
4/5/2019 | Mohammed Hadi | A Methodology to Support the Decision to Invest in Connected Vehicle Applications |
4/12/2019 | Boo Hyun Nam | Sinkhole Susceptibility Evaluation for Transportation Infrastructure |
4/19/2019 | Mike Maness | Introduction of D. Maness' Research Program |
4/26/2019 | Reading Day, no seminar | - |
2018 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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1/12/2018 | Klaus Bogenberger, Bundeswehr University Munich (German) | Autonomous Vehicles – Simulation of A Robot Taxi System in Munich |
1/19/2018 | Vik Bhide, City of Tampa | Smart Cities - Tampa's Perspective |
1/26/2018 | Ken Sides, Sam Schwartz Engineering | A Look into the Modern Roundabout |
2/2/2018 | Christopher Cochran, Hillsborough Regional Transit Authority (HART) | Making Tomorrows Technology Work for Transit Today |
2/9/2018 | Ming Gao, FDOT District 7 | Regional Transit Planning |
2/16/2018 | Paul Atchley, USF | Fooling Ourselves: Why do we drive distracted even though we know it's dangerous? |
2/23/2018 | Kang Won-eui, CUTR | Master Plan of Road Traffic Safety in Hanoi, Vietnam |
3/2/2018 | Yujie Hu, CUTR | Where are the Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians and Cyclists: A Colocation-Based Approach |
3/9/2018 | Kaiqi Xiong, USF | Secure Scalable Monitoring of Could Services for Autonomous Driving |
3/23/2018 | Lawrence Davenport and Rocio Vitalle, CSSI, Inc. | Wake Turbulence Research and Development |
3/30/2018 | ITE Research Pitch Competition | ITE Research Pitch Competition |
4/6/2018 | USF ITE New Board Election 2018-2019 | USF ITE New Board Election 2018-2019 |
4/13/2018 | Elise Miller-Hooks, George Mason University | Multi-Hazard Resilience Quantification in Transportation Systems and the Societal Functions They Support |
4/20/2018 | Lisa Waters, Florida Airports Council | |
08/24/2018 | Yu Zhang, MD Mokaddesul, Natalia Barbour, and Hualong, USF | Introduction |
08/31/2018 | Chad Polk and Robert Paquin, Jacobs Engineering | Systematic Approach to Safety |
09/07/2018 | Junfeng Zhang and Rong Hu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) | Aviation |
09/14/2018 | Cong Chen, USF/CUTR | Traffic Safety |
09/21/2018 | Jean W. Duncan | Multi-modal projects, smart city initiatives and leadership |
09/28/2018 | ITE Students | ITE Student Competition |
10/05/2018 | - | No Seminar |
10/12/2018 | Jeff Kramer, USF/CUTR | Transportation Funding |
10/19/2018 | Ran Tao, USF/Geography | GIS Applications in Transportation |
10/26/2018 | - | - |
11/02/2018 | Aaron Smith, FDOT/Aviation and Spaceport Office | Aviation System Planning |
11/09/2018 | Stephen Lockwood | Preparing for Automated and Connected Vehicles: the Public Sector Role |
11/16/2018 | Kelley Coyner, MOBIITYC4 (MC4) | Mobility Innovation |
Fall 2017 Seminars
Date | Presenter | Topic |
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08/25/2017 | Prof. Yu Zhang, USF | Introduction of Seminar and Sponsors: ITE, CUTR, CTECH |
09/01/2017 | Prof. Yu Zhang, USF | Applications of Free-Floating Bike Sharing in the U.S. and China |
09/08/2017 | Amir Ghiasi , USF | Cancelled (Hurricane Irma) |
09/15/2017 | Dr. Yi Liu, Amazon | Air Traffic Management Strategy |
09/22/2017 | Danielle Joyce and Gena Torres, TBITE MPO | Complete Streets in Virtual Reality, Vision Zero |
09/29/2017 | Dr. Montasir Abbas, VT | Agent-based Modeling in Transportation |
10/06/2017 | Prof. Lili Du, UF | Cooperative Model Predictive Control for AV/CV Platoon |
10/13/2107 | Dr. Tingting (Tina) Zhao, USF | Infrastructure Resilience and Recovery |
10/20/2017 | Prof. Priyanka Alluri, FIU | Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice in Transportation Safety |
10/27/2017 | Dr. Sisinnio Concas, USF CUTR | Performance Evaluation and Assessment of the Tampa Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment |
11/03/2017 | Lucas Cruse, City of St. Petersburg | Complete Streets Implementation in St. Petersburg |
11/10/2017 | No Seminar - Veterans Day Observed | |
11/17/2017 | Prof. Deb Niemeier, UC Davis | TBA |
12/01/2017 | Competitors, ITE | ITE Data Visualization Competition |
Fall 2015 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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8/28/2015 | Qing Lu (Assistant Professor - USF) | Introduction to the Seminar |
9/4/2015 | Qing Lu (Assistant Professor - USF) | Field Test Method to Determine Presence and Quantity of Modifiers in Liquid Asphalt |
9/18/2015 | Conrad Campbell, PE (FDOT), John McShaffrey (FDOT), Matt Lewis PE (FDOT) | I-275 - project successes and challenges associated with a large urban transportation ‘Design-Build’ contract |
9/25/2015 | Amy N. Neidringhaus (D7 Project Manager – FDOT) | Future Changes to the Interstate System in Tampa |
10/2/2015 | Kris Milster (ITS Engineer – Ross & Baruzzini) | Burgeoning Fields of Study in Transportation |
10/9/2015 | Paul J. Steinman P.E. (District Seven Secretary, FDOT) | Autonomous Vehicles and Connected Vehicles and Florida’s Interest |
10/16/2015 | Manuel O. Bejarano (Engineer IV, Pavement Engineer, Aviation Services -ATKINS) | Design and Reconstruction of the Runway Intersection at Tulsa International Airport |
10/23/2015 | Jim Halley (Aviation System Manager – FDOT Aviation and Spaceports Office) | FDOT Airport Sustainability Planning Guidebook: A collaborative effort to increase economic, environmental, and community sustainability for Florida’s airports |
10/30/2015 | Mohsen Parsafard (Graduate Student – USF) | Time-Geography-Based Mobility Measures for Geo-tagged Twitter Data |
11/6/2015 | Chris Francis (FDOT) | Future Proofing Transportation |
11/13/2015 | Jean-Paul Brissett (Director of Operations, Quality Counts, LLC) | Technologies for Transportation Data Collection |
11/20/2015 | FAN Yingling (Associate Professor – Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota) | SmarTrAC: A Smartphone Solution for Context-Aware Travel & Activity Capturing |
12/4/2015 | Dr. Clifford Winston (Brookings Institution) | The Effect of Highway Congestion on an Economy’s Performance: A New Perspective on the Benefits of Ameliorating Traffic Delays |
Spring 2015 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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1/6/2015 | Dr. Fred Mannering, Purdue Charles Pankow, Purdue | Emerging Analytic Methods for Transportation Data Analysis: Examples with Highway-Safety Data |
1/16/2015 | Abdul Pinjari, USF | Introduction to Spring Semester Seminars |
1/21/2015 | Dr. Venky Shankar, Pennsylvania State University | A Statistical Framework for Safety-Related Network-Wide Pedestrian Exposure in Urban Environments |
1/26/2015 | Avinash Unnikrishnan, Ph.D., West Virginia University | Transportation Network Models for Enhancing System Performance and Sustainability |
1/27/2015 | C. Kwon, Ph.D., University of Buffalo (SUNY) | Uncertainty in Hazardous Materials Transportation |
2/2/2015 | Scott Washburn, Ph.D., University of Florida | Future Directions for Traffic Analysis Tools and Techniques |
2/11/2015 | Mike Dreznes, International Road Federation | Forgiving Roads |
2/20/2015 | Dr Xiaoping Li, Mississippi State University | Trajectory Optimization for Connected Automated Traffic with a Parsimonious Shooting Heuristic |
2/23/2015 | Danjue Chen, PhD., University of Wisconsin, Madison | Variable Speed Limit Control to Improve Freeway Operations – A Theory-grounded Control System |
3/13/2015 | Pete Yauch, Albeck Gerkin | Transportation Systems Management and Operations the Other Side of Transportation Engineering |
3/20/2015 | Jodi Godfrey, USF | Risk Taking Characteristics as Explanatory Variables in Variations of Fatality Rates in the Southeastern U.S. |
4/3/2015 | Sashikanth Gurram, USF | Integrated Transportation and Air Quality Modeling Framework for Estimating Human Exposure to Air Pollution |
4/17/2015 | Mohammadreza Kamali, USF | Analysis of Heavy Truck Routing Patterns Using Probe Data |
Fall 2014 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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8/29/2014 | Dr. Yu Zhang, USF | Introduction to the Seminars |
9/12/2014 | Kristine Williams, CUTR | Roadway Access Management and Its Importance to the Transportation System of Developed and Developing Countries |
9/19/2014 | Dr. Pei-Sung Lin, CUTR | Highlights of the ITS, Traffic Operations and Safety Program at CUTR |
9/26/2014 | Evangelos Kaisar, FAU | Multimodal Intelligent Transportation Research Laboratory: Preparedness and Catastrophic Events Management Application |
10/3/2014 | Rui Guo, USF | Operational Impact of Electrified Taxiing on Block Time and Relevant Airline Cost |
10/17/2014 | Phil Winters, CUTR | Highlights of Demand Management Program at CUTR |
10/31/2014 | Leif Water, Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH | Quantifying Trajectory Uncertainty Using a Sensitivity-Based Complexity Metric Component |
11/7/2014 | Lukai Guo, USF | Geometric Design Improvement of Retroreflective Raised Pavement Markers Based on Full Factorial Experiment of Stress Analysis |
11/21/2014 | Nikhil Menon, USF | Autonomous Vehicles - Consumer Perception and Anticipation Impacts on Urban Mobility |
Spring 2014 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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1/10/2014 | Bertho Augustin, Transportation Graduate Student, USF | Stochastic Frontier Estimation of Budgets for Discrete-Continuous Choice Models |
1/24/2015 | Lukai Guo, Transportation Graduate Student, USF | Geometric Design Improvement of Retroreflective Raised Pavement Markers |
1/31/2014 | Vijay Sivaraman, Transportation Graduate Student, USF | A Conceptual and Methodological Framework for Nationwide Long-Distance Leisure Travel Analysis |
2/7/2014 | Akbar Zanjani, Transportation Graduate Student, USF | Use of GPS Data for Freight Flow Analysis in Florida |
2/28/2014 | Patricia Mokhtarian, Professor, Georgia Tech | - |
3/7/2014 | Chris Cochran, Senior Planner, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority | Greenlight Pinellas: A comprehensive transportation plan for the future of Pinellas County |
Fall 2011 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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08/22/2011 | Michael J. Audino, MA | The Airport Cooperative Research Program |
09/12/2011 | Dr. Ronald Chu | How American Airlines Designs its Flying Schedule |
09/19/2011 | Dr. Achilleas Kourtellis | Evaluation of Camera-Based Systems to Reduce Transit Bus Side Collisions |
10/03/2011 | Dr. W.K. Mampearachchi | Determination Support Conditions and Effective Block Shapes & Layout for Concrete Block Paving |
10/10/2011 | Mr. Sujan Sikder, Graduate Student | Immobility Levels and Mobility Preferences among Elderly in the United States: Evidence from the 2009 National Household Travel Survey |
10/17/2011 | Mr. Bin Yu, Graduate Student | Empirical Acoustic Model for Asphalt Pavement |
10/24/2011 | Mr. Jeff Gerken, P.E.,PTOE | Arterial Transportation System Management and Operations |
10/31/2011 | Ms. Aurybel Rivero, Graduate Student | Biodiesel in Transportation |
11/7/2011 | Dr. Alasin Yassin | Conflicts in Transportation and Urban Planning in the Middle East |
Spring 2010 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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01/19/2010 | Dave Knorr, FAA/ATO Liasion to DFS | U.S./Europe Comparison of ATM-related Operational Performance |
01/25/2010 | Graduate Students in Transportation Group | Presenting Your Culture to the World |
02/01/2010 | Tip Franklin, Director, Business Development Telvent Transportation - North America | The Art of Command Center Design |
02/08/2010 | Nagesh Nayak, USF Ph.D. Student | A Macroscopic Tool for Measuring Delay Performance in the National Airspace System |
02/22/2010 | David Skrelunas, District 7, FDOT Vicki L. Castro, PE, PTOE, Senior Transportation Engineer VANUS | Pedestrian Safety and Safe Routes to School |
03/01/2010 | Sizhen Guo, USF Ph.D. Student | Incorporating Wet Pavement Friction into Traffic Safety Analysis |
03/15/2010 | Meeta Saxena, USF Graduate Student | Aggressive Driving and Safety Campaigns: Lessons Learned from the Better Driver Campaign in Florida |
03/22/2010 | Michael Audino, Senior Researcher CUTR | The Airport Cooperative Research Program |
03/29/2010 | Arjun Chauhan, USF Graduate Student | Modeling and Predicting Taxi Times at Airports |
04/05/2010 | Lee Royal, Community Coordinator, District 7, FDOT | Come and Learn About the Florida Transportation Plan: Horizon 2060! |
04/12/2010 | Bing Huang, USF Ph.D. Student | Guideline Development for Minimizing Traffic Speed Variance of Multilane Highways by Controlling Access Design |
04/19/2010 | Mark Hansen, University of California, Berkley | TBD |
Spring 2009 Seminars
Date | Speaker | Topic |
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01/26/2009 | Aldo Fabregas, USF Ph.D. Student | Location and Capacity Modeling of Multimodal Networks Interchanges |
02/06/2009 | Dr. Yafeng Yin, University of Florida | Pareto-Improving Congestion Pricing on General Transportation Networks |
02/16/2009 | Hongyun Chen, USF Ph.D. Student | Evaluating the Safety Impacts of Freeway Diverge Area and Exit Ramps |
02/18/2009 | Dr. Bhagwant Persaud, Ryerson University in Canada | Rational Road Safety management - Practice and Theory |
03/02/2009 | Steven A. Tindale, CEO, AICP | Tampa Transportation Impact Fee Update |
03/09/2009 | Linjun Lu, USF Ph.D. Student | Operational Performance evaluation of Different Types of Exit Ramps on Florida's Freeways |
03/22/2009 | Enrique Gonzales, USF Ph.D. Student | Safety Evaluation of Roadway Lighting Illuminance Levels and its Relationship with Nighttime Crashes |
03/30/2009 | Dr Hyun Kim, University of South Florida, Geography | Network Reliability of Public Transportation Systems: a Case Study of Korean Subway Networks |
04/06/2009 | Richard Golaszewski, Executive Vice President, GRA Incorporated | Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Next Generation Air transportation System (NextGen) |
04/13/2009 | Jay H. L. Calhoun, President, VANUS | TBD |
Updated January 2021