Friday Transportation Seminar Series – CUTR – Center for Urban Transportation Research

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) in room CUT 202 on the USF campus and streamed via Facebook Live. Pre-registration is not required. For those not able to attend, seminars will be archived within Facebook Live. CUTR also sponsors a biweekly CUTR Transportation Webcast series every other Thursday from 12:00 to 1:00pm (ET).

Spring 2020 Seminars
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
4/3/2020	Chunfu Xin	Post-Overlay Flexible Pavement Performance Modeling	USF
4/10/2020	Srinivas Peeta	Georgia Tech
4/17/2020	Professor Ram Pendyala
4/24/2020
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 1/1/2020

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