Friday Transportation Seminar Series

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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 2022 Seminars

	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
Friday, January 14, 2022	Introduction to class
Friday, January 21, 2022	Handong Yao, Ph.D.	Techniques to Enhance Learning-based Trajectory Prediction	USF
Friday, January 28, 2022	Acey Roberts, PE, and Alex Koszegi	Practical Quantum Computing in Transportation	WGI
Friday, February 4, 2022	Brandon Campbell	Smart Mobility in Tampa	City of Tampa
Friday, February 11, 2022	Xiaopeng "Shaw" Li, Ph.D.	Roadmap to Cooperative & Automated Transportation: Theory, Modeling, and Experiments	USF
Friday, February 18, 2022	Kimberlee DeBosier	Careers & leadership in transportation
Friday, February 25, 2022	Christopher Francis	Future-Proofing Transportation Systems to meet 21st Century Transportation Needs	Marlin Engineering
Friday, March 4, 2022	Runan Yang	High-Risk Traffic Crash Pattern Recognition and Identification Using Econometric Models and Machine Learning Models	USF
Friday, March 11, 2022	Sujith Racha & Amir Ghiasi	An Overview to Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Research at Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Friday, March 18, 2022	USF Spring Break
Friday, March 25, 2022	Ram Pendyala	Challenging the Supremacy of the Automobile Mode: An Exercise in Futility?
Friday, April 1, 2022	Allison Yeah, Brandon Campbell, Gina Evans	Urban Air Mobility in Tampa Bay Region	Hillsborough County MPO, City of Tampa, Hillsborough County Aviation Authority
Friday, April 8, 2022	Lingxi Li, Ph.D.	Studying Vehicle and Electric Scooter Conflicts via Naturalistic Data Collection and Analytics	IUPUI
Friday, April 15, 2022	Brett W. Fay, C.M., Matt Broffman	Advanced Air Mobility - recording pending
Friday, April 22, 2022	Marco Nie	How Many Are Too Many? Analyzing Dockless Bikesharing Systems with a Parsimonious Model	Northwestern
Friday, April 29, 2022	R. Jayakrishnan, Ph.D.	Possibilities of User Exchanges of Transportation Supply in a Shared-Connected-Autonomous Future	University of California Irvine

Fall 2021 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
August 27, 2021		Introduction and student chapter promotion
September 3, 2021	Professor Wei-Hua Lin	New Opportunities for Interactions between Individual Drivers and Traffic Control - not recorded	University of Arizona
September 10, 2021	Professor Susan Shaheen	Is Sharing Caring? Understanding Shared Mobility Impacts - not recorded	UC Berkeley
September 17, 2021	Jean Duncan	Moving Florida Forward: Infrastructure, Innovations, and beyond	City of Tampa, CUTR Advisory Board member
September 24, 2021	Prof. Huaizhu (Oliver) Gao	Paradigm shift towards smart and healthy cities—systems innovation at the nexus of transportation, environment, and public health	Cornell University
October 1, 2021	Alex Bayen, Ph.D.	Lagrangian control at large and local scales in mixed autonomy traffic flow	UC Berkeley
October 8, 2021	Jidong Yang	Self-supervised Deep Learning Framework for Anomaly Detection in Traffic Data	University of Georgia
October 15, 2021	Prof. Dave Lovell	Leveraging local ADS-B transmissions to assess the performance of air traffic at general aviation airport	University of Maryland
October 22, 2021	No seminar	No seminar	No seminar
October 29, 2021	Yinhai Wang	Customized AI and Edge Computing for Safer and Smarter Transportation Infrastructure Systems	University of Washington
November 5, 2021	Prof. Xianfeng (Terry) Yang	Physics Regularized Machine Learning for Smart Mobility	University of Washington
November 12, 2021	Secretary Kevin Thibault	Advanced Technologies in Transportation	Florida Department of Transportation, CUTR Advisory Board member
November 19, 2021	Jake Mirabella, Jennifer Musselman, and Franco Saraceno	Using Data and Public Outreach to Achieve Positive Outcomes in Transportation	Kittelson
November 26, 2021	Thanksgiving Break
December 3, 2021	Marwa Hassan	Innovative Infrastructure Materials	Louisiana State University

Spring 2021 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
1/15/2021	Xiaopeng Li, Ph.D. and Yu Zhang, Ph.D.	Introduction to Friday Transportation Seminar Series	USF
1/22/2021	Thomas Van Dam, Ph.D., Dhanushika Mapa, Ph.D., Qing Lu, Ph.D.	Environmental and Water Resources and Transportation Engineering - No recording available	Various
1/27/2021	Prof. Monica Menendez	Automated modular vehicles: Some future applications	NYU-Abu Dhabi
2/5/2021	No seminar
2/12/2021	No seminar
2/19/2021	Daniel Friedenzohn	UAS Delivery Services are Coming to a Home Near You (I think) - No recording available	ERAU
2/26/2021	Fin Bonset	The Airport Master Planning Process – A Review in Times of COVID	VHB
3/5/2021	Kelli Bradley, PE, Program Management Administrator, & Megan Miller, PE, Special Projects Engineer	FDOT District 7 Program Management and Specialty Engineering	FDOT District 7
3/12/2021	Nikhil Menon, Ph.D.	Impact of COVID-19 on Travel Behavior and Implications for Telecommuting: Results from a Nationwide Survey	USF
3/19/2021	Bhat, Chandra R	Investigating Autonomous Vehicle Impacts on Individual Activity-Travel Behavior	UT Austin
3/26/2021	Xiaodong Qian	Bikeshare Destination Choice and Accessibility Among Disadvantaged Communities	UC Davis
4/2/2021	Joseph Chow	Planning Towards Shared, Electric, Modular Automated Mobility	NYU
4/9/2021	Larry Head	The Multi Modal Intelligent Traffic Signal System – Using V2X Data for Priority-Based Traffic Control	University of Arizonia
4/16/2021	USF Spring Break	USF Spring Break
4/23/2021	Henry Liu	Testing Autonomous Vehicles with Naturalistic and Adversarial Driving Environment	University of Michigan
4/30/2021	Mike Cassidy	Impactful Approaches to Transportation Systems Management	UC Berkeley
5/7/2021	Spring end of term	Have a safe summer.

Fall 2020 Seminars

Date	Speaker	Topic	Affiliation
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
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
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

FTSS: Possibilities of User Exchanges of Transportation Supply in a Shared-Connected-Autonomous Future

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Possibilities of User Exchanges of Transportation Supply in a Shared-Connected-Autonomous Future R. Jayakrishnan, Ph.D. Newer technologies and high market penetration of personal communication systems along with the advent of autonomous and shared-connected vehicle systems bring up many new possibilities for different paradigms of operation in transportation systems. Facilitated by peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, users…

FTSS: How Many Are Too Many? Analyzing Dockless Bikesharing Systems with a Parsimonious Model

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How Many Are Too Many? Analyzing Dockless Bikesharing Systems with a Parsimonious Model Marco Nie, Ph.D. April 22, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT Using a parsimonious model, this study analyzes a dockless bikesharing (DLB) system in a city, where the DLB service competes with walking and a generic motorized mode. The…

FTSS: Advanced Air Mobility

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Advanced Air Mobility Brett W. Fay, C.M. Matt Broffman April 15, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT Brett W. Fay, C.M. Director of General Aviation at Tampa International Airport (TPA) Brett is the director of general aviation at Tampa International Airport and is responsible for directing the operations, maintenance, and business initiatives of…

FTSS: Studying Vehicle and Electric Scooter Conflicts via Naturalistic Data Collection and Analytics

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Studying Vehicle and Electric Scooter Conflicts via Naturalistic Data Collection and Analytics Lingxi Li, Ph.D. April 8, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT Join Microsoft Teams Meeting +1 813-694-2079 United States, Tampa (Toll) Conference ID: 495 510 442# www.cutr.usf.edu/seminars Electric scooters (e-scooters) have quickly spread in college towns and cities in the U.S. and…

Future Urban Air Mobility (UAM) in the Tampa Bay Region

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Future Urban Air Mobility (UAM) in the Tampa Bay Region Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is a topic that has received media attention in the last few years as communities consider electric air transport vehicles for transit, cargo, and medical applications. NASA has developed a patent-pending planning GIS-based tool to help local communities site…

FTSS: Challenging the Supremacy of the Automobile Mode: An Exercise in Futility?

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Challenging the Supremacy of the Automobile Mode: An Exercise in Futility? Ram M. Pendyala, Ph.D. Friday, March 25, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST www.cutr.usf.edu/seminars In light of rapidly escalating concerns about the significant contribution of transportation to greenhouse gas emissions that cause global climate change, there is renewed emphasis in the transportation…

FTSS: An Overview to Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Research at Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 03/10/2022 Leave a comment

An Overview to Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Research at Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Sujith Racha, P.E., PTOE, PMP Amir Ghiasi, Ph.D., P.E. FHWA’s STOL, Leidos Inc. Friday, March 11, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST Microsoft Teams CDA aims to improve the safety, traffic throughput, and energy efficiency of the transportation…

FTSS: High-Risk Traffic Crash Pattern Recognition and Identification Using Econometric Models and Machine Learning Models

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 03/02/2022 Leave a comment

High-Risk Traffic Crash Pattern Recognition and Identification Using Econometric Models and Machine Learning Models Runan Yang, Ph.D. Friday, March 4, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST Roadway crashes have become a major cause of human deaths and injuries and caused much economic damage. According to World Health Organization (WHO), about 1.35…

FTSS: Future-Proofing Transportation Systems to meet 21st Century Transportation Needs

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 02/23/2022 Leave a comment

Future-Proofing Transportation Systems to meet 21st Century Transportation Needs Christopher Francis, Ph.D. Marlin Engineering Inc. Friday, February 25, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST Future-proofing transportation is not an option available to transportation professionals as it’s driven by technology and data analytics to meet the needs of passenger and freight mobility.…

FTSS: Future-Proofing Transportation Systems to meet 21st Century Transportation Needs

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 02/23/2022 Leave a comment

FTSS: Engineering Professionalism and Ethics

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 02/16/2022 Leave a comment

Engineering Professionalism and Ethics Kimberlee Bernson DeBosier, P.E. Director, Operations – WGI Friday, February 18, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST What does it mean to be an engineering professional? How can you become a leader in your organization? From the Code of Ethics for Engineers to real-life examples of…

FTSS: Roadmap to Cooperative & Automated Transportation: Theory, Modeling, and Experiments

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Roadmap to Cooperative & Automated Transportation: Theory, Modeling, and Experiments Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li, Ph.D. Friday, February 11, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST Scholars have put high hopes on automated vehicle (AV) technologies to revolutionize transportation system performance, including multiplying roadway capacity and minimizing energy consumption. However, our study observed that…

FTSS: Smart Mobility in Tampa

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Smart Mobility in Tampa Brandon Campbell, P.E., PTOE Friday, February 4, 2022 What does “Smart Mobility” mean? In Tampa, it means applying technology to real-life mobility challenges. This presentation will address where we have come from in the City of Tampa and where we see Tampa in the future as we seek…

FTSS: Practical Quantum Computing in Transportation

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 01/25/2022 Leave a comment

Practical Quantum Computing in Transportation WGI Engineering Firm / D-Wave Systems Inc. Friday, January 28, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST As connected and autonomous vehicle technology and field devices are becoming more numerous around the country, the volume of traffic data collected from these devices is already overwhelming for public agencies…

FTSS: Techniques to Enhance Learning-based Trajectory Prediction

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 01/18/2022 Leave a comment

Techniques to Enhance Learning-based Trajectory Prediction Handong Yao, Ph.D. Friday, January 21, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST Microsoft Teams The physics of shockwaves is a fundamental traffic characteristic that is useful for microscopic traffic flow modeling. Numerous classical physics-based models have utilized the physics of shockwaves to predict vehicle trajectory dynamics,…

FTSS: Innovative Infrastructure Materials

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 11/30/2021 Leave a comment

Innovative Infrastructure Materials View recorded webinar on YouTube Abstract This presentation will give an overview of the regional UTC Tran-SET followed by an introduction of some innovative pavement material advancements that were developed by Tran-SET funding including Low-cost ECC, EGC, and Self-healing asphalt and concrete pavement materials and a detailed overview of self-healing/self-rejuvenating asphalt…

FTSS: Using Data and Public Outreach to Achieve Positive Outcomes in Transportation

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 11/16/2021 Leave a comment

Using Data and Public Outreach to Achieve Positive Outcomes in Transportation View recorded webinar on YouTube Kittelson and Associates, Inc. is a national consultant in transportation planning, engineering, and research. Tampa staff – Jake Mirabella, Jennifer Musselman, and Franco Saraceno – will present exciting projects they have conducted on both Florida coasts. Two years…

FTSS: Advanced Technologies in Transportation

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 11/10/2021 Leave a comment

Advanced Technologies in Transportation View recorded webinar on YouTube In this seminar, Secretary Kevin J Thibault will discuss how the state’s transportation infrastructure is being modernized through the use of advanced technologies With a focus on increasing safety and enhancing mobility, FDOT is using innovation to prepare its transportation system for the future.…

FTSS: Physics Regularized Machine Learning for Smart Mobility

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 11/01/2021 Leave a comment

Physics Regularized Machine Learning for Smart Mobility View recorded webinar on YouTube In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) such as machine learning (ML) techniques have been widely adopted to develop smart mobility systems. Particularly, as the foundation of smart traffic control systems, many ML-based models have been implemented to model traffic flows. However, despite those…

FTSS: Customized AI and Edge Computing for Safer and Smarter Transportation Infrastructure Systems

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 10/25/2021 Leave a comment

Customized AI and Edge Computing for Safer and Smarter Transportation Infrastructure Systems View the recorded webinar on YouTube Sensors are essential for the intelligence needed by smart transportation infrastructure systems. Deployment of these sensors has increased over the past decades. Although these sensors can collect a substantial amount of data, the bandwidth and…

FTSS: Leveraging local ADS-B transmissions to assess the performance of air traffic at general aviation airports

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 10/11/2021 Leave a comment

Leveraging local ADS-B transmissions to assess the performance of air traffic at general aviation airports View recorded webinar on Youtube The University of Maryland and the Ohio State University are collaborating on a project to develop a novel hardware and software architecture for locally and automatically recording air traffic operations data at…

FTSS: Self-supervised Deep Learning Framework for Anomaly Detection in Traffic Data

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 10/08/2021 Leave a comment

Self-supervised Deep Learning Framework for Anomaly Detection in Traffic Data View recorded webinar on Youtube The current state of the practice in traffic data quality control (QC) features rule-based data checking and validation processes, where the rules are subjective and insensitive to variation inherited with traffic data. To improve the traffic data QC process,…

FTSS: Lagrangian control at large and local scales in mixed autonomy traffic flow

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 09/29/2021 Leave a comment

Lagrangian control at large and local scales in mixed autonomy traffic flow Friday, October 1, 2021 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST View recorded webinar on YouTube This talk investigates Lagrangian (mobile) control of traffic flow at local scale (vehicular level). The question of how self-driving vehicles will change traffic flow patterns is investigated.…

FTSS: Paradigm shift towards smart and healthy cities—systems innovation at the nexus of transportation, environment, and public health

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 09/21/2021 Leave a comment

Paradigm shift towards smart and healthy cities—systems innovation at the nexus of transportation, environment, and public health Friday, September 24, 2021 12:00 PM-1:00 PM EST ***Zoom Webinar*** Watch recorded webinar Transportation-related air pollution, GHG emissions and energy problems are a significant issue in the United States and across the world. The World…

FTSS: Transforming Tampa’s Tomorrow through Innovation and Resilience

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 09/14/2021 Leave a comment

Transforming Tampa’s Tomorrow through Innovation and Resilience Watch the full seminar on YouTube The City of Tampa is moving forward with many innovations in infrastructure and mobility. Some of the City’s innovations include adding more green infrastructure to our stormwater projects, fostering new mobility with eBikes, seated, and stand-up scooters, integrating Vision…

FTSS: Is Sharing Caring? Understanding Shared Mobility Impacts

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 08/30/2021 Leave a comment

Is Sharing Caring? Understanding Shared Mobility Impacts September 10, 2021 12 PM – 1 PM EST Shared mobility—the shared use of a vehicle, bicycle, or other mode—is an innovative transportation strategy that enables users to gain short-term access to transportation modes on an “as-needed” basis. It includes various forms of carsharing, bikesharing, ridesharing, on-demand…

FTSS: New Opportunities for Interactions between Individual Drivers and Traffic Control in the AI World

Events, ITEBy Christina Van Allen 08/27/2021 Leave a comment

New Opportunities for Interactions between Individual Drivers and Traffic Control in the AI World September 3, 2021 12 PM – 1 PM EST Microsoft Teams Join LIVE on Microsoft Teams For the past three decades or so, many major initiatives have been launched in the field of transportation, from smart roads to smart cities and…