2024 Transportation Achievement Awards 2024 Transportation Achievement AwardsTuesday, October 29, 20245:30 PM ET – Reception7:00 PM ET – ProgramUSF Marshall Center, 4103 USF Cedar Circle, Tampa, FL 33620 2024 Event Program On October 29, 2024, the transportation community joined together at the University of South Florida to celebrate excellence in transportation and planning. The event…
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…
CHICAGO – Kristine Williams of the University of South Florida (USF) has achieved the planning profession’s highest honor by being named to the prestigious American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) College of Fellows for her outstanding achievements in urban planning. Fellowship is granted to planners who have achieved certification through the American Planning Association’s professional…
We are excited to share that the University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy Vehicle Technologies Office to receive a $3.5M award! CUTR joins 23 other organizations in advancing the important R&D necessary to decarbonize the transportation sector. The team includes Xiaopeng Li,…
Congratulations, Kristine Williams, AICP on earning the 2021 CTEDD Technology Transfer Champion award for her outstanding contributions in technology transfer. “Kristine is a prolific CTEDD researcher, and her team at USF consistently generates some of our most popular products,” said CTEDD Deputy Director Jay Rosenberger at the CTEDD Awards Ceremony. “[Kristine] has deep ties to the major…
Congratulations to CUTR’s Jodi Godfrey on being selected as an ITE Young Leader to Follow for 2021, and being selected as the Florida Puerto Rico District ITE Rising Star for 2021. Godfrey serves as the President of the Greater Tampa Bay Section of ITE and is a member of the Women of ITE Subcommittee. She…
Yu Zhang, Ph.D. and doctoral student Hualong Tang’s research paper “Design of an automated advanced air mobility flight planning system (AAFPS)” was selected to receive the Amazon Research Award (ARA). The team is one of 101 award recipients! Congratulations! Read more: https://pos.li/2ikn3c
3 USF transportation students receive the Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP) awards fellowships to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines. This program advances the transportation workforce by helping to attract the nation’s brightest minds to the field of transportation, encouraging future transportation professionals to seek…
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!
“ITS World Congress has honored the THEA CV Pilot by placing it in the ITS World Congress Hall of Fame as the 2019 Americas Winner. The Hall of Fame was created to recognize luminaries and true thought leaders in the ITS field. This award “highlights the success of the most outstanding, ambitious and innovative ITS…