Dr. Jennifer Bridge, Associate Professor,
Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering leads the UFTI's Materials & Infrastructure Research Group.
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Research Group Spotlight:
Materials & Infrastructure
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Led by Dr. Jennifer Bridge, the UFTI's Materials & Infrastructure Group conducts research, education, and service activities in the filed of infrastructures and related materials. The interdisciplinary group is comprised of 10 faculty members in the H.W. College of Engineering and the Rinker School of Construction Management. The group is committed to promoting sustainable practices in infrastructure engineering, enhancing the understanding of distress mechanisms and failure modes, developing testing and conditioning procedures to improve material characterization, and developing design approaches for pavement systems and foundations that optimize performance. |
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Faculty Affiliate Spotlight: Dr. Aaron Costin |
Dr. Aaron Costin is an Assistant Professor in the M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management at the University of Florida where he leads the Smart Construction Informatics (SCI) laboratory that explores emerging technologies and interoperability for the built environment. Currently, Dr. Costin is the chair of a joint task group committee of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and the National Steel Bridge Alliance (NSBA) Task Group 15. He also serves as a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee (TRB) AED30 on Information Systems and Technology and is a TRB young member liaison. |
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Dr. Aaron Costin, Assistant Professor, M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management
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Presenters:
Dr. Roozbeh Rahmani, Postdoctoral Associate, UFTI
Dr. Nithin Agarwal, Director, Technology Transfer, UFTI
When: August 13, 2020
Time: 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
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T2 Center Presents Paper on Assisting Florida Counties in Developing Local Road Safety Plans at Virtual ITE Conference |
The UFTI's T2/Transportation Safety Center (TSC) is assisting Florida counties in developing safety plans for local roads. A paper on this topic will be presented at the ITE 2020 Annual Meeting (online). The project's goal was to identify locations with higher crash risk or with higher historical crashes and with emphasis on lane departure and intersection related crashes. A combination of a proactive systemic safety approach and hot spot analysis was developed. The proposed countermeasures are based on a comprehensive risk assessment which incorporates the ITE’s safety system framework. |
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McTrans Hosting Virtual Exhibit Booth at ITE Annual Meeting 2020 |
The McTrans virtual program for ITE2020 includes product reviews, webinars, and research presentations related to the Highway Capacity Software (HCS), Highway Capacity Manual (HCM6) and mobility analysis.
For the detailed schedule and additional information, click here.
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Dr. Sanjay Ranka, Professor, Computer & Information Science & Engineering |
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Dr. Sanjay Ranka was Keynote Speaker at Virtual 5th International Conference on Fog & Mobile Edge Computing |
On July 2, 2020, Dr. Sanjay Ranka was invited to be one of the Keynote speakers during the 5th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing. His talk titled "Big Data Computing and Machine Learning for Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles" centered on his lab's efforts to develop machine learning algorithms and software to merge real-time feeds from video cameras and traffic sensor data to generate real-time detection, classification, and space-time trajectories of individual vehicles and pedestrians.
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When: August 5, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM, ET
Presenter: Dr. Dimitra Michalaka, Associate Professor, The Citadel
The STRIDE Center is the 2016 USDOT Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI). This project was funded by the STRIDE Center.
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STRIDE Webinar: South Carolina (SC) Bike & Pedestrian Clearinghouse |
The South Carolina (SC) Bike and Pedestrian Clearinghouse is part of a larger movement to advance the built environment and mobility needs and promote the adoption of multimodal solutions in the state of South Carolina. The webinar will give an introduction to South Carolina's built environment with bike and pedestrian facilities, how efforts have evolved through the years, and what has been accomplished. The presenter will then go through the structure of the newly developed bike and pedestrian clearinghouse resources. |
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When: August 12, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM, ET
Presenter: Dr. Noreen McDonald, Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
The STRIDE Center is the 2016 USDOT Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI). This webinar is based off STRIDE Project C2 - Urban Freight and Planning.
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STRIDE Webinar: Planning for Urban Freight Delivery: How do City Codes Accommodate Freight? |
The webinar presents a comparison of the minimum requirements for freight loading spaces in the 20 largest cities in the United States, as well as the four most populous cities in North Carolina. The study provides insights on a topic that is little understood: how U.S. cities provide and manage infrastructure for urban freight delivery. This multi-methods study assesses the requirements for off-street and on-street loading spaces, drawing from quantitative and qualitative data collected from municipal zoning codes, planning documents, news stories, and interviews with local planners and transportation engineers. |
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When: August 19, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM, ET
Presenters:
Dr. Lili Du, Associate Professor, University of Florida
Dr. Xia Jin, Associate Professor, Florida International University
The STRIDE Center is the 2016 USDOT Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI). This webinar is based off STRIDE Project F2 - Discovering Potential Market for the Integration of Public Transportation and Emerging Shared-Mobility Services.
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STRIDE Webinar: Discovering Potential Markets for Integration of Public Transportation & Emerging Shared-Mobility Services |
Technologies that help travelers to conveniently request, track, and pay for trips via mobile devices abound. This convenience promotes emerging travel modes (i.e. carsharing, bikesharing, ridesharing, and private shuttles). Shared-mobility owners have claimed these new traffic modes will reduce car ownership and promote ridership of public transit, while transit agencies have concerns about the potential competition and additional congestion. Motivated by these views, this project conducted a comprehensive data analysis to answer these two questions: Who are the potential demands with high potential to use intermodal services provided by such hybrid systems? Where and when are the supply gaps to integrate shared mobility and public transit services? |
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If you are interested in exploring previous STRIDE Center webinars and recordings, visit the following:
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