Shirin Noei, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Center for Energy Systems Research, Tennessee Technological University |
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Alumni Spotlight: Shirin Noei, Ph.D. |
In July, Dr. Shirin Noei successfully defended her dissertation, "Longitudinal Control in Traffic Microsimulation"; she graduated this month from the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering. Currently, Dr. Noei is a research assistant professor at Tennessee Technological University where she is part of an interdisciplinary center engaged in research on smart grid, resilient infrastructure, and wireless power. Dr. Noei shared that she is “looking forward to collaborating with faculty members and graduate students from various academic departments, including mechanical, electrical, and civil engineering, mainly on verification and validation for cooperative driving automation.”
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UF Urban Planning Student Receives Undergraduate Leadership Scholarship from WTS Central Florida Chapter |
Congratulations to Sophia Corugedo, recipient of the Central Florida Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Frankee Hellinger Undergraduate Leadership Scholarship. Sophia Corugedo is in a combined degree program, finishing up a bachelor's degree in sustainability in the built environment and has been enrolled in the Masters in Urban and Regional Planning program for the last year. She has become increasingly passionate about planning when it comes to housing, local policy, and transportation planning. She has worked for the City of Gainesville as a research fellow for the last year and a half and will continue to do so for the coming year, aiming to help the city implement equitable planning goals. |
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Sophia Elise Corugedo is passionate about planning issues as they relate to housing, local policy and transportation planning. |
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Ala Alobeidyeen, Ph.D., Past President of the WTS Gator Student Chapter at UF |
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Former UFTI Student Receives Graduate Leadership Scholarship from WTS Central Florida Chapter |
Congratulations to Dr. Ala Alobeidyeen who was selected as the recipient of the 2020 WTS Central Florida Chapter Frankee Hellinger Graduate Leadership Scholarship while she was a doctoral candidate. Dr. Alobeidyeen graduated this month from the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering where she worked on her dissertation, "Flow Propagation Models in Transportation Networks". She has been affiliated with the WTS Gator Student Chapter at UF for the past couple of years and served as the chapter's past president.
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UFTI Director Co-Authors Chapters in Book about Vehicle Automation |
Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, Professor and Director of the UFTI, has co-authored two chapters in a book devoted to Road Vehicle Automation. The contents are a collection of chapters based off poster and oral presentations from the Autonomous Vehicles Symposium held in Orlando, Florida on July 15-18, 2019. The book, "Road Vehicle Automation", is written by researchers, engineers, and analysts from around the world and contains informaton on activities related to the public sector, human factors, vehicle systems, and transportation infrastructure planning. The chapters that Dr. Elefteriadou has co-authored are:
Enabling Transportation Networks with Automated Vehicles: From Individual Vehicle Motion Control to Networked Fleet Management
Elefteriadou, Lily (et al.)
Pages 49-62
Catching up with Low-Speed Autonomous Shuttles
Turnbull, Katherine (et al.)
Pages 63-70
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When: August 19, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM, ET
Presenters:
Dr. Lili Du, University of Florida
Dr. Xia Jin, Florida International University
The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education (STRIDE) Center is the 2016 USDOT Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI).
If you are interested in exploring previous STRIDE Center webinars and recordings, click here. To view recordings of past webinars, click here.
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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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When: September 9, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM, ET
Presenter:
Dr. Sanjay Ranka, Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida
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Webinar: Artificial Intelligence for Smart City Transportation |
Dr. Sanjay Ranka, Dr. Anand Rangarajan, and Dr. Siva Srinivasan of the UF College of Engineering developed algorithms and software for detection of traffic interruptions. Detecting interruptions is a critical aspect of managing traffic on urban road networks. This research outlines a semi-supervised strategy to automatically detect traffic interruptions occurring on arteries using high resolution data from widely deployed inductive loop detectors. The techniques highlighted in their work were tested on approximately 1 Terabyte of data collected from detectors installed on more than 300 signalized intersections over a 6-month period. The experimental results show that the approach can detect interruptions with high precision and recall. Computer Science doctoral students Yashaswi Karnati and Dhruv Mahajan were key contributors to this project. |
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When: September 9, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM, ET
Presenters:
Dr. Pruthvi Manjunatha, University of Florida
Dr. Mike Hunter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, University of Florida
The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education (STRIDE) Center is the 2016 USDOT Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI).
If you are interested in exploring previous STRIDE Center webinars and recordings, click here. To view recordings of past webinars, click here.
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STRIDE Webinar: Evaluation of the Operational Effects of Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) through Microsimulation |
Proper evaluation advanced traffic control strategies integrating Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) requires accurate representation of these emerging technologies within the context of microscopic simulation, allowing for detailed evaluation of their operational and environmental effects. In this webinar we will discuss: 1) An evaluation of the microscopic simulator VISSIM’s ability to simulate CAVs; 2) Development of a comprehensive simulation extension to represent CAVs in VISSIM; and 3) Integration of emissions modeling to calculate real-time energy and emission estimates. |
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When: September 16, 2020
Time: 12:00 PM, ET
Presenters:
Dr. Pruthvi Manjunatha, University of Florida
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UFTI Webinar: I-STREET: A Real-World Transportation Testbed in Gainesville, FL |
The University of Florida (UF) and its Transportation Institute (UFTI), the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), and the City of Gainesville (CoG) have partnered to create a “smart testbed” on the UF campus and surrounding highway network. I-STREET stands for Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluating Emerging Technology. This webinar builds on the previous STRIDE webinar on I-STREET and gives a brief overview of the testbed. This is followed by updates on the latest sensor deployments, technology evaluations, and projects underway.
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