Computer Science Graduate Student Creates Sensing Framework for Optimizing Intelligent Traffic Intersection Controllers |
Patrick Emami, a doctoral student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), has created a framework that uses multiple off-the-shelf sensors and state-of-the-art deep learning for edge computing to capture information about all road users around a traffic intersection. This involved specifying a novel deep learning architecture and training algorithm as well as a multi-sensor fusion strategy. Read more to find out the results of the study.
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Patrick Emami, doctoral student, UF Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering |
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Mary Jeghers, doctoral student, UF Department of Occupational Therapy |
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Occupational Therapy Graduate Student Leads Focus Groups to Assess Transportation Mobility, Smart City Planning |
Mary Jeghers, a doctoral student in the Department of Occupational Therapy’s Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP), assisted with organizing, recruiting, leading, and transcribing two focus group to gauge the transportation needs, barriers, and/or facilitators to residents in the City of Gainesville, Florida. Read more about the study.
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Date: November 12, 2020
Time: 3:00 PM to 3:30 PM, ET
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McTrans to Present on Highway Safety Software Module during ITE's Drop-In Session |
The UFTI's McTrans Center will present at the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Virtual Drop-In session on the topic of “Highway Safety Manual (HSM) Analysis using the Highway Capacity Software (HCS) Highway Safety Software Module”. During this session, McTrans will highlight the core applications of the HSM and discuss how HCS’s safety module can be used to perform safety analyses. |
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REGISTRATION OPEN!
Interstate Transit Research Symposium
December 2-4, 2020
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The UFTI, in collaboration with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and the T-SCORE University Transportation Center (UTC) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, are hosting a free, online event that will discuss the latest in public transportation research in the United States. The event will feature presentations and panels on important transit-related topics such as transit finance, racial justice, mobility and modality, technology and zero-emission vehicles in transit, and COVID-19. Speakers and panelists include well-known experts such as Susan Shaheen from the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), Paul Skoutelas from the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), and Martin Wachs from the University of California Los Angeles, (UCLA). |
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Speakers Include:
Lili Du, Ph.D., Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida
Prabir Barooah, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
Yan Wang, Ph.D., Department of Urban & Regional Planning & the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
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WEBINAR - Nov. 19, 2020
(11:30 AM - 1:00 PM, ET)
UFTI Resilience & Sustainability Initiative:
Essential Infrastructure-Based & Human-Centric Research
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This webinar will highlight three research efforts at the University of Florida Transportation Institute’s Resilience and Sustainability Initiative:
Part I: Strategic Decision Framework to Enhance Civil Infrastructure Network Resilience
Part II: An Intelligent Control Approach to Low-Cost Energy Resiliency for Buildings after Hurricanes
Part III: Towards Resilient and Smart Cities: Data-Driven Urban Analytical and Geovisualization System for Events Detection
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Upcoming Highway Capacity Manual (HCM6) & Highway Capacity Software (HCS7) Webinar Series |
Webinar Dates in 2020
November 16-20
December 14-18
Webinar Dates in 2021
February 1-5
March 1-5
(This webinar series is worth 18 PDHs)
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