Visit to University of Florida

I was happy to have the chance to present "Data-Driven Diagnosis of Freeway Bottlenecks Relying on Traffic Flow Fundamentals" at the University of Florida Gator ITE student chapter meeting on Tuesday November 28, 2017. It was a great discussion, and we all look forward to the upcoming ITE Student Leadership Summit (SLS) in Gainesville on Feb 9-11, 2018!

5th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region

I was pleased to participate in the 5th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region, held at the University of Florida on November 16-17, 2017. I presented, "Bringing Order to Chaos: The Growing Role of Variable Speed Limit & Proactive Traffic Management Solutions," provided a short introduction to CUTR and also moderated a session. It was a great event!

Student Shark Tank Session at Florida Automated Vehicles Summit

The Florida Automated Vehicles Summit was a great event--perhaps the best session was the Student Shark Tank, with one student from each of seven Florida universities, including FAU, FIU, FPU, UCF, UF, UNF and USF.
and Judges included Marcus Welz (Siemens), Jeff Varick (Brandmotion), Ken Spitz (FDOT) and Alison Pascale (Audi). See you next year!

NOCoE Workshop

On November 9, 2017, I participated in a fruitful forum sponsored by the National Operations Center of Excellence, focusing on identifying the "Core Considerations for a Pre-Employment Workforce Development Strategy." The future of Transportation Operations is an exciting field and we aim to attract more K-12 and university students to pursue this as a career! https://transportationops.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbA_ldN-cPo

Future of Public Transportation Event and Valedictory Lecture

I was pleased to host Joel Volinski's Valedictory Lecture and Future of Public Transportation Panel discussion on November 9, 2017. The presentation and video are available.

CTEDD Executive Committee

I participated in two days of very productive meetings with the staff and executive committee of the Center for Transportation, Equity, Decisions and Dollars (CTEDD) at the University of Texas Arlington! Special thanks to Dr. Shima Hamidi CTEDD director, staff Dr. David Weinreich, Ahoura Zandiatashbar and fellow executive committee members Anurag Pande, Teresa Adams, Anand Puppala, and Subhro Guhathakurta. We are excited about all of our center's activities in research, education and technology transfer!https://ctedd.uta.edu/ 

Engineering Day 2017

It was great fun to join CUTR students Kurt Lehmann and Richard Driscoll who led a vigorous "Who Wants to be a Transportation Millionaire" game with 150 high performing local high school students during today's Engineering Day! Hillsborough County Public Schools #gobulls #usfengineering #engineeringday Thanks go to Jodi Godfrey as well for all of the great preparations! The future is bright with such energetic future Bulls and transportation professionals!

ITS World Congress Montreal

I enjoyed presenting “Measuring the Benefits of ITS Using Big Data” on October 31, 2017 at the ITS World Congress in Montreal. Thanks to Glenn Geers of the Australian Road Research Board for organizing the great session. 

Visit to McGill University

It was a special treat to visit my former student Prof. Ahmed El-Geneidy at McGill University for the second time (last time was in 2010, too long ago!) I am so impressed with his work and his team and it was a joy to spend some time with them! Plus a brisk walk to the top of Mont Royal

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