Congratulations to CUTR students Lori Palaio (BS Civil Engineering), Priyanka Kethavath (MS Civil Engineering), Amber Limaye (MS Industrial Engineering) and Heping Li (Sustainable Transportation) who graduated this past weekend! Our students are our most valuable products! It was great to meet their families, and all of us at CUTR wish you the best! We're so happy that Lori is staying on for her master's!
CUTR was pleased to organize the second annual FAV Summit Shark Tank and we had six excellent student presenters and six excellent "Sharks!" Special thanks to: Aschkan Omidvar, University of Florida; Saivamsi Manumanthu, Florida Poly; Dongfang Zhao, University of South Florida; Leila Azizi, Florida International University; Ahmed Alzahrani, University of North Florida; and Jaqueline Masaki, FSU-FAMU for their great presentations. And huge thanks to our Sharks: Marcus Welz, Siemens; Alison Pascale, Audi; Suzanne Murtha, AECOM; Kim DeBosier, JMT; Jean Duncan, City of Tampa; and Ken Spitz, FDOT. See you next year!
Pleased to serve on the Expert Panel for the USF Multimodal Transportation Planning Class Final South County Project Presentations.
A wonderful CUTR/USF team gathered at the WTS Tampa Bay Holiday event on November 14, 2018 at Bernini's in Ybor City to celebrate a successful year! WTS also recognized CUTR director Dr. Robert Bertini as the Person of the Year for 2018. Dr. Bertini was very grateful for the recognition and he recommended that everyone join WTS! Thanks again to WTS Tampa Bay for a wonderful evening! WTS USF/ Tampa BayWTS International
USF/CUTR students and faculty were active participants in the ITE District 10/FSITE Annual Meeting held October 29-31, 2018 in Coral Springs, FL. Our recent graduate Kurt Lehmann won the District 10 Henry P. Boggs Student Paper Award, and Crystal Wang won Second Place in the Shark Tank competition that included 11 students from seven Florida universities: USF, UF, FSU/FAMU/ UNF, FIU, UCF and ERAU. It was great to see so many students participating! USF students MD Hoque, Dongfang Zhao, CUTR faculty Jodi Godfrey and director Dr. Robert Bertini also participated.
CUTR director Dr. Robert Bertini was pleased to speak about a "Sustainable Transportation Technology Future" at the FSU/FAMU Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Chapter meeting in Tallahassee recently. It was great to meet with all of the energetic transportation students and hear about their progress with their growing student chapter! Keep up the great work Ite Famu Fsu, and thank you again for the invitation!
CUTR Director Dr. Robert Bertini spoke on "What are Agencies To Do With All the Transportation Data in a Smart City?" at the Smart Cities Connect Fall Conference in Tampa on October 23, 2018. Joining him on the panel were Pete Costello and Anita Vandervalk-Ostrander of Iteris and Angelo Rao of the City of Lakeland. Iteris, Inc. City of Lakeland, FL - Government #scc18
CUTR Director Dr. Robert Bertini had a great time speaking to 30 high school students about civil/transportation engineering as part of the ACE Mentor Program on Wednesday October 24--the future of engineering is very bright! ACE Mentor Program of Greater Tampa BayUSF College of Engineering
CUTR director Dr. Robert Bertini chaired the Mid-Term Review of the TUMCREATE "Towards the Ultimate Public Transport System" program in Singapore on October 11-12, 2018. TUMCREATE is a collaboration between Technical University Munich (TUM) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) for the improvement of Singapore's public transportation, including the deployment of electric and autonomous mobility. The program is funded by Singapore’s National Research Foundation as part of the Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE). Dr. Bertini also visited the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and the ETH-Zurich Future Cities Laboratory. TUM CREATE Ltd.
CUTR director Dr. Robert Bertini had the honor of helping inaugurate the new Transportation Research Institute Lecture Series at the University of Arizona with a presentation "Applying a Theory of "And" for a Safe, Sane and Sustainable Transportation Technology Future." It was great seeing UA colleagues and many City of Tucson and other community partners participate! UA College of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape Architecture
CUTR Director Dr. Robert Bertini participated in the 25th ITS World Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark 17–21 September 2018. Bertini presented “Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Active Traffic Management: Focus on Ramp Control Implementations,” in a session on Traffic Demand Management and “Preparing a Connected Vehicle Roadmap for Optimal System Deployment Scenarios: Case Study of the State of Oregon, United States,” in a session on Roadmaps to Deployment. Bertini also participated in a “Bicycle Planning is City Planning” tour led by former Copenhagen mayor Morten Kabell.
The CUTR Bertini research team, including Dr. Robert Bertini, Dr. Nikhil Menon, Brian Staes and Eren Yuksel visited the City of Tampa traffic management center on September 18, 201
Dr. Robert Bertini had a great visit to EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland on September 14, 2018. Thanks to Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis for the kind hospitality!
