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!
I always enjoy commencement, and it was an honor to serve as a Marshall for the Fall 2017 USF Commencement! Congratulations to all of our graduates!
I had a wonderful visit to Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore on December 4, 2017. I met with faculty and students from the Energy Research Institute (ERI@N), Centre for Infrastructure Systems (CIS), NTU-LTA Transport Research Centre (TRC@NTU), Cyber Security Research Centre (CYSREN), School of Computer Science and Engineering and toured the new Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research of Autonomous Vehicles (CETRAN). Many great discussions of the impact of technological disruptions on the future of transportation and urban development. Many thanks for the opportunity and here’s to fruitful future collaboration between NTU and USF!
We were pleased to participate in the Florida Public Transportation Association (FPTA) Annual meeting in West Palm Beach. I was honored to participate in my first meeting as a member of the FPTA Board. Thank you to Lisa Bacot, FPTA Executive Director and all involved for a wonderful and productive conference!
I was grateful for the opportunity to chair the Inaugural Scientific Advisory Board Meeting for the TUMCREATE project "Towards the Ultimate Public Transport System" in Singapore on November 30, 2017. TUMCREATE is a joint interdisciplinary research program between TEchnische Universitat Munchen (TUM) in Germany and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Other board members include: Prof. Hideo Inoue, Kanagawa University, Japan; Prof. Reinhard Haas, University of Vienna, Austria; Prof. Julian Gardner, Warwick University, UK; and Prof. Alois Fercha, University of Linz, Austria.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
