MATCH PROJECT Principal Investigator Bill Eisele, Ph.D. Final Report (DOI) View Final Report TRID View TRID – 1862637 Abstract It is not yet clear what the lasting effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic will be on U.S. urban transportation systems. The mix of strategies that are deployed in urban America will be different for each region…
MATCH PROJECT Principal Investigator Susan Shaheen, Ph.D. Final Report (DOI) View Final Report TRID View TRID – 1902074 The COVID-19 pandemic brought about dramatic shifts in travel, including shopping trips. The authors investigated changes in e-shopping for food and non-food items by supplementing an April to May 2018 household travel survey (n=3,956 households) conducted by…
Principal Investigator Xiaopeng Li, Ph.D. Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon Policy Brief Available Soon RIP View RIP entry Abstract The research will develop simple but effective schemes to: (i) coordinate all traffic signals residing on most any two-dimensional (e.g. grid) street network; and (ii) optimize signal settings and tailor preferential treatments to…
Principal Investigator Jeff Kramer, AICP Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon RIP Available Soon Abstract Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Governing Board members are responsible for establishing a long-range transportation vision for their metropolitan area and for making a variety of other significant transportation planning and programming decisions. These decisions have noteworthy and long-lasting…
Principal Investigator Sara Hendricks Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon Policy Brief Available Soon RIP View RIP entry Abstract MAP-21’s focus on performance measurement ushered in a shift in emphasis from moving vehicles to moving people, measured as passenger throughput. This recognizes the underutilized capacity of empty seats in buses, vanpools, and single-occupant…
Principal Investigator Peng Chen, Ph.D. Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon Policy Brief Available Soon RIP View RIP entry Abstract Different from Transportation Network Companies (taxicabs, i.e., Uber) and shared-car providers (rental cars, i.e., Zipcar), social carpooling is personalized incentives-based and smartphone-enabled peer-to-peer ridesharing. Social carpooling emerges as a community-based strategy to reduce…
Principal Investigator Didier Valdés, Ph.D. Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon Policy Brief Available Soon RIP View RIP entry Abstract This project will use the open-source platform OneBusAway (OBA) developed at USF to explore how travelers choose between public transit, transportation network companies (TNC), and other methods (e.g., micro-mobility) and how to influence…
2-3.2: Optimizing Service Areas to Reduce Congestion and Enhance Equity in Access to Transportation Systems Principal Investigator Daniel Rodríguez Román, Ph.D. Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon Policy Brief Available Soon RIP View RIP entry Abstract As new transportation alternatives emerge and existing services are redesigned, communities and their planning agencies…
Principal Investigator Mark Hansen, Ph.D. Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon Policy Brief Available Soon RIP View RIP entry Abstract The explosive growth in e-commerce, the increasing urgency of de-carbonization, the rapid advances in UAV technology, and the continuous disruptive development of the gig economy create needs and opportunities for dramatic improvements in…
Principal Investigator Phil Lasley, Ph.D., AICP, PMP Final Report (DOI) Available Soon TRID Available Soon Policy Brief Available Soon RIP View RIP entry Abstract The goal of integrating accessibility into transportation planning is to ensure that congestion mitigation measures encourage transportation equity and urban space livability. Traditional methods of estimating travel time, travel time reliability,…
