Transportation Safety Symposium: From Research to Practice
April 3, 2013 - Rosen Plaza Hotel, Orlando
The Transportation Research Center at the University of Florida hosted a day-long symposium titled “Transportation Safety: From Research to Practice” on April 3, 2013, at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando. The symposium will featured presentations based on a variety of projects related to transportation safety undertaken by researchers affiliated with the University of Florida. Six PDHs were offered.
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Presentations:
Session 1 - Analysis Techniques
Srinivasan “Highway Safety Manual, Safety Performance Functions, and Project-level Safety Analysis”
Haleem and Alluri “Florida's Deployment of SafetyAnalyst”
Bejleri “GIS techniques for visualizing and analyzing traffic crashes”
Classen “Driving Simulation: Driver fitness of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder vs. Healthy Controls”
Session 2 - Data & Tools
Carrick “Traffic Crash Reporting: State of the Practice”
Bejleri “Florida Signal Four Analytics – An interactive geo-spatial web-based crash analytical system”
Paramygin “Using virtualization to assist in transitioning transportation safety research to practice”
Alluri “Data Needs for Highway Safety Manual Implementation in Florida”
Harwood “New Tools for Highway Safety Analysis”
Session 3 - Vulnerable Populations
Steiner & Lytle “Bicyclists, Pedestrians, Children and School Travel”
Classen “Older Drivers: Demographics and tools to detect at-risk older drivers”
Srinivasan “Evacuation of Tourists under Hurricane Threats”
Aviles-Spadoni “Evacuation Planning for Livestock in a Case of a Nuclear Power Plant Accident”
Session 4 - Policy and Practice
Goodknight “Addressing the Highway Safety Problems in Small and Rural Communities”
Barker “Florida T2/LTAP Center: From Strong Foundations to New Vistas”
Santos “Highway Safety Manuel Implementation Efforts in Florida”
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Contact Information:
Siva Srinivasan, Ph.D., associate professor, Civil & Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, E-mail: siva@ce.ufl.edu
Jeri Shell, project manager, UFTI/Florida Transportation Technology Transfer, E-mail: jerishell@ufl.edu