Researchers from USF’s Center for Urban Transportation Research and the Computer Science and Engineering Department were recently awarded a patent for Travel Assistant Device (TAD) to aid transit riders with intellectual disabilities.
For more inforamtion on the Travel Assistant Device (TAD), visit the project page.
Researchers from USF’s Center for Urban Transportation Research and the Computer Science and Engineering Department were recently awarded a patent for a Dynamic Ride Matching System - a GIS-based algorithm to match rides for carpools that are traveling on simliar routes.
Tampa Bay Online recently published an article USF Patent Would Make CellPhones an Interactive Crime-Fighting Tool highlighting USF’s Wireless Emergency-Reporting System U.S. Patent 8,045,954, and its potential for enhancing transportation safety and security.
For more information, visit the project web page.
USF recently did a feature article on their website’s homepage about our new GPS Auto-Sleep patent, Optimizing Performance of Location-Aware Applications Using State Machines. Read the press release.
For more information, visit http://www.locationaware.usf.edu/ongoing-research/technology/gps-auto-sleep/.
USF’s location aware-research and TAD were recently featured in a Tampa Bay Business Journal article, “Tampa Bay Companies Driving Intelligent Transportation”
TRAC-IT was featured in the July-August 2011 publication of TR News Magazine, published bi-monthly by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The TR News features timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. More
This study examined whether multimodal trip planners can be developed using open-source software and open data sources. OpenStreetMap (OSM), maintained by the non-profit OpenStreetMap Foundation, is an open, freely available international repository of geographic data that individuals contribute about their communities. In the transit industry, Google’s offer of a free online transit trip planner based on the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) has made GTFS a de facto standard for describing transit systems and a platform for many other Web and mobile applications. Continue reading
TAD was featured in the February 2011 publication of the TR News Magazine, published bi-monthly by the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The TR News features timely articles on innovative and state-of-the-art research and practice in all modes of transportation. More
The policy of FDOT is to use “the Florida Advance Traveler Information System as the primary method to disseminate timely and important travel information to the public so that the public can make informed decisions regarding their travel plans.” More
Arica Bolechala’s thesis research, Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Travel Assistance Device on the Bus Riding Behavior of Individuals with Disabilities, successfully showed that the Travel Assistance Device (TAD) mobile phone application has a positive impact on the ability of a bus rider with an intellectual disability to exit the bus at the correct stop. This research was recently presented at the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board (TRB) 90th Annual Meeting.
Ms. Bolechala is a recent graduate of Florida Mental Health Institute’s Applied Behavior Analysis Master’s program.
