CAV Research Projects
Research is an integral component of the Florida CAV Program. FDOT has partnered with multiple Florida universities for diverse research projects designed to help the Department in determining the effective use of technology for improving safety and mobility. This is achieved by ethical scientific conduct of research that increases global knowledge of best products, processes, and practices; and helps the department with implementation of these research.
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR), University of South Florida is to conduct “after” data collection and data analysis on 14 selected transportation systems and services, develop methodologies for evaluating the safety and mobility performance and benefits from the I-4 FRAME project after the implementation of the project. Additionally, they will look at how the applications address mobility challenges on I-4 FRAME project corridors and perform an overall benefit-cost analysis for the 10 applications allocated to USF-CUTR and conduct a satisfaction survey and analysis of I-4 FRAME users.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for University of Central Florida researchers is to determine conditions after the completion of the project to compare these with the evaluation criteria developed in the before studies, review the costs, and in coordination with the other partners, review recommendations identified in the before studies for safety challenges on the project corridors.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for University of South Florida includes providing stakeholder coordination support for evaluating the “before” conditions in the support of data management, sharing, and stakeholder coordination for the I-4 FRAME project.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for Florida Polytechnic University is to collect "after implementation" data for two I-4 FRAME applications (Speed Warning and Enforcement, Reduced Speed Zone Warning/Lane Closure), evaluate the performance of communication between Road-side Units (RSUs) and On-board Units (OBUs) and collect "after implementation" data for the Emergency Vehicles Preemption application addressing challenges and benefit-cost analysis.
The University of Florida (UF) Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AlD) project aims to improve pedestrian access and safety at UF by developing a new smartphone application to aid pedestrians and bicycles. The research will facilitate dissemination of real-time traffic information to pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit and automobile vehicles (TAVS) to improve safety and operation using Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2l) and Vehicle-to-Pedestrian/Bicyclist (V2P) communications. It will also provide opportunities for automobile original equipment manufacturers (OEM) to introduce CV technologies and support UF's objective of having an arterial CV test bed for pedestrian and TAV safety applications. This research project is continuation of the previous evaluation project “Before and After Study of Gainesville Pedestrian-Bicyclists Connected Vehicle Pilot.”
Completed Research
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The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for University of South Florida was to conduct “before” data collection and data analysis on 14 selected transportation systems and services, develop methodologies for evaluating the safety, and mobility performance and benefits from the project before the project was implemented. It also included identifying the mobility challenges on the project corridor.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for the University of Central Florida was to determine current conditions and develop evaluation criteria tailored to the project objectives, considering the identifiable costs in coordination with the other research partners, identify safety challenges on the project corridors and document how the project would address the challenges.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for University of Florida included providing stakeholder coordination support, identifying all relevant applications for I-4 FRAME along with the data to be collected for each application, data management and sharing for the evaluation of the “before” conditions of the project.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) created the Interstate 4 (I-4) Florida's Regional Advanced Mobility Elements (FRAME) project to address the safety and mobility issues along I-4 from Tampa to Orlando. Because I-4 FRAME spans three Districts (One, Five, and Seven), the FDOT partnered with four universities for data collection and collaboration on analyzing the before conditions in the research scope. The scope for Florida Polytechnic University was to collect "before implementation" data for two I-4 FRAME applications (Speed Warning and Enforcement, Reduced Speed Zone Warning/Lane Closure), to evaluate the performance of communication between Road-side Units (RSUs) and On-board Units (OBUs) and collect "after implementation" data for the Emergency Vehicles Preemption application addressing challenges and benefit-cost analysis.
The University of Florida (UF) Accelerated Innovation Deployment (AlD) project aimed to improve pedestrian access and safety at UF by developing a new smartphone application to aid pedestrians and bicycles. The research focused on facilitating the dissemination of real-time traffic information to pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit and automobile vehicles (TAVS) to improve safety and operation using Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2l) and Vehicle-to-Pedestrian/Bicyclist (V2P) communications.
The link to the final research report have been provided for the research projects which are completed by the universities and approved by the FDOT research center.