CETOC

Publication Alert! "Using computer vision and street view images to assess bus stop amenities" is now available in Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems! The project, led by CETOC researchers at the University of Florida, offers an automated, low-cost, and generalizable approach for bus stop assessment. This is only the first stage of results from this ongoing project- keep yours eyes peeled as work continues! Check out the full paper now at https://lnkd.in/eQj__DMV! Xiang 'Jacob' Yan Guang Tian

🚌 Excited to share our latest article titled "Using computer vision and street view images to assess bus stop amenities"! https://lnkd.in/enJ4aqz7 Fascinated by the extensive bus stop census work done by Marcel Moran, PhD in San Francisco and MARTA Army Inc. in Atlanta, we aimed to use AI to help us see what amenities are available at each transit stop. To achieve this, we developed a transit amenities assessment system (TAAS) that integrates the latest YOLOv8 model, transfer learning, and a dynamic prediction algorithm, achieving efficient detection of shelters and benches with high accuracy and precision in major Florida cities. We showed that our model can be adapted to new contexts (e.g., San Francisco) with minimal fine-tuning. Our work provides a scalable, low-cost, and automated approach to bus stop amenities assessment, which can help cities bridge critical data gaps in transit infrastructure. Big shout out to Yilong Dai for leading this work, Luyu Liu for supervising Yilong, Kaiyue Wang for her supporting role, and Meiqing Li, Ph.D., AICP for the wonderful collaboration! We are grateful for the funding support from CETOC. The code for this project is available on GitHub: https://lnkd.in/e892UHC3 (We are currently finalizing the results regarding using TAAS to identify other amenity types such as trash bin, paved boarding area, crosswalks, and pedestrian-level lighting. We are also collaborating with Guang Tian and Bob Danton, MS and Reid Ewing to apply TAAS to Louisiana and Utah cities. Stay tuned for future updates!)

Time flies! CETOC's Year 3 Request for Proposals is LIVE! All faculty, research faculty, and post-doctoral researchers at any of our consortium member universities (University of New Orleans, Florida Atlantic University, University of Florida, University of Colorado Denver, and University of Utah) are eligible to apply! The RFP can be found at https://lnkd.in/gEjaHqki under "Resources for PIs." Here's to the future of transportation research! U.S. Department of Transportation UNO Transportation Institute UFTI University of Florida Transportation Institute Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions at Florida Atlantic University University of Utah - Department of City & Metropolitan Planning Guang Tian Reid Ewing Xilei Zhao Xiang 'Jacob' Yan Serena Hoermann John L. Renne Aditi Misra Manish Shirgaokar Tara Tolford, AICP Alessandro Rigolon Bob Danton, MS

Meet the people of CETOC! Eliana Duarte is a research assistant at CETOC. She recently completed a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Florida, and she is planning to begin a Ph.D. program in the fall. Her research focuses on the interactions between the built environment and travel behavior to contribute to more efficient and equitable transportation systems. In her free time, she enjoys snowboarding, attending concerts, and traveling. 

Congratulations to CETOC Director Guang Tian for his most recent grant from the Louisiana Transportation Research Center as Co-PI with Bethany Stich to address truck parking issues across the state of Louisiana!

What a week! CETOC PIs and students presented dozens of research projects at this year's Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.- researchers and students from all five of our consortium member universities presented work, and still found time to gather together for networking events and attend dozens of other sessions to learn from other researchers and industry members and drive our research forward! These students are the future of transportation! #TRBAM #TRB #TransportationResearch University of New Orleans University of Florida Florida Atlantic University University of Utah University of Colorado Denver UFTI University of Florida Transportation Institute Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions at Florida Atlantic University UNO Transportation Institute

Thrilled to join over 13,000 researchers and professionals at the 2025 National Academies’ Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. This event showcases cutting-edge transportation research and offers a week of learning, discoveries, and networking. Proud to attend alongside my colleagues from the UNO Transportation Institute. #TRBAM2025 #CETOC #UNOTI #UNO #Transportation

Thanks to all who joined last night!

Catch us at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in January! CETOC researchers and students are presenters or co-authors on dozens of presentations over three days! We hope to see you there!

Publication Alert! CETOC Researchers at the University of Florida recently published a Natural Hazards Center #QuickResponse report, "Transportation as a Social Determinant of Health During Hurricane Idalia." Read the full report now at https://lnkd.in/ex_DiprF