1. State DOT & University Partnerships Steve Richards, Southeastern Transportation Center Moderator SASHTO 2015 Annual Meeting Nashville, Tennessee August 4, 2015

2. Southeastern Transportation Center Stephen Richards, Director DeAnna Flinchum, Co-Director Southeast Region Regional UTC US DOT August 4, 2015

3. STC Member Institutions University of Tennessee Clemson University* North Carolina A&T State University University of Alabama* University of Alabama Birmingham* University of Central Florida* University of North Carolina HSRC* University of South Florida University of Kentucky *5 of 9 members new to the STC

4. Research Program Components Major Research Initiatives (MRIs) Opportunity/Exploratory (O/E) Grants Research Program Director: Reg Souleyrette, University of Kentucky 5/28/144 STC Research

5. Major Research Initiatives (MRIs) 5/28/145 Short Project Title*FundingCore Team Crash Modification Factors & the HSM Coordinator: Reg Souleyrette (UK) $450,000HSRC/UA/UT/UK Integrated Simulation & Safety Coordinators: Essam Radwan (UCF) Shashi Nambisan (UT) $750,000UK/UCF/UT Explore S-D Characteristics/Culture Coordinators: Steve Polzin (USF) Nick Stamatiadis (UK) $450,000USF/UT/UA Big Data for Safety Coordinator: Asad Khattak (UT) $700,000UT/UK/UCF *Year 1 combined Federal & Match Funding

6. 6 STC O&E Projects – 2014/15 TitleUniversityPIFunding Automated Traffic Surveillance—Aerial Camera Array ClemsonWayne Sarasua$78,676 Wrong-way Driving Incidents Evaluation—Florida’s Turnpike UCFHaitham Al-Deek$129,999 Corridor Emergency Vehicle Preemption Development/Evaluation UKAdam Kirk $100,000 Promoting Safe Transportation Among Older Drivers—Simulator USFJerri Edwards$161,450

7. 7 STC O&E Projects – 2014/15 TitleUniversityPIFunding Intervention Strategies for Teen Driver Unsafe Cell Phone Usage NCA&TAmanda McBride$100,851 Utilizing Assistive Technology to Remove Communication Barriers—Public Transit Passengers w/ Disabilities UTRupy Sawhney $96,584 New Technologies and Bicycle SafetyUTChris Cherry$103,064 (Continued)

8. Education & Work Force Development STC Education Programs Director: Shashi Nambisam (UT) Dr. Taylor Lochran, UCF talking to govt. official LEAP-T Teachers & Mentors STC Student Spotlight Event STC Student Fun

9. T2T2 STC T 2 Program Director: Steven Jones (UA)

10. 2015 Road Safety & Simulation Conference October 6-8, 2015 Orlando, Florida Joint sponsors: STC and UCF Topics include: Traffic Micro Simulation Driving Simulators Big Data Naturalistic Driving Highway Safety Manual Surrogate Safety Measures Crash Analysis Safety Modeling Crash Causality Emerging Technologies Vehicle Automation Save the date! October 6 th -8th

11. State DOT & University Partnerships Presentations Open Discussion

12. Dave Clarke University Role in Transportation Workforce Dev. Activities Joe Crabtree Using Universities to Carry Out State DOT Research: Opportunities & Challenges Mark Burton & Paula Dowell Combining University & Consultant Resources Dan Turner Dealing with Emerging Technologies and State Standards Presenters