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		<title>Travel Assistance Device (TAD) featured in YouTube Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Iley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In partnership with NCTR, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), co-sponsored the development of the Travel Assistance Device (TAD), a GPS-enabled cell phone that can guide transit riders with mental or cognitive disabilities when traveling on transit systems. FDOT and NCTR also developed an online, map-based web page that gives the caretaker and travel trainer the means to monitor the transit rider&#8217;s location when desired. View the video.
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		<title>Improving Cost Effectiveness of Financial Incentives in Managing TDM</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Iley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Center Identification Number: 77947)
Principal Investigators:
Chanyoung Lee, Senior Research Associate
Phone: 813-974-4910
E-mail: cylee@cutr.usf.edu
Fax: 813-974-5168
and
Ed Hillsman, Senior Research Associate
Phone: 813-974-2977
E-mail: hillsman@cutr.usf.edu
Fax: 813-974-5168
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South Florida
External Project Contact:     
Michael Wright
Statewide CAP and Florida RTAP Manager, Florida Deparment of Transportation
michael.wright1@dot.state.fl.us
Phone: 850-414-4529
I.  Project Objective/Problem Statement/Background
Given declining resources, pressing problems, and environmental constraints, many government agencies, such as state DOTs, MPOs, and local governments, are increasingly motivated to manage demand for vehicle trips to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, improve air quality (which is primary for this pre-proposal), mitigate congestion, and improve overall performance of their roadway systems (which is secondary for this proposal).
Providing financial incentives to commuters to use alternative modes is a common element of managing transportation demand. This is preferred over other negative enforcements, such as parking fees, which are politically difficult to implement. In principle, incentives can make alternate modes much more attractive to commuters by lowering the out-of-pocket cost ...]]></description>
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		<title>Estimating Costs and Benefits of Emissions Reduction Strategies for Transit by Extending the TRIMMS Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Iley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Center Identification Number: 77932)  This study details the development of a series of improvements to the Trip Reduction Impacts of Mobility Management Strategies (TRIMMS™) model. TRIMMS now estimates a wider range of emission pollutants and incorporates a new module that evaluates the impact of land use strategies on transit patronage.TRIMMS uses the emission inventory of the Environmental Protection Agency Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES2010a), which makes it suitable to run official State implementation air quality plan (SIP) and regional emissions analyses for transportation conformity purposes. This model enables the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), transit agencies, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) and local communities to conduct cost-benefit assessments for most of the strategies identified in the FDOT-sponsored Transit Ozone-Reduction Strategies Toolbox, without the cost and expertise required by more sophisticated models. Download the final report.  For more information, contact Sisinnio Concas at concas@cutr.usf.edu or Philip Winters at winters@cutr.usf.edu.
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		<title>NCTR Gets $3.5m Grant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TAMPA, Fla. (Jan.30, 2012) - The University of South Florida’s National Center for Transit Research (NCTR) at the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) has been competitively selected as one of 22 national University Transportation Centers by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
 This designation will provide USF with a grant of $3.5 million from the USDOT fiscal year 2011 budget to be matched with an additional $3.5 million for a total of $7 million.  USF’s National Center for Transit Research was selected as one of only two public transportation-focused university research programs to receive this highly competitive national grant. Sixty-three university consortiums applied.
NCTR is a consortium of four universities led by USF and includes Florida International University’s Lehman Center for Transportation Research, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Urban Transportation Center, and North Dakota State University’s Small Urban and Rural Transportation Center.
 Representative Kathy Castor, when told of the grant award, said, “The University ...]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Partnerships through Online Trip Planning and More with National RTAP&#8217;s GTFS Builder Web App Webinar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Iley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAVE THE DATE:  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 1:00—2:00PM (EDT)
A webinar from the National Center for Transit Research’s Transit GIS Clearinghouse: Creating Partnerships through Online Trip Planning and More with National RTAP&#8217;s GTFS Builder Web App 
National Rural Transit Assistance Program’s (RTAP) General Transit Feed Specifica-tion (GTFS) Builder web app is a set of tools—simple Excel spreadsheets, checklists, and videos—that will help transit agencies prepare bus route and schedule data files to support the integrated Google Transit trip planner, customizable OpenTripPlan-ner, 511 traveler information systems, and other rider-friendly mobile and on-line software applications. Through shared GTFS data your agency and RTAP managers may see new ways to enhance partnerships, as well as help riders get where they need to go.
GTFS Builder provides step-by-step guidance on how to put your transportation in-formation into GTFS format, including:

Evaluating whether your transit agency should proceed with GTFS Builder
Data management and downloading the necessary GTFS Excel files/tools
Gathering and ...]]></description>
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