On Wednesday 10/7/2026 the TRACER team presented our Preliminary Design Report at the McTrans Center on UF’s East Campus. Attendees included our project liaisons Fabio Sasahara and Raul Pineda-Mendez, McTrans director Bob Aghdashi, and McTrans employees Melissa Ginoza, Shen Dong,… Read More
Blog #4 – Preliminary Design Architecture
This week we drafted up our project’s preliminary design architecture, which includes the above figure modeling a Pipe-and-Filter architecture, which lays out the planned data flow of our solution at a high level from input to output. This includes the… Read More
Blog #3 – Team Building and HCM Training
IPPD students that completed the FPL workshop
Blog #2 – Liaison Introductions and Project Research
Last Friday, 9/11/2026, team TRACER had our first meeting with our project liaisons Dr. Raul Pineda-Mendez and Dr. Fabio Sasahara, as well as the McTrans Center director Dr. Bob Aghdashi. Because the McTrans Center is located on UF’s East Campus,… Read More
Blog #1 – Project Introduction
Our team is working with the McTrans Center to develop a solution capable of automating the highway segmentation process in accordance with the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) for the purpose of performing highway capacity analysis. The solution will be capable… Read More