Eren
Erman OzguvenAssociate Professor
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Welcome to the webpage of Dr. Eren Erman Ozguven's research
lab.
Over the last two decades, providing transportation accessibility and safety for public has been a growing concern since the population is rapidly expanding. As such, our research group aims to develop novel methodologies to identify and address the accessibility and safety issues currently experienced on the transportation networks.
With the main focus on the needs of vulnerable populations, our research focuses on the following topics:
A Macro-level Analysis for the Escambia County of Florida (Source: Ozguven, E. E., Horner, M., Kocatepe, A., Marcelin, J. M., Abdelrazig, Y., Sando, T., and Moses, R., "Metadata-based Needs Assessment for Emergency Transportation Operations with a Focus on an Aging Population: A Case Study in Florida", Transport Reviews, Volume 6 Issue 3, pp. 383-412, 2016).
A Micro-level Analysis for a T-intersection in the City of Tallahassee of Florida (Source: Ulak, M. B., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Sando, T., Boot, W., Abdelrazig, Y., and Sobanjo, J., "Aging Driver-focused Assessment of Traffic Performance Measures and Safety with a Micro-simulation Based Analysis in Florida", Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 5, pp. 455-469, 2019).
Over the last two decades, providing transportation accessibility and safety for public has been a growing concern since the population is rapidly expanding. As such, our research group aims to develop novel methodologies to identify and address the accessibility and safety issues currently experienced on the transportation networks.
With the main focus on the needs of vulnerable populations, our research focuses on the following topics:
- Transportation accessibility,
- Traffic safety, and crash analysis,
- Modeling of emergency evacuation operations,
- Urban mobility and smart cities,
- Artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and image processing
- Simulation and modeling of transportation networks,
- Intelligent transportation systems,
- Geographical information systems (GIS),
- Travel time reliability,
- Air pollution analysis based on traffic data,
- Use of social media for traffic information dissemination.
For this
purpose, we extensively use transportation-related software such
ArcGIS, CUBE, TransCAD, PARAMICS, VISUM and VISSIM in order to conduct visual,
operational and statistical analyses in the context of transportation
accessibility, reliability and safety. Several examples of micro- and macro-level analysis outputs are
as follows:
A Macro-level Analysis for the Escambia County of Florida (Source: Ozguven, E. E., Horner, M., Kocatepe, A., Marcelin, J. M., Abdelrazig, Y., Sando, T., and Moses, R., "Metadata-based Needs Assessment for Emergency Transportation Operations with a Focus on an Aging Population: A Case Study in Florida", Transport Reviews, Volume 6 Issue 3, pp. 383-412, 2016).
A Micro-level Analysis for a T-intersection in the City of Tallahassee of Florida (Source: Ulak, M. B., Ozguven, E. E., Moses, R., Sando, T., Boot, W., Abdelrazig, Y., and Sobanjo, J., "Aging Driver-focused Assessment of Traffic Performance Measures and Safety with a Micro-simulation Based Analysis in Florida", Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, Volume 6, Issue 5, pp. 455-469, 2019).
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National Science Foundation Project: Excellence in Research: Integrated Hazard and Traffic Modeling for Massive Evacuation in Florida under Uncertainty of Hurricane Track
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National Science Foundation Project: SCC-RCN: One Bridge at a Time: Bridging the Digital Divide for the Well-Being of Aging Populations in Smart and Connected Communities
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