Students, researchers to help with traffic solutions

By: Elsie Puig / Staff Writer Heading to school through the Palmetto Expressway to catch a 8 a.m. class might garner more delays than expected. Luckily engineering students and researchers at Florida International University’s new traffic research lab have the solution. The Integrated Intelligent Transportation System Laboratory, which opened last April in the Lehman Center for Transportation Research in FIU’s Engineering Center, will allow students to develop and implement technology to facilitate transportation. Javier Rodriguez, executive director of the Miami-Dade Expressway Authority, said that congestion is a major issue in Miami. “We are an urban and highly congested area which has experienced a lot of growth,” he said. “Although we are in a lull right…