University of Florida Transportation Institute

UFTI Invites Applications for McTrans Director

The Director of McTrans oversees the maintaining, enhancing, and marketing of the Highway Capacity Software. Additionally, the director will be actively involved with the I-STREET initiative, working with UFTI faculty […]

UFTI Student Pedro Maldonado Selected to Participate in the 27th Eno Future Leaders Development Conference

Pedro Maldonado, a third-year Ph.D. student, was selected among the nation’s top graduate students in transportation to participate in the 27th Eno Future Leaders Development Conference in Washington, D.C. this […]

UFTI Alumnus Hired as District Traffic Safety Engineer at FDOT

Congratulations to Dr. Cody Ko for accepting a position as District Traffic Safety Program Engineer at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 2 Traffic Operations Office. Dr. Ko graduated […]

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou Recognized for Service as Previous CUTC President

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou Recognized for Service as CUTC Past President

Congratulations to Dr. Lily Elefteriadou on being recognized for her outstanding service as the previous president of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). Dr. Elefteriadou was elected as president […]

Congratulations to Deja Jackson, UFTI Ph.D. Student, on Passing the Road Safety Professional Certification Exam

The Road Safety Professional (RSP) certification is administered by the Transportation Professional Certification Board, Inc. Having passed the exam, Deja Jackson is now one of the first certified road safety […]

McTrans to work with SwRI on FDOT District 5 Project regarding R-ICMS using HCS7

The UFTI’s McTrans Center will be working with the Southwest Research Institute’s (SwRI) Critical Systems Department (CSD) as subject matter expert consultants for HCS7 (a product of McTrans) under the […]

UFTI Evaluates Advanced Vehicle and Communication Technologies through Traffic Micro Simulation

A project funded by the Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center, which is the U.S. Department of Transportation’s grant-funded, Regional (Southeastern) University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at the […]

UFTI Testing Driver Alerts in Active School Zones

The University of Florida has partnered with Temple, Inc., and Applied Information, Inc., to test and evaluate the use of GPS and cell phone technology that can send an alert […]

UFTI Affiliate Conducts Study to Analyze, Validate and Optimize Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing

Cement and concrete (C/C) can behave differently if proportions, materials or processing steps are not correct, and this can lead to big changes in performance. Currently, empirical methods derived from […]

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