Month: June 2014

The Florida T2 Center is bringing state-of-the-art highway technology improvements to Florida locals and beyond this fall. This specialized transfer of technology is made possible through a federal project called Every Day Counts (EDC). Every Day Counts is a set of initiatives from Federal Highway Administration that shorten project delivery or accelerate technology and innovation deployment. […]

Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., professor and director of the UFTI and STRIDE Center, traveled to The Netherlands in June to take part in a doctoral dissertation defense at the Delft University of Technology.  The student defending her dissertation on “Characteristics of Chinese Driver Behavior” was Jie Li, who teaches at the Hunan University in China. Jie Li’s co-advisers, […]

The McTrans Center website (mctrans.ce.ufl.edu) has been transformed to be consistent with the University of Florida standards.  The Center took the opportunity to enhance and update the organization and capabilities of the site by providing more immediate access to the most used areas like product information and ordering, while expanding the training curriculum to include […]

Research UFTI Joins Forces with FDOT to Develop Policy for Automated Vehicles An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Florida from the fields of Transportation Engineering, Urban Planning and Mechanical Engineering have been awarded a research project to provide the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) with the necessary information and guidance on drafting […]

Title: Nonlinear Road Pricing Authors: Siriphong Lawphongpanich and Yafeng Yin Typically a roadway, or set of roads, will have road pricing that we all invariably pay for, from a county setting a gas tax for the miles of roadway per county, to a tollway charging tolls for the distance traveled. To allow more flexibility, this […]

The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education (STRIDE) Center housed at the University of Florida is a U.S. Department of Transportation grant-funded University Transportation Center that conducts transportation-related research  in the areas of safety, livable communities and economic competitiveness. Read through the Center’s 2013 Annual Report to find out about the various research, education […]

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Florida from the fields of Transportation Engineering, Urban Planning and Mechanical Engineering have been awarded a research project to provide the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) with the necessary information and guidance on drafting and implementing policies associated with the Automated Vehicles (AV) technology. The team […]

Four students where chosen to participate in this summer’s Transportation Research Internship Program (TRIP). The program is managed by the STRIDE Center, a U.S. DOT grant-funded regional transportation center housed at the University of Florida. The interns are: Kory Harb (UF) Adviser: Dr. Yafeng Yin, Transportation Program, Civil Engineering, UF Project: Developing agent-based simulation models […]