Month: July 2014

Research Dr. Yafeng Yin Awarded UK’s Lloyd Grant for Vehicle Emissions Study Yafeng Yin, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, recently joined an international research team to find more efficient and effective ways to reduce traffic emissions and improve air quality. The team includes Dalian University of Technology, China; […]

Dr. Ruth Steiner, a professor of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UF, who is also affiliated with UFTI, spent the months of March and April 2014 as a visiting professor with the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS) at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Dr. Steiner, who specializes in land […]

CMS Project # 92791PI: Sherrilene Classen, Ph.D.Title: Validity and Usability of a Safe Driving Behaviors Measure for Older AdultsDepartment: Occupational Therapy Fitness-to-Drive Screening Measure web-based tool: http://fitnesstodrive.phhp.ufl.edu With the aging of the Baby Boomers and ensuing Gray Tsunami in Florida, leading the USA, older drivers who are unfit to drive must be identified. The gold-standard […]

Thomas Chase, a civil engineering Ph.D. student, is embracing all that is transportation engineering in his time here at UF. When he first started in transportation, he thought of it only in terms of cars and roads, but now he enjoys the wide range of topics that can be explored under the umbrella of transportation […]

Don Watson is a second-year Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at UF, focusing on transportation engineering. As part of his Ph.D. project, Don is writing code to determine drivers’ lane-changing behavior in a new CORSIM application. CORSIM currently uses the FORTRAN programming language, which is outdated and limited in capabilities compared to newer languages. Don […]

The ITE Student Chapter at the University of Florida participated in the 2014 District ITE Collegiate Traffic Bowl on June 25-27 in Clearwater Beach, Fla., and won for the second year in a row. Team members are Don Watson, Thomas Chase and Pruthvi Manjunatha (pictured, left to right), all graduate students in the Transportation Program. In preparation for the […]

“Reprinted” from article published on the Florida T2 Center Website on 5/22/2014 at  T2 Newsletter The Florida T2 Center has been proud to host Florida’s Pedestrian and Bicycling Safety Resource Center (SRC) since 2009. Funded by the Florida Department of Transportation Safety Office, the SRC promotes safe pedestrian and bicycling activities for citizens and visitors, […]