Month: August 2014

Research UFTI Establishes Collaborative Agreement with the Technical University of Lisbon The UFTI and the Instituto Superior Technico at the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal have entered into a mutual agreement that will promote research and educational activities related to transportation engineering. The agreement, also known as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), will more specifically […]

Dr. Ruth Steiner, professor of Urban and Regional Planning at UF (and also an affiliate of the UFTI and a member of its Internal Steering Committee) was quoted in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Florida’s road and bridges. The article points to Florida as having one of the best kept  transportation infrastructures […]

The UFTI will participate in the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) Florida Automated Vehicles Summit on December 15 and 16, 2014. The event will take place at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. The State of Florida is at the forefront of the integration of automated vehicles into existing traffic operations. This summit is an […]

FDOT Sponsored Research, BDK77-931-04 (Cost-share for STRIDE) PI: Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D. [final report] Abstract Four previous FDOT research projects on travel time reliability (FDOT Contracts BD-545-48, BD-545-70, BD-545-75, and BDK-77-977-02) developed tools for predicting travel time reliability for freeways. These tools can provide travel time reliability as a function of various changes in the system, […]

Project # 85436 PI: Ruth Steiner, Ph.D. Title: Impact of Parking Supply and Demand Management on Central Business District (CBD) Traffic Congestion Transit Performance and Sustainable Land Use Department: Urban & Regional Planning [final report] Abstract Local officials often consider parking problems in downtown areas to be the result of inadequate, inconvenient or expensive parking. […]