Month: August 2015
Workshop on Traffic Management for Football Games
August 20, 2015The UFTI will host a free workshop, which will also be offered as a live webcast, on Thursday, September 3, 2015 from 3 to 5 pm at UF’s Computer Science & Engineering Building (CSE), Room E-107 titled “Traffic Management for Football Games.” Presenters will discuss the method, patterns and approaches of traffic control occurring pre- and […]
Read more »UFTI e-Newsletter – August 2015
August 18, 2015View in Constant Contact [view] Research Understanding the Perceptual-Motor Capabilities of Drivers from a Neurophysiological Perspective Evangelos Christou, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology at UF. As an affiliate of the UFTI, his research focuses on the effects of aging and neuromuscular control of movement. Christou’s connection to […]
Read more »Transportation Alumnus Reflects on Career Path to Amazon.com
August 18, 2015Di Wu, also known as “Woody,” was a quiet and hardworking doctoral student in the transportation program. He attended UF from fall 2007 to fall 2011, working under the direction of Professor Yafeng Yin, his doctoral program adviser at the UFTI. While in graduate school, he followed the rigorous path of working on transportation-related research, […]
Read more »McTrans Moving Forward with HCS7 – Travel Time Reliability
August 18, 2015As the publication of the updated Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2015) approaches, McTrans is hard at work implementing the changes and expansions within the Highway Capacity Software (HCS). HCS7 is planned for release concurrently with the publication of the HCM 2015 with most (if not all) new material included. One of the most significant additions […]
Read more »UFTI’s T2 Center Hosts Child Passenger Safety Meetings in North & Central Florida
August 18, 2015The Florida T2 Center hosted two regional Child Passenger Safety (CPS) Updates this summer. Central Florida CPS Technicians gathered in Ocala on July 21st and North Florida personnel met in Panama City on July 23rd. Alison Tillman, a certified CPS Technician at the UFTI’s T2 Center, was on hand alongside several state technicians and instructors. […]
Read more »Dr. Evangelos Christou: Understanding the Perceptual-Motor Capabilities of Drivers from a Neurophysiological Perspective
August 18, 2015Evangelos Christou, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology at UF. As an affiliate of the UFTI, his research focuses on the effects of aging and neuromuscular control of movement. Christou’s connection to transportation originates from his interest in how perceptual and motor issues influence driving. “For example, if […]
Read more »STRIDE Interns Present Final Projects
August 18, 2015Students participating in the STRIDE Center’s Transportation Research Internship Program (TRIP) concluded the program on Friday, July 31, 2015 with presentations related to their individualized summer projects. Interns & Presentation Descriptions: Zoe Becerra of Morehead University/GaTech presented on “A Method to Assess the Effectiveness of Auditory Stimuli to Return Distracted Attention in a Simulated Driving […]
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