Month: March 2016
UFTI News – March 2016
View in Constant Contact [view] Special Announcement Maria Cahill Joins the UFTI As New Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center Director The UFTI and the T2 Center are excited to announce that, after extensive interviews and a stringent screening process, Maria A. Cahill will take the position as Center Director in April 2016. Cahill earned her […]
Read more »UFTI Student Wins Committee of 200 Scholar Award
It has been a busy year for civil engineering doctoral student Deja Jackson- and it’s only March! Jackson has been named one of three students selected from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering to receive the Committee 200 (C200) Scholar Award. It was announced at the Powered to Lead: Transforming the Future as Women Summit […]
Read more »WTS Florida Gator Student Chapter Leaders Receive WTS Scholarships
Congratulations to University of Florida students Megan McGinley, Eleftheria Kontou and Yinan Zhang for receiving scholarships from WTS Central Florida and WTS South Florida. Frankee Hellinger Undergraduate Scholarship, 2016 (WTS Central Florida): Megan McGinley Megan McGinley graduated from UF with a B.S. in civil engineering during the 2015-2016 school year. She is now attending UF […]
Read more »Transportation Students Participate in ESSIE Poster Symposium
The 18th Annual Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) Poster Symposium took place on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the Press Box in the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Students from all the school’s departments (Civil, Coastal and Environmental) came together to present over sixty-five abstracts on a wide array of subjects. Competition was […]
Read more »Students Develop BRT System for Cuban Infrastructure Challenge
Daniel Ruiz began his junior year in the Fall of 2015 with the burning desire to apply the knowledge gained from his classes to real world applications. So, when the opportunity presented itself, he immediately gravitated towards the Cuba Infrastructure Scholarship Competition, hosted by the Association of Cuban-American Engineers. In thinking about Colombia’s pitfalls in […]
Read more »McTrans Releases New Roundabouts Module in HCS 2010
The Roundabouts module has a completely redesigned interface in Release 6.80 of HCS 2010. Following the new architecture introduced for the Two-Way Stop-Controlled module in Release 6.70, the new user view is provided in two forms: sliding pages or split-screen scrolling. The results report has been upgraded to mimic the Streets module and to be […]
Read more »Maria Cahill, AICP, Joins the UFTI as New Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center Director
The UFTI and the T2 Center are excited to announce that, after extensive interviews and a stringent screening process, Maria A. Cahill, AICP will take the position as Center Director in April 2016. Cahill earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida, as well as her M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning […]
Read more »UFTI Director Presents on Driver Behavior & Traffic Modeling at FSU-FAMU Research Seminar
Who says Gators, Rattlers and Cimarrons can’t live in harmony? This past month, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou traveled up to Tallahassee to present her research on “Driver Behavior and Characteristics and their Use in Traffic Modeling”. The talk was part of the Florida A&M University (FAMU) – Florida State University (FSU) College of Engineering’s Civil and […]
Read more »Digital Worlds and UFTI Affiliate Hosts Webinar on Driver’s Motion Depth Database; Recording Available!
On March 7, 2016 Dr. Barmpoutis of the Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida hosted a webinar to demonstrate how to use the Driver’s Motion Depth Database (DMDDB) that he and his team of collaborators from the University of Kansas and the University of Alabama at Birmingham developed from a STRIDE-funded project titled […]
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