Month: May 2016

It’s hard to believe this all began in 1986 as a grant from the Federal Highway Administration to create the McTrans Center. With the introduction of personal computers and the proliferation of software for the traffic engineering and transportation planning profession, a mechanism was needed to connect research to practice – and McTrans is still […]

Transportation is expansive, and there’s a place for everyone. Though, Samantha Taningco didn’t quite know her place when she came to the University of Florida in 2009. A Civil Engineering major, she was interested in structures but wasn’t sure what path she wanted to take. That was until she took Introduction to Transportation with Dr. […]

  Each year the University of Florida’s Benton Engineering Council (BEC) organizes an Engineering Fair (E-Fair) to promote engineering education amongst K-12 students. This two-day event takes place during BEC’s Engineering Week and allows UF engineering student groups to interact with visiting K-12 students using hands-on activities that the student groups create. This year’s E-Fair […]

The Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) 6th Edition is now being finalized and is expected to be completed this summer. This ninety-minute video provides an overview of the changes as compared with the current HCM 2010, including some methodological details and a preview of the implementation in the Highway Capacity Software (HCS7) ($75 per person). Click […]

Vishal Khanapure’s title at the McTrans Center is “Computer Research Specialist” and it truly does fit him. The McTrans Center at the University of Florida Transportation Institute distributes and supports a variety of software programs for traffic engineering and transportation planning applications, with training courses also available. Passionate about his work, Khanapure assists in a […]