Month: October 2016
The Old Florida Heritage Highway Symposium Produces Thoughtful Discussions on Transportation and the Environment
October 28, 2016The Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) hosted its annual Transportation Symposium on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the Reitz Union on the UF Campus. The event focused on the Old Florida Heritage Highway, a corridor running along US 441 in North Central Florida, which incorporates elements of carefully managed transportation engineering, planning and wildlife conservation ecology. […]
Read more »UFTI Co-Hosts an Open House for UF’s Driving Simulator
October 28, 2016The University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) co- hosted an Open House on October 28, 2016 to showcase its recently upgraded full car driving simulator. Faculty, students and staff from various colleges at UF were invited to attend. Small groups of about five people at any one time were treated to a demonstration of the […]
Read more »New NCHRP 15-57 Project, Led by UF, Will Develop New Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) Methods to Address Systems Analysis
October 27, 2016This project, led by Dr. Lily Elefteriadou of the UFTI, and with participation from Cambridge Systematics, and Dr. Alex Skabardonis of UC Berkeley, will develop new methods for considering spillback from freeways onto urban streets and also from urban streets onto freeways. The project begun in August 2016 and is expected to be completed by […]
Read more »Society of Women Engineers Selects UFTI Graduate Student to Attend Academic Leadership Program
October 27, 2016Ria Kontou has done it once again. Last month we reported that Kontou was selected for the Future Industry Spotlight Award by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA). This month she has been accepted to attend the Academic Leadership for Women in Engineering (ALWE) hosted by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), which […]
Read more »Florida LTAP Listening Sessions: A report from the T2 Director
October 27, 2016During this past summer, the Florida Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) conducted a series of listening sessions under the Florida Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP). The listening sessions provided an opportunity for LTAP staff at the T2 Center to receive input from local agencies about their transportation-related […]
Read more »WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff Awards UFTI Graduate Student a Women in Leadership Scholarship
October 26, 2016Deja Jackson is a Ph.D. student working with Dr. Siva Srinivasan at the UFTI. She was recently awarded the WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff Women in Leadership Scholarship. The award was presented to her during the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) at the 45th National Meeting & Training Conference in Dallas, TX, July 8-12, 2016. The scholarship was created to […]
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