The 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… Read More
Month: October 2016
UFTI Co-Hosts an Open House for UF’s Driving Simulator
The 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… Read More
New NCHRP 15-57 Project, Led by UF, Will Develop New Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) Methods to Address Systems Analysis
This 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… Read More
Society of Women Engineers Selects UFTI Graduate Student to Attend Academic Leadership Program
Ria 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… Read More
Florida LTAP Listening Sessions: A report from the T2 Director
During 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… Read More
WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff Awards UFTI Graduate Student a Women in Leadership Scholarship
Deja 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… Read More