Month: December 2016

This two-part program will be held in the Village of Tequesta, Florida on Friday, February 3, 2017, and will be taught by Mark Doctor, PE, Safety and Design Engineer with the FHWA. For more information, visit the following website: https://www.planning.org/events/eventsingle/9116578/

This two-part program will be held in Gainesville, Florida on Wednesday, February 1, 2017, and will be taught by Mark Doctor, PE, Safety and Design Engineer with the FHWA. For more information, visit the following website: https://www.planning.org/events/eventsingle/9116560/.

This two-part program will be held in Pensacola, Florida on Monday, January 30, 2017, and will be taught by Mark Doctor, PE, Safety and Design Engineer with the FHWA. For more information, visit the following website: https://www.planning.org/events/eventsingle/9116580/.

A webinar related to a roadway reconfiguration know as a Road Diet will be offered in Gainesville, Florida on Thursday, January 19, 2017 and will be taught by Mark Doctor, PE, a safety and design engineer with the FHWA..For more information visit the following website: https://www.planning.org/events/eventsingle/9116586/.

View in Constant Contact [view] Research USDOT Awards $14 million Grant to the UFTI The University of Florida Transportation institute has been awarded the Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center by the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology. [Read more] New Software Products for the Highway Capacity Manual 6th […]

During summer and fall 2016 semesters, the WTS Florida Gator student chapter collaborated with the Central Florida (CFL) WTS professional chapter, in particular with Lara Bouck and Danyu Shi, to establish a distance mentorship program. The mentorship’s major goal is to help and prepare the WTS student board members transition from academia to industry. The student board members […]

Faculty and students from the UFTI attended the 4th Annual Florida Automated Vehicles Summit in Tampa, Fla., which was held November 29-30, 2016.  The UFTI has been regularly attending the Summit because the Institute has various projects related to automated and connected vehicles (AVs). “The Florida DOT has been doing an impressive job assembling key […]

  DOT awards UF Transportation Institute $14M for traffic congestion research Gainesville, Fla. — A consortium led by the University of Florida Transportation Institute, UFTI, has been named the Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center by the U.S. Department of Transportation, and provided with $14M in funding to develop novel strategies for reducing congestion over […]

Maria “Mariló” Dolores Martin-Gasulla said that when considering a major in college she didn’t actively go searching for it. If anything, it found her. “During a career day in high school, all my classmates were given various brochures with possible majors to choose from,” said Martin-Gasulla. “But for some reason, I received just a single […]

The best-selling, newly updated Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis, 6th Edition,  provides the depth of coverage necessary to solve the highway-related problems that are most likely to be encountered in engineering practice. The focus on highway transportation is appropriate in light of the dominance of the highway mode in the U.S. and available employment […]