Month: August 2017

UFTI students, Deja Jackson and Fabio Sasahara, attended the Florida Department of Transportation’s TRANSPLEX conference in Ponte Verda, FL, from August 8-10, 2017. Jackson and Sasahara were two out of 10 posters selected for presentations. All but one of the posters selected for presentation were from UF students. View Deja Jackson’s poster “The Block is […]

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently awarded UFTI’s Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center three Accelerating Safety Activities Program (ASAP) awards. The three awards represent more than half of all available funding for fiscal year 2017. ASAP awards fund research, development, technology and innovation transfer, and outreach and communication activities that promote proven safety countermeasures and […]

With Release 7.3, the Freeways module now models travel time reliability for Travel Time Index and Reliability Rating by analyzing hundreds of scenarios for the variance of demand, weather, incidents, work zones, and special events over time. Freeway facility reliability analyses evaluate the travel time reliability experiences of motorists on an urban or rural freeway […]

In a series of projects funded by the Florida Department of Transportation, University of Florida researchers explored the use of indirect impedance as a method of corrosion detection on post-tensioned cables. UFTI affiliate, Mark Orazem, Ph.D., was the principal investigator on the project. The research included fundamental studies on corrosion rates and oxide film thickness […]

The UF Transportation Institute welcomes our newest faculty member, Lili Du. Dr. Du is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. Before joining UF, she worked as an assistant and then an associate professor at Illinois Institute of Technology from 2012-2017. She also worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate for NEXTRANS, […]

The University of Florida, in partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation and the City of Gainesville, is preparing to launch the advanced transportation technologies testbed I-STREET (Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluation of Emerging Technologies).  I-STREET will encompass the University of Florida campus and the surrounding roadway network in the City of Gainesville. […]

The UFTI’s STRIDE Center will be hosting this year’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) Conference for the Southeastern Region, November 16-17, 2017, at the UF campus. The conference is FREE and open to faculty, students, practitioners and public agencies in the Southeast. Students who present posters and papers will have the opportunity to compete for a 1st, 2nd and […]

Doctoral student, Marian Ankomah, discusses her specialization in transportation planning while working on her Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering.

During the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC)  Summer Meeting in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou was elected  president of the organization.   Dr. Elefteriadou will serve as President for one year, until June 2018. CUTC was established in 1979 by several major transportation research centers and institutes in the US to provide a forum for […]