Month: February 2019

Congratulations to Dr. Cody Ko for accepting a position as District Traffic Safety Program Engineer at the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) District 2 Traffic Operations Office. Dr. Ko graduated in 2007 from the transportation engineering program back when the UFTI was known as the Transportation Research Center (TRC). With the guidance of several transportation […]

The next Highway Capacity Analysis Webinar Series presented by McTrans is scheduled for April 8-12 with a bonus session to cover simulation using TransModeler SE, now integrated with the HCS7 Streets module.  This session will provide training on converting Streets analyses to TransModeler SE simulation runs that are HCM-compliant and include 3D animation and geo-referencing.  […]

Ten UF students attended the 2nd Florida ITE Student Leadership Summit (SLS), hosted by University of South Florida in Tampa. The summit aims to guide future transportation professionals and provide them with valuable career advice. During this three-day event, students attended a series of presentations from transportation leaders from different backgrounds. Additionally, students participated in […]

Congratulations to Aschkan Omidvar for winning the first place ITS Florida Anne Brewer Academic Scholarship! Omidvar is a Ph.D. student at the UFTI working with Dr. Lily Elefteriadou on projects related to autonomous vehicles. The scholarship is awarded to students from universities in Florida who are majoring in a field related to transportation and/or ITS […]

Elementary school students at Alachua County Public Schools have been learning about transportation through lively discussions and hands-on STEM activities led by Ondine Wells, the STRIDE Center’s K-12/Technology Transfer coordinator at the UFTI. At each of the school visits, Wells facilitates a discussion with students related to what engineering is and how different types of […]

The UFTI’s McTrans Center will be working with the Southwest Research Institute’s (SwRI) Critical Systems Department (CSD) as subject matter expert consultants for HCS7 (a product of McTrans) under the Central Florida Regional Integrated Corridor Management System (R-ICMS) project. McTrans Director Bill Sampson will serve as the PI with assistance from Vishal Khanapure, assistant director […]

A project funded by the Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education Center, which is the U.S. Department of Transportation’s grant-funded, Regional (Southeastern) University Transportation Center (UTC) housed at the UFTI, is being led by Research Assistant Professor Dr. Clark Letter. The research team includes Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (UFTI professor and director) in collaboration with […]

The University of Florida has partnered with Temple, Inc., and Applied Information, Inc., to test and evaluate the use of GPS and cell phone technology that can send an alert or warning message on the driver’s cell phone if the driver is speeding in an active school zone. A secondary benefit of the same application […]

UPDATE (2/28/19): Registration is now full, all new RSVPs will be automatically waitlisted. Aimsun Next is a transportation modeling software package that supports travel demand modeling, dynamic traffic assignment and simulation at various levels of aggregation (mesoscopic, microscopic and hybrid). This two-day training session by Aimsun is offered free of charge for UF students. When: […]

UPDATE (2/28/19): Registration is now full, all new RSVPs will be automatically waitlisted. TransModeler is a powerful and versatile traffic simulation package applicable to a wide array of planning and modeling tasks. The two day training session by Caliper Corporation is offered free for UF students (Please RSVP for the event). When: March 14-15  (Thursday […]