Month: October 2020

The UFTI welcomes Dr. Fabio Sasahara as Associate Engineer at the UFTI/McTrans Center. Dr. Sasahara specializes in applications related to the Highway Capacity Manual (HCS). He will be engaging with software developers to expand the HCS, provide customer technical support for clients, including training and conducting webinars. Dr. Sasahara has a Ph.D. in transportation engineering […]

Dr. Pruthvi Manjunatha and Dr. Lily Elefteriadou of the UFTI are working on two studies to evaluate how other vehicles and pedestrians interact with Autonomous Vehicles (AV). The first study will evaluate the AV shuttle in Gainesville, FL, while the second will evaluate the AV shuttle in Lake Nona, FL. With more and more autonomous shuttles […]

The UFTI welcomes Dr. Gustavo R. de Andrade as Associate Engineer at the UFTI’s McTrans Center. Dr. de Andrade has over 13 years of experience in transportation engineering consultancy, where he has contributed to and led projects on travel demand and revenue forecasting for PPP, multimodal planning, cost-benefit studies, road safety, training, and development of […]

Dr. Khiem Tram is an Associate Professor in the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering specializing in Geosystems Engineering. Geosystems engineering is the application of scientific methods and engineering principles to the acquisition, interpretation, and the use of materials related to the Earth’s crust for solving engineering problems. How does Dr. Tram’s work relate […]

Mehri “Mehrsa” Mohebbi holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Arts, and Planning (DAAP). She previously worked as an urban planner and qualitative researcher addressing health and social equity in transportation and community planning in different states across the country. In the last few years, […]

The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education (STRIDE) Center teamed up with Julee Breehne, K-12 Coordinator at Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s UF Innovation Station in Sarasota County, to introduce students at Booker Middle School in Sarasota County to transportation engineering. STRIDE K-12 Coordinator Ondine Wells and Breehne met with 6th, 7th, and 8th […]

The University of Florida Transportation Institute, in collaboration with the California Department of Transportation, and the T-SCORE University Transportation Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, hosted the Interstate Transit Research Symposium, which was a free, online event that brought together transit experts to discuss the latest in public transportation research in the United States. […]

Ehsan Amini, a doctoral student in the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, was part of a collaborative project led by North Carolina State University (NCSU) that focused on identifying, documenting, and addressing some major deficiencies in the weaving methodology found in the Highway Capacity Manual 6 (HCM6). The project “Assessing and Addressing Deficiencies […]

Seung Woo Hwangbo, a doctoral student in the UF Department of Occupational Therapy affiliated with the Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP), is working in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the City of Gainesville, on a project which looks at the perceptions of younger and middle-aged drivers toward autonomous vehicle […]