Month: November 2025

The 2025 “Research to Practice” Transit Symposium will take place October 28-30, 2025. The symposium will take place online and streamed on YouTube. As the transit industry is experiencing significant changes (e.g., new technologies, potential funding shortage) in recent years, the symposium provides a platform where transit experts share insights on how evidence-based research is […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Alexandra Kondyli, Ph.D., professor of transportation engineering at the University of Kansas (KU), has always been fascinated by how transportation influences how people move, live, and connect. That interest solidified toward the end of her undergraduate years, when she became interested in measuring and understanding the ever-changing […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Transportation is truly interdisciplinary, combining engineering with data science, public policy, human behavior, and more. For Ally Recalde, a first-year doctoral student in the UF Department of Civil Engineering, that blending of disciplines felt like the best place to put her geography skills to work. “Geography and […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Meet Sophia. Sophia is a fictitious character created to help illustrate a typical commuter and transit rider. She lives in a large city. Her morning commute includes riding an e-scooter to the nearest subway station, stopping to buy a cup of coffee and catching the subway to […]