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Photo of Nithin Agarwal Nithin Agarwal Director, UFTI, T2 Center
(352) 273-1674

Research Areas:

  • Multimodal transportation safety
  • Traffic Crash Data Modeling and Safety Analyses
  • Local road safety plans
  • Traffic operations, design and simulation
  • Advanced traffic signal timing
  • Connected and Automated Vehicles
  • Human factors
  • Tech transfer

Biography:
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Photo of Bob Aghdashi Bob Aghdashi Director, McTrans Center
(352) 294-3095
Photo of Ines Aviles-Spadoni Ines Aviles-Spadoni Research & Communications Coordinator III, UFTI/STRIDE
(352) 294-7803
Photo of Lily Elefteriadou Lily Elefteriadou Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
(352) 294-7802

Research Areas:

  • Traffic Flow Theory
  • Highway Capacity Analysis
  • Traffic Simulation
  • Signal Control
  • Travel Time Reliability

Biography:
Dr. Elefteriadou is the Director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) and the Barbara Goldsby Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida.…

Photo of Kyle Riding Kyle Riding Professor, Civil and Coastal Engineering Department Head, and UFTI Interim Director
(352) 294-1628
Photo of Siva Srinivasan Siva Srinivasan Professor & Associate Director, UFTI, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
(352) 294-7807

Research Areas:

  • Transportation Planning and Policy Evaluation
  • Activity-Based Approaches for Travel-Demand Modeling and Forecasting
  • Travel Impacts of New Information and Communication Technologies
  • GPS and GIS Applications for Travel-Data Collection and Analysis
  • Application of Advanced Econometric Methods for Transportation Problems

Biography:
Dr.…

Photo of Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
Photo of Xilei Zhao Xilei Zhao Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering
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Xilei Zhao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr. Zhao received her B.E. in Civil Engineering from Southeast University, China, in 2013, her MSEs in Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in 2016 and 2017, respectively, and her Ph.D.…