Category: Events

GAINESVILLE, Florida – Starting Feb. 3, Gainesville residents will be able to board an autonomous shuttle for test rides between downtown Gainesville and the University of Florida campus. The shuttle will be operated by the City of Gainesville’s Regional Transit System (RTS) and has been funded by the Florida Department of Transportation. The pilot project […]

Dr. Nithin Agarwal gave a presentation during the Florida Puerto Rico ITE District Annual Meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His presentation, “UF Transportation Safety Center’s Effort on Improving Rural Road Safety in Florida” was given during the Safety and Vision Zero Initiatives Session. Presentation Abstract Crashes on roadways are random events and with extensive […]

Several UFTI faculty and students presented at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Seattle this past month. The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting provides attendees with a unique opportunity to connect and network. Dr. Lily Elefteriadou gave a presentation titled “Signal Control and Autonomous Vehicle Trajectory Optimization for Enhancing Mobility” […]

This past month, the University of Florida and Info Tech hosted the North American Linked Data in Architecture and Construction (LDAC) Workshop on Linked Building Data and Semantic Web Technologies (WLS 2019). The theme of the workshop was the Future of Information Exchanges and Interoperability. Dr. Lily Elefteriadou presented a plenary session “Capitalizing on Autonomy, […]

Zachary Jerome from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the UFTI’s 2019 SURF student. He is currently working on two projects under the guidance of Dr. Lily Elefteriadou: “Autonomous Vehicles at Intelligent Intersections and Advanced Networks” and “Highway Capacity Manual Methodologies for Corridors Involving Freeways and Surface Streets.” After graduation, Jerome hopes to be at […]

Ten teachers from Alachua County in Florida attended a one-day workshop on June 6, 2019 at the University of Florida that focused on science and technology concepts for grades levels 4th through 7 and explored transportation as a career option for their students.   The teachers heard about the latest in transportation research taking place at […]

The Automated Vehicles Ecosystem is composed of three components: the vehicle itself, an infrastructure, and users. It is paramount to design an end-to-end security solution to ensure resilience of the whole system. We have seen some solutions, but they are all designed in silos. Where do we go now and how will regulation and policy […]

The STRIDE Center will be hosting a webinar on June 12, 2019 at 12 p.m. ET on “Comparing Transit Agency Peer Groups using Cluster Analysis”. The speaker is Dr. Kari Watkins of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The webinar is related to Dr. Watkins’ STRIDE-funded project on “Transit in the Era of Shared Mobility”. She […]

On April 2, 2019, 14 middle school students participating in the UF Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Spring Break Camp learned about transportation engineering and designed a “Complete Street” using StreetMix.net, an online design tool. The session and activities were led by the STRIDE Center’s Ondine Wells, K-12/Technology Transfer coordinator. Students also learned about […]