Category: Events

On Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 44 middle school girls from Sarasota, FL, visited the University of Florida for the Girls Engaged in Engineering event sponsored by the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. During their visit, students attended a session headed by Ondine Wells of the STRIDE Center where they learned about transportation engineering followed by […]

On Saturday, March 16, 2019, the STRIDE Center participated in the annual UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital Bicycle Rodeo and Safety Fair. Over 200 children participated in a bicycle obstacle course and were fitted with a free helmet. At the STRIDE booth, run by the Center’s K-12/Workforce Development Coordinator Ondine Wells, kids and their parents […]

UFTI Technology Transfer (T2) Center staff Paul Simpson and Terrell Barnhart, will be fitting helmets at the UF Health Shands Children’s Hospital’s Bike Rodeo and Safety Fair. The event will be held at the UF Campus on Saturday, March 16. This event will help promote bicycle safety, and all kids who attend will receive a […]

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 […]

Congratulations to Dr. Lily Elefteriadou on being recognized for her outstanding service as the previous president of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). Dr. Elefteriadou was elected as president of the organization in 2017, serving for one year until June 2018. Additionally, Mohamad Shoaib Samandar, a student from North Carolina State University, won the […]

UFTI students, faculty and staff recently attended the 2019 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. As in previous years, participation included presentations at various lectern and poster sessions and TRB committees. The UFTI also hosted its annual reception at TRB for students, faculty, and friends of the University of Florida. Click the link below […]

The IATBR International Conference 2018 took place in Santa Barbara/CA from July 14th – 20th, having researchers from all around the world. The conference was organized into the following research topics: Mobility as a Service (MaaS) Time Use – Well Being Healthy, Happy, and Holistic Living Automated Vehicles – Perception and Behaviors Machine Learning – […]

The Florida Gator Student Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) participated in an “Alachua Women Build” event on March 10, 2018. Participation in this event was part of the WTS student chapter’s service to the community. The student chapter felt empowered by learning home-building skills while helping to build a home for a hard working […]

Dr. Elise Miller-Hooks presented a seminar on “Multi-Hazard Resilience Quantification in Transportation Systems and the Societal Functions They Support.” Dr. Miller-Hooks is a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and holds the Bill & Eleanor Hazel Chair in Infrastructure Engineering. This seminar took place on Thursday, April 12, […]