Category: Events

The Gator ITE Student Chapter hosted this year’s Student Leadership Summit (SLS) at the University of Florida on February 9-11, 2018. Fifty-three students registered to attend this event. Also, held in conjunction with the summit was the Florida Section ITE Winter Workshop on “Workforce and Mobility in the Connected World: A Discussion of the Future […]

The UFTI Transportation Technology Transfer Center, the Florida Department of Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration will present a 1.5-day workshop on low-cost best practices for safety. Federal, state,and local transportation officials, traffic and safety engineers, and planners involved in reducing crashes are encouraged to attend. Emphasis will be placed on the application of some […]

UFTI organized a half-day workshop on “Visualizing Transportation Big Data for Efficient Decision Making” on Friday, December 8. Despite the sudden bad weather, about 30 people attended the event in person, in addition to a handful of virtual participants who logged into a Zoom meeting to follow the presentations. April Blackburn, Chief of Transportation Technology, […]

The University of Florida student chapter of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) recently joined the Adopt-A-Highway (AAH) program. AAH is a program of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) in which volunteers clean up roadside litter four times a year or more often if needed. Pedro Maldonado, the president of the ITE student chapter at […]

The UFTI’s STRIDE Center will be hosting this year’s University Transportation Centers (UTC) Conference for the Southeastern Region, November 16-17, 2017, at the UF campus. The conference is FREE and open to faculty, students, practitioners and public agencies in the Southeast. Students who present posters and papers will have the opportunity to compete for a 1st, 2nd and […]

During the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC)  Summer Meeting in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou was elected  president of the organization.   Dr. Elefteriadou will serve as President for one year, until June 2018. CUTC was established in 1979 by several major transportation research centers and institutes in the US to provide a forum for […]

Checkout upcoming events, courses, workshops and webinars below! Highway Capacity Manual, Sixth Edition – Webinar This webinar will provide a general introduction to the 6th edition of the HCM and highlight changes relative to the HCM 5th July 13, 2017 Mobility Fee Webinar Local governments are exploring creative ways to provide mobility other than by […]

Members of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) attended a workshop on “Future Highway Capacity Manual Updates”, held on June 14-17, 2017, in Minneapolis, MN. Attendees were given the opportunity to participate in high-level discussions and presentations and networked with key professionals in the traffic engineering field from industry and academia. While in Minneapolis, a dinner […]

Share your work with colleagues, sponsors, and collaborators of University Transportation Centers in the Southeastern U.S. Conference organizers welcome abstracts for oral papers and poster presentations from faculty and students. The period of submission is May 12, 2017 to August 31, 2017. This year, student papers and posters will be competing for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place scholarships […]

Ines Aviles-Spadoni, who serves as the research coordinator for the UFTI’s U.S. DOT grant-funded University Transportation Center (STRIDE), completed a 9-month program for emerging leaders at the University of Florida. The program is designed to teach the competitively selected participants about the university culture, learn about its organizational structure, and engage with key UF leaders […]