Category: Events

The Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) hosted its annual Transportation Symposium on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the Reitz Union on the UF Campus. The event  focused on the Old Florida Heritage Highway, a corridor running along US 441 in North Central Florida, which incorporates elements of carefully managed transportation engineering, planning and wildlife conservation ecology. […]

The picnic will take place at Lake Wauburg’s South Pavilion I on Oct. 23, 2016, from 11 am to 2 pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. RSVP by October 19th to Jennifer Gomez (UFTI Administrative Assistant) at ufti@eng.ufl.edu.  

Mark your calendars! The WTS Advancing Women in Transportation student chapter at UF is hosting a symposium on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 from 6 pm to 8 pm in G-310, Reitz Union (UF Campus). A raffle and reception will follow the event. RSVP by Oct. 17th to iaviles@ce.ufl.edu. The symposium will bring together planners, transportation […]

This past month several representatives of the University of Florida Transportation Institute traveled to Berlin, Germany for the International Symposium on Enhancing Highway Performance (ISEHP). This joint international symposium was organized by two Transportation Research Board (TRB) committees (Highway Capacity and Quality of Service – AHB40 and Freeway Operations -AHB20) and the German Road and […]

Last month, WTS International hosted its annual conference in Austin, Texas. The event spanned over three days with more than 600 corporate and governmental industry leaders worldwide in attendance.  Topics such as autonomous technologies, transportation funding, shared mobility solutions, innovative data collection methods, professional development, and more were discussed. Every year the President and CEO […]

UFTI Director Dr. Lily Elefteriadou and STRIDE Research Coordinator Ines Aviles-Spadoni were in Los Angeles, California from June 6th to 9th to attend and present at the 2016 Summer Meeting of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). The meeting was hosted by the METRANS Transportation Center at the University of Southern California (USC). CUTC […]

Thursday, March 24, 2016 3 pm to 4 pm EST NEB 100 Title: Control of Freeway Corridors: Objectives, Performance Measures, Strategies Lecture will be recorded and link posted for those that cannot attend in-person. Abstract Integrated management of travel corridors comprising of freeways and adjacent arterial streets controlled by traffic signals is a promising approach […]

Monday, March 7, 2016 12 pm to 1 pm EST Title: An Open Access Database for Investigating Body Movements While Performing Driving Tasks Abstract Dr. Angelos Barmpoutis of the Digital Worlds Institute and the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida and his team (Dr. Alexandra Kondyli, University of Kansas; […]

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) and UFTI are sponsoring the 15th International Conference on Managed Lanes May 4-6, 2016 in Miami, Florida. The workshop explores planning, design, and operations of managed lanes as well as emerging research needs related to integrating managed lanes into the transportation system.