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Seung Woo Hwangbo, a doctoral student in the UF Department of Occupational Therapy affiliated with the Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP), is working in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the City of Gainesville on a project that looks at the perceptions of younger and middle-aged drivers toward autonomous vehicle […]

As part of the UFTI’s I-STREET initiative, a team of researchers at the University of Florida led by Dr. Sanjay Ranka, a Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, in collaboration with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), are working to evaluate connected vehicle (CV) technologies and applications installed by Siemens […]

The 2020 fire season has been one of the worst in decades, destroying millions of acres in the western United States. It has ruined homes, affected people’s lives, and destroyed natural habitats, home to a variety of flora and fauna. But what is the decision process taken by those affected by these wildfires in determining […]

James Wersal, a doctoral student in the Department of Occupational Therapy’s Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP) team, worked in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the City of Gainesville on a STRIDE-funded project to better understand the perceptions, values, beliefs, and attitudes of drivers 65 years and older as it […]

UFTI Transportation doctoral student Sagar Patni and UF urban planning master’s student Juan Suarez conducted a study under the direction of their adviser, Dr. Siva Srinivasan, to track the impact of COVID-19 on ridership in the City of Gainesville, Florida, a college town that is home to the University of Florida and Santa Fe College. […]

Researchers at UFTI, leading a STRIDE Center project in collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech), have developed a robust microsimulation extension. This will enable the development and refinement of advanced transportation management strategies and evaluation procedures for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Simply put, the researchers have developed simulation extensions to test “what if” scenarios […]

With an increase in the use of computer software, technologies, and automation, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), the built environment and the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation industry (AEOC) have been experiencing a transformation that has greatly improved their industry. Due to a surge in the application […]

Dr. Shirin Noei’s interest in transportation engineering grew while working on her master’s degree in construction management at Florida International University through a project related to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). As she describes it, this experience solidified her belief that “no civil engineering concentration could fulfill my passion for technology except transportation engineering.” Dr. Noei […]

UF alumnus Dr. Panos Michalopoulos has more than 50 years of consulting, research, teaching, professional, and business experience in traffic engineering, management operations, and control; additionally, he started a public company. He has been a professor of Transportation and Traffic Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1976 and at the University of Minnesota from 1977 […]

We used to think change came slowly. Now we know change can come in the blink of an eye and with little notice. As we all adjust to our new reality, we will have to discover new ways to complete familiar tasks.  Recently, Jasper Masciocchi, UFTI-T2 Education and Training Specialist, reached out to a few […]