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Getting from one place to another – transportation – is a major part of every person’s life. Changes are happening in urban areas across the country and around the world and congestion is on the rise. With the added costs of fuel, vehicle wear and tear, and the value of time lost to congestion, estimates […]

Dr. Nithin Agarwal, Director of the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) Technology Transfer (T2) Center and graduate faculty in the UF Herbert Wertheim Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, met with students in the Gator Engineering at Santa Fe program at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida, on February 25, 2020.  Dr. Agarwal shared how the […]

The UF student chapters of the Institute for Transportation Engineers (ITE) and Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) coordinated a transportation-themed trivia activity at the annual UF Engineering Fair (E-Fair) on February 18, 2020. Over a hundred elementary students, teachers, and parents tested their knowledge of transportation infrastructure, modes, safety, famous historical vehicles, and fictional vehicles […]

Dr. Lili Du, associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, has worked on several research projects over her years with the UFTI; some of her work has been supported by the NSF CAREER award she received in 2016. The NSF CAREER award is part of the Faculty Early Career Development Program, which supports early-career faculty with the […]

Dr. Ria Kontou was encouraged to take transportation courses by great mentors while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. During her studies, she worked to complete her undergraduate thesis on bus-to-depot allocation a decision that helped her down the transportation engineering road. Ria’s fascination with the potential […]

Dr. Nithin Agarwal has been appointed Director of the UFTI Technology Transfer (T2) Center, effective February 21, 2020.  Dr. Agarwal has served as the Assistant Director of the T2 Center for over a year. Dr. Agarwal also manages the UFTI’s Transportation Safety Center where he also leads efforts to evaluate emerging technologies utilizing the UFTI’s […]

Asean Davis is a charismatic second-year Ph.D. student. Academically, Asean likes to focus his energies looking at the issues surrounding autonomous freight transportation. Specifically, he is interested in how driving on a road with autonomous freight affects the behavior of non-autonomous vehicle drivers and how perceptions about autonomous freight play a role in driver behavior. […]

Video-Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management Dr. Sanjay Ranka (PI), Dr. Anand Rangarajan (co-PI), Dr. Sivaramakrishna Srinivasan (co-PI), Dr. Lily Elefteriadou (co-PI), and Daniel Hoffman (co-PI)Funding Source: NSF This project explores a fairly new area of research: looking at near-misses as a metric of safety. Researchers at the UFTI are collaborating with […]

Our students are an important part of the UF Transportation Institute and we’re excited to be able to feature some of them in our newsletter. This month we’re featuring Ph.D. student, Ala Alobeidyeen. Ala received her master’s degree in transportation engineering from the University of Jordan. She then went to study at the Illinois Institute […]

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” […]