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Ten teachers from Alachua County in Florida attended a one-day workshop on June 6, 2019 at the University of Florida that focused on science and technology concepts for grades levels 4th through 7 and explored transportation as a career option for their students.   The teachers heard about the latest in transportation research taking place at […]

On June 13, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed CS/HB 311: Autonomous Vehicles, which will expand testing of autonomous vehicles. The bill signing took place at the SunTrax facility in Polk County, Florida. “Signing this legislation paves the way for Florida to continue as a national leader in transportation innovation and technological advancement,” said Governor DeSantis. […]

The Automated Vehicles Ecosystem is composed of three components: the vehicle itself, an infrastructure, and users. It is paramount to design an end-to-end security solution to ensure resilience of the whole system. We have seen some solutions, but they are all designed in silos. Where do we go now and how will regulation and policy […]

This June 17-21 webinar series presents lectures, software demonstrations and application examples on the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) procedures – including upcoming 6th Edition updates. Step-by-step instruction of the HCM methodologies will be provided for each analytical chapter with demonstrations of the Highway Capacity Software (HCS) that implements and automates the HCM procedures.  Click Here […]

Abi Komma graduated from the UF with a Masters of Science in Transportation Engineering in August 2008. Komma is currently employed as a senior data scientist on the Computer Vision Platform team at Uber in San Francisco. The team is responsible for developing core computer vision capabilities such as text recognition, image classification, object detection […]

The STRIDE Center will be hosting a webinar on June 12, 2019 at 12 p.m. ET on “Comparing Transit Agency Peer Groups using Cluster Analysis”. The speaker is Dr. Kari Watkins of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The webinar is related to Dr. Watkins’ STRIDE-funded project on “Transit in the Era of Shared Mobility”. She […]

Congratulations to Ph.D. student Fabio Sasahara for being awarded $1,000 as runner-up for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Jack E. Leisch Memorial Graduate Fellowship. The fellowship is a memorial to the outstanding professional accomplishments and contributions of Jack E. Leisch, member of ASCE, to the fields of highway design, traffic operations and transportation planning. Selection was […]

The Fitness-to-Drive Screening Measure is a free screening tool, available online for caregivers and family members of older drivers, including occupational therapy practitioners that detects and rates a driver’s difficulties in performing tasks. The initial study funded by the Center for Multimodal Solutions for Congestion Mitigation (CMS), which was the UFTI’s 2007 USDOT grant-funded, Tier-1 University Transportation […]

Researchers in the UF Department of Occupational Therapy, led by Dr. Sherrilene Classen, recently published, “Smart In-Vehicle Technologies and Older Drivers: A Scoping Review” in the American Journal of Occupational Therapy’s Special Issue on Robotics, AI, and Automation. The researchers determined the impact, specifically convenience, comfort, and safety, of In-vehicle Information Systems or Advanced Driving […]