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The Gator ITE team attended the 2018 ITE Annual Meeting in Ponte Vedra, Fla., and competed in the Collegiate Traffic Bowl. The team played against the top five universities in Florida, and won third place. The traffic bowl is a jeopardy-style competition played with transportation-related questions. The team was composed of the following students: Xi […]

This summer two interns, Matt Dean and Parfait Masungi, have joined the UFTI under the SURF program. The SURF program entails a 10 week Summer Undergraduate Research experience at the University of Florida.

Chayma Tika and Sophia Semensky were presented with the Transoft Solutions Scholarship at the WTS Symposium held on April 4, 2018, at the University of Florida. This new scholarship is for junior or senior civil engineering undergraduate students specializing in transportation. Preference is given to student(s) involved with the student organization, Women’s Transportation Seminar. The […]

Gustavo de Andrade is a third year Ph.D. student under the UFTI. Andrade is currently working with Dr. Elefteriadou on the topic of Relationships between Road Safety and Operations

Congratulations to Deja Jackson for being invited to the 26th Annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference in Washington, D.C.! This is the first time Jackson, who is pursuing an Ph.D. in Civil and Coastal Engineering, has been accepted to attend the conference – each year, 20 different individuals are accepted as Eno Fellows and invited […]

Dr. Elise Miller-Hooks presented a seminar on “Multi-Hazard Resilience Quantification in Transportation Systems and the Societal Functions They Support.” Dr. Miller-Hooks is a professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and holds the Bill & Eleanor Hazel Chair in Infrastructure Engineering. This seminar took place on Thursday, April 12, […]

The objective of this project was to use specially designed software to optimize the mix of recycled asphalt pavement, RAP, as a replacement for up to 40% of the aggregate in concrete mixes. UF Term Professor Mang Tia served as the principal investigator of this project. The resurfacing of asphalt roadways involves the removal, or […]

Roadside plantings beautify Florida’s highways and make traveling more pleasant, but they also perform a vital engineering function by helping to preserve the integrity of the roadway and to prevent erosion. Wildflowers have been used in roadside plantings since highway beautification efforts began in the early 1960s. Professor Jason Ferrell from the Department of Agronomy […]

In Release 7.5, the Streets module now provides a new larger interchange graphic that can be direction-oriented by the user. The TWSC module has been rebuilt with an upgraded internal architecture to provide more user flexibility and processing speed. The graphic has been improved in the Freeways module to more explicitly display managed lanes, left-side […]

Wei Sun, Ph.D. transportation student, works with Dr. Scott Washburn on his dissertation on freeway network travel time reliability.