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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.

The Gator ITE Student Chapter hosted this year’s Student Leadership Summit (SLS) at the University of Florida on February 9-11, 2018. Fifty-three students registered to attend this event. Also, held in conjunction with the summit was the Florida Section ITE Winter Workshop on “Workforce and Mobility in the Connected World: A Discussion of the Future […]

I-75 FRAME (Florida’s Regional Advanced Mobility Elements) is a project that will use advanced communications and traffic management technologies to optimize the use of transportation infrastructure for improved safety and mobility. The project, which is part of I-STREET, will instrument 74 miles along I-75 and 82 miles of US 301/US441. The project will deploy the […]

Dr. Michelle Manuel, chair of the Department of Materials Science Engineering, and her team of researchers explored the use of infrared ultra-time-domain (IR-UTD) testing as an improved method of inspecting bridge welds. Steel bridges are created by welding steel components. The quality of these welds is critical to the integrity of the bridge. Weld defects […]

Gregory Winfree, TTI Agency Director, visited the UFTI to give a speech about connected autonomous vehicles. Below is the abstract and recording of the presentation. Abstract: Autonomous – or “self-driving” – vehicles are all the rage in the news today, with significantly more focus given to the vehicles driving themselves than whether the vehicles can […]

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McTrans is mainly known in the transportation community for the development of the Highway Capacity Software (HCS) and Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) training/webinars. Did you know that McTrans also collaborates with faculty and other centers to develop software for research projects? For instance, McTrans is currently working on an FDOT-funded project to develop a smartphone […]