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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 […]

The University of Florida Transportation Institute worked on an FDOT-funded project to develop a roadmap for I-STREET (Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluation of Emerging Technologies), the real-world testbed located in the City of Gainesville and the UF campus. The outcome was an extended technical memorandum containing a literature review, identification of testbeds developed […]

The University of Florida Transportation Institute hosted the 5th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region on Nov. 16-17, 2017. Over 230 people registered for the event, with attendees from academia and the public and private sectors. The two-day event featured keynote speakers, various paper and poster presentations, a state DOT panel, a WTS and […]

From June to August 2017, Pedro Maldonado interned with the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety (AAAFTS) in Washington, D.C. Maldonado was part of the traffic research group and had the opportunity to collaborate with experts in the field of traffic safety and human factors. During his internship, Maldonado was involved in three main […]