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The University of Florida, in partnership with the Florida Department of Transportation and the City of Gainesville, is preparing to launch the advanced transportation technologies testbed I-STREET (Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluation of Emerging Technologies).  I-STREET will encompass the University of Florida campus and the surrounding roadway network in the City of Gainesville. […]

Doctoral student, Marian Ankomah, discusses her specialization in transportation planning while working on her Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering.

During the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC)  Summer Meeting in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou was elected  president of the organization.   Dr. Elefteriadou will serve as President for one year, until June 2018. CUTC was established in 1979 by several major transportation research centers and institutes in the US to provide a forum for […]

Jerone Dunbar and Brianna Posadas, Ph.D. students in computer and information science engineering working with Dr. Juan Gilbert, recently completed multidisciplinary projects focusing on transportation. Dunbar presented his paper at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Vancouver, Canada. The conference was held on July 12-14, 2016. Similarly, Posadas will be presenting her poster […]

The 2017 Automated Vehicles Symposium was held in San Francisco, CA, and was a joint conference between the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). The purpose of the symposium is to bring together industry and academia to discuss the latest automated vehicle research and technology. Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, Dr. […]

UFTI Ph.D. student, Pruthvi Manjunatha, takes you behind the scenes of the UFTI driving simulator and explains how it works.

This year, the University of Florida launched Summer Undergraduate Research at Florida (SURF), which is a 10-week program that provides students, excelling in their studies at their home institutions, with the opportunity to work with premier faculty at UF on active research projects. Out of the 21 students pursuing research experiences in the Herbert Wertheim […]

Share your work with colleagues, sponsors, and collaborators of University Transportation Centers in the Southeastern U.S. Conference organizers welcome abstracts for oral papers and poster presentations from faculty and students. The period of submission is May 12, 2017 to August 31, 2017. This year, student papers and posters will be competing for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place scholarships […]

FDOT held a peer exchange, which is a review of a state DOT’s Research, Development, and Technology program by representatives of other state DOTs, federal transportation agencies, academic institutions, the Transportation Research Board (TRB), and other entities to exchange information and best practices. The theme of the April 25-27, 2017, FDOT peer exchange was “How […]

NSF, FDOT, the City of Gainesville are helping the UFTI to test new technologies and algorithms that will facilitate the presence of autonomous and connected vehicles.