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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 a 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 […]

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 removing, or milling, […]

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 […]

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. New arterial technologies will be […]

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. 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 actually “connect” to each other or to our roadway […]

McTrans is best known in the transportation community for developing the Highway Capacity Software (HCS) and the 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 application […]

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 […]