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Transportation is expansive, and there’s a place for everyone. Though, Samantha Taningco didn’t quite know her place when she came to the University of Florida in 2009. A Civil Engineering major, she was interested in structures but wasn’t sure what path she wanted to take. That was until she took Introduction to Transportation with Dr. […]

  Each year the University of Florida’s Benton Engineering Council (BEC) organizes an Engineering Fair (E-Fair) to promote engineering education amongst K-12 students. This two-day event takes place during BEC’s Engineering Week and allows UF engineering student groups to interact with visiting K-12 students using hands-on activities that the student groups create. This year’s E-Fair […]

Vishal Khanapure’s title at the McTrans Center is “Computer Research Specialist” and it truly does fit him. The McTrans Center at the University of Florida Transportation Institute distributes and supports a variety of software programs for traffic engineering and transportation planning applications, with training courses also available. Passionate about his work, Khanapure assists in a […]

If you have ever had a question or needed some information about the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) or the Highway Capacity Software (HCS 2010), all you have to do is ask us.  McTrans has been involved with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (HCQS) committee for about thirty years […]

It has been a busy year for civil engineering doctoral student Deja Jackson- and it’s only March!  Jackson has been named one of three students selected from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering to receive the Committee 200 (C200) Scholar Award. It was announced at the Powered to Lead: Transforming the Future as Women Summit […]

Congratulations to University of Florida students Megan McGinley,  Eleftheria Kontou and Yinan Zhang for receiving scholarships from WTS Central Florida and WTS South Florida. Frankee Hellinger Undergraduate Scholarship, 2016 (WTS Central Florida): Megan McGinley Megan McGinley graduated from UF with a B.S. in civil engineering during the 2015-2016 school year. She is now attending UF […]

Who says Gators, Rattlers and Cimarrons can’t live in harmony? This past month, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou traveled up to Tallahassee to present her research on “Driver Behavior and Characteristics and their Use in Traffic Modeling”. The talk was part of the Florida A&M University (FAMU) – Florida State University (FSU) College of Engineering’s Civil and […]

We live in a world where massive amounts of data are currently available to us. In 2013, the size of the digital universe was estimated to be near 5 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1 million terabytes) and is expected to quadruple by 2020. Like the physical world, the information in it is diverse – created […]

Have you ever seen a traffic crash on the highway? Or maybe just someone with a flat tire? In many cases you will also see a freeway service patrol vehicle assisting motorists, known as Road Rangers here in Florida. They are a free service provided by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and can assist […]

The world of autonomous vehicles is rapidly changing, and what was once a dream in various science fiction films is inching closer and closer to reality. Many companies, such as Google and Tesla, are publicly working on autonomous vehicles, but who is working on the human centered side of this technology? Jerone Dunbar is a […]