Sandra Winter, Ph.D., is a research assistant professor in the UF Department of Occupational Therapy (OT). She has been affiliated with the transportation program for various years, while working on a project developing a safe driving behaviors measure for older… Read More
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Transportation Operations & Planning Certificate
Transportation professionals are able to expand their knowledge and qualifications in transportation planning and engineering with the Transportation Operations & Planning Certificate. The nine-credit certificate includes courses in transportation systems operations, highway capacity analysis and transportation policy and planning. Students… Read More
T2 Center Pilots Middle-School Aged Transportation Course using SimCity
Building on the educational benefits of computer games, which are becoming increasingly popular as a teaching tool, the UFTI’s Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center developed a nine-week class for middle-school-aged students using the computer game SimCityEDU (http://www.simcityedu.org/). The class aimed… Read More
Recently Published: The UFTI Annual Report
This is the first annual report of the UFTI since it’s launch on October 4, 2013, which covers the period of July 2013 to June 2014. The report includes highlights on selected research projects, examples of UFTI’s impact on transportation… Read More
Accepting Applications for the Transportation Research Internship Program (TRIP)
The TRIP internship program is now accepting applications for summer 2015.Undergraduate students that are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and hold a junior or senior status are eligible to apply. The application deadline is March 18th. The TRIP program is… Read More
Participate in the 3D Shape Retrieval Contest using the Driver’s Motion Depth Database
Engineering students, faculty, researchers and professionals working in the area of transportation or computer sciences are invited to participate in the 3D Shape Retrieval Contest to evaluate the effectiveness of 3D-shape retrieval algorithms using the open-source scientific database created by… Read More
Developing Methods to Predict Crash Frequency on Freeways with HOV & HOT Lanes
Researchers from the University of Florida (UF) and Florida International University (FIU) are developing predictive methods to determine crash frequency on freeways with HOV and HOT lanes. Consistent with the procedures outlined in the Highway Safety Manual (HSM), Dr. Siva… Read More
Student Spotlight: Phillip Haas
For Phillip Haas, a diversity of projects is the name of his game at UF. Haas has been a civil engineering graduate student since 2009 specializing in transportation safety. He is currently working toward his doctoral dissertation on three projects that are quite varied… Read More
WTS Symposium Yields Interesting Thoughts on the Future of Transportation
What will the future of transportation look like? Guest panelists Alex Bond of the Eno Center for Transportation, Anoch Whitfield of Tindale Oliver and Debbie Leistner of the City of Gainesville tackled this and other issues during the 4th WTS Transportation… Read More
Estimation of Capacities on Florida Freeways
FDOT Sponsored Research, BDV32-977-03 (Cost-share project for STRIDE Center) Authors: Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., Alexandra Kondyli, Ph.D., Bryan St. George (graduate student) Report completed: September 2014 [final report] Transportation engineers use the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) to estimate the amount of vehicles… Read More