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A team of transportation faculty and graduate students are currently undertaking a study funded by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to look at the effectiveness of Adaptive Signal Control Technologies (ASCT) in selected corridors in Florida. What exactly are these technologies? Traditional signal control (termed actuated control) provides a suitable time for each movement […]

In densely populated urban settings, finding a place to park can be a real problem. Drivers often find themselves driving around and around for an extended period of time trying to find a place to park their car, leading to wasted time, gasoline, producing tons of carbon dioxide that is harmful to the environment, not […]

Dr. Scott Washburn has been awarded a College of Engineering Doctoral Dissertation Adviser/Mentoring Award for 2014-2015. The honor recognizes Dr. Washburn’s excellence, innovation and effectiveness in advising and mentoring doctoral students. Dr. Washburn has advised more than 100 students since he began his career at UF in the late 90s. Many of his students are […]

Alvaro Garcia Castro is a doctoral candidate from the Transport Research Centre (TRANSyT) located at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) in Spain. His doctoral fellowship provides him with the opportunity to spend time at international institutions, so he’s come to the UFTI for 3 months to conduct research under the direction of Dr. Lily […]

The Transportation Engineering Program in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering at UF is leading the way in cutting edge transportation research and teaching with exceptional faculty and graduate and undergraduate students participating in research projects, contributing to scholarly publications and activities. It is these students and others who will enter the workforce to […]

More than 130 people attended the 2015 UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region held at the Hyatt Regency Wynfrey hotel in Birmingham, Ala., on March 26 and 27, 2015. Conceptualized and initiated by the UFTI’s STRIDE Center in 2013, the conference is now in its third year. Last year, the UTC conference was hosted by […]

The WTS Florida Gator Student Chapter at UF hosted a workshop titled “Harmonizing Life: Words, Work and the World Around Us”, which was presented by Marsha Anderson Bomar, a principal at Stantec. The workshop was held on the evening of March 24, 2015 at a classroom in the UF College of Engineering. The audience included […]

Trey Hamilton, Ph.D., is a professor in the Structural Engineering group in the Department of Civil Engineering at UF. He is an affiliate faculty with the UFTI and a member of its Internal Steering Committee. Hamilton specializes in sustainable structure design, specifically in the durability of reinforced and prestressed concrete. “I look at existing structures […]

UFTI’s T2 Center is a leader in training Florida’s transportation workers, particularly in the area of asphalt pavement construction. With several million miles of roads requiring frequent maintenance and resurfacing, asphalt training on its mixtures, materials and applications is of particular importance to the state. The Florida Department of Transportation recently needed their Construction Training […]

Yinan Zheng is a third year Ph.D. student in UF’s transportation program. She was always interested in engineering, as both her parents were engineers. She completed her undergraduate degree in civil engineering in China, but wasn’t sure what her focus would be. She did know one thing – she wanted to learn from a particular […]