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Due to the high number of injuries and fatalities on Florida’s roadways, the state is the focus of many national safety initiatives. One such initiative is to offer Road Safety Assessments (RSAs) courses at no cost to Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST) members. The courses are currently managed through the UFTI’s T2 Center. The RSA […]

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou has been selected by the Transportation and Development Institute to receive the 2015 James Laurie Prize for her contributions in advancing the field of transportation engineering and “For outstanding leadership as one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation and her research which […]

The McTrans Center is well known internationally for its software, so programmers are the first personnel to come to mind. But McTrans has found that UFTI students are ideally suited to test software during implementation. “McTrans has been funding students to assist in several facets of the software development process from the beginning,” said Bill […]

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 adults, which was funded by a grant from a 2007 USDOT University Transportation Center (UTC) […]

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 take three of the four available courses and receive a “B” or better. The courses […]

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 to foster interest in the transportation profession as a career choice, with each 45-minute module […]

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 research, students, technology transfer, steering committee and external advisory board representatives and more. Click on […]

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 sponsored by UFTI/STRIDE.

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 a project funded by the Southeastern Transportation Research Innovation, Development & Education Center (STRIDE), a […]

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 Srinivasan of UF and Dr. Albert Gan of FIU are working on models that will […]