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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 […]

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 in nature. Haas is working on a STRIDE-funded project to develop course materials based on the Highway […]

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 Symposium on November 13, 2014 at the University of Florida campus. From Bond’s perspective, the use […]

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 Transportation engineers use the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) to estimate the amount of vehicles that freeways can tolerate without becoming oversaturated. Field measurements in Florida have shown measured capacities are actually lower than the recommended […]

Dr. Juan Gilbert is a new faculty member at the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department at the University of Florida. He is the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and the Associate Chair of Research at CISE.  Dr. Gilbert has been at UF since July 1, 2014, and he’s also an affiliate faculty of the […]