Category: Featured

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI The streets of Key West always buzz with life. On any given day, you’ll see tourists pedaling past charming pastel-colored cottages, tourists stepping off sunbaked cruise ships wandering about, and roosters – yes, roosters – strutting confidently around town. But beneath all that charm is a serious […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator Christian Cardenas is spending his summer with the University of Florida’s Secure, Accessible, and Sustainable Transportation program – a paid internship sponsored by the National Science Foundation supporting talented undergraduate students involved in high-impact research exploring autonomous transportation challenges. Cardenas, an undergraduate student from Grinnell College in Iowa, […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research & Communications Coordinator During the past six decades, fly ash, a powdery byproduct from burning coal in power plants, has been used as an additive to concrete that makes up our roads, bridges, and even buildings. It has helped make concrete stronger, durable, and sustainable. Fly ash availability and […]

By Ines Aviles Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research & Communications Coordinator Helen Michael, a rising senior at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, is at UF this summer as part of the Secure, Accessible, and Sustainable Transportation Research Experiences for Undergraduates (SAST REU) – a program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and supervised […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator, UFTI Who would have thought that a microsimulation class would have made such an impact on Renan Favero that he would go on to pursue a career in transportation engineering? It was 2013, and Favero, then an undergraduate student in civil engineering, was attending the Politecnico di Torino, […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator Sherrilene Classen, Ph.D., professor and chair of the UF Department of Occupational Therapy, is an affiliate of the UFTI who, on May 29, 2025, accomplished the amazing achievement of reaching Mount Everest’s Base Camp at 17,600 feet in the Himalayas. Coincidentally, May 29 was also the day when […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator Five students graduated on Monday, May 5, from UF’s online master’s degree in civil engineering with a concentration in transportation leadership. To celebrate this very important moment in their lives, the graduates were honored with a reception at the I-STREET Living Lab, the location for UF’s real-world testbed […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., Research/Communications Coordinator It was more than just a study abroad experience in Madrid, Spain, for Eliana Duarte – it was a moment that inspired her passion for transportation engineering. Duarte, who graduated with her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from UF in Fall 2024, describes that eye-opening moment. “My passion […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., UFTI Research & Communications Coordinator This spring, Sara Garces will graduate from UF with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and will enter the professional world, working as a roadway engineer at HNTB’s Boston, Massachusetts office. During her undergraduate studies, she was drawn to transportation engineering because of her interest […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., M.A., UFTI Research & Communications Coordinator Ian Moore, a student in the online Master of Urban and Regional Planning (MURP) degree program at UF, won second place in the American Planning Association’s (APA) Transportation Planning Division Student Paper Competition for his paper titled “A Review of the Socioeconomic Impacts of Alaska’s […]