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On any given day, Gainesville’s Autonomous Shuttle (AV) can be seen driving around city streets, interacting with pedestrians, bicyclists, and conventional vehicles, while picking up and dropping off riders along its route.     AV shuttle corridors across the country are mostly designed without traffic lights, or the shuttles are maneuvered through traffic lights manually by […]

UFTI students, faculty, and staff attended the 2022 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. January 9-13, 2022. The event will return to it’s traditional in-person meeting format following health and safety guidelines (https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/COVIDSafety.aspx). The annual meeting’s theme this year is “Innovating an Equitable, Resilient, Sustainable, and Safe Transportation System”. Participation included presentations at […]

Dear Alumni & Colleagues, As transportation professionals we are continuously being challenged to find solutions to a diverse and ever-expanding number of problems including how to maintain supply chains, how to keep travelers safe from COVID-19 and minimize crashes, and how to deliver transportation systems that allow everyone to access jobs, shopping, and health appointments. […]

University of Florida faculty Dr. Sanaz Motamedi, Dr. Eakta Jain, Dr. Xilei Zhao, Dr. Wayne Gian and Dr. Boyi Ju were selected as semifinalists as part of the Inclusive Design challenge team led by the University of Kansas. The research team is focused on people with cognitive disabilities such as mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and […]

This week former UF graduate and Olympic swimmer Mitch D’Arrigo was hired as the UFTI’s Marketing and Communications Specialist to support and expand its media and marketing presence. “I am honored to join UFTI,” D’Arrigo said. “UF is my home, and I am excited to still be a part of it and make a positive […]

Three teams (Umojo, Crew IITS FIU, Cambridge Systematics) were selected by a panel of judges as finalists in the CoMotion Miami Mobility Challenge powered by I-STREET. The finalists made their presentations to leaders in the transportation mobility industry as part of the CoMotion Miami Mobility Challenge on June 16, 2021 at 3 pm, ET. The […]

The Symposium took take place on October 12-14, 2021, as a virtual event. This free, online event brought together transit experts to discuss the latest in public transportation research around the world. The central theme for this year’s symposium was translating transit research into practice. As the transit industry strives to Build Back Better after […]

Congratulations to Dr. Siva Srinivasan, Dr. Rui Guo, Dr. Karla Rodrigues-Silva, and Dr. Gustavo de Andrade for representing the UFTI in ITE’s Vision Zero Sandbox Challenge. The UFTI team has been selected as one of two finalists for the Professional Competition category. This year’s goal was to develop a methodology that used automated conflict data […]

Ms. Maryam Ghyabi-White is the CEO/President of Ghyabi Consulting and Management, LLC (GCM). In her current role at GCM, and as the former CEO/President of Ghyabi & Associates, Inc., Ms. Ghyabi-White provides leadership and support to position the company at the forefront of the engineering industry. She also serves as an adjunct professor of civil […]

By: Dr. Justin Mason, Dr. Sandra Winter, Dr. Ilir Bejleri, and Donna Schoenfelder Research has shown that as people age, their eyesight, hearing, and reflexes are not as sharp as they once were. Additionally, their reaction time decreases, making it no longer safe to drive. As a consequence, older drivers face several decisions related to […]