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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 unsafe to drive. As a consequence, older drivers face several decisions related to driving as […]

By: Dr. Sandip Ray, Professor & Endowed IoT Term Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida How would you feel if a hacker could remotely push a button that would cause your vehicle to veer off the highway into a ditch?  Research over the last decade has shown that not only is […]

This study was recently published in IEEE – Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9312471) Doctoral candidate Stephen Spana and his adviser, Dr. Lili Du of the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, worked on a National Science Foundation study aimed at mitigating traffic congestion by leveraging users’ reactions to real-time traffic data, such as from Google […]

Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies present great opportunities for reducing traffic congestion through advanced sensors, communication, and portable computing devices – those which assist with conducting cooperative or coordinated driving. However, much of the CAV-related work focuses on assisting self-driving maneuvers and an individual vehicle’s safety. The technology does not promise traffic stream efficiency […]

Several apps, such as Waze and Google Maps, allow travelers to share routing decisions with one another. These apps aggregate data to provide information on the best routes and the time it takes to arrive at their destinations. Apps do this via coordinated routing schemes (CRMs).  But exactly who are the travelers that others should […]

Urban traffic control is one of the most important and challenging issues facing cities. Increases in traffic volume significantly affect congestion and, consequently, the time travelers spend on the road. Furthermore, traffic signal control timing does not change in real-time based on changes in traffic patterns or crashes and incidents. Therefore, addressing these challenges requires […]

These days, road networks in our cities contain a variety of smart and connected infrastructure, which generate an abundance of Big Data. This data can be processed to improve traffic flow and safety for both vehicles and pedestrians. At the UFTI, transportation and computer science engineers are working on a Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) […]