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Dr. Pruthvi Manjunatha and Dr. Lily Elefteriadou of the UFTI are working on two studies to evaluate how other vehicles and pedestrians interact with Autonomous Vehicles (AV). The first study will evaluate the AV shuttle in Gainesville, FL, while the second will evaluate the AV shuttle in Lake Nona, FL. With more and more autonomous shuttles […]

Dr. Khiem Tram is an Associate Professor in the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering specializing in Geosystems Engineering. Geosystems engineering is the application of scientific methods and engineering principles to the acquisition, interpretation, and the use of materials related to the Earth’s crust for solving engineering problems. How does Dr. Tram’s work relate […]

Mehri “Mehrsa” Mohebbi holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Arts, and Planning (DAAP). She previously worked as an urban planner and qualitative researcher addressing health and social equity in transportation and community planning in different states across the country. In the last few years, […]

The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development, and Education (STRIDE) Center teamed up with Julee Breehne, K-12 Coordinator at Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering’s UF Innovation Station in Sarasota County, to introduce students at Booker Middle School in Sarasota County to transportation engineering. STRIDE K-12 Coordinator Ondine Wells and Breehne met with 6th, 7th, and 8th […]

Ehsan Amini, a doctoral student in the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, was part of a collaborative project led by North Carolina State University (NCSU) that focused on identifying, documenting, and addressing some major deficiencies in the weaving methodology found in the Highway Capacity Manual 6 (HCM6). The project “Assessing and Addressing Deficiencies […]

Seung Woo Hwangbo, a doctoral student in the UF Department of Occupational Therapy affiliated with the Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP), is working in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the City of Gainesville, on a project which looks at the perceptions of younger and middle-aged drivers toward autonomous vehicle […]

As part of the UFTI’s I-STREET initiative, a team of researchers at the University of Florida led by Dr. Sanjay Ranka, a Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, in collaboration with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), are working to evaluate connected vehicle (CV) technologies and applications installed by Siemens […]

The 2020 fire season has been one of the worst in decades destroying millions of acres in the western part of the United States. It has ruined homes, affected the lives of people, and destroyed natural habitats – home to a variety of flora and fauna. But what is the decision process taken by those […]

James Wersal, a doctoral student in the Department of Occupational Therapy’s Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP) team, worked in collaboration with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the City of Gainesville on a STRIDE-funded project to better understand the perceptions, values, beliefs, and attitudes of drivers 65 years and older as it […]

UFTI Transportation doctoral student Sagar Patni and UF urban planning master’s student Juan Suarez conducted a study under the direction of their adviser, Dr. Siva Srinivasan, to track the impact of COVID-19 on ridership in the City of Gainesville, Florida, a college town that is home to the University of Florida and Santa Fe College. […]