Faculty and students from the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) attended this year’s Florida Automated Vehicles (FAV) Summit held September 6 – 8 at the Marriott Water Street Hotel in downtown Tampa, Florida, where I-STREET projects were showcased and… Read More

UFTI intern and rising 3rd-year student Omar Rivera shared with us some interesting facts about his research, preliminary inferences and a little about his background. Rivera is a computer science major whose main interest is aerospace engineering. He is from… Read More

Seung Woo Hwangbo, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Occupational Therapy, presented at the 2023 Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars on June 23 in Columbus, Ohio. Seung Woo presented his poster on qualitative findings of people across the lifespan… Read More

Researchers from the University of Florida Transportation Institute’s (UFTI) I-STREET Living Lab traveled in May 2023 to the SunTrax Test Facility in Auburndale, Florida, to test an algorithm they created that optimizes and operates traffic signals, thus improving safety and… Read More

Recently, a group of the University of Florida (UF) Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering students, collectively known as the “Eckhoff Student Steel Bridge Team,” became the first team ever to win the competition three years in a row and won… Read More

The 2023 “Research to Practice” Transit Symposium is now accepting abstract submissions from transportation researchers and professionals to be considered for presentation. Please submit your abstract by filling out this questionnaire by August 18, 2023. For accepted presentations, presenters will… Read More

We welcome Dr. Reggie Chandra as the newest member of our External Advisory Board. He is the founder and CEO of Rhythm Engineering, in Lenexa, Kansas and a traffic engineer specializing in traffic congestion. Currently, he focuses on “Smart Cities”… Read More