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NSF, FDOT, the City of Gainesville are helping the UFTI to test new technologies and algorithms that will facilitate the presence of autonomous and connected vehicles.

Concrete is seen everywhere in transportation construction. Concrete is made by combining Portland cement, sand, water, and coarse aggregate. Portland cement is the “glue” that holds concrete together and gives it its structural strength. However, as demand for Portland cement increases in our steadily developing world, its price continues to increase. One way of reducing […]

The UFTI will host a workshop on May 3, 2017, in the Reitz Union, room G310 on the UF campus in Gainesville, Florida.

Last month, the UF Gatorloop team concluded their run in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Phase 2 competition. As one of 29 teams selected from hundreds to participate in the second phase, the UF students took on an exciting opportunity that challenged them as engineers and as a team to develop a functional vehicle. While the UF […]

The UFTI’s annual report showcases the major accomplishments, research, education and technology transfer activities from July 2015 to June 2016. To read the report Click Here.

Every year during the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the UFTI hosts a reception of more than 150 students, alumni, academics, and transportation professionals in the public and private sectors. Held at a local restaurant in Washington, D.C., just a block away from the Marriott Marquis, where many of the conference sessions […]

The Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) hosted its annual Transportation Symposium on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at the Reitz Union on the UF Campus. The event  focused on the Old Florida Heritage Highway, a corridor running along US 441 in North Central Florida, which incorporates elements of carefully managed transportation engineering, planning and wildlife conservation ecology. […]

The University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) co- hosted an Open House on October 28, 2016 to showcase its recently upgraded full car driving simulator.  Faculty, students and staff from various colleges at UF were invited to attend.  Small groups of about five people at any one time were treated to a demonstration of the […]

This project, led by Dr. Lily Elefteriadou of the UFTI, and with participation from Cambridge Systematics, and Dr. Alex Skabardonis of UC Berkeley, will develop new methods for considering spillback from freeways onto urban streets and also from urban streets onto freeways. The project begun in August 2016 and is expected to be completed by […]

During this past summer, the Florida Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI) conducted a series of listening sessions under the Florida Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP). The listening sessions provided an opportunity for LTAP staff at the T2 Center to receive input from local agencies about their transportation-related […]