By Ada Lang, UFTI Communications Specialist Knowing that a hurricane is bearing down on you and your property is frightening and overwhelming. However, many people fail to evacuate despite evacuation orders from local emergency management agencies. Dr. Xilei Zhao, an… Read More
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UFTI Scores a Win at FAV Summit Student Poster Competition
The Florida Automated Vehicle (FAV) Summit, held in Fernandina Beach in late 2022, yielded several winners from UFTI. The annual summit assembles industry leaders from around the world to address technologies, operations and policy issues and is an opportunity… Read More
UFTI and the Next Generation of Transportation Professionals
By Dr. Siva Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering The profession of transportation engineering is undergoing a massive transformation. There is a great need to train the workforce in the emerging technologies. Equally important is to develop… Read More
Florida Automated Vehicle Summit Student Poster Exhibition & Competition

The 2022 Florida Automated Vehicle FAV Summit will be an in-person event at the Omni Amelia Island Resort, December 14 -16, 2022. The FAV Summit assembles industry leaders from around the world to address technologies, operations, and policy issues. Topics… Read More
Evaluating FHWA’s CARMA Program for use in the I-STREET Living Lab
By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI/STRIDE Research Coordinator Researchers affiliated with I-STREET, the University of Florida Transportation Institute Living Lab, are evaluating CARMA, a program developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), through a project funded by the Florida Department of… Read More
Using Large-scale GPS Data to Inform Evacuation Decisions
By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI/STRIDE Research Coordinator GPS trajectory data is emerging as an important tool for researchers to understand the evacuation behaviors and decisions that people make during a natural hazard such as a wildfire, hurricane, or earthquake. UF… Read More
RESEARCH TO PRACTICE TRANSIT SYMPOSIUM October 25-27, 2022
The Symposium will take place October 25-27, 2022. The central theme for the symposium is “translating transit research into practice.” As the transit industry is poised to take advantage of the largest transit and rail investment in our lifetimes, the… Read More
STRIDE Researchers Develop Graduate-Level Course on Public Health, Physical Activity & Design of the Built Environment
The leading causes of death in the United States include heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, and chronic respiratory diseases. Ensuring an environment that allows people to be engaged in physical activity to access grocery stores and daily community designations contributes… Read More
The UFTI-T2 Center’s Nearly 40-Year History in Working to Address Transportation’s Workforce Development Needs
During the past two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has given many workers a lot more time at home. It’s been a boom time for DIY and home improvement services because time at home has made people more aware of changes… Read More
UF’s Contribution to the Development of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)
Since the mid-1980s, transportation engineering faculty at the University of Florida (UF) have been working on developing state-of-the-art traffic analysis techniques and contributing to the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), a publication used as a standard reference among transportation practitioners worldwide.… Read More