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

  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

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

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

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

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

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