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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 […]

The picnic will take place at Lake Wauburg’s South Pavilion I on Oct. 23, 2016, from 11 am to 2 pm. Food and refreshments will be provided. RSVP by October 19th to Jennifer Gomez (UFTI Administrative Assistant) at ufti@eng.ufl.edu.  

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI), has been named the Interim Chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) Department in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. In addition to leading the Transportation Institute, Elefteriadou will oversee the ISE Department, which offers B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degree programs and has an […]

Chad Spreadbury knew that he wanted to pursue a degree in environmental engineering when he started at St. Petersburg College in Pinellas County, Florida. After receiving his Associate in Arts, he transferred to the University of Florida to complete his bachelor’s degree. Now, he is one of the six new Ph.D. students incoming this fall […]

This summer, UFTI’s own Deja Jackson is participating in the United States Department of Transportation’s Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG). Jackson is interning at the FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, VA where she is one of the first to help analyze the newly collected data from their Motorcycle Crash […]

The Introduction to Transportation Engineering undergraduate course at the University of Florida is the first real experience students have with highway engineering and traffic analysis. It is taught generally by a doctoral student under the guidance of a UFTI faculty member. One of these faculty members, Dr. Scott Washburn, has recently created a new software […]