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McTrans Soon to Release HCM 6th Edition Video The Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) is now being finalized to produce the 6th Edition of the HCM. McTrans has developed a ninety-minute video which provides an overview of the changes as compared with the current HCM 2010, including some methodological details chapter by chapter. The cost is […]

Join us in congratulating UFTI faculty member Dr. Scott Washburn’s promotion to Full Professor! Washburn has served as a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida since his appointment in August of 1999. From that time, he has advised more than a hundred students who have gone […]

UFTI Director Lily Elefteriadou and her team, with funding from the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), are nearing the completion of their research in evaluating the implementation of Advanced Signal Control Technologies (ASCT) at the following arterial corridors in Florida:    23rd Street Corridor, Bay County, District 3    Panama City Beach Parkway, Bay County, District 3 […]

UFTI is pleased to welcome Matthew Muller, who joined us in early July to serve as a grant manager for the Transportation Technology Transfer Center (T2). Muller will be working directly with several of the T2 grants, including the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP), the Transportation Safety Center and the Florida Pedestrian and Bike Safety […]

Did you ever want to build a robot while you were in school? For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is a non-profit public charity that operates the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). The FRC is an international high school robotics competition where each year, teams of high school students and mentors work during […]

This past month several representatives of the University of Florida Transportation Institute traveled to Berlin, Germany for the International Symposium on Enhancing Highway Performance (ISEHP). This joint international symposium was organized by two Transportation Research Board (TRB) committees (Highway Capacity and Quality of Service – AHB40 and Freeway Operations -AHB20) and the German Road and […]

When Liteng Zha was choosing his undergraduate major at Southeast University in China, he thought the choice was obvious. “I had family suggest computer science and different engineering fields,” Zha said. “But transportation always felt more relevant to me because you deal with it every day.” Within his studies, Zha has focused on the development […]

After a very competitive selection process, the Transportation Institute at the University of Florida will be welcoming six new Ph.D. students this fall, who have received the Iva and Norman Tuckett UFTI Fellowship. One of these students is Stephen Spana, a familiar face here at UFTI. He was part of our 2015 Transportation Research Internship […]

Last month, WTS International hosted its annual conference in Austin, Texas. The event spanned over three days with more than 600 corporate and governmental industry leaders worldwide in attendance.  Topics such as autonomous technologies, transportation funding, shared mobility solutions, innovative data collection methods, professional development, and more were discussed. Every year the President and CEO […]

UFTI faculty affiliates Dr. Ruth Steiner and Dr. Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan, along with UFTI’s Technology Transfer (T2) Center Director Maria Cahill, will be working on a Safe Routes to School Technical Assistance project. Their focus will be on assisting rural and under-resourced communities in Florida in developing SRTS grant applications. This project includes several steps, beginning […]