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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 […]

UFTI Director Dr. Lily Elefteriadou and STRIDE Research Coordinator Ines Aviles-Spadoni were in Los Angeles, California from June 6th to 9th to attend and present at the 2016 Summer Meeting of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). The meeting was hosted by the METRANS Transportation Center at the University of Southern California (USC). CUTC […]

The University of Florida is part of a consortium of architectural and public health institutions, spearheaded by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), which will help fund basic research on how design affects public health. The AIA Design & Health Research Consortium, as it is named, was created by the AIA, along with the AIA […]

This upcoming summer graduation we will be saying goodbye to Yinan Zheng, who will be graduating with her Ph.D. in civil engineering. Zheng’s friendly and radiant personality will certainly be missed by faculty and fellow students. Zheng has been a great student, skillfully balancing her graduate studies and research with extra-curricular activities such as serving […]

A few months ago, we spotlighted one of our master’s students, Larry Dorilus. Now we are saying a bittersweet goodbye to him as he graduates this spring, but the Gator Nation will never be far off his mind. “There are two kinds of people in this world,” he explained. “Florida Gators and those that wish […]

Considered the greatest distinction of any student award given by the college, the Gator Engineering Attribute Awards are intended to provide an ideal guide for all members of the Gator Engineering community. They honor five undergraduate and five Ph.D. students who strongly model one of the five Gator Engineering Attributes: Creativity, Leadership, Integrity, Professional Excellence, […]