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Transportation is expansive, and there’s a place for everyone. Though, Samantha Taningco didn’t quite know her place when she came to the University of Florida in 2009. A Civil Engineering major, she was interested in structures but wasn’t sure what path she wanted to take. That was until she took Introduction to Transportation with Dr. […]

  Each year the University of Florida’s Benton Engineering Council (BEC) organizes an Engineering Fair (E-Fair) to promote engineering education amongst K-12 students. This two-day event takes place during BEC’s Engineering Week and allows UF engineering student groups to interact with visiting K-12 students using hands-on activities that the student groups create. This year’s E-Fair […]

The Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) 6th Edition is now being finalized and is expected to be completed this summer. This ninety-minute video provides an overview of the changes as compared with the current HCM 2010, including some methodological details and a preview of the implementation in the Highway Capacity Software (HCS7) ($75 per person). Click […]

Vishal Khanapure’s title at the McTrans Center is “Computer Research Specialist” and it truly does fit him. The McTrans Center at the University of Florida Transportation Institute distributes and supports a variety of software programs for traffic engineering and transportation planning applications, with training courses also available. Passionate about his work, Khanapure assists in a […]

If you have ever had a question or needed some information about the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) or the Highway Capacity Software (HCS 2010), all you have to do is ask us.  McTrans has been involved with the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (HCQS) committee for about thirty years […]

It has been a busy year for civil engineering doctoral student Deja Jackson- and it’s only March!  Jackson has been named one of three students selected from the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering to receive the Committee 200 (C200) Scholar Award. It was announced at the Powered to Lead: Transforming the Future as Women Summit […]

Congratulations to University of Florida students Megan McGinley,  Eleftheria Kontou and Yinan Zhang for receiving scholarships from WTS Central Florida and WTS South Florida. Frankee Hellinger Undergraduate Scholarship, 2016 (WTS Central Florida): Megan McGinley Megan McGinley graduated from UF with a B.S. in civil engineering during the 2015-2016 school year. She is now attending UF […]

The 18th Annual Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment (ESSIE) Poster Symposium took place on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at the Press Box in the Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. Students from all the school’s departments (Civil, Coastal and Environmental) came together to present over sixty-five abstracts on a wide array of subjects. Competition was […]

Daniel Ruiz began his junior year in the Fall of 2015 with the burning desire to apply the knowledge gained from his classes to real world applications. So, when the opportunity presented itself, he immediately gravitated towards the Cuba Infrastructure Scholarship Competition, hosted by the Association of Cuban-American Engineers. In thinking about Colombia’s pitfalls in […]

The Roundabouts module has a completely redesigned interface in Release 6.80 of HCS 2010.  Following the new architecture introduced for the Two-Way Stop-Controlled module in Release 6.70, the new user view is provided in two forms: sliding pages or split-screen scrolling.  The results report has been upgraded to mimic the Streets module and to be […]