Category: News

Dear Colleagues, Mr. Chris LeDew has stepped down as director of T2 as of July 3, 2015, as he accepted another position in Jacksonville, to be closer to his family. A big “Thank You” to Chris for his contributions in reorganizing and streamlining the T2 center operations during his tenure, making it even more agile […]

Traffic signs provide important information to drivers both day and night, and to be effective, their visibility must be maintained. Language in the Manual for Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) describes assessment and management methods for agencies to maintain traffic sign retroreflectivity at or above the minimum levels. The only reliable method to obtain the […]

A major update to the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM 2010) is being finalized. McTrans will be presenting a webinar series to provide an overview of the changes as compared with the current HCM 2010, including many methodological details. The information provided in this workshop series is a fairly technical overview toward learning what to expect from the updated HCM […]

Stephen Spana, a senior Civil Engineering major at UF, has spent his summer as a transportation intern working on a project to calibrate a theoretical expression that describes the meeting rate between ride-sourcing vehicles, such as Uber, and waiting customers. Working with two of Dr. Yafeng Yin’s Ph.D. students, Liteng Zha and Zhibin Chen, Spana […]

Dr. Jing Li, a 2013 UFTI graduate and current Assistant Research Scientist at Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), favorably reflects on time spent at UFTI, where she gained and accomplished much beyond obtaining graduate degrees. Li says the experience has tremendously benefited her work regarding research, technical support, and technology transfer. “The UF transportation program […]

Beginning his 10th year as Dean and Professor of Urban & Regional Planning in the College of Design, Construction and Planning, Dr. Chris Silver offers an extensive planning perspective on urbanization, sustainability, international development planning, and addresses effective mobility, particularly focusing on the various ways that transportation influences the urban development process in the international […]

McTrans has created video tutorials to assist Streets users in coding a signalized intersection and optimizing signal timing, especially for multiple signals along an arterial. Click on the link to view the tutorials.  [View tutorials]

Jim Baciak, Ph.D., is an associate professor and director of the Nuclear Engineering Program in the Department of Materials Science Engineering at UF. He is also an affiliate of the UFTI who is interested in applying his nuclear and radiological, non-destructive testing and imaging techniques to investigate various forms of infrastructure. “My hope is that […]

The Transportation Safety Center (TSC) was funded for implementation in 2014 to provide technical assistance to local agencies throughout Florida: identify road safety problems and develop projects eligible for federal funding. There were two phases in the TSC project: Phase 1 – create a template on conducting a safety study for any team to use […]

Ms. Thuha Nguyen grew fond of her faculty advisors during her time at the University of Florida College of Engineering. Nguyen started out at UF with a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering in the late 1990s, but internship opportunities, supportive mentors, and pure curiosity soon turned her interests to transportation. “Because I know AutoCAD, I […]