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If you missed the seminar on “ITS & Smart Cities” gven by Dr. Jaume Barcelo of the Technical University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain, on February 12, 2015, a recording of the webcast is now available at:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j5QHSwU_n0. ABSTRACT: Smart City is one of the magic terms that is pervasively invading our world but, what […]

Congratulations! UFTI Director Wins the ASCE 2015 James Laurie Prize Dr. Lily Elefteriadou has been selected by the Transportation and Development Institute to receive the 2015 Jame Laurie Prize. She will personally accept the award during the ASCE’s Annual Convention in, which will take place in New York City this October. Dr. Elefteriadou has [read […]

Building on the educational benefits of computer games, which are becoming increasingly popular as a teaching tool, the UFTI’s Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center developed a nine-week class for middle-school-aged students using the computer game SimCityEDU (http://www.simcityedu.org/). The class aimed to foster interest in the transportation profession as a career choice, with each 45-minute module […]

This is the first annual report of the UFTI since it’s launch on October 4, 2013, which covers the period of July 2013 to June 2014. The report includes highlights on selected research projects, examples of UFTI’s impact on transportation research, students, technology transfer, steering committee and external advisory board representatives and more. Click on […]

The TRIP internship program is now accepting applications for summer 2015.Undergraduate students that are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and hold a junior or senior status are eligible to apply. The application deadline is March 18th. The TRIP program is sponsored by UFTI/STRIDE.

The 94th Annual Meeting of TRB had a new venue this year and so did the UFTI’s annual reception. Traditionally held at the Marriott Wardman Park’s Mezzanine, this year, we opted for something different. The reception was held at Baby Wale, a local restaurant located a block away from the Marriott Marquis – an easy […]

Twenty-two students from STRIDE affiliated universities (FIU, GaTech, MSU, NCSU, UAB, UF and UNC) showcased sponsored research and competed for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place scholarships worth $500, $250 and $100, respectively. The showcase/competition was held in conjunction with the UFTI Reception during the 94th Annual Meeting of TRB in Washington, D.C. Below are the […]

Engineering students, faculty, researchers and professionals working in the area of transportation or computer sciences are invited to participate in the 3D Shape Retrieval Contest to evaluate the effectiveness of 3D-shape retrieval algorithms using the open-source scientific database created  by a project funded by the Southeastern Transportation Research Innovation, Development & Education Center (STRIDE), a […]

For Phillip Haas, a diversity of projects is the name of his game at UF. Haas has been a civil engineering graduate student since 2009 specializing in transportation safety. He is currently working toward his doctoral dissertation on three projects that are quite varied in nature. Haas is working on a STRIDE-funded project, which aims to develop course materials based on […]

What will the future of transportation look like? Guest panelists Alex Bond of the Eno Center for Transportation, Anoch Whitfield of Tindale Oliver and Debbie Leistner of the City of Gainesville tackled this and other issues during the 4th WTS Transportation Symposium on November 13, 2014 at the University of Florida campus. From Bond’s perspective, the use […]