With growing public concern over greenhouse gas emissions and the environment, the use of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) is one way to curb our appetite for oil and reduce traffic emissions. These vehicles can be available to consumers without… Read More
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A New Semester Brings New Students at UFTI
The UFTI begins the Fall 2014 semester with 11 new graduate students pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees. To date, there are a total of 29 students in the program. A Transportation Graduate Student Orientation was held Friday, August 29, 2014.
UFTI Professor Quoted in Washington Post
Dr. Ruth Steiner, professor of Urban and Regional Planning at UF (and also an affiliate of the UFTI and a member of its Internal Steering Committee) was quoted in an opinion piece in the Washington Post on Florida’s road and… Read More
UFTI to Participate in FDOT’s Florida Automated Vehicles Summit
The UFTI will participate in the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) Florida Automated Vehicles Summit on December 15 and 16, 2014. The event will take place at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Fla. The State of Florida is at the… Read More
An American Urban Planner in Leeds
Dr. Ruth Steiner, a professor of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at UF, who is also affiliated with UFTI, spent the months of March and April 2014 as a visiting professor with the Institute for Transport Studies (ITS)… Read More
Student Feature Thomas Chase
Thomas Chase, a civil engineering Ph.D. student, is embracing all that is transportation engineering in his time here at UF. When he first started in transportation, he only thought about this field as cars and roads, but now enjoys the… Read More
Student Feature Don Watson
Don Watson is a second year Ph.D. student in Civil Engineering at UF, focusing on transportation engineering. As part of his Ph.D. project, Don is writing code to determine drivers’ lane-changing behavior in a new CORSIM application. CORSIM currently utilizes… Read More
ITE UF Student Chapter Wins District 10 Traffic Bowl
The ITE Student Chapter at the University of Florida participated in the 2014 District ITE Collegiate Traffic Bowl on June 25-27 in Clearwater Beach, Fla., and won for the second year in a row. Team members are Don Watson, Thomas Chase and Pruthvi Manjunatha… Read More
Florida T2’s Ped/Bike SRC is Traveling the State to Keep You Safe
“Reprinted” from article published on the Florida T2 Center Website on 5/22/2014 at http://stage.t2ctt.ce.ufl.edu/t2ctt/T2Newsletter.asp The Florida T2 Center has been proud to host Florida’s Pedestrian and Bicycling Safety Resource Center (SRC) since 2009. Funded by the Florida Department of Transportation… Read More
STRIDE Regional Center 2013 Annual Report
The Southeastern Transportation Research, Innovation, Development and Education (STRIDE) Center housed at the University of Florida is a U.S. Department of Transportation grant-funded University Transportation Center that conducts transportation-related research in the areas of safety, livable communities and economic competitiveness.… Read More