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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 […]

Dr. Juan Gilbert is a new faculty member at the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Department at the University of Florida. He is the Andrew Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Chair and the Associate Chair of Research at CISE.  Dr. Gilbert has been at UF since July 1, 2014, and he’s also an affiliate faculty of the […]

The 3rd Annual University Transportation Centers (UTC) Conference for the Southeastern Region will be hosted this year at the University of Alabama (UAB) on March 26-27, 2015 in collaboration with Mississippi State University.  The conference has a strong focus on research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research […]

Join the WTS Florida Gator Student Chapter to discuss “The Future of Transportation” at their 4th Annual WTS Transportation Symposium on Thursday, November 13, 2014. The event will take place at the Arredondo Cafe in the Reitz Union, University of Florida campus from 6 pm to 9 pm. A panel of industry leaders in the […]

In the September 2014 issue of the UFTI e-Newsletter, we featured Part 1 of Dr. Siva Srinivasan’s video titled “The Graduate Program”. This month, we are bringing him back for Part 2 where he describes the various research projects he’s working on. Many of Dr. Srinivasan’s projects have been sponsored by FDOT and STRIDE. Who is Dr. […]

The UFTI is offering competitive Fellowships to support new, full-time Ph.D. students entering the transportation engineering doctoral program at the University of Florida in Fall 2015. Students must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Fellowships provide tuition and a competitive stipend, including travel expenses to conferences. For more information, contact:Dr. Lily ElefteriadouUFTI Professor & Director352-392-9537, […]

Miguel Lugo is a doctoral student in UF’s Civil engineering department who began his graduate program in Summer 2010. His research focus is on urban transportation and transportation planning, and he really enjoys the research challenges within these two areas. Currently, Lugo is working on Automated/Connected Vehicle (AV/CV) technologies, specifically the state of practice, gaps, and concerns, with […]

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 challenging our transportation engineers, governments and policymakers to build expensive infrastructure to support their operation. […]