Category: News

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) at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. Dr. Steiner, who specializes in land […]

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 wide range of topics that can be explored under the umbrella of transportation engineering. His […]

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 the FORTRAN programming language, which is old and limited in its capabilities compared to newer […]

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 (pictured, left to right), all graduate students in the Transportation Program. In preparation for the […]

“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 Safety Office, the SRC promotes safe pedestrian and bicycling activities for citizens and visitors, young […]

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 through the Center’s 2013 Annual Report to find out about the various research, education […]

An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Florida from the fields of Transportation Engineering, Urban Planning and Mechanical Engineering have been awarded a research project to provide the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) with the necessary information and guidance on drafting and implementing policies associated with the Automated Vehicles (AV) technology. The team […]

Four students where chosen to participate in this summer’s Transportation Research Internship Program (TRIP). The program is managed by the STRIDE Center, a U.S. DOT grant-funded regional transportation center housed at the University of Florida. The interns are: Kory Harb (UF) Adviser: Dr. Yafeng Yin, Transportation Program, Civil Engineering, UF Project: Developing agent-based simulation models […]

UF Partnering with FDOT to Evaluate Adaptive Signal Control Technologies  Adaptive Signal Control Technologies (ASCT) refer to the real-time optimization of traffic signals based on prevailing traffic conditions, demand and system capacity. The primary objective of implementing these adaptive systems is to minimize travel time delay and to decrease the number of locations at which […]

Muhammad Ali, M.S. (2013) Civil Engineer AI Engineers, Inc., Hartford, Conn. Grady Carrick, Ph.D. (2012) President Enforcement Engineering, Inc. Amy Cavaretta, M.S./MAURP (2013) Transportation Analyst Cambridge Systematics, Inc., Bethesda, Md. Jennifer Connell, B.S. (2014) Kimley-Horn & Associates, Inc. Nagendra Dhakar, Ph.D. (2012) Transportation Analyst Resource Systems Group, Inc., San Diego, Calif. Avinash Geda, M.S. (2014) […]