Category: News

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.

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 bridges. The article points to Florida as having one of the best kept  transportation infrastructures […]

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 forefront of the integration of automated vehicles into existing traffic operations. This summit is an […]

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 […]