The 2022 Florida Automated Vehicle FAV Summit will be an in-person event at the Omni Amelia Island Resort, December 14 -16, 2022. The FAV Summit assembles industry leaders from around the world to address technologies, operations, and policy issues. Topics… Read More
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Evaluating FHWA’s CARMA Program for use in the I-STREET Living Lab
By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI/STRIDE Research Coordinator Researchers affiliated with I-STREET, the University of Florida Transportation Institute Living Lab, are evaluating CARMA, a program developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), through a project funded by the Florida Department of… Read More
Using Large-scale GPS Data to Inform Evacuation Decisions
By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI/STRIDE Research Coordinator GPS trajectory data is emerging as an important tool for researchers to understand the evacuation behaviors and decisions that people make during a natural hazard such as a wildfire, hurricane, or earthquake. UF… Read More
RESEARCH TO PRACTICE TRANSIT SYMPOSIUM October 25-27, 2022
The Symposium will take place October 25-27, 2022. The central theme for the symposium is “translating transit research into practice.” As the transit industry is poised to take advantage of the largest transit and rail investment in our lifetimes, the… Read More
STRIDE Researchers Develop Graduate-Level Course on Public Health, Physical Activity & Design of the Built Environment
The leading causes of death in the United States include heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, and chronic respiratory diseases. Ensuring an environment that allows people to be engaged in physical activity to access grocery stores and daily community designations contributes… Read More
The UFTI-T2 Center’s Nearly 40-Year History in Working to Address Transportation’s Workforce Development Needs
During the past two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has given many workers a lot more time at home. It’s been a boom time for DIY and home improvement services because time at home has made people more aware of changes… Read More
UF’s Contribution to the Development of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)
Since the mid-1980s, transportation engineering faculty at the University of Florida (UF) have been working on developing state-of-the-art traffic analysis techniques and contributing to the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM), a publication used as a standard reference among transportation practitioners worldwide.… Read More
UFTI-STRIDE Faculty, Students Present at the 7th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region
UFTI faculty researchers and graduate students associated with the STRIDE Center presented their projects and served as moderators during the 7th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region in Boca Raton, FL, March 24-25, 2022. The UTC conference is an… Read More
Siddhartha Gulhare Named a 2022 Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholar
Siddhartha Gulhare is a Ph.D. candidate under Dr. Siva Srinivasan in Civil & Coastal engineering. Gulhare was one of 38 students named as a 2022 Lifesavers Traffic Safety Scholars. After a competitive application process the recipients were awarded of a $1,000… Read More
Gainesville’s Autonomous Shuttle Now Communicates with Traffic Lights
On any given day, Gainesville’s Autonomous Shuttle (AV) can be seen driving around city streets, interacting with pedestrians, bicyclists, and conventional vehicles, while picking up and dropping off riders along its route. AV shuttle corridors across the country are… Read More