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By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI Dr. Yu Wang of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida is building an autonomous vehicle (AV) facility that allows researchers to conduct interdisciplinary experiments. The Smart Autonomy Lab’s primary purpose is to supply researchers with cutting-edge hardware and software for AV experimentation. Using their […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., Research Coordinator/Marketing & Communications, UFTI The UF Gator Institute of Transportation Engineers (GatorITE) Student Chapter organized and led a Student Leadership Summit (SLS), bringing together 69 students and 50 transportation professionals from across Florida. Florida Secretary of Transportation Jared W. Purdue, PE, gave the keynote address. The event was held February […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, Research Coordinator/Marketing & Communications, UFTI The University of Florida, along with its Transportation Institute (UFTI), the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), and the City of Gainesville (CoG), embarked on a journey to create the I-STREET™ (Implementing Solutions from Transportation Research and Evaluation of Emerging Technologies) Living Lab as an ongoing commitment to […]

Interstate 4, or I-4, is a highway in Florida that begins in Tampa and ends in Daytona Beach. I-4 is notorious for its traffic jams as locals, tourists, and freight travel along this high growth corridor. To find solutions to the traffic congestion issues plaguing I-4, a team of UFTI researchers are working to create […]

Doctoral student Xiaojian Zhang is working to reduce social inequalities by analyzing biases in mobile device location data gathered and tracked from technologies such as mobile phones or other GPS-enabled devices. Mobile device location data has become an important tool for transportation researchers and professionals working to improve human mobility analysis. For example, transportation professionals […]

Dr. Sherrilene Classen, chair and professor in the UF Department of Occupational Therapy, and her colleagues at the University of Florida studied how the lived experiences of people with and without disabilities impact their feelings about using autonomous shuttles (AS) after riding in such a vehicle. The information gained from this study has the potential […]

Students, faculty, and staff attended this year’s Transportation Research Board (TRB) meeting in early January, traveling to the nation’s capital to present their research and network with fellow transportation professionals, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers. Below is a snapshot of some notable UFTI achievements related to this event.  See the image gallery for pictures from this […]

Renan Favero – GatorITE President, Ph.D. Student in Transportation Engineering Garrett Walker, GatorITE Vice President, Undergraduate Student in Civil Engineering Victoria Zorbas, GatorITE Treasurer, Ph.D. Student in Transport Engineering Gustavo Zacshber, Event Coordinator, Ph.D. Student in Transport Engineering Bryce Grame, Traffic Bowl Coach, Ph.D. Student in Transport Engineering Fabio Sasahara, Ph.D., GatorITE Academic Advisor, Associate Director […]

By: Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, large-scale infrastructure projects, including toll road Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), faced many challenges and uncertainties. These challenges triggered renegotiations of the terms and conditions of PPPs.  Project budgets, timelines, and other aspects crucial to the project’s long-term survival had to be modified, resulting in detrimental […]

By: Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S. Each year, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) University Transportation Center’s (UTC) program recognizes a student from each UTC across the nation for their achievements and promise for future contributions to the field of transportation. This year, the UFTI’s STRIDE Center has selected Bryce Grame, a concurrent degree master’s student in […]