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The 2023 “Research to Practice” Transit Symposium is now accepting abstract submissions from transportation researchers and professionals to be considered for presentation. Please submit your abstract by filling out this questionnaire by August 18, 2023. For accepted presentations, presenters will be requested to submit their presentation by October 15, 2023.  The Symposium will take place October […]

Our STRIDE partner, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill studied the rise of urban freight delivery vehicle crashes, injuries and fatalities. The research team produced an infographic to summarize their key findings and possible solutions. Download Infographic

We welcome Dr. Reggie Chandra as the newest member of our External Advisory Board. He is the founder and CEO of Rhythm Engineering, in Lenexa, Kansas and a traffic engineer specializing in traffic congestion. Currently, he focuses on “Smart Cities” with connected vehicles and infrastructure. In 2005, Dr. Chandra invented In|Sync, a robot that synchronizes […]

On March 2, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, Director of the UF Transportation Institute announced that Dr. Siva Srinivasan, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, would assume the newly created position of Associate Director of UFTI beginning March 3, 2023. Dr. Srinivasan’s immediate focus will be on the new educational initiatives of the UFTI. He is currently spearheading […]

UFTI Director Dr. Lily Elefteriadou was recently honored as a lifetime fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Dr. Elefteriadou is affiliated with the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She is a professor of civil engineering and […]

University of Florida’s College of Engineering will soon be hosting a new REU site, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF.) REU stands for Research Experiences for Undergraduates and is a unique opportunity for small cohorts of talented undergraduate students to engage in high-impact research. The focus of the site is “Secure, […]

By Ada Lang, UFTI Communications Specialist Knowing that a hurricane is bearing down on you and your property is frightening and overwhelming. However, many people fail to evacuate despite evacuation orders from local emergency management agencies. Dr. Xilei Zhao, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, wondered why this phenomenon occurs […]

  The Florida Automated Vehicle (FAV) Summit, held in Fernandina Beach in late 2022, yielded several winners from UFTI. The annual summit assembles industry leaders from around the world to address technologies, operations and policy issues and is an opportunity for students to present their findings. Several UFTI students presented posters related to the study […]

By Dr. Siva Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering The profession of transportation engineering is undergoing a massive transformation. There is a great need to train the workforce in the emerging technologies. Equally important is to develop leadership who can shepherd the profession through these rapidly transformative times and such leadership development […]