Category: News

UFTI intern and rising 3rd-year student Omar Rivera shared with us some interesting facts about his research, preliminary inferences and a little about his background. Rivera is a computer science major whose main interest is aerospace engineering. He is from Houston, Texas, and recently finished his AA at San Jacinto Community College. He will start […]

Seung Woo Hwangbo, a Ph.D. student from the Department of Occupational Therapy, presented at the 2023 Occupational Therapy Summit of Scholars on June 23 in Columbus, Ohio. Seung Woo presented his poster on qualitative findings of people across the lifespan after autonomous shuttle exposure. Dr. Sherrilene Classen, Hwangbo’s mentor, professor and chair of the Department […]

Researchers from the University of Florida Transportation Institute’s (UFTI) I-STREET Living Lab traveled in May 2023 to the SunTrax Test Facility in Auburndale, Florida, to test an algorithm they created that optimizes and operates traffic signals, thus improving safety and traffic performance at intersections. The key component of this new algorithm is the use of […]

Recently, a group of the University of Florida (UF) Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering students, collectively known as the “Eckhoff Student Steel Bridge Team,” became the first team ever to win the competition three years in a row and won two additional awards at the 2023 American Institute of Steel Construction. The team took home […]

About 41 million Americans have disabilities and here in Florida, with its older demographic, providing more mobility options is a high priority. A research team at the University of Florida (UF) recently studied persons with disabilities’ attitudes about utilizing automated shuttles and found that exposure to autonomous shuttles contributes to positive perceptions. Automated shuttles (AS) […]

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 […]