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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 […]

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 will include automated, connected, electric, and shared (ACES) mobility, operations, law, infrastructure, functional design, cyber […]

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 Transportation (FDOT) titled “Evaluation of CARMA for I-STREET Testbed Implementation”. CARMA is a program that […]

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 researchers Dr. Xilei Zhao and Dr. Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan, and their international research team (Dr. […]

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 symposium will be a platform where transit experts share insights on how evidence-based research is […]

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 to active mobility and increased overall public health outcomes. “That’s why it is crucially important […]

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 they would like and a flexible schedule that facilitates DIY or working with professionals. But […]

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.   “The contributions of the UFTI have been invaluable,” said Tom Creasey, chair of the […]