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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 […]

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 annual event that brings together students, faculty, staff, transportation practitioners, and public agencies with the […]

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 scholarship to help defray the cost to attend the conference held in Chicago on March […]

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 mostly designed without traffic lights, or the shuttles are maneuvered through traffic lights manually by […]