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… Read More
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Get to know our summer interns: Moeed Mughal
Moeed Mughal spent the summer at UFTI working with Dr. Siva Srinivasan and doctoral student Bryce Grame, as part of the Secure, Accessible, Sustainable, Transportation (SAST) cohort. Their research focused on Eye-Tracking Applications in Transit, which aims to understand drivers’… Read More
UFTI Students Win Big at ITE Collegiate Traffic Bowl
UFTI students took a big Gator bite out of the competition at the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Florida Puerto Rico District Traffic Bowl’s competition, held February 22, 2023, in Orlando, Florida. Bryce Grame, Renan Favero, Ryan Kenis and Kirk… Read More
Women in Transportation History
UFTI Director honored by AAAS
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… Read More
UF’s Contribution to the Development of the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM)
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.… Read More
UFTI Director’s Message
Dear Alumni & Colleagues, As transportation professionals we are continuously being challenged to find solutions to a diverse and ever-expanding number of problems including how to maintain supply chains, how to keep travelers safe from COVID-19 and minimize crashes, and… Read More
UF & University of Kansas Researchers Advance to Semifinals of USDOT Inclusive Design Challenge
University of Florida faculty Dr. Sanaz Motamedi, Dr. Eakta Jain, Dr. Xilei Zhao, Dr. Wayne Gian and Dr. Boyi Ju were selected as semifinalists as part of the Inclusive Design challenge team led by the University of Kansas. The research… Read More
UFTI Team Selected as Finalist for ITE’s Vision Zero Sandbox Design Competition
Congratulations to Dr. Siva Srinivasan, Dr. Rui Guo, Dr. Karla Rodrigues-Silva, and Dr. Gustavo de Andrade for representing the UFTI in ITE’s Vision Zero Sandbox Challenge. The UFTI team has been selected as one of two finalists for the Professional… Read More
UFTI Welcomes Maryam Ghyabi-White as UFTI External Advisory Board Member
Ms. Maryam Ghyabi-White is the CEO/President of Ghyabi Consulting and Management, LLC (GCM). In her current role at GCM, and as the former CEO/President of Ghyabi & Associates, Inc., Ms. Ghyabi-White provides leadership and support to position the company at… Read More