UFTI students, Deja Jackson and Fabio Sasahara, attended the Florida Department of Transportation’s TRANSPLEX conference in Ponte Verda, FL, from August 8-10, 2017. Jackson and Sasahara were two out of 10 posters selected for presentations. All but one of the… Read More
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The UFTI Welcomes Dr. Lili Du to the University of Florida
The UF Transportation Institute welcomes our newest faculty member, Lili Du. Dr. Du is an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. Before joining UF, she worked as an assistant and then an associate professor at Illinois… Read More
Meet Marian Ankomah, Ph.D. Student
Doctoral student, Marian Ankomah, discusses her specialization in transportation planning while working on her Ph.D. in civil and coastal engineering.
UFTI Director Elected President of the Council of University Transportation Centers
During the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Summer Meeting in Buffalo, NY, Dr. Lily Elefteriadou was elected president of the organization. Dr. Elefteriadou will serve as President for one year, until June 2018. CUTC was established in 1979 by… Read More
UFTI Student Interns with FHWA
This summer one of the UFTI’s Ph.D. students, Deja Jackson, participated in an internship program with the Federal Highway Administration for the second time. Jackson interned with the FHWA’s Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC) in McLean, VA, where she was… Read More
Multidisciplinary Students Present Their Transportation-Related Projects
Jerone Dunbar and Brianna Posadas, Ph.D. students in computer and information science engineering working with Dr. Juan Gilbert, recently completed multidisciplinary projects focusing on transportation. Dunbar presented his paper at the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction in Vancouver, Canada.… Read More
TRB AV Symposium Recap
The 2017 Automated Vehicles Symposium was held in San Francisco, CA, and was a joint conference between the Transportation Research Board (TRB) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI). The purpose of the symposium is to bring together industry… Read More
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety Contracts with the UF Occupational Therapy Department
Building on previous collaborations with the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety (2007, 2011), the University of Florida’s Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation will provide expert services to revise and compile Smart Features for Older Drivers version 3. The goal is… Read More
Meet Pruthvi Manjunatha, Ph.D. Student
UFTI Ph.D. student, Pruthvi Manjunatha, takes you behind the scenes of the UFTI driving simulator and explains how it works.
Using DSRC to Enhance Signal Control: Testing at FDOT’s TERL Facility
On May 24-25, 2017, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) funded project team AVIAN (http://avian.essie.ufl.edu/) to test new algorithms that were developed to optimize connected and highly automated vehicle trajectories when approaching a signal.… Read More