After months of negotiation, the U.S. Congress passed the infrastructure bill. The bipartisan measure was approved on November 5, 2021 and was signed by President Biden on Monday, November 15. The 5-year IIJA will have positive repercussions on the transportation industry as almost half of the funding is transportation-related. … Read More
Florida APWA Recognizes T2 for 30 Years of Service
At the recent American Public Works Association, Florida Chapter, Conference and Exposition, help November 2–5, in Orlando, the UFTI-T2 Center was honored by the chapter with a certificate recognizing the center’s 30 years of service and participation with the APWA… Read More
NSF Grant on Building Smart Urban Curb Environments Awarded to UFTI Affiliates
Dr. Yan Wang, Dr. Lili Du, Dr. Shigang Chen, along with Dr. Ruth Steiner, have teamed up to work on a recently awarded project by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will study curb space uses of urban communities and… Read More
UFTI Dr. Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan Wins Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR)
Dr. Xiang ‘Jacob’ Yan was presented with the best Ph.D. dissertation award from the World Society for Transport and Land Use Research (WSTLUR). Dr. Yan is a research assistant professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment at the… Read More
UFTI T2 Center Awarded Grant to Develop Master Plan for Florida’s Safe Routes to School (SRTS) Program
This September, about 2.8 million children will return to Florida’s public schools – on foot, on bicycles, on scooters, on skateboards. In whatever way they get there, the SRTS program is dedicated to giving children a safer journey from home… Read More
Dr. Hassan Azad & Dr. Sanjay Ranka Lead Project Funded by The National Science Foundation
News The project titled SCC-PG Remote Sensing and Prediction of Environmental Noise to Facilitate Addressing the Social and Health Issues of Noise – Pilot Study: Schools and Hospitals was awarded on July 24, 2021. It is led by Dr. Azad and Dr. Ranka… Read More
Cyber-Resilient Connected Autonomous Vehicles
By: Dr. Sandip Ray, Professor & Endowed IoT Term Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Florida How would you feel if a hacker could remotely push a button that would cause your vehicle to veer off the… Read More
NSF-Funded Study Creates Strategy to Improve System Performance of Traffic Apps
This study was recently published in IEEE – Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9312471) Doctoral candidate Stephen Spana and his adviser, Dr. Lili Du of the UF Department of Civil & Coastal Engineering, worked on a National Science Foundation study… Read More
The I-STREET Testbed
The information contained on this page is currently being used for the 2021 CoMotion Miami Challenge Powered by I-STREET. “I-STREET” is a real-world testbed located in Gainesville, Florida. The testbed is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the art in connected and… Read More
CoMotion Miami Mobility Challenge Powered by I-STREET
Help us save lives and improve mobility on existing transportation infrastructure using emerging technologies and its associated data! Solve these and other highway transportation problems using real-world data from the I-STREET real-world testbed, a collaboration of the University of Florida,… Read More