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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 Institute of Technology from 2012-2017. She also worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate for NEXTRANS, […]

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 one of the first to help analyze the newly collected data from their Motorcycle Crash […]

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. The conference was held on July 12-14, 2016. Similarly, Posadas will be presenting her poster […]

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 and academia to discuss the latest automated vehicle research and technology. Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, Dr. […]

This Highway Capacity Analysis Webinar Series presents lectures, software demonstrations, and application examples on the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM6) procedures. Step-by-step instruction in the HCM6 methodologies will be provided for each analytical chapter. The Highway Capacity Software (HCS7) implements and automates the HCM procedures. Each lecture will be followed by working HCM6 example problems and […]

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 to update the Smart Features initiative to include classifying the benefits of in-vehicle and automated […]

Checkout upcoming events, courses, workshops and webinars below! Highway Capacity Manual, Sixth Edition – Webinar This webinar will provide a general introduction to the 6th edition of the HCM and highlight changes relative to the HCM 5th July 13, 2017 Mobility Fee Webinar Local governments are exploring creative ways to provide mobility other than by […]

Clark Letter, who recently completed his Ph.D. in transportation engineering from UF, has accepted a position as the UF Testbed manager for the UFTI. The UF Testbed will utilize the UF campus and surrounding neighborhoods to test connected and autonomous vehicles and devices that support them. Letter will coordinate all efforts related to planning and […]

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. The team includes researchers from the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI), representing the Departments […]