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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 posters selected for presentation were from UF students.

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently awarded UFTI’s Transportation Technology Transfer (T2) Center three Accelerating Safety Activities Program (ASAP) awards. The three awards represent more than half of all available funding for fiscal year 2017. ASAP awards fund research, development, technology and innovation transfer, and outreach and communication activities that promote proven safety countermeasures and […]

With Release 7.3, the Freeways module now models travel time reliability for Travel Time Index and Reliability Rating by analyzing hundreds of scenarios for the variance of demand, weather, incidents, work zones, and special events over time. Freeway facility reliability analyses evaluate the travel time reliability experiences of motorists on an urban or rural freeway […]

In a series of projects funded by the Florida Department of Transportation, University of Florida researchers explored the use of indirect impedance as a method of corrosion detection on post-tensioned cables. UFTI affiliate, Mark Orazem, Ph.D., was the principal investigator on the project. The research included fundamental studies on corrosion rates and oxide film thickness […]

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. […]

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 […]