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The Highway Capacity & Quality of Service Committee received the Blue Ribbon Award for promoting and sponsoring transportation research. The committee promulgates a broad range of tools applied by practitioners, researchers, educators and public policy makers.  Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, who is the former chair of the committee said, ” I enjoyed working with this committee made […]

Students and faculty from the UFTI presented posters and papers at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The following is a sample of those who showcased their research projects. Gustavo de Andrade (Doctoral Student) Poster title: A Methodology for Systems Analysis in the HCM [View poster] Poster title: Multiclass Traffic Assignment Problem with […]

A conversation with Gaurav Sultania, a student in the UFTI’s transportation engineering master’s program, graduating in May 2017. What is your background? I completed my undergraduate studies with a bachelor’s degree in technology (thesis based) in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay. I attribute the start of my interest in transportation […]

Every year during the Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the UFTI hosts a reception of more than 150 students, alumni, academics, and transportation professionals in the public and private sectors. Held at a local restaurant in Washington, D.C., just a block away from the Marriott Marquis, where many of the conference sessions […]

View in Constant Contact [view] Research USDOT Awards $14 million Grant to the UFTI The University of Florida Transportation institute has been awarded the Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center by the U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology. [Read more] New Software Products for the Highway Capacity Manual 6th […]

During summer and fall 2016 semesters, the WTS Florida Gator student chapter collaborated with the Central Florida (CFL) WTS professional chapter, in particular with Lara Bouck and Danyu Shi, to establish a distance mentorship program. The mentorship’s major goal is to help and prepare the WTS student board members transition from academia to industry. The student board members […]

Faculty and students from the UFTI attended the 4th Annual Florida Automated Vehicles Summit in Tampa, Fla., which was held November 29-30, 2016.  The UFTI has been regularly attending the Summit because the Institute has various projects related to automated and connected vehicles (AVs). “The Florida DOT has been doing an impressive job assembling key […]

  DOT awards UF Transportation Institute $14M for traffic congestion research Gainesville, Fla. — A consortium led by the University of Florida Transportation Institute, UFTI, has been named the Region 4 (Southeast) University Transportation Center by the U.S. Department of Transportation, and provided with $14M in funding to develop novel strategies for reducing congestion over […]

Maria “Mariló” Dolores Martin-Gasulla said that when considering a major in college she didn’t actively go searching for it. If anything, it found her. “During a career day in high school, all my classmates were given various brochures with possible majors to choose from,” said Martin-Gasulla. “But for some reason, I received just a single […]

The best-selling, newly updated Principles of Highway Engineering and Traffic Analysis, 6th Edition,  provides the depth of coverage necessary to solve the highway-related problems that are most likely to be encountered in engineering practice. The focus on highway transportation is appropriate in light of the dominance of the highway mode in the U.S. and available employment […]