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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.  The bill includes funding for roads and bridges, transit and rail, airport and port upgrades, electric […]

At the recent American Public Works Association Florida Chapter Conference and Exposition, held November 2–5 in Orlando, the UFTI-T2 Center was honored with a certificate recognizing the center’s 30 years of service and participation with the APWA Florida Chapter. On hand to receive this honor were Scott Tison and Wanda Tison, who are respectively the […]

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 develop strategic management to adapt increasingly diverse and conflicting curb space uses in response to […]

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 University of Florida and also an affiliate of the UFTI. Dr. Yan’s dissertation focused on the […]

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 to school and back again as well as encouraging more walking and biking. University of […]

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 of the University of Florida in collaboration with I-STREET living lab Director Dr. Manjunatha Pruthvi, Dr. Laurie […]

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 highway into a ditch?  Research over the last decade has shown that not only is […]

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 aimed at mitigating traffic congestion by leveraging users’ reactions to real-time traffic data, such as from Google […]

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 automated vehicle implementation, and it is a joint effort between the Florida Department of Transportation, the […]