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Welcome Alyssa and Don! Alyssa Mercadante graduated in December 2017 with a degree in Management. While in school she had opportunities to work for the UF Health Dermatology practice at Springhill and managed a local store, Arabesque, in Gainesville, FL. Mercadante joins the T2 Center team as the Network Assistant. “I’m excited to be a […]

The UFTI would like to officially welcome Elaine Khoo in her new role as the Marketing and Communications Specialist. Khoo will help drive UFTI’s marketing and communications efforts, including finding creative solutions to promote the Institute’s research, education, and technology transfer products. Khoo is not new to the UFTI; she has been coordinating various activities […]

Congratulations to Deja Jackson for being invited to the 26th Annual Eno Future Leaders Development Conference in Washington, D.C.! This is the first time Jackson, who is pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil and Coastal Engineering, has been accepted to attend the conference – each year, 20 different individuals are accepted as Eno Fellows and invited […]

In this project, University of Florida researchers evaluated the effects of adding recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) and recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) to virgin asphalt binder to accurately determine key properties of the resulting mixtures. The challenge is that it is difficult to accurately characterize the properties and behavior of RAS so that the amount that […]

Gustavo de Andrade and Fabio Sasahara, two doctoral students at the UFTI, are now members of the Urban Streets Subcommittee, which operates under the TRB Highway Capacity and Quality of Service (HCQSC) committee (AHB40). The subcommittee is tasked with focusing on level-of-service (LOS) analysis on urban arterials and streets with signalized or unsignalized intersections, with […]

Dr. Trey Hamilton, of the Structural Engineering Group in the UF Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, along with his research team, investigated the use of flexible fillers with post-tensioned tendons, including performance testing of the materials and methods of installation and inspection. Post-tensioning concrete is an efficient means of increasing the strength of bridges, […]

The Institute for Mobility, Activity, and Participation (I-MAP), within the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions, is collaborating with the American Automobile Association (AAA) to revise and compile a new version of Smart Features for Older Drivers (SFOD), a downloadable booklet that helps older drivers select cars with features that will assist them […]

This latest release (scheduled for February) adds improvements to Freeways, TWSC, Service Volumes, and the Highway Safety Software (see below). Freeways – Several improvements are implemented in this HCS7 module to include more intelligent graphics within the reports and provide more functionality to the data coding process by allowing it to be interactive with the […]

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou, President of the Council of University Transportation Centers, recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on behalf of CUTC with the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). The MOU-signing was held in conjunction with the ITE International Board of Directors Meeting, which occurred in Washington, D.C. This MOU forms a collaborative working partnership […]