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By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI Research Coordinator Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., is now the former director of the UF Transportation Institute. After a decade as the driving force behind the success of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI), Lily Elefteriadou, a distinguished professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering (CCE) within the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure ...

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI Research Coordinator Yuqiang Ning, a doctoral student in the UF Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering (CCE). His doctoral adviser is Lili Du, a professor in CCE. Yuqiang Ning, a doctoral student in the UF Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering (CCE), envisions a future where electrified transportation is affordable and accessible ...

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI Research Coordinator Sangung Park is a post-doc at the UFTI working with Xilei Zhao, an assistant professor in the UF Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering. Sangung Park is a new postdoctoral associate at the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI). His work focuses on transportation and infrastructure systems engineering. Park is ...

The 2024 “Research to Practice” Transit Symposium will take place October 22-24, 2024. The symposium will take place online and streamed on YouTube. As the transit industry is poised to take advantage of the largest transit and rail investment in our lifetimes, the symposium provides a platform where transit experts share insights on how evidence-based ...

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., UFTI Research Coordinator/Marketing & Communications Some of the graduates of the master’s degree in civil engineering transportation leadership program celebrate their graduation at the recently inaugurated I-STREET lab facilities. This month, UFTI celebrated an important accomplishment: its first ten students graduated from the online master’s degree program in civil engineering with a ...

Dr. Lily Elefteriadou is the Barbara Goldsby Distinguished Professor of Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment Lily Elefteriadou, Distinguished Professor in Civil Engineering at UF and an international leader in transportation engineering, has been named a 2024 University of Florida Research Foundation Professor  by the UF Research Foundation. Elefteriadou has made significant contributions to the state-of-the-art ...

The I-STREETTM Living Lab is a $2 million, 4,300-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility at the University of Florida (UF). Cutting edge technologies are developed, tested, and deployed at the lab and on the surrounding roadway networks on the UF campus, the City of Gainesville, and across the state. The I-STREETTM Living Lab was inaugurated on April 26th. ...

by Charles Brown, UFTI-T2 Research Communications If you’re on the side of a Florida Interstate with no gas, a flat tire, or something more serious, you might see a Road Ranger Service Patrol truck pulling in behind you to provide aid. The Road Ranger Service Patrol (RRSP) is a program of the Florida Department of Transportation ...