UFTI Overview

About the University of Florida Transportation Institute

The UFTI, housed in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, aims to advance transportation,
disseminate research results, and provide educational opportunities related to transportation.
The UFTI brings together faculty, staff, and students from many diverse backgrounds to provide
solutions to a variety of transportation problems.

The University of Florida Transportation Institute is an umbrella organization housing several
transportation-related centers within the University of Florida.

UFTI Vision Statement:

To conduct and foster impactful, cross-cutting, multimodal transportation research; educate the
next generation of transportation leaders; and facilitate technology transfer.

UFTI Mission Statement:

To lead the profession in shaping a better transportation future by functioning as a preeminent
center of multidisciplinary transportation research, students’ top choice for transportation
education, and a provider of state-of-the-art analysis and decision-support tools.

UFTI Organizational Chart

This is an organizational chart of the UFTI. At the top, we have the college, and underneath the college we have the UFTI. Underneath the UFTI, we have three positions: the UFTI associate director, the UFTI interim director, and the external advisory board. Underneath those three, we have three sections. First section is the Affiliated center at UFTI. Under that section, we have the driving simulator lab, the geoplan center, the human systems engineering lab, the land use and transportation center. The second section is the UFTI research groups, which are the autonomous and connected vehicles, the human factors group, the safety group, the transportation equity group, the data analytics group, the resilience and sustainability group, the transit group, and the transportation materials and infrastructure group. The last section is the UFTI core center which include I-STREET, McTrans Center, and the T2 Center.