Lily Elefteriadou, Ph.D., is the Director of the UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) and Barbara Goldsby Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Florida. Her research focus is traffic operations, traffic flow theory and simulation. She is the principal investigator of the US Department of Transportation-funded Regional University Transportation Center for Region 4, also known as the Southeast Transportation Research Innovation Development and Education, or (STRIDE), which focuses on reducing congestion and addresses research, education, technology transfer and workforce development for transportation. Dr. Elefteriadou has served as the principal investigator for several other federal and state projects funded by the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Federal Department of Transportation (FDOT). She has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications and reports related to traffic operational quality and highway design, as well as a textbook titled “Introduction to Traffic Flow Theory.” She serves on the editorial board of the Transportation Research: Part B and she is a former Chair of the Transportation Research Board’s Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee. She is also a past President of the Executive Board of the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). 

Dr. Elefteriadou’s CV is located here.