Tag: transportation

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., Research Coordinator/Marketing & Communications, UFTI Millions of people travel on highways and toll roads daily without ever considering the planning, decision-making, and financial decisions that went on in the background before that road was built. To make the construction process more efficient and cost-effective, Dr. Gabriel Castelblanco, an assistant professor at […]

By Ines Aviles-Spadoni, M.S., Research Coordinator/Marketing & Communications, UFTI Traffic jams, a pervasive issue in the United States, cost consumers time and money. INRIX, the transportation analytics research firm, has estimated that urban commuters in 2022 spent a staggering 51 hours a year stuck in traffic, resulting in an annual cost of approximately $81 billion. […]

Doctoral student Xiaojian Zhang is working to reduce social inequalities by analyzing biases in mobile device location data gathered and tracked from technologies such as mobile phones or other GPS-enabled devices. Mobile device location data has become an important tool for transportation researchers and professionals working to improve human mobility analysis. For example, transportation professionals […]

University of Florida’s College of Engineering will soon be hosting a new REU site, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF.) REU stands for Research Experiences for Undergraduates and is a unique opportunity for small cohorts of talented undergraduate students to engage in high-impact research. The focus of the site is “Secure, […]

By Ada Lang, UFTI Communications Coordinator Equity, diversity and inclusion in the workforce are long-standing areas of concern, and a STRIDE-funded project titled Transportation Workforce Development for State DOTs to Address Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion recently studied that issue – with a focus on the Southeastern departments of transportation (DOT) workforce. The pandemic emphasized the […]