The UFTI at #TRBAM 2022
UFTI students, faculty, and staff attended the 2022 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington D.C. on January 9-13, 2022. Our participation included presentations at various lectern and poster sessions and TRB committees.
The annual meeting's theme this year was “Innovating an Equitable, Resilient, Sustainable, and Safe Transportation System".
Click on the link below for a list of activities undertaken by UFTI at TRB.
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UFTI Staff, Faculty, and Students at the 2022 TRBAM |
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UFTI Graduate Dever Joe Awarded the Neville Parker Award from the Council of Universities Transportation Centers (CUTC)
The Neville Parker Award is awarded to two non-thesis master’s students reports in the field of policy and planning. This year Joe Dever, a graduate from the MURP program at UF, won the award for his research paper exploring Miami’s Metrorail system titled “Embracing Capital Investment: An Analysis of Development Oriented towards Miami's Metrorail”
This research was supported by Dr. Abhinav Alakshendra (Department of Urban and Regional Planning), Dr. Ruth Steiner, (UFTI), and Mr. Aaron DeMayo (Future Vision Studios).
This report helps better understand the historic context of that transportation project and how the city embraced that capital investment to develop neighborhoods or install other networks (like sidewalks and bike lanes) that would enhance the Metrorail. "The lessons I have learned in doing this research paper are essential for any city, transit agency or property developer involved in a large, multi-modal project," Dever said.
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Dever Joe - Graduate from UF's MURP program |
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UFTI Annual Report Now Available!
(June 2020 - July 2021)
The annual report reviews our accomplishments during this past year. It includes updates from our centers, research groups, and student centers.
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Dr. Lily Elefteriadou to Speak on how Research and Deployment is Transforming Highways through UFTI’s I-STREET Living Lab
Jan. 19, 12-1pm EST
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How UFTI Used Location Analytics to Gain Insight into Wildfire Evacuation Behaviors
Researchers from the UFTI used location analytics from Gravy Analytics to better understand how people behave during wildfires. These insights can help inform the emergency response to wildfires or other natural disasters.
The UF research team comprised of Dr. Xilei Zhao, Dr. Erica Kuligowski, Dr. Daniel Nilsson, Dr. Lovreglio Ruggiero, and Dr. Yiming Xu. The researchers published the first GPS dataset for wildire evacuation in a paper titled "A Highway Vehicle Routing Dataset During the 2019 Kincade Fire Evacuation".
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Gravy Analytics is an enterprise location technology company providing actionable intelligence to businesses.
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UFTI partners with CALSTART and Morgan State University on the Federal Transit Authority’s Research-to-Practice Initiative
UFTI researcher Dr. Jacob Yan and T2 Center Director Dr. Nithin Agarwal are part of an effort funded by the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) to identify the best ways to promote innovation in transit services by tapping the most promising results of FTA research. This Research-to-Practice (R2P) initiative, led by CALSTART (a California-based nonprofit), will promote innovation by effectively communicating FTA’s most promising research findings across the transit industry as well as develop strategies to put successful results into use.
This project brings together researchers from CALSTART, UFTI, and Morgan State University. In addition, NVIDIA will support UFTI in testing novel applications of Natural Language AI to achieve FTA objectives.
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The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) mission is to enable a robust public transportation network that connects communities and protects the environment. |
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Watch the Video! Dr. Mehri Mohebbi on the Importance of Cultural, Social, and Gender Identities
Watch this video interview from the American Planning Association (APA) of UFTI’s Transportation Equity (TE) lead Dr. Mohebbi. This is part of a video series that features the Social Equity Task Force Members from the APA.
In this interview she shares her personal experiences and how they shaped her professional journey to represent the full range of cultural, social, and gender identities in her work. The mission of the APA is to use the power of planning to improve the quality of life for all people in all communities.
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Dr. Mehri "Mehrsa" Mobebbi - UFTI Transportation Equity Lead |
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Register for Temporary Traffic Control, Pilot/Escort Flagging and Professional Development courses.
8.0 PDH provided for each Refresher course
16.0 PDH provided for each Intermediate course
20.0 PDH provided for each Advanced course
Weekend courses available
Self-guided online refresher available
As an umbrella organization for many national and state-based programs, the T2 Center provides training, technical assistance, technology transfer services, and safety information to transportation, public works, and safety professionals as well as the general public. Our mission is to transform engineering research and technology into common practice and to foster a safe, efficient, environmentally sound transportation system by improving skills, and knowledge.
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For more information,
contact Jasper Masciocchi, Education/Training Specialist III,
or call (352) 273-1685.
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McTrans Training Webinars |
Register for the upcoming McTrans Training Webinars below:
12 PDHs are provided for each series
Mar 08 - 10, 2022 1 - 5 PM ET
May 03 - 05, 2022 1 - 5 PM ET
8 PDHs are provided for each series
Feb 22 - 23, 2022 1 - 5 PM ET
Apr 05 - 06, 2022 1 - 5 PM ET
The McTrans Center at the University of Florida develops and supports software programs for traffic engineering and transportation planning applications.
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