March 11, 2020
UFTI Presents in HealthStreet Distracted Driving Town Hall
UFTI affiliates were featured as part of an interactive town hall on distracted driving held by HealthStreet on February 11, 2020 . HealthStreet is a community engagement program at the University of Florida with a mission to improve the health of our community by bridging gaps in healthcare and health research.
Dr. Wayne Giang from Industrial and Systems Engineering spoke on pedestrian safety. Dr. Pruthvi Manjunatha from Civil and Coastal Engineering addressed impacts of distraction on traffic flow. Dr. Sandra Winter from UF’s Institute for Mobility, Activity and Participation shared a computer-based training designed for the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) targeting teen drivers and distraction. The town hall was live-streamed nationally, moderated by Alachua County Deputy Sheriff Cary Gallop, and also included Dr. Shan Bao from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and Dr. Jennifer S. Bard from UF’s Fredric G. Levin College of Law. The UFTI was well represented at the town hall and participants were pleased to contribute toward community understanding of distracted driving, a pressing public health concern. 

Dr. Sanjay Ranka to be the Keynote Speaker at ITCVT 2020
Dr. Sanjay Ranka, professor in the Department of Computer Information Science and Engineering in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering at UF, will be the Keynote Speaker at the Third International Workshop on Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles Technologies (ITCVT 2020) in Budapest, Hungary. 
This workshop brings together engineers, researchers, and practitioners interested in the advances and applications in the field of intelligent transportation and vehicle technology. 
Dr. Ranka will be presenting his work on Big Data Computing and Machine Learning for Intelligent Transportation and Connected Vehicles. This project involves developing machine learning algorithms and software to fuse real-time feeds from video cameras and traffic sensor data to generate real-time detection, classification, and space-time trajectories of individual vehicles and pedestrians. This information is then transmitted to a cloud-based system and synthesized to create a real-time city-wide traffic palette.  
GatorITE Seminar With Dr. Louis Merlin
Dr. Louis Merlin, assistant professor in the School of Urban and Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University and co-author of the recently released book  From Mobility to Accessibility , gave a seminar to UFTI faculty and students on March 10.
In his presentation, he argued for the centrality of accessibility in the assessment of transportation performance. He reviewed the requirements for accessibility measures and clarified the necessary characteristics of true accessibility measures. He demonstrated how an accessibility-based analysis may yield different recommendations than a mobility-based analysis through a specific case study in the San Antonio region.
Job Opportunity
Application Developer Analyst III with the UFTI's Mc Trans Center

Job Description:    Implement and validate the implemented products to ensure the design meets customer needs. Design and develop prototypes of software for a variety of transportation needs.
Interact with potential customers to solicit feedback and coordinate and execute modifications based on user input.
Interview and hire student assistants for web development projects. Supervise the daily work activities of student assistants.
Develop best practices for development and execution of user interfaces and systems across different products at Mc Trans . Develop technical documentation (designs, specifications, processes) and communications.

Minimum Qualifications:    Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area and two years of relevant experience; or a high school diploma or equivalent and six years of experience. Appropriate college coursework or vocational/technical training may substitute at an equivalent rate for the required experience.

Application deadline is March 13, 2020

Upcoming Events
Highway Capacity Analysis Webinar Series hosted by Mc Trans : 

This webinar series presents lectures, software demonstrations and application examples on the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) procedures – including upcoming 6th Edition updates. Step-by-step instruction of the HCM methodologies will be provided for each analytical chapter. The Highway Capacity Software (HCS) implements and automates the HCM procedures. 
Each lecture will be followed by working example problems and a software demonstration using the  HCS7  prototype. A comprehensive workbook is provided to include all slides. Registration is provided in four sections (Streets, Unsignal, Freeways and Highways) with the Overview included with any registration and a discount for the entire series.  

March 16 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET: Overview
March 16 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. ET: Freeway Segments
March 17 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET: Freeway Facilities
March 17 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. ET: Highway Segments
March 18 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET: Unsignalized Intersections
March 18 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. ET: Signalized Intersections
March 19 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. ET: Urban Streets
March 19 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. ET: Ramp Terminals and Alternative Intersections
March 20 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. ET: Simulation (TransModeler SE)

Traffic Engineering Fundamentals Webinar Series hosted by the UFTI T2 Center: 

This course is intended to introduce and overview several traffic engineering topics with some practical application for each. Congestion, safety, and analysis are covered, including information on signals, crashes, and studies with workshops using the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) and Highway Capacity Manual (HCM). The sessions are designed to offer lectures, workshops, and computer demonstrations for an introduction to various topics. Videos and slide presentations are used to provide supplemental and back-ground information with a comprehensive workbook provided to include all slides. The series will be presented from 1:00 p.m. to 4 p.m. ET March 23 - 26.

March 23: Congestion, Road Users & Volume, Speed, and Delay Studies
March 24: MUTCD Overview and Signal Warrants & Signal Components, and Timing
March 25: Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) Overview & Intersection Capacity Analysis
March 26: TWSC, AWSC, Roundabouts, and Signals & Traffic Impact Analysis

March 26 & 27:  The 7th Annual UTC Conference for the Southeastern Region will be held in Boca Raton, Florida.

STRIDE K-12 Workshop at the UTC Conference on Thursday, March 26. The session will focus on on  Issues Related to K-12 Outreach . If you would like more information on the session, please contact Ondine Wells at  [email protected] . 
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