An invitation to take part in a transit research project during his undergraduate years in civil engineering at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez motivated Dr. Miguel Lugo to pursue transportation engineering. The project paired students from various disciplines… Read More
Abigail Osei-Asamoah’s interest in transportation and engineering started from a young age; she would spend time figuring out how things got from one place to another. While being driven to and from school she would muse on the other vehicles moving… Read More
Dr. Ria Kontou was encouraged to take transportation courses by great mentors while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. During her studies, she worked to complete her undergraduate thesis on bus-to-depot allocation… Read More
Abi Komma graduated from the UF with a Masters of Science in Transportation Engineering in August 2008. Komma is currently employed as a senior data scientist on the Computer Vision Platform team at Uber in San Francisco. The team is… Read More
As a result of a study conducted by the University of Florida Transportation Institute in 2016, a new program with ten Road Rangers was rolled-out to start service in Brevard County, Fla., in April 2019, complementing recent expansions near Gainesville… Read More
UFTI alumnus Seckin Ozkul graduated with his Ph.D. in August 2014. Ozkul’s dissertation research was on developing an advanced vehicle dynamics modeling approach in traffic microsimulation with emphasis on commercial truck performance and on-board-diagnostics data. His supervisor was Dr. Scott… Read More