Tag: UFTI

Florida Department of Transportation ranks safety as a top priority for the state, and it is listed as one of FDOT’s Vital Few focus areas. Despite the vision of having fatality-free roadways, crashes are still a reality today. The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles noted an increase of total annual traffic crashes […]

Urban traffic control is one of the most important and challenging issues facing cities. Increases in the volume of traffic have significant impacts on congestion and consequently on the amount of time that travelers spend on the road. Furthermore, traffic signal control timing does not change in real-time based on changes in traffic patterns or […]

These days, road networks in our cities contain a variety of smart and connected infrastructure which generate an abundance of Big Data. This data can be processed to improve the flow of traffic and safety for both vehicles and pedestrians. At the University of Florida Transportation Institute (UFTI), transportation and computer science engineers are working […]

Sanjay Ranka, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE), was recently awarded a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology that will monitor high-risk intersections in Gainesville, FL, to make roadways safer. The project, “Video Based Machine Learning for Smart Traffic Analysis and Management,” […]

We live in a world where massive amounts of data are currently available to us. In 2013, the size of the digital universe was estimated to be near 5 zettabytes (1 zettabyte = 1 million terabytes) and is expected to quadruple by 2020. Like the physical world, the information in it is diverse – created […]