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UA’s Alabama Transportation Institute Awarded $8 million to Improve Transportation in West-Central Alabama

Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Thursday announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has awarded $8,034,003 to the University of Alabama’s (UA) Alabama Transportation Institute (ATI) to improve traffic control systems in west-central Alabama with modernized technology through the Advanced Connected Transportation Infrastructure and Operations Network (ACTION) project.


UA Research Reports Options for Future of Alabama Roads

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — An analysis of Alabama’s roads and bridges by researchers at The University of Alabama provides future scenarios for the state of transportation infrastructure that vary based on funding.


Best Practices, Not Individual Preferences, Bring Job Satisfaction

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Though employees may like their work to cater to their individual preferences, they are predictably more satisfied when the organizational culture matches a set of widely preferred characteristics that provide a fair, supportive and stable work environment.


UA will Lease Space at GulfQuest in Mobile

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama will lease space at the GulfQuest facility in Mobile effective Sept. 1. The new UA office will serve as a nexus for research and programmatic initiatives that will benefit the region, primarily in the area of transportation.