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On February 19, 2025, the Alabama Transportation Institute hosted a successful Transportation Awareness Day at Greensboro Middle School.

ATI and UA’s Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering department were proud to host the 2025 Spring Meeting for the Alabama section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ALSITE).

The Alabama Transportation Institute proudly hosted a successful Transportation Awareness Day at Greensboro Middle School, aiming to inspire the next generation of transportation professionals.

The new year has brought in new opportunities all around. I am excited to have officially begun my tenure as the Executive Director of ATI (no more Interim). In this role I look forward to leading ATI into a new future with exciting new opportunities by continuing to support amazing colleagues and students. It has…

The Alabama Transportation Institute at The University of Alabama will build on its successes in transportation research, policy and economic development with the selection of Dr. Steven Jones as its new executive director.

As we close out the year, ATI is preparing for a productive 2025. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting will be held in early January in Washington D.C. ATI is looking forward to presenting many papers and posters and will be well-represented.

What happens when two passions collide in a single graduate student? Well, in this case the result is an Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship awarded to the dynamic Hailey Richardson, a doctoral student in the UA Department of Geography. Hailey combined her childhood passion for maps – including hand drawing maps – with her family heritage of…

November has been a rewarding month for ATI, as we gain new projects and continue work in those ongoing. We’re proud to share that DRIVE-SMART, a newly funded project will lay the groundwork to develop an integrated transportation network connecting rural residents to the city of Tuscaloosa and assess technology needs for the new transportation…

If you’re a creative high school, community or technical college, or university student in Alabama, Mississippi, or Georgia, you’re invited to participate in the MAGNET logo design contest.

The Alabama Transportation Institute and The Center for Advanced Public Safety coordinated and hosted the Southeast CMV Safety Research Summit August 28-29, 2024.