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CCAT Partners with U-M, Cavnue, and more on ‘Road of the Future’
Announced by Governor Gretchen Whitmer this afternoon, The Center for Connected and Automated Transportation is a partner in a project that will develop a first-of-its-kind corridor for connected and autonomous vehicles. Other partners on the project include Ford Motor Co., Mcity, U-M Transportation Research Institute, the American Center for Mobility, and master developer for phase Continue Reading »
University of Michigan Wins Transportation Technology Tournament
Under the guidance of CCAT PI, Neda Masoud, students at the University of Michigan won the Transportation Technology Tournament. The tournament is hosted by the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) and the U.S. DOT ITS JPO PCB program. It allows students to work directly with public agencies to solve real-world transportation problems using Continue Reading »
CCAT Managing Director on IEEE Spectrum
20/20 Global Symposium Delivers CAV Conversation to Over 600
The Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) at the University of Michigan just hosted its 3rd annual Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles. Twenty-nine speakers from across the United States, working in a variety of areas within the mobility and transportation sector, came together to reflect on the past decade of CAVs and Continue Reading »
CCAT Researcher to Moderate Session at IEEE ITSC 2020
CCAT Researcher, Nadia Gkritza, will be moderating a session at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) in Rhodes, Greece. The session is titled: “Advances in Connected and Autonomous Mobility: From Data to Models, Impacts and Enablers for Adoption”, and focuses on the deployment of vehicular Continue Reading »
CCAT Director Presents at PACTrans
CCAT Director Henry Liu spoke at the PacTrans University Transportation Center at the University of Washington. The title of his discussion was: “Critical Scenario Generation for Accelerated Testing of Autonomous Vehicles”, which provides a general framework for the testing scenario library generation (TSLG) problem. If you missed Professor Liu’s discussion, you can watch the entire Continue Reading »
CCAT Student Bortiorkor Alabi to Receive WTS Chapter Scholarship
CCAT student, Bortiorkor Alabi, has been selected to receive the WTS Chapter Helene M. Overly Memorial Scholarship for 2019-2020, Greater Indianapolis Chapter. This scholarship recognizes a graduate female in the transportation industry and academia. Their goal is to support and encourage future female leaders in transportation to be successful. Bortiorkor Alabi is an MS Continue Reading »
CCAT Researcher Recipient of the 2019 Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award
CCAT former student and current researcher, Dr. Sikai Chen, has been selected as the recipient of the 2019 Milton Pikarsky Memorial award. This prize is given to the best Ph.D. dissertation in the transportation science and technology category. His dissertation is titled: “Safety Implications of Roadway Design and Management: New Evidence and Insights Continue Reading »
CCAT Student has been awarded Civil Engineering Best Dissertation Award
Our CCAT student Sikai “Sky” Chen has been awarded the Spring/Summer 2019 Civil Engineering Best Dissertation Award at Purdue! This award by the Purdue Lyles School of Civil Engineering recognizes the best doctoral dissertation in the school including demonstrated excellence in the dissertation research through peer-reviewed journal publications and conference papers. The title of Sky’s Continue Reading »