CCAT at the 2026 Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting
The 2026 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting returns to Washington, D.C. from Sunday, January 11th, through Thursday, January 15th. The event is expected to attract thousands of transportation professionals worldwide, including representatives from the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). Below, you can explore all the lectern and poster sessions featuring CCAT research, as well as networking receptions hosted by our consortium partners.
View Networking Receptions
| Date/Time | Host | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday, January 11th 5:00 – 7:00 PM ET | University of Wisconsin | Yard House |
| Sunday, January 11th 7:00 – 9:00 PM ET | Purdue University | Marquis Salon DE (M4) |
| Sunday, January 11th 8:30 – 10:00 PM ET | Northwestern University Transportation Center | Marquis Salon 6 (M2) |
| Sunday, January 11th 9:00 – 11:00 PM ET | Illinois Center for Transportation | Marquis Salon 5 (M2) |
| Monday, January 12th 5:30 – 7:30 PM ET | University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies | Clyde’s of Gallery Place RSVP |
| Date/Time | Host | Location |
View Presentations by Day
Sunday, January 11th
| Session | Date/Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AC000 | Sunday, January 11th 7:00 – 8:30 PM ET | Memorial and Tribute for Professor Hani S. Mahmassani (1956-2025) | Samer H. Hamdar, Robert Lawrence Bertini, Thomas R. Menzies, Breton Johnson, Nachuan Li, Pedram Beigi, Wissam Sleiman, Yanlin Zhang, Victoria Sheehan, Alireza Talebpour, Ludovic Leclercq, Michael Zhang, Soyoung Ahn, Elise Miller-Hooks, Srinivas Peeta, Patricia L. Mokhtarian, Roger Chen |
| Session | Date/Time | Title | Speaker(s) |
Monday, January 12th
| Session | Presentation Date/Time | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectern Session 2020 | Monday, January 12th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Navigating Aging and Mobility: Ensuring Safety and Independence for Older Adults | Hilary Nixon, Renée St. Louis, Sandra Rosenbloom, Jana Lynott |
| Poster Session 2031 | Monday, January 12th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Black Box Attack on Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Traffic Signal Control System Under Cooperative Perception | Wangzhi Li, Yiheng Feng |
| Poster Session 2036 | Monday, January 12th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Impact of Road Transport in the Great Lakes Region on Public Health | Lara Diab, Murryam Hafeez, Ivan Akonya, Imad Al-Qadi, Yanfeng Ouyang |
| Poster Session 2071 | Monday, January 12th 10:30 – 12:15 PM ET | Driver Learning and Competency Throughout the Lifespan | Bo Yu, Junhua Wang, Shan Bao, Wenjie Lu, Zishan Peng |
| Poster Session 2074 | Monday, January 12th 10:30 – 12:15 PM ET | Resembling Cyberattacks for Transportation System Evaluation with Traffic-Informed Symbolic Regression | Alfred Chen, Jun Ying, Z. Morley Mao, Yiheng Feng |
| Poster Session 2074 | Monday, January 12th 10:30 – 12:15 PM ET | Learning to Detect Cyberattacks on Lane Changing via Physics-Informed Neural Inference | Yongju Kim, Xinzhi Zhong, Lei Shi, Wissam Kontar, Sikai Chen, Soyoung Ahn, Madhav Chitturi, David Noyce |
| Poster Session 2075 | Monday, January 12th 10:30 – 12:15 PM ET | Learning Traffic Dynamics via Guided Diffusion with Multi-Source Observations | Zihao Wang, Xingmin Wang, Naichen Shi, Zachary Jerome, Henry Liu |
| Poster Session 2077 | Monday, January 12th 10:30 – 12:15 PM ET | Work Zone Performance Measures Derived from Connected Vehicle Data That Map into the FHWA Rule on Work Zone Safety and Mobility | Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Jairaj Chetas Desai, Myles W. Overall, Justin Mukai, Juan D. Pava, John McGregor, Darcy Bullock |
| Poster Session 2167 | Monday, January 12th 6:15 – 7:45 PM ET | From Narratives to Probablistic Reasoning Predicting and Interpreting Drivers Hazardous Action in Crashes Using Large Language Models | Boyou Chen, Gerui Xu, Zifei Wang, Huizhong Guo, Ananna Ahmed, Zhaonan Sun, Shan Bao |
| Poster Session 2170 | Monday, January 12th 6:15 – 7:45 PM ET | Spatial Econometric Analysis on the Perceptions of Fairness in Transit Accessibility | Zhuangcun Chen, Amanda Stathopoulos |
| Session | Presentation Date/Time | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
Tuesday, January 13th
| Session | Presentation Date/Time | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectern Session 3018 | Tuesday, January 13th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Impacts of Exposure to a Low-Speed Automated Vehicle Shuttle on Attitudes and Mobility in Detroit | Meghan Kunkle, Michelle Strick, Renée St. Louis, Steven M. Lavrenz |
| Lectern Session 3018 | Tuesday, January 13th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Breaking Barriers, Building Solutions: How User Impairments Shape the Future of Autonomous Shared Ride Design Through User Needs Analysis | Chengxin Zhang, Huizhong Guo, Boyou Chen, Gerui Xu, Shan Bao |
| Poster Session 3027 | Tuesday, January 13th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Development of an Integrated Smart Work Zone for Proactive Intrusion Detection and Warning | Woei-Chyi Chang, Tianheng Zhu, Xingchen Wang, Johnson Adetooto, Nathan Weston, Yiheng Feng, Lu Su, Behzad Esmaeili, Sogand Hasanzadeh |
| Poster Session 3033 | Tuesday, January 13th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Utilizing Connected Vehicle Data to Identify Impacts of Congestion on Adjacent Agencies | Thomas M. Driscoll, Rahul Suryakant Sakhare, Jairaj Chetas Desai, Darcy Bullock |
| Poster Session 3114 | Tuesday, January 13th 1:30 – 3:15 PM ET | Smart Infrastructure-Based Anomaly Detection Under Cyberattacks | Cong Zhang, Jun Ying, Yiheng Feng |
| Poster Session 3118 | Tuesday, January 13th 1:30 – 3:15 PM ET | Trajectory-Based Signal Optimization: A Field Deployment and Benchmark Comparison | Zachary Jerome, Zihao Wang, Xingmin Wang, William Seeger, Danielle Deneau, Rachel Jones, Jeffrey Wood, Vivek Kumar, Henry Liu |
| Poster Session 3120 | Tuesday, January 13th 1:30 – 3:15 PM ET | Multi-Scale Traffic Simulation for Evaluating Large-Scale Automated Vehicle Deployment | Xingmin Wang, Xingyi He, Zihao Wang, Haowei Sun, Henry Liu |
| Lectern Session 3131 | Tuesday, January 13th 4:00 – 5:45 PM ET | Connected and Automated Vehicle Operations During Roadway Disruptions | Bin Ran, Yiheng Feng |
| Lectern Session 3134 | Tuesday, January 13th 4:00 – 5:45 PM ET | Aligning Large Language Models with Human Travel Choices: A Persona-Based Embedding Learning Approach | Tianming Liu, Manzi Li, Yafeng Yin |
| Poster Session 3152 | Tuesday, January 13th 4:00 – 5:45 PM ET | Can Incentives Reshape How We Move? A Multimodal Traffic Assignment Perspective | Jason Lu, Xingpeng Xia, Sina Bahrami, Neda Masoud |
| Session | Presentation Date/Time | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
Wednesday, January 14th
| Session | Presentation Date/Time | Presentation Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lectern Session 4001 | Wednesday, January 14th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Trust, Traits, and Turning Points: Decoding the Human Side of Advanced Driver-Assistance System Malfunctions in Everyday Driving | GoInoosh Garakani, Huizhong Guo, Elizabeth M. Pulver, Shan Bao |
| Poster Session 4023 | Wednesday, January 14th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Collective Intelligence of AI Agents Enables Complex Pre-Crash Analysis: Crash Reconstruction and Behavioral Inference | Gerui Xu, Boyou Chen, Zifei Wang, Huizhong Guo, Ananna Ahmed, Zhaonan Sun, Shan Bao |
| Poster Session 4024 | Wednesday, January 14th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Who Should We Recruit and How Much Should We Pay?: Incentivizing Connected and Automated Vehicle Cooperation Control in Mixed Traffic | Minghui Wu, Yafeng Yin, Jerome P. Lynch |
| Poster Session 4026 | Wednesday, January 14th 8:00 – 9:45 AM ET | Localization Error Estimation of Roadside Image Detector | Tinghan Wang, Rusheng Zhang, Xingpeng Xia, Shengyin Shen, Henry Liu |
| Poster Session 4056 | Wednesday, January 14th 10:30 – 12:15 PM ET | Cross-Validation of Traffic Signal and Perception-Derived V2X Messages in Roadside Digital Infrastructure and Its Applications | Haoyu Han, Rusheng Zhang, Tinghan Wang, Shengyin Shen, Henry Liu |
| Poster Session 4074 | Wednesday, January 14th 4:00 – 5:45 PM ET | A Scalable Methodology for Estimating E-Commerce Volume at Localized Geographic Levels | Tayo Olutayo Fabusuyi, Yangyang Wang, Majid Mirzanezhad, Richard Twumasi-Boakye |
| Poster Session 4080 | Wednesday, January 14th 4:00 – 5:45 PM ET | Multi-Source, Network-Level Pavement Friction Measurements via Instrumented and Dynamically Routed Autonomous Vehicles | Caio Vitor Beojone, Yanfeng Ouyang |
| Poster Session 4080 | Wednesday, January 14th 4:00 – 5:45 PM ET | Systematic Approach to Illinois’ Pavement Friction Management | Run Hu, Babak Asadi, Ramez Hajj, Yanfeng Ouyang, Priscilla A. Tobias, Hao Wang |
| Poster Session 4082 | Wednesday, January 14th 4:00 – 5:45 PM ET | Quantification of Truck Electrification Damage to Flexible Pavements | Johann Jhanpiere Cardenas Huaman, Angeli Jayme, Jaime Hernandez, Imad Al-Qadi |
| Session | Presentation Date/Time | Presentation Title | Author(s) |