Research from the University of Michigan
As the program lead, the University of Michigan conducts research across all six thrusts at three of the college’s locations: the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, and the University of Michigan – Dearborn. Click the buttons below to view research from each of these institutions.
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
| A Data-Driven Autonomous Driving Systems for Overtaking Bicyclists |
| Principal Investigator(s): Brian Lin & Shan Bao Research Thrusts: Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation |
| A Naturalistic Bicycling Study in the Ann Arbor Area |
| Principal Investigator(s): Shan Bao & Fred Feng Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management, Policy & Planning |
| Accelerated Training for Connected and Automated Vehicles Based on Adaptive Evaluation Method |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Anomaly/Intrusion: Design, Development and Testing |
| Principal Investigator(s): David LeBlanc Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology |
| Augmented Reality Testing Environment Development — Phase II |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yiheng Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Automatic Signal Retiming for Large Scale Networks with Vehicle Trajectory Data |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu Research Focus: Mobility |
| Automotive Cybersecurity Industry Consortium CAN Bus Scanning Tool Project |
| Principal Investigator(s): David LeBlanc Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology |
| AV Occupant ID Optical Based Occupant Identification and Classification for Autonomous Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Matt Reed Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation, Policy & Planning |
| Big Data Drive Deployment in a Connected Vehicle Environment |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Sayer & Yiheng Feng Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology |
| CAV-Based Intersection Maneuver Assist Systems (CAVIMAS) and Their Impact on Driver Behavior, Acceptance, and Safety |
| Principal Investigator(s): Anuj K. Pradhan, Shan Bao, & Heejin Jeong Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology |
| CAV Testing Scenario Design and Implementation Using Naturalistic Driving Data and Augmented Reality |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yiheng Feng, Shan Bao, & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation |
| CCAT Ann Arbor Connected Environment (AACE) Operations and Maintenance |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation, Policy & Planning |
| Conformance to Clarifications for Consistent Implementations (CCIs) to Ensure Interoperability of Connected Signalized Intersections in the Ann Arbor Connected Environment with a National Deployment |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Sayer & Debby Bezzina Research Thrusts: Infrastructure Design & Management |
| Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) Data Infrastructure and Access |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu & Carol Flannagan Research Thrusts: Control & Operations |
| Cybersecurity of Transportation Infrastructure in a Connected-Vehicle Environment |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu & Z. Morley Mao Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Policy & Planning |
| DeepScenario: City Scale Scenario Generation for Automated Driving System Testing & Evaluation |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu, Shan Bao, & Brian Lin Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation |
| Developing Decision-Making Models for AV Movements at the Unsignalized Intersections |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Sayer & Brian Lin Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Development of An Augmented Reality Environment for Connected and Automated Vehicle Testing |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yiheng Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Development of an Integrated Augmented Reality Testing Environment and Implementation at the American Center for Mobility (ACM) |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Development of Machine-Learning Models for Autonomous Vehicle Decisions on Weaving Sections of Freeway Ramps |
| Principal Investigator(s): Brian Lin Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human FactorsModeling & Implementation |
| Expand Deployment of Applications for Vulnerable Road Users in Pillar 1 (Pedestrian in Crosswalk) |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Sayer Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management |
| Guidelines for Development of Evidence-Based Countermeasures for Risky Driving |
| Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Molnar Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors |
| How Vehicle Connectivity Based Eco-Routing Choices Will Impact Driver Decision Making |
| Principal Investigator(s): Shan Bao & James Sayer Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Policy & Planning |
| Investigation Into U.S. Real World Lane Change Behavior for Automated Freeway Driving |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Sayer Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Modeling & Implementation |
| Leveraging Connected and Automated Vehicles for Participatory Traffic Control |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Machine Learning, Human Factors and Security Analysis for the Remote Command of Driving: An Mcity Pilot |
| Principal Investigator(s): Robert Hampshire, Walter Lasecki, & Shan Bao Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors |
| Mcity Ann Arbor Connected Environment Operations and Maintenance |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Sayer Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation, Policy & Planning |
| Mcity Infrastructure Data-Collection and Management System Development |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Modeling Naturalistic Driving Environment with High-Resolution Trajectory Data |
| Principal Investigator(s): Shuo Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Practice-Ready Guidelines for Training Older Adults to Use Connected and Automated Vehicles: Testing of an Enhanced Training Program at Mcity Test Facility and the Goodyear Test Track |
| Principal Investigator(s): David W. Eby & Ping Yi Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Promoting Inclusive Design and Deployment of Connected and Automated Vehicles for Older Adults Through Education and Training of Engineering Students and Older Drivers |
| Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Molnar, Feng Zhou, David W. Eby, Carol Flannagan, & Ping Yi Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors |
| Real-Time Distributed Optimization of Traffic Signal Timing |
| Principal Investigator: Yafeng Yin, Siqian Shen, & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Road-side Based Cybersecurity in Connected and Automated Vehicle Systems |
| Principal Investigator(s): Neda Masoud & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Targeted Real-World Heat Map |
| Principal Investigator(s): Robert Hampshire Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology |
| Trajectory Based Traffic Control with Low Penetration of Connected and Automated Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yiheng Feng & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations |
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
| 2021 International Symposium on Transportation Data and Modelling (ISTDM) |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation, Policy & Planning |
| Addressing Safety and Security Challenges in ML-based AV Software Stack – Remote Operation Support and Balancing Trade-offs |
| Principal Investigator(s): Z. Morley Mao & Yiheng Feng Research Focus: Safety, Cybersecurity, Mobility |
| Adapting Land Use and Infrastructure for Automated Driving |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin & Srinivas Peeta Research Thrusts: Policy & Planning |
| AI-enabled Transportation Network Analysis, Planning, and Operations |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Modeling & Implementation, Policy & Planning |
| Autonomy in Transportation Education |
| Principal Investigator(s): Neda Masoud Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Balancing Safety, Cyber-Security, and Mobility: Quantifying the Impact of Sensor Redundancy in Connected and Automated Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Neda Masoud Research Focus: Safety, Cybersecurity |
| COVERT: Cognitive Internet of Vulnerable Road Users in Traffic |
| Principal Investigator(s): Carol Menassa & Vineet Kamat Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Cybersecurity of Transportation Infrastructure in a Connected-Vehicle Environment |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu & Z. Morley Mao Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management Policy & Planning |
| Deployment of Preemption based Motion Sickness Prevention Technology on a Testbed Vehicle in Mcity |
| Principal Investigator(s): Shorya Awtar & Bernard Martin Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors |
| Design and Operation of Efficient and Budget-Balanced Shared-Use Mobility Systems |
| Principal Investigator(s): Neda Masoud Research Thrusts: Modeling & Implementation |
| Developing a 3-Item Transportation Security Index |
| Principal Investigator(s): Alexandra K. Murphy Research Focus: Equity |
| Driving Etiquette |
| Principal Investigator(s): Huei Peng Research Thrusts: Control & Operations |
| Effectiveness of Inductive Vehicle Charging to Alleviate EV Range Anxiety |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin & Sina Bahrami Research Focus: Mobility |
| End-to-End Learning Framework for Transportation Network Equilibrium Modeling |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin Research Focus: Mobility |
| Enhancing Network Equilibrium Models for Capturing Emerging Shared-Use Mobility Services |
| Principal Investigator(s): Neda Masoud & Yafeng Yin Research Thrusts: Modeling & Implementation |
| Generating High-Accuracy Transportation Datasets with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Gabor Orosz Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Hardening the CAV Ecosystem to Reduce Cybersecurity Risks – Year One |
| Principal Investigator(s): Zhi-Li Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, & Yiheng Feng Research Focus: Safety, Cybersecurity |
| Improving the Efficiency of Trucks via CV2X Connectivity on Highways |
| Principal Investigator(s): Gabor Orosz Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management, Modeling & Implementation |
| Learning Mobility Insecurity from Location Intelligence Data |
| Principal Investigator(s): Marco Nie, Ying Chen, & Alexandra K. Murphy Research Focus: Equity |
| Leveraging Connected and Automated Vehicles for Participatory Traffic Control |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Machine Learning, Human Factors and Security Analysis for the Remote Command of Driving; An Mcity Pilot |
| Principal Investigator(s): Robert Hampshire, Walter Lasecki, & Shan Bao Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors |
| On Transportation Equity Implications of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV): A Review of Methodologies |
| Principal Investigator(s): Tierra Bills Research Thrusts: Policy & Planning |
| Predicting Driver Takeover Performance in Conditional Automation (Level 3) through Physiological Sensing |
| Principal Investigator(s): Carol Menassa, Vineet Kamat, Da Li, & Julian Brinkley Research Thrusts: Human Factors |
| Real-Time Distributed Optimization of Traffic Signal Timing |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin, Siqian Shen, & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Road-side Based Cybersecurity in Connected and Automated Vehicle Systems |
| Principal Investigator(s): Neda Masoud & Henry Liu Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Modeling & Implementation |
| Supporting People with Vision Impairments in Automated Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Robin Brewer & Nicole Ellison Research Thrusts: Human Factors |
University of Michigan – Dearborn
| A Naturalistic Bicycling Study in the Ann Arbor Area |
| Principal Investigator(s): Shan Bao & Fred Feng Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology, Human Factors, Infrastructure Design & Management, Policy & Planning |
| Promoting Inclusive Design and Deployment of Connected and Automated Vehicles for Older Adults Through Education and Training of Engineering Students and Older Drivers |
| Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Molnar, Feng Zhou, David W. Eby, Carol Flannagan, & Ping Yi Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Human Factors |
| Reliable V2V Communication Networks: Applications in Fuel-Efficient Platooning |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sridhar Lakshmanan & Paul Richardson Research Thrusts: Enabling Technology |
| xBOT – A Versatile Robot to Assist Testing of Autonomous-Connected Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sridhar Lakshmanan, Paul Richardson, & Weidong Xiang Research Thrusts: Control & Operations, Enabling Technology, Infrastructure Design & Management |
