CCAT Receives the 2026 Technology Transfer Leadership Award

Henry Liu and Debby Bezzina holding the 2026 CUTC Technology Transfer Leadership Award

CCAT Receives the 2026 Technology Transfer Leadership Award

Henry Liu and Debby Bezzina holding the 2026 CUTC Technology Transfer Leadership Award
Henry Liu and Debby Bezzina holding the Technology Transfer Leadership Award during the 2026 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Photo credit: Calvin Tuttle/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, UMTRI

Dr. Henry Liu, Director of the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), has accepted the Technology Transfer

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Zachary Jerome Honored with Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for 2026

Slide featuring Dr. Zachary Jerome's headshot during the CUTC Awards Banquet

Zachary Jerome Honored with Milton Pikarsky Memorial Award for 2026

Zachary Jerome with Henry Liu at the CUTC Winter Banquet
Dr. Zachary Jerome with Dr. Henry Liu during the CUTC Award Banquet during the 2026 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Photo credit: Calvin Tuttle/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, UMTRI

Dr. Zachary Jerome, a former student and researcher affiliated with the Center for Connected and

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Richard Ajagu Receives Outstanding Student of the Year Award (SOYA) for 2026

Richard Ajagu with Henry Liu at the CUTC Winter Banquet

Richard Ajagu Receives Outstanding Student of the Year Award (SOYA) for 2026

Richard Ajagu with Henry Liu at the CUTC Winter Banquet
Richard Ajagu with Dr. Henry Liu during the CUTC Award Banquet during the 2026 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Photo credit: Calvin Tuttle/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, UMTRI

Every year, each USDOT-funded University Transportation Center (UTC) selects a Student of the Year,

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Sharika Hegde Receives Outstanding Student of the Year Award (SOYA) for 2025

Photo of Henry Liu and Sharika Hegde at the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) 2025 Winter Banquet

Sharika Hegde Receives Outstanding Student of the Year Award (SOYA) for 2025

Photo of Henry Liu and Sharika Hegde at the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) 2025 Winter Banquet
Sharika Hegde and Henry Liu at the 2025 Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) Winter Banquet in Washington, D.C.

Every year, each USDOT-funded University Transportation Center (UTC) selects a Student of the Year which is awarded at the Council of University Transportation Centers

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CCAT Postdoctoral Researcher Receives INFORMS TSL Best Dissertation Award

Photo of Dr. Xingmin Wang at the INFORMS TSL Business Meeting

CCAT Postdoctoral Researcher Receives INFORMS TSL Best Dissertation Award

Photo of Dr. Xingmin Wang at the INFORMS TSL Business Meeting
Dr. Xingmin Wang at the INFORMS TSL Business Meeting
Photo credit: Peisen Li

The Postdoctoral researcher working out of Dr. Henry Liu’s Michigan Traffic Lab received the prestigious award at the 2024 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Annual Meeting

Xingmin Wang, a Postdoctoral

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Former MiTSO President Receives Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award

Zachary Jerome with ITE Award in hands

Former MiTSO President Receives Daniel B. Fambro Student Paper Award

Zachary Jerome with ITE Award in hands
Zachary Jerome with Steve Kuciemba at the Institute of Transportation Engineers Annual Meeting
Photo credit: Institute of Transportation Engineers

The Ph.D. candidate advised by Dr. Henry Liu received the internationally recognized award at the 2024 ITE Annual Meeting & Exhibition

Zachary Jerome, a Ph.D. candidate

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Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles

Traffic at one of the intersections in Birmingham, MI.

Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles

Communities could reduce costs and cut vehicle emissions—all in the name of shortening your trip

Traffic at one of the intersections in Birmingham, MI.
Traffic drives through one of the 34 intersections that was part of the connected vehicle data study in Birmingham, MI on Friday, December 8th, 2023.
Photo by: Jeremy Little/Michigan Engineering,
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