CCAT Principal Investigator Appointed Interim Chair of U-M CEE Department

CCAT Principal Investigator Appointed Interim Chair of U-M CEE Department

Dr. Yafeng Yin, Department Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Michigan
Photo: Megan Ocelnik/Michigan Engineering, Communications & Marketing

Yafeng Yin, Ph.D. has been appointed to be the interim chair at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the

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CCAT Director Participates in Talking Traffic Webinar

CCAT Director Participates in Talking Traffic Webinar


Dr. Henry Liu was recently invited to participate in a webinar on Smart Infrastructure, organized by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and RAI Automotive Industry NL. The moderator of the event was Bram Hendrix, Program Manager of Smart Mobility & Internationalization for RAI. Other speakers included Gary Lin, Continue Reading »

CCAT Director’s Research Published in Nature Communications

Photo of Henry Liu in the Michigan Traffic Lab

CCAT Director’s Research Published In Nature Communications

Photo of Henry Liu in the Michigan Traffic Lab

Why do auto manufacturers have to keep moving the goalposts on driverless vehicles? According to a research paper recently published in Nature Communications by Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) Director and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Henry Liu, one of

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CCAT Director Presents at PACTrans

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,

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Augmented Reality Project in IEEE Spectrum

Augmented Reality Project in IEEE Spectrum


As discussions around fully autonomous vehicles have become the norm in households, concerns regarding their integration on our roadways arise. New vehicles require road testing to ensure that safe operation is possible, and facilities like Mcity and American Center for Mobility provide researchers with closed courses to perform this

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