In order to help make sure that these technologies consider bicyclists and pedestrians, Ken McLeod of League of American Bicyclists spoke last Friday to researchers, agency staff, and industry at the fall meeting of the Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation (T-SET) University Transportation Center (UTC) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, PA. CMU and the University of Pennsylvania are partners in the US DOT funded UTC that is one of up to 35 UTCs that are funded under MAP-21 with up to $72.5 million per year being allocated to research on a competitive basis. The CMU/UPenn UTC has a strategic goal of safety…

The audience was very interested in bike/ped concerns and what it might take in order for bicyclists and pedestrians to buy-in to these new technologies.