Category: Featured
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28-04-20
Mobility21 UTC Director Raj Rajkumar Named to PAVE Academic Advisory Council
April 28, 2020 Mobility21 UTC Director Raj Rajkumar has been named to the PAVE Academic Advisory Council, which aims to provide PAVE members with advice and recommendations on matters related to AV technology and its societal effects, as well as collaborating with PAVE members on tasks such as research, evaluation and polling. PAVE is a … Continue reading “Mobility21 UTC Director Raj Rajkumar Named to PAVE Academic Advisory Council”
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28-04-20
Mobility21 UTC supports 2 regional high schools as they complete in the Autonomous Innovative Vehicle Design Challenge
April 28, 2020 The primary goal of Mobility21, a National University Transportation Center for Improving Mobility, is to develop and deploy technologies, policies, incentives and training programs for improving the mobility of people and goods in the 21st century efficiently and safely. We accomplish this through a comprehensive program of interdisciplinary research; education and workforce … Continue reading “Mobility21 UTC supports 2 regional high schools as they complete in the Autonomous Innovative Vehicle Design Challenge”
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24-04-20
Mobility21 UTC Smart Mobility Connection Series Features Srinivasa Narasimhan & Robert Tamburo
April 24, 2020 Today’s Smart Mobility Connection session featured Srinivasa Narasimhan and Robert Tamburo, CMU Principal Project Scientists and Mobility21 UTC researchers. They discussed their UTC project, “Visual Understanding of Traffic at Intersections: Access to real-time information.” Watch the full video here.
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23-04-20
CMU Professor and UTC Researcher Jon Peha is Keynote Speaker at 2020 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium
April 23, 2020 CMU Professor and UTC Researcher Jon Peha gave a keynote speech at the 2020 IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium today. His keynote, entitled “Spectrum Policy for Intelligent Transportation Systems,” investigates how much spectrum should be allocated to ITS, whether ITS spectrum not used for safety communications should be shared with unlicensed devices, and … Continue reading “CMU Professor and UTC Researcher Jon Peha is Keynote Speaker at 2020 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium”
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22-04-20
Traffic21 Founder and UTC Researchers Part of Team Helping Provide Assistance to State Decision-Makers During Pandemic
April 22, 2020 “Carnegie Mellon University is playing a key role in Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf’s planning efforts to re-open the state’s economy.” CMU Traffic21 founder Rick Stafford and UTC researchers Lee Branstetter, Peter Zhang, and Hai Wang will be part of this team providing assistance to state decision-makers during COVID-19 pandemic. Read more here…
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08-04-20
Quantifying Transportation Relationships
April 8, 2020 CMU Mobility21 UTC researcher and CEE’s Sean Qian studied the relationship between Uber and public transportation, demonstrating variance between time of day and location. His work was described in the following article published in CMU’s Civil & Environmental Engineering News Spring 2020 newsletter… In our modern world, it’s easy to get across … Continue reading “Quantifying Transportation Relationships”
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06-04-20
Mobility21 UTC Diversity Fellow Releases 100th Podcast
“Allanté Whitmore [Mobility21 UTC Diversity Fellow] guides the conversation naturally, as though there weren’t a studio microphone between her and Shena Marshall, her current interview subject. The two eagerly swap stories in a soundproof studio about how they came to graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University. Whitmore will take the recording and send it to … Continue reading “Mobility21 UTC Diversity Fellow Releases 100th Podcast”
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13-03-20
2020 Women of Achievement Award Winners Honored
March 12, 2020 Cribs for Kids® recognized 24 successful and prominent women from Pittsburgh at their 15th annual Women of Achievement Awards tonight at the Omni William Penn Hotel Grand Ballroom. The Women of Achievement Awards is an annual ceremony dedicated to highlighting the incredible feats and accomplishments of women in the Pittsburgh region. The … Continue reading “2020 Women of Achievement Award Winners Honored”
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13-03-20
Traffic21 Hosts Discussion with Lorraine M. Martin, President and CEO, The National Safety Council
March 12, 2020 Traffic21 hosted a roundtable discussion with Lorraine M. Martin, President and CEO, The National Safety Council. Traffic21 faculty and deployment partners joined in a discussion of transportation safety issues in the workplace and potential research collaboration. NSC recently launched A Road to Zero: A vision for achieving zero roadway deaths by 2050, … Continue reading “Traffic21 Hosts Discussion with Lorraine M. Martin, President and CEO, The National Safety Council”
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12-03-20
CCAC’s Bob Koch featured in WQED program on “Future Jobs: Technology and Our Changing Workforce”
March 12, 2020 CCAC’s Bob Koch was featured in a program called “Future Jobs: Technology and Our Changing Workforce” on WQED. Bob discussed how technology is changing the way students are applying their knowledge and skills to positions in the automotive field. Watch the video here.
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11-03-20
Allegheny Conference’s Regional Investors Meeting Includes Discussion on Transportation and Infrastructure
March 10, 2020 Karen Lightman Executive Director of Metro21: Smart Cities Institute, joined panelists Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald, State Representative Austin Davis, Allegheny County Port Authority CEO (and Mobility21 UTC Advisory Council Member) Katherine Kelleman and Argo AI CEO Brian Selesky for an engaging panel on transportation and infrastructure for the Pittsburgh region. The … Continue reading “Allegheny Conference’s Regional Investors Meeting Includes Discussion on Transportation and Infrastructure”
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26-02-20
Mobility21 UTC Executive Director Meets with Japanese Delegation
February 26, 2020 Stan Caldwell presented an overview of the Mobility21 UTC and the Metro21: Smart Cities Institute to a visiting Japanese delegation from the Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT Initiative (RRI). The RRI is an organization that rebuilds the Japanese manufacturing industry in order to respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Society 5.0 … Continue reading “Mobility21 UTC Executive Director Meets with Japanese Delegation”
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20-02-20
Senator Bartolotta Visits CMU to Learn More about Mobility21 UTC
Senator Camera Bartolotta, state senator for Beaver, Washington, and Greene counties in PA and a member of the Senate’s Transportation Committee, visited CMU today to learn more about Mobility21 UTC research in action. Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell and UTC researcher Christoph Mertz provided the senator a tour of NavLab.
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11-02-20
Mobility21 UTC Publishes “Recommended Policies for the 21st Century Trends in US Mobility” Report
February 11, 2020 Mobility21’s Rick Grahn, Stan Caldwell and Chris Hendrickson published a new policy report entitled “Recommended Policies for the 21st Century Trends in US Mobility.” The report analyzes the 2017 National Household Travel Survey which captured impacts of emerging technologies on the transportation system to learn about users of such technologies and shifting … Continue reading “Mobility21 UTC Publishes “Recommended Policies for the 21st Century Trends in US Mobility” Report”
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03-02-20
UTC researcher and PH.D. student quantifying transportation relationships
Mobility21 UTC researcher Sean Qian along with Ph.D. student Rick Grahn, studied the relationship between Uber and public transportation, proving it can vary by time of day and location. Read more here: https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2020/02/03-transportation-relationships.html.
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27-01-20
Carnegie Mellon University Student Wins ARTBA Student Transportation Video Contest
January 27, 2020 Lijun Yu, research master student in Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University produced a video for the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s 9th Annual “Student Transportation Video Contest.” Yu won the post-secondary/college/graduate level in the Safety category of ARTBA’s 2019 Student Transportation Video Contest. Watch the … Continue reading “Carnegie Mellon University Student Wins ARTBA Student Transportation Video Contest”
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27-01-20
Research Recap: Busload Detection via Autonomous Sensing
January 27, 2020 Today, Mobility21 UTC released its latest “Research Recap.” The recaps are one-page overviews of the UTC funded research that describe the research project’s purpose, approach, key findings, conclusions, contact information for the research team and a link to the final research report. Check out the one page recap to learn more about … Continue reading “Research Recap: Busload Detection via Autonomous Sensing”
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16-01-20
Mobility21 UTC at the Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting
January 14, 2020 As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation booth at the 2020 Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting, Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell, Program Manager, Lisa Kay Schweyer and Postdoctoral Research Associate Wei Ma staffed an demo and talked with attendees about the Mobility 21 research project “Data-driven real-time traffic prediction and management.”
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16-01-20
Research Recap: Contact Sensing for Improved Inspection of Transportation Infrastructure
Today, Mobility21 UTC released its latest “Research Recap.” The recaps are one-page overviews of the UTC funded research that describe the research project’s purpose, approach, key findings, conclusions, contact information for the research team and a link to the final research report. Check out the one page recap to learn more about this project.
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16-01-20
CMU Student Poster Wins Best in Session at TRB
January 16, 2020 Rick Grahn, a PhD student in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University displayed his poster on “Are travelers substituting between Uber and public buses? A case study in Pittsburgh, PA” at the TRB Annual Meeting this week. The poster won “Best in Session.” The poster session was a … Continue reading “CMU Student Poster Wins Best in Session at TRB”
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13-01-20
Mobility21 Program Manager Shares Best Practices at TRB
January 13, 2020 Earlier this morning, Mobility21 UTC Program Manager, Lisa Kay Schweyer presented at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting on “Dynamic synthesis and dissemination of research results” as part of the “Research Implementation and Management Best Practices” conference session sponsored by the Standing Committee on Conduct of Research (ABG10). She shared successful strategies … Continue reading “Mobility21 Program Manager Shares Best Practices at TRB”
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12-01-20
Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson Awarded CUTC – HNTB Lifetime Achievement Award
January 11, 2020 Last night at the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) awards banquet at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson was presented with the prestigious CUTC- HNTB Lifetime Achievement Award for Transportation Education and Research. “This award honors individuals who have had a long history of significant and outstanding … Continue reading “Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson Awarded CUTC – HNTB Lifetime Achievement Award”
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11-01-20
CMU’s Matt Battifarano Named Student of the Year
January 11, 2020 Matt Battifarano was honored tonight as a “Student of the Year” at the Council of University Transportation Centers awards banquet held during the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Annually the United States Department of Transportation honors the most outstanding student from each participating University Transportation Center for his/her achievements … Continue reading “CMU’s Matt Battifarano Named Student of the Year”
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09-01-20
Rahul Mangharam Gives Keynote Banquet Speech at Comsnets
January 9, 2020 Rahul Mangharam, the Penn Academic Director for the Mobility21 UTC was the featured banquet speaker today at the Comsnets 2020 conference in Bangalore, India. He spoke about his UTC research project, Designing Safe Autonomous Systems: A Driver’s License Test for Driverless Vehicles.
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08-01-20
Mobility21 UTC at the Consumer Electronics Show
As part of the U.S. Department of Transportation booth at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell and Postdoctoral Research Associate Wei Ma staffed an demo and talked with attendees about the Mobility 21 research project “Data-driven real-time traffic prediction and management.”