Category: What’s Happening
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08-04-19
UTC Faculty, Bob Koch, Attends Pittsburgh Regional Clean Cities EV and Stakeholder Event
April 8, 2019 Bob Koch, UTC Faculty and Professor of Automative Engineering at the Community College of Allegheny County participated in today’s Pittsburgh Regional Clean Cities Electric Vehicles (EV) and Stakeholder Event. The event discussed ways to promote EV vehicles and infrastructure.
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08-04-19
Transportation Club hosts Dinner with Women in Transportation
April 8, 2019 CMU Transportation Club co-hosted an event with Women in Transportation (WTS) that featured a panelists of women who currently work in the transportation industry. The panelists highlighted WTS and how students can get involved with WTS and the transportation industry.
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08-04-19
Traffic21’s Women in Transportation Awardee Joining CMU’s Machine Learning Ph.D. Program
April 8, 2019 CMU’s Traffic21 and Robotics Institute Summer Scholars Program have partnered to provide talented undergraduate students mentored robotics research experiences with top scientists creating innovative solutions for transportation at Carnegie Mellon University. Stephanie Milani, the recipient of the 2017 Women in Transportation Award funded by Traffic21, is joining the CMU Machine Learning Ph.D. … Continue reading “Traffic21’s Women in Transportation Awardee Joining CMU’s Machine Learning Ph.D. Program”
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05-04-19
Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research Spring External Advisory Board focuses on Safety and Cybersecurity
April 5, 2019 Industry, government and campus partners attended The Ohio State Center for Automotive Research (CAR) semiannual External Advisory Board meeting. The meeting opened with a state of the center presentation by CAR Director, Giorgio Rizzoni who shared research and facility updates with the audience. In addition, faculty and researchers from across Ohio State presented … Continue reading “Ohio State’s Center for Automotive Research Spring External Advisory Board focuses on Safety and Cybersecurity”
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05-04-19
Mobility21 Executive Director Hosts Italian Delegation
April 5, 2019 A delegation from Italy traveled to Pennsylvania to learn more about policy, mobility technology and the modernization of train/rail travel. The organization that came to CMU was “Ditecfer” District for Rail Technologies, High Speed, Safety and Security based in Pistoia, Italy. Tuscany is the leading cluster for innovative rail technologies in Italy. This organization … Continue reading “Mobility21 Executive Director Hosts Italian Delegation”
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05-04-19
Smart Mobility Connection Features John P. Shen and Abhinav Jauhri
April 5, 2019 This week’s Smart Mobility Connection Series featured Professor John Shen and PhD Student, Abhinav Jauhri from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. This talk highlighted their work with Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and how they’re using data sets to improve ride sharing services, mitigating traffic congestion and even … Continue reading “Smart Mobility Connection Features John P. Shen and Abhinav Jauhri”
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04-04-19
Mobility21 UTC Researcher Hae Young Noh Awarded Best Paper Award
April 4, 2019 Mobility21 UTC Researcher Hae Young Noh Awarded Best Paper Award at the IEEE Machine Learning Conference. Read more about this award on page 17: https://www.cmu.edu/cee/news/cee-news-magazine/images/spring-2019-issue—cee-news.pdf.
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03-04-19
Mobility21 UTC Hosts Lunch and Learn For Business Managers
April 3, 2019 20+ Business Managers representing faculty across the Carnegie Mellon University attended a “lunch and learn” hosted by Mobility21 to learn more about the Traffic21 and Mobility21 UTC funding. During the event, Rhonda Kloss & Heather Depasquale of the Research Accelerator, and Scott Petyak & Olivia Wells of the Heinz College reviewed the … Continue reading “Mobility21 UTC Hosts Lunch and Learn For Business Managers”
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03-04-19
Mobility21 Fellow Wins CUTC Seat at Eno’s Annual Future Leaders Development Conference
April 3, 2019 The 2019 Eno Future Leaders Development Conference will be held in Washington D.C. from June 2-June 6, 2019 this year – and Mobility21 UTC’s Women in Transportation Fellow, Bonnie Fan, will be at the event at the winner of the CUTC’s reserved seat.
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01-04-19
Mobility21 UTC Researcher Helps Contribute to New Whitepaper on “Driverless Cars and Accessibility”
Mobility21 UTC Researcher & CMU Associate Research Professor Aaron Steinfeld helped contribute to the new whitepaper on “Driverless Cars and Accessibility” published by ITS America, which examines the opportunities around fully automated vehicles: when they begin to be deployed in significant numbers, they will offer the potential to usher in enormous positive changes. The white … Continue reading “Mobility21 UTC Researcher Helps Contribute to New Whitepaper on “Driverless Cars and Accessibility””
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01-04-19
Mobility21 “Story” Shared at the Inclusive Innovation Summit’s Story Slam
March 30, 2019 Lisa Kay Schweyer, Mobility21 UTC Program Manager shared the Mobility21 story at today’s Inclusive Innovation Summit’s Story Slam. Attendees learned about the history of the UTC, the research thrust areas, and how they could get involved.
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29-03-19
CMU Student Elyana Hurst Receives WTS Scholarship
March 28, 2019 Tonight the Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS) Pittsburgh Chapter held its 2019 Annual Scholarship Gala. Elyana Hurst, a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University majoring in Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, with a minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies was awarded the 2019 WTS Pittsburgh Chapter Molitoris Leadership Scholarship … Continue reading “CMU Student Elyana Hurst Receives WTS Scholarship”
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28-03-19
UTC Faculty from CCAC, attended the ITS/PCB workshop in Tampa, Florida
March 27 – March 28 Bob Koch, UTC Faculty from the Community College of Allegheny County, attended the Intelligent Transportation Systems Professional Capacity Building workshop in Tampa, Florida collaborating with other educators and practitioners defining ITS entry-level workforce competencies, and discussing educational goals. They also looked at training products and strategies to fill unmet educational … Continue reading “UTC Faculty from CCAC, attended the ITS/PCB workshop in Tampa, Florida”
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27-03-19
Mobility21 Exec. Director Meets with Consulate General of Sweden
March 27, 2019 Stan Caldwell, Executive Director of Mobility21, met with the Consul General, the Honoray Consul and the Head of Trade and Business Promotation from the Consulate General of Sweden in New York City. The Consulate General was interested in meeting with Mobility21 to learn more about sustainability transportation systems and potential university-to-university collaboration.
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26-03-19
UTC Program Manager Gets Updates on Student Projects at the University Of Pennsylvania
March 26, 2019 Lisa Kay Schweyer met with UTC faculty and students during her semi-annual visit to the Mobility21 academic partner, the University of Pennsylvania. She heard presentations from students on their research on ridehailing services’ impact on transit ridership, pedestrian deaths and injuries, and predictors of cycling.
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25-03-19
IIT Driverless Studio Visits CMU to Learn about AV Design
March 25, 2019 Mobility21 Executive Director, Stan Caldwell, in collaboration with UTC Faculty Steve Quick, hosted the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Driverless Studio from Chicago. The team traveled to Pittsburgh to learn more about how the City and CMU are using design to strategically implement new technologies and designs around autonomous vehicles.
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22-03-19
Smart Mobility Connection Features Steve Smith
March 22, 2019 The Smart Mobility Connection featured UTC Faculty and Research Professor, Steve Smith. Smith gave us an overview of Surtrac technology that his spin-off company, Rapid Flow Technology, is using to help solve 21st century mobility challenges. Smith is utilizing his research on a wide variety of projects. In addition to improving the … Continue reading “Smart Mobility Connection Features Steve Smith”
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21-03-19
UTC Faculty Presents Work at User2Agent Workshop
March 21, 2019 Dr. Maxine Eskenazi gave a talk at the user2agent workshop of the IUI conference on “The User and How Alan Turing Led Us Astray.” She discussed how many intelligent agents are developed with traits that do not take the user into account and proposed a new direction for these agents: creating partners … Continue reading “UTC Faculty Presents Work at User2Agent Workshop”
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20-03-19
Mobility21 Attends Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure’s Annual Transportation Forum.
March 20, 2019 The Center for Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure at the University of Pittsburgh hosted their Annual Transportation Forum. Mobility21 Program Manager, Lisa Kay Schweyer, participated in the event to represent Mobility21. The forum gave Schweyer an opportunity to discuss partnership opportunities with fellow participants from regional government, community and industry transportation experts.
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20-03-19
U.S. DOT Secretary Elaine L. Chao Discusses Automation & Workforce
March 20, 2019 U.S. DOT Secretary Elaine L. Chao invited stakeholders to address the increasing deployment of automated vehicle-related technology and how might this new technology impact the transportation workforce. USDOT convened key stakeholders representing industry, labor, public sector, academia and research to discuss the automation adoption scenarios. UTC Faculty, Aaron Steinfeld attended the meeting … Continue reading “U.S. DOT Secretary Elaine L. Chao Discusses Automation & Workforce”
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19-03-19
UTC March Faculty Meeting Features Fei Fang
March 19, 2019 The UTC Faculty meetings give researchers the opportunity to highlight their Mobility21 projects progress. This month featured CMU Researcher, Fei Fang with her work “Incentivizing Participation in Peer-to-Peer Ride-Sharing Platform”. Fang highlighted her recent work on scheduling and pricing ridesharing.
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13-03-19
Mobility21 Exec. Director Joins Pennsylvania State Transportation Innovation Council
March 13, 2019 Mobility21 UTC Executive Director Stan Caldwell was appointed to the Pennsylvania State Transportation Innovation Council (STIC) and participated in the quarterly meeting in Harrisburg which was co-chaired by FHWA Division Administrator Alicia Nolan. Caldwell is honored to represent the UTC at STIC.
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13-03-19
The Ohio State University Gives UTC Program Manager a Tour of their Electric Racing Vehicles
March 13, 2019 During her semi-annual visit to the Mobility21 academic partner the Ohio State University, Mobility21 UTC Program Manager Lisa Kay Schweyer participated in a tour of the Center for Automotive Research’s various electric racing vehicles. In addition she met with UTC faculty and students to learn more about their research activities.
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12-03-19
Mobility21 Represented at SxSW
March 12, 2019 John Zimmerman, Mobility21 faculty, Tang Family Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction, joined a panel at SxSW for “Accessible Transportation for All” along with Bonnie Epstein, senior planner for the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority; Kate Hartman, chief-Research, Evaluation, and Program Management in the ITS Joint Program Office at the U.S. Department of … Continue reading “Mobility21 Represented at SxSW”
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12-03-19
PA Rural Robotics Initiative Takes Off and Thanks CMU’s Traffic21/Mobility21 for Assistance
March 12, 2019 Twelve months ago, Franklin Area High School had four lonely VEX robots that students traveled around Pennsylvania and West Virginia with, searching for teams to compete against. Fast-forward to the end of this February and those four robots have 180 new companions right next door. Together they make up the Pennsylvania Rural … Continue reading “PA Rural Robotics Initiative Takes Off and Thanks CMU’s Traffic21/Mobility21 for Assistance”