April 24, 2020
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April 24, 2020

The Traffic21 Smart Transportation Podcast features and shares information from thought leaders and highlights the smart transportation work happening at Carnegie Mellon University and in the community.

In this episode you’ll be hearing from Bonnie Fan, who is the 2018 – 2020 Traffic21 Women in Transportation Fellow.  Bonnie’s interest in urban life, transit and technology began brewing during her time as an Economics major at the University of Chicago.  Bonnie saw the developmental and infrastructure challenges in Southside Chicago, and with her growing interest in entrepreneurship, she wanted to create new socially conscious solutions for the city after graduating. Bonnie joined the Chicago Transit Authority as a Data Scientist on the Performance Management team, where she worked on service optimization and manpower management projects. Now a second-year at Heinz College in the Data Analytics track, she is creating a foundation about policy and data she can apply to new mobility technology solutions and make an in impact on transportation.  Listen in as we talked about her experiences as a graduate student and on the Traffic21 student leadership team.

Listen to this episode here.

The Traffic21 Smart Transportation Podcast is hosted and produced by Mobility21 UTC Diversity Fellow Allanté Whitmore.

February 11, 2020
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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 travel behaviors resulting from technology adoption.  Read the full report and review the team’s policy recommendations here:  21st Century Trends in US Mobility.

November 8, 2019
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The Traffic21 Smart Transportation Podcast launched today, coinciding with the  Traffic21 10-Year Anniversary Symposium.

This podcast was created to feature and share information from thought leaders and highlight the smart transportation work happening at Carnegie Mellon University and in the community.  Click here to learn more.

The inaugural episode of the podcast highlight content recorded at the 2019 National Mobility Summit.  Listen to the  inaugural episode here.

The podcast series will include interviews and stories from UTC faculty, students, industry and government leaders, community members and academic partners.   They will share their thoughts on the future of transportation, intelligent technology systems, shared mobility, and more.

The Traffic21 Smart Transportation Podcast is hosted and produced by Mobility21 UTC Diversity Fellow Allanté Whitmore.

October 27, 2019
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October 27, 2019

A new display has been installed at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Concourse A near gate A10 – and it’s featuring Traffic21-funded research, Surtrac Technology. To learn more and see the display, watch the full video.

October 23, 2019
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October 23, 2019

NOVA is the most-watched prime time science series on American television, reaching an average of five million viewers weekly and on 10/23/2019, it featured Mobility21’s Director, Raj Rajkumar. The episode has a look at self-driving cars taking to the streets, investigates how they work, and if they are safe. Watch the full episode here.

October 2, 2019
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October 2, 2019

Carnegie Mellon team, Lijun Yu, Dawei Zhang, Xiaojun Chang, Xiangqun Chen, and Alexander G. Hauptmann had a paper accepted to ICCV 2019 Demo Program at the International Conference on Computer Vision in Seoul, Korea entitled “Traffic Danger Recognition With Surveillance Cameras Without Training Data.”  More information about this project is available here.

September 18, 2019
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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: The Intelligent Mobility Meter.

September 1, 2019
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September 1, 2o19

Mobility21 UTC Researcher, Christoph Mertz presented his UTC research at Smart Monitoring, Assessment and Rehabilitation of Civil Structures (SMAR) 2019 in Germany. His talk entitled “Moving Beyond the Romans: Deep Learning and Road Maintenance” highlighted his research using machine learning to predict and prevent potholes and road repairs.

August 19, 2019
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August 19, 2019

RetroReport, an independent, nonprofit news organization, dives in Autonomous vehicle technolgy and how it gotten better in the last decade, and so has the hype. The report dives into how close we truly are to robots being able to drive people around safely. Mobility21’s Director, Raj Rajkumar, gives his thoughts on the obstacles that AVs have to overcome, including weather, traffic and pedestrians. Watch the full report here.

August 15, 2019
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August 11-15, 2019

Traffic21 Director, Chris Hendrickson, presented his talk: Renewing the National Commitment to the Interstate Highway System: A Foundation for the Future at the meeting of the AASHTO Committee on Construction in Franklin, Tennessee.

August 4, 2019
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August 4, 2019

Costa Samaras, UTC Faculty with CEE/EPP was featured on the Energy Transition Show’s 100th podcast special. During the episode entitled “Teaching Energy Transitions” he discusses the topics covered in his courses, concepts students find difficult and what it’s like to utilize a podcast as teaching material. Listen to the full podcast here.

July 29, 2019
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July 29, 2019

The Pittsburgh Technology Council initiative, Tech 50, is an awards program that honors and recognizes the top-fifty member companies of the Pittsburgh Technology Council, across technology-focused industries – and Mobility21 is having an impact. Rapid Flow Technologies, a spin-off of CMU, utilizing Surtrac technology that was funded by Mobility21 is nominee for Start-up of the Year. Additionally, Mark DeSantis, CEO of RoadBotics has been nominated has CEO of the Year. RoadBotics spun-out of CMU with technology that predicts potholes and other flaws in infrastructure though smartphones and artificial intelligence.

July 9, 2019
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July 2019

Chris Hendrickson, Director of CMU’s Traffic21 Institute and Larry Rilett, Professor of Civil Engineering, at the Univ. of Nebraska share their know-how with other researchers in the article “What Papers Does the Journal of Transportation Engineering Want?” Read the article here: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems / Volume 145 Issue 9 – September 2019.

July 1, 2019
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July 1, 2019

Mobility21 UTC researcher, Scott Matthews and his fellow CMU researchers Vinod Krishnappa and Yi Liu’s work on “Data-Driven Analysis to Support Revised Tire Tread Inspection Standards” was published today in the July 2019 edition of the Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Click here to read the article: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0361198119851456.

May 19, 2019
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May 21, 2019

Stan Caldwell, Mobility21’s Executive Director, sat down with Ken Dunlap, Managing Partner of Catalyst-Go, a company that specializes in the autonomous technologies industries, to discuss urban mobility in their latest podcast.

The podcast entitled ““Key Lessons in Urban Mobility” explores a wide variety of topics, including how Pittsburgh has transitioned from an industrial city to one that competes with Silicon Valley for companies and talent.

Ken and Stan discuss the role of Traffic21 and Mobility21 in the transformation of Pittsburgh including the model of using seed funding from partners to develop, research and deploy technology in the city. Stan discusses how the formula has led to successful university-government partnerships and how these partnerships are helping the mobility of the greater Pittsburgh region and subsequently nation-wide.

The podcast then shifts gears to discuss the whole picture of Mobility21 and how the transportation center and the future of transportation is not simply about automation but rather using new urban mobility technologies to ensure that all, not just some, communities benefit. Stan describes the difference between Pennsylvania’s approach to automation and policy compared to states like California – and how Pennsylvania’s might be a better recipe for success.

Listen to the podcast to hear Stan share the lessons he and his Mobility21 colleagues have learned and are learning while research, developing and deploying technology in mobility:  https://www.catalyst-go.com/thinkingthroughautonomy/2019/5/24/stan-caldwell-lessons-in-urban-mobility.