July 25, 2023
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July 25, 2023

Mobility21 UTC Program Manager Lisa Kay Schweyer participated as a panelist for the U.S. DOT/UTC panel discussion during the AASHTO RAC Summer Meeting’s Collaboration, Coordination and Outreach Meeting alongside Tyson Rupnow from the Louisiana DOT and Tim Klein from the U.S. DOT.

July 24, 2023
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July 24, 2023

Mobility21 UTC Program Manager Lisa Kay Schweyer and Metro21 Executive Director Karen Lightman participated in Planning meetings for Allegheny Places, the Allegheny County comprehensive plan.  This plan establishes an overall vision for the future for Allegheny County and how to get there.

July 22, 2023
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July 22, 2023

Mobility21 Program Manager Lisa Kay Schweyer was interviewed as part of the live video feed during the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix.  She discussed Traffic21, as well as the Mobility21 and Safety21 University Transportation Centers.

July 21, 2023
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July 21, 2023

Today, Mobility21 UTC released its latest “Research Recap” for Carnegie Mellon University researcher Sean Qian’s project “Modeling the impact of dynamic tolling in large-scale regional networks: A case study for Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC).” 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.

July 13, 2023
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July 13, 2023

Chris Hendrickson, Faculty Director of Traffic21 Institute and Mobility21 researcher, was interviewed by a high school student in Missouri participating in the MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering and Science Program.  The topic of the interview was the relative desirability of battery electric versus internal combustion engine vehicles.

July 12, 2023
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July 12, 2023

Mobility21 UTC researcher Dr. Corey Harper participated in the US DOT Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Symposium, where participants engaged in roundtable discussions focused on generated momentum for the forthcoming nationwide expansion of EVs and EV charging infrastructure.

July 10, 2023
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July 10, 2023

Mobility21 UTC faculty member, Bob Koch of the Community College of Allegheny County took part of Pittsburgh Region Clean Cities workshop on hybrid electric vehicles (EVs), which focused on maintenance and safety aspects of hybrid EVs.  Read more about the event here.

July 10, 2023
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July 10, 2023

Mobility21 UTC researcher and Carnegie Mellon University Professor Mario Berges has been named an Amazon Scholar to work with Amazon’s Devices and Services Organization.  Read more here.

July 7, 2023
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July 7, 2023

Pi-Lit and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, have reached an agreement that will allow Pi-Lit’s patented LED flares to be used by commercial vehicle operators in place of traditional, older products such as reflective triangles, fuse flares, or liquid flares, when stopped on highways or shoulders.

(CMU Alum) Daniel Selevan, Chief Operating Officer for Pi-Lit, upon learning of the successful petition commented, “The Pi-Lit team is pleased to learn of the exemption that permits commercial operators to equip their fleet with the most modern technology.”  Jim Selevan (CMU Alum) is CEO of Pi-Lit, which is a Deployment Partner of Traffic21.

July 6, 2023
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July 6, 2023

Safety21 UTC researchers, Bilin Aksun-Guvenc and Levent Guvenc from The Ohio State University have developed new software to aid in the development, evaluation, and demonstration of safer autonomous vehicles called the Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment (VVE) method.  Read the story here.

July 5, 2023
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July 5, 2023

Mobility21 Director Raj Rajkumar has been invited by Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro to participate on the Highly Automated Vehicle (HAV) Advisory Committee through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.  The HAV Committee is a partnership between public and private key stakeholders to ensure the safe integration of connected and automated vehicles on Pennsylvania’s roads and enhance Pennsylvania’s continued global leadership with this evolving technology.

July 1, 2023
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June 21, 2023

Mobility21 UTC faculty member from the Community College of Allegheny County, Dr. Justin Starr participated on the Collection Systems Smart Panel at PennTec2023, which looks to advance Pennsylvania’s water quality professionals through education and training, promoting sound sustainable water policies, and fostering public stewardship of water resources.

June 29, 2023
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June 28, 2023

Today, Mobility21 UTC released its latest “Research Recap” for Carnegie Mellon University researcher Costa Samaras’ project “Helping Transit Agencies Assess Opportunities to Improve Access and Equity with Automated Vehicles.” 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.

June 29, 2023
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June 28, 2023

Mobility21 Program Manager and WTS member, Lisa Kay Schweyer joined “WTS Pittsburgh, CMAA Three Rivers & The City of Pittsburgh’s Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) for a tour of the DOMI Traffic Shop.”  She met DOMI staff and learned more about the signs, traffic signals, and line painting operations.

June 23, 2023
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June 22, 2023

Cleantech Open, which runs the world’s largest clean technology accelerator program, has announced the Northeast 2023 Cohort which includes Mobility21 UTC researcher Destenie Nock‘s spinout Peoples Energy Analytics and Venkat Viswanathan‘s spinout InceptEV.

June 22, 2023
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June 20-22, 2023

The Annual Council of University Transportation Center‘s summer meeting brings together the nation’s leading transportation professionals from academia and industry, along with U.S. DOT and other transportation agency officials.  Raj Rajkumar, Director, Stan Caldwell, Executive Director and Lisa Kay Schweyer, Program Manager of Mobility21 and Safety21 UTCs participated in the meeting.  Stan and Lisa Kay presented an overview of the national summits hosted by Moblity21.  And Lisa Kay led several sessions designed for the administrative professionals who work at UTCs.

June 22, 2023
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June 22, 2023

CyLab at CMU has awarded $450k in seed funding to projects based on intellectual merit, originality, potential impact, and fit towards the Security and Privacy Institute’s priorities.  Among those awarded was Mobility21 UTC research Fei Fang for her project “Towards Inclusive Security and Privacy: Design for Digital Security and Privacy for the Homeless Population.”  Learn about all of the award winners here.

June 20, 2023
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June 20, 2023

Michelin Mobility Intelligence Pittsburgh team, which include Mobility21 UTC researcher Christoph Mertz, explored various opportunities offered by Carnegie Mellon University, including the Manufacturing Futures Institute at Mill19 and the National Robotics Engineering Center to learn about work being done and opportunities for their beyond road business segments.

June 16, 2023
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June 16, 2023

Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson attended the ASCE 2023 International Conference on Transportation and Development, where he participated in the panel “The Transportation-Energy Nexus: The March Toward Sustainable and Resilient Systems.” During the conference he was also awarded the ASCE James Laurie Prize (an award given to a member of ASCE who has made a definitive contribution to the advancement of transportation engineering).

June 15, 2023
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June 15, 2023

Stan Caldwell, Mobility21 Executive Director joined a panel with Mark Kopko from PennDOT, Joe Suter from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, Tim White from RIDC and moderated by Nat Beuse from Aroura to discuss plans for the Pennsylvania Safety and Transportation Research Track (PennSTART).  The panel was held in Pittsburgh for SAE Innovations in Mobility Meet-up Fueling Economic Growth in PA with PennSTART.

June 15, 2023
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June 15, 2023

Mobility21 provides a comprehensive list of transportation-related courses offered by Carnegie Mellon University … check out the updated listing for the fall 2023 semester.  Find the list of courses offered for the current and past semesters here.

June 13, 2023
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June 13, 2023

Mobility21 UTC researcher Sean Qian and CMU Professor Beibei Li were recently featured in Information Systems Research with their study that found that ridesharing platforms significantly outperform taxi systems in coping with emergencies, largely due to the benefits of technology.  Read more here.

June 13, 2023
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June 13, 2023

Today, leaders from Congress, industry, nonprofits, academia and labor were in attendance for the launch of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Infrastructure (ARPA-I).  “Newly created by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, ARPA-I will fund high-reward next-generation physical and digital infrastructure technologies and systems that have the potential to modernize America’s transportation.”

Mobility21 UTC researcher and Principal Assistant Director for Energy and The White House Office of Science and Technology  Chief Advisor for Energy Policy Costa Samaras was on hand to welcome the group as the speakers laid out the vision of the future that the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Infrastructure (ARPA-I) is designed to deliver.  Participating in the event was Mobility21 Director Raj Rajkumar and former Traffic21 Women in Transportation Fellow Allanté Whitmore.

The event’s proceedings were recorded and can be viewed here.

June 12, 2023
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June 12, 2023

Hitachi Rail sponsored a reception for the APTA Rail Conference at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh. Traffic21 Director Chris Hendrickson is pictured with a Heinz horse drawn delivery wagon and was joined by Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell.

June 4, 2023
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June 4, 2023

Mobility21 UTC researcher Jon Peha gave a presentation about how to meet the spectrum needs of connected and autonomous vehicles at the 19th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob).  He described a novel approach in which connected vehicles supplement their current spectrum allocation with spectrum that is shared with other kinds of devices.  This was part of a session on vehicular networks for risk reduction and safety-related systems.