September 29, 2023

Today’s Smart Mobility Connection session featured Safety21/Mobility21 UTC researcher Swarun Kumar.  He discussed his UTC work, “Next Generation Radars: Toward Smart Vehicles That See What the Eye Can’t See.”  Watch the recording here.

September 1, 2023

Congratulations to former Traffic21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell, who has transitioned into Director of the U.S. Department of Transportation SMART Grants Program.  The Strengthening Mobility and Revolutionizing Transportation (SMART) Grants Program funds purpose-driven innovation to build data and technology capacity and expertise for State, local, and Tribal governments.

September 22, 2023

A delegation of Finnish professionals from the FARIA (Finnish-American Research Innovation Accelerator) network visited Carnegie Mellon and interacted with Mobility21/Safety21 researchers Katherine Flanigan, Corey Harper, Chris Hendrickson, Christoph Mertz and Sean Qian.

September 20, 2023

Mobility21/Safety21 Interim Executive Director Karen Lightman was in attendance as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro visited the CMU campus to announce and sign an executive order that engages the CMU and the Shapiro Administration as partners in responsibly developing and deploying generative artificial intelligence applications and services for the benefit of state government and Pennsylvanians more broadly.

September 20, 2023

Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, announced today that the firm has been selected as the program manager for the  Pennsylvania Safety Transportation and Research Track (PennSTART) by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation (RIDC).  Read the full press release here.

September 20, 2023

Mobility21/Safety21 UTC researcher Sean Qian’s Smart Loading Zone project was presented by Rylan Siefert of the City of Pittsburgh Department of Mobility & Infrastructure to Professor Raelin Musuraca‘s User-Centered Research and Evaluation course at Carnegie Mellon University, where students were given an opportunity to ask questions about the project.

September 19, 2023

Mobility21/Safety21, along with Metro21: Smart Cities Institute and the Remaking Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University hosted a lunch and learn featuring Professor Michael Madison, who discussed “Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons.”

September 13, 2023

Safety21 partner, the CMU Robotics Institute Summer Scholars, launches the fall 2023 RoboLaunch Outreach Seminar Series! The CMU RISS RoboLaunch Initiative invites undergraduate students and the community worldwide interested in learning about robotics research, paths to graduate school, and careers to explore robotics with us!

September 13, 2023

Mobility21/Safety21 Interim Executive Director Karen Lightman joined leaders from across Appalachia in Ashland, KY for the Appalachian Regional Commission’s 2023 Annual Conference, Appalachia Rises: Resilience, Strength and Transformation.  The conference focused on the importance of resiliency and collaboration in the region.

September 8, 2023

Mobility21/Safety21 Interim Executive Director joined members of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College to host representatives from Gonzaga University, where they learned more about programs offered at CMU as they prepare to open their own Institute of Informatics and Applied Technology.

September 1, 2023

Mobility21/Safety21 UTC researcher Costa Samaras has been named the next director for the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University.  Read more here.

August 21, 2023

U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Polly Trottenberg joined researchers from the Mobility21 and Safety21 University Transportation Centers at Mill19 to learn more about the UTC program at Carnegie Mellon University.