July 15, 2022 Carnegie Mellon University incoming second year Master’s student and Traffic21 Women in Transportation Fellow Maggie Harger recently started her summer internship with the US Department of Transportation Volpe Center.  Prior to starting her Master’s degree, Maggie worked in the greater Seattle area to implement accessible and equitable public transportation projects as a do whatever you want to update

May 27, 2022 Mobility21 researchers Nik Martelaro and Sarah Fox from the Carnegie Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Institute led a team of researchers in publishing the Traffic21 policy brief, “How to Make Sense of Bus Transit Automation: Considerations for policy makers on the future of human-automation teaming in the transit workforce.”  Learn more here.

May 25, 2022 Mobility21 UTC produced a video to highlight projects by UTC researcher Ding Zhao for an upcoming U.S. Department of Transportation Forum on  Cybersecurity.  The video focuses on key projects funded by the Mobility21 UTC in which Ding Zhao focuses on trustworthiness, cybersecurity and privacy in transportation applications.  Ph.D. student, Diana Gomez is also do whatever you want to update

April 22, 2022 The Mobility21 UTC hosted the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Secretary Yassmin Gramian and other leaders in the industry for PennDOT’s ‘Moving Forward with STEM’ panel discussion. Mobility21 Executive Director, Stan Caldwell, opened the event welcoming the panelists and attendees on behalf of Carnegie Mellon University.  He highlighted the university’s history in do whatever you want to update

April 4, 2022 Mobility21 UTC researcher, Rahul Mangharam from the University of Pennsylvania will be leading the Autoware Center of Excellence, with the objective of bringing together industry and academia to advance Autonomous Driving technology based on Autoware Open-Source Software. “The Autoware CoE for autonomous driving was setup because we believe that all machines that do whatever you want to update

March 10-12, 2022 Mobility21 UTC’s Women in Transportation Fellows Hajra Shahab and Maggie Harger, along with members of the Carnegie Mellon University Transportation Club board, Ken Huang, Brian Hsu and Rajanikant Tenguria  traveled to meet with students from Mobility21’s academic partner, the University of Pennsylvania. The purpose of this visit was to learn about the do whatever you want to update

March 10, 2022 Watch an interview with NAVLAB’s John Kozar, Engineer & Manager (retired) and Christoph Mertz, Principal Project Scientist to learn more about the history of NAVLAB. The interview was conducted on January 27, 2022, by Lisa Kay Schweyer, Program Manager for Traffic21 Institute and the Mobility21 University Transportation Center. The interview was edited do whatever you want to update

February 2, 2022 Traffic21/Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell received the Person of the Year Award from the Intelligent Transportation Society of Pennsylvania.  Stan serves as a founding member of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Task Force with the vision of “safe and strategic integration of UAS technologies in Pennsylvania’s transportation system.”  He also serves on the do whatever you want to update

January 10, 2022 At the 2022 CUTC Winter Meeting and Awards Banquet tonight,  Carnegie Mellon University was awarded the Council of University Transportation Center‘s 2021 Technology Transfer Leadership Award for its efforts through its Mobility21 University Transportation Center.  Watch the acceptance video here. Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) launched the Traffic21 Institute in 2009 with the do whatever you want to update

January 9, 2022 Former Carnegie Mellon University Traffic21 Institute Executive Director, Al Biehler was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Transportation Professional and Public Service by the Council of University Transportation Centers. As his nomination states: “Al has had a long and distinguished career of professional and public service. He served as Secretary of do whatever you want to update

January 8, 2022 Carnegie Mellon University student Rick Grahn was honored tonight as Mobility21 University Transportation Center’s “Student of the Year” at the Council of University Transportation Center’s annual awards event. Annually, the United States Department of Transportation honors the most outstanding student from each participating University Transportation Center for his/her achievements and promise for do whatever you want to update

January 5, 2022 Traffic21 and Carnegie Mellon University welcomed Senator Wayne Langerholc, Jr. at Mill 19  to unveil SB 965, legislation that would permit AV companies to test vehicles meeting autonomy levels 3, 4 or 5 of SAE International’s J3016 parameters for automated driving systems. Also in attendance at the press conference were CMU President Farnam Jahanian, PennDOT do whatever you want to update