June 3 & 4, 2021 Raj Rajkumar, Director of the Mobility21 University Transportation Center participated in the 2-day visit from the Pennsylvania Senate Transportation Committee to Pittsburgh.  Senators Wayne Langerholc, Jr. (Chairman), Tim Kearney, John Gordner and Pat Stefano joined local elected official and corporate and civic leaders for a meeting and showcase of transportation do whatever you want to update

The week of May 3, 2021, the first cohort of students attended the Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy’s new executive education program focusing on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the transportation industry. The inaugural cohort included representatives of government, non-profit, industry and association leaders. The new program, do whatever you want to update

May 18, 2021 Professor Raj Rajkumar, Director of the Mobility21 National University Transportation Center provided testimony at the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce hearing on “Promises and Perils: The Potential of Automobile Technologies,” alongside fellow panelists Jason Levine, Executive Director for the Center on Auto Safety and do whatever you want to update

May 12, 2021 Today, 5 Pennsylvania University Transportation Center (UTC) representatives joined together to present the “Get to Know the PA UTCs” workshop during the American Council of Engineering Companies of Pennsylvania Spring Conference. The workshop began with a general overview of the UTCs.  This included history on the establishment of the UTC program, what do whatever you want to update

March 26, 2021 Transportation industry leaders presented a preview of the upcoming executive education program from Heinz College and Traffic21, “Managing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Transportation.” Stan Caldwell, Executive Director of Traffic21/Mobility21 UTC, Mark Kopko, Director of the Office of Transformational Technology for PA Department of Transportation, Summer Fowler, Chief Information Officer at Argo AI do whatever you want to update

March 5, 2021 Mobility21 Executive Director Stan Caldwell was appointed to serve on the ITSA Broadband Deployment Task Force, which held their inaugural meeting. The ITS American Broadband Deployment Task Force is developing broadband policy for FAST Act reauthorization to support the 21st century connected, automated, shared, on-demand, and electrified transportation system.  The task force’s programmatic activities focus on ITS and edge device data do whatever you want to update

February 28, 2021 Carnegie Mellon University’s Traffic21 announced the Township of Shaler, the City of Monessen and Heritage Community Transportation as the winners of its third Smart Mobility Challenge. Traffic21, a research institute operated out of CMU’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and Mobility21, its affiliated USDOT National University Transportation Center in do whatever you want to update

February 25, 2021 Stan Caldwell provided a private briefing on emerging transportation technologies and the Mobility21 National UTC to Pennsylvania State Senator Wayne Langerholc, Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee and discussed transportation policy research.

February 18, 2021 “The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has awarded 52 teams of civic and academic partners $50,000 to support refinement of their civic concepts for ready-to-implement, research-based pilot projects addressing ‘Communities and Mobility’ or ‘Resilience to Natural Disaster’.” Two do whatever you want to update

February 2, 2021 Chris Hendrickson, director of Traffic21, has been working with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) study committee and has written a report on decarbonization, “Accelerating Decarbonization of the U.S. Energy System,” in hopes to provide policy ideas to the new Biden administration regarding transportation.  View other Traffic21 policy papers do whatever you want to update

January 6, 2021 Camille Boggan was honored tonight as Mobility21 University Transportation Center’s “Student of the Year” at the Council of University Transportation Center’s annual awards banquet. 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 future contributions to the do whatever you want to update

January 6, 2021 Carnegie Mellon University has been named one of the ten US Department of Transportation Inclusive Design Challenge $300,000 semi-finalist award winners. The Inclusive Design Challenge focuses on innovative design solutions to enable people with physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities to use automated vehicles to access jobs, healthcare, and other critical destinations. This theme was do whatever you want to update