April 17, 2023

Lisa Kay Schweyer, Mobility21 Program Manager, attended the first meeting of her term on the Community Advisory Council for the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank.  She was able to share her experience  working with employers and commuters and transportation to work.

April 15, 2023

Carnegie Mellon University graduate students from interdisciplinary courses joined forces to win second place in the Kellogg Design Challenge, the world’s largest MBA design case competition.  Assisted by Traffic21 Director Raj Rajkumar and Metro21 Executive Director Karen Lightman, they were able to explore autonomous vehicles and transportation policies to narrow down the problem space for their sponsor, Nissan.

April 14, 2023

Mobility21 celebrates our student workers Sreya Vangala and Women in Transportation Fellow 2021-23 Maggie Harger for their hard work and contributions during National Student Appreciation Week at Carnegie Mellon University.

April 13, 2023

The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University hosted the Project Olympus Show & Tell, a popular venue for connecting CMU startups with the wider business and entrepreneurial community.  Mobility21 UTC researcher Dr. Destenie Nock provided insight into her research, while Heinz College MISM student Adam Knapp provided information on his customer discovery kickstart, “Parkor,” a program that helps customers find parking in real time.

April 12, 2023

Karen Lightman, Executive Director of Metro21: Smart Cities Institute, recently joined University of Pittsburgh Law School Professor Michael Madison for a discussion on his new book, “Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons” to explore data in smart city planning and practice.

April 7, 2023

Mobility21 UTC partner and CCAC professor Dr. Justin Starr recently worked with the Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority at the 2023 Pennsylvania Water Environment Association’s Stormwater Summit to provide a demo of a stormwater pipe assessment using a drone.

January 30, 2023

Mobility21 UTC researcher Venkat Viswanathan will partner with MIT and 24M for a $3.2 million EVs4ALL award from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).  The initiative will focus on developing fast-charging and low-cost electric vehicle batteries.  Read more here.

May 19, 2023

Today, Mobility21 UTC released its latest “Research Recap” for Carnegie Mellon University researcher Sarah Fox and Nik Martelaro’s project “Designing the Future of Transit Work.” 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.

April 4, 2023

During THE (Transportation Helping our Environment) Climate ACTion Summit, sponsored by the Association for Commuter Transportation, Lisa Kay Schweyer, Mobility21 Program Manager, led 3 discussion groups on Creating Equitable Transportation.  The discussion groups talked about how equity has been and can be successfully baked into decision making and transportation options that have a positive impact on climate including free transit fares, electric vehicle charging stations, and guaranteed basic mobility.

March 24, 2023

Today’s Smart Mobility Connection session featured Mobility21 UTC researcher Justin Starr.  He discussed his UTC work, “Technician Interactions with Artificial Intelligence Systems.”  Watch the recording here.

March 24, 2023

Today, Mobility21 UTC released its latest “Research Recap” for Carnegie Mellon University researcher Peter Zhang’s project “Demand Learning and Supply Optimization for Last-Mile Transportation in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods.” 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.