Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT)

Congratulations to Xingmin (Nathan) Wang, a postdoctoral research fellow at U-M CEE, for receiving the Transportation Science & Logistic Best Dissertation Award at the INFORMS Annual Meeting this month! Dr. Wang's dissertation, titled 'Traffic Signal Optimization with Connected Vehicle Trajectories' is part of a CCAT-funded research project which led to the development of the Optimized Signal as a Services (OSaaS). Xingmin joins two other University of Michigan award recipients since its inception in 1970. The TSL Best Dissertation Award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/7PRVD

From being stuck at zero to breaking the 100 mph mark. Learn about how Purdue University’s autonomous vehicle racing team, led by Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering Prof. Sam Labi, has made impressive strides over the years. Read more: https://bit.ly/cce-racing

We are honored to welcome Professor Yu Nie (Northwestern University) to the final CCAT Research Review of 2024! The Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering will provide an update on his project 'Impact of Modularized Autonomous Vehicles on Transit System Design and Operations' which examines how the design of structured transit routes and schedule can take advantage of autonomous modularity to maximize efficiency, optimize user experience, and promote equity. Date/Time: Thursday, November 21st | 1:00 PM ET Register: https://myumi.ch/W5n4m

The MIT Mobility Initiative is delighted to announce the seventh episode of the MIT Mobility Forum Fall 2024 hosted by Prof. Jinhua Zhao. Forum Title: Safety Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles Earning public trust in highly automated vehicles, and greater understanding of how they operate, is paramount as automakers and their suppliers push to put cars and trucks on the road that can safely operate without a driver. While complex automated vehicle safety testing programs are being implemented across industry, they are generally proprietary, and their structure remains hidden from public view. To remedy this, we developed the Mcity Safety Assessment Program, a two-part protocol for testing the behavior competence of automated vehicles before their widespread use on public roads. The first part of the assessment is a “Driver’s License Test” that measures the basic behavioral competency of an automated vehicle through random scenario generation. The second part is a “Driving Intelligence Test” that challenges AI-based algorithms with a diverse set of scenarios representing those that most often result in crashes, injuries and fatalities. Mcity believes the Mcity Safety Assessment Program could serve as the blueprint for a publicly inspectable behavioral safety framework, helping industry bring automated vehicle technology to market in a manner that truly benefits society. In this talk, we will also highlight Mcity 2.0, a facility funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), that aims to build a digital infrastructure providing researchers remote access to the Mcity mixed reality testing environment for highly automated vehicles. Profile - Henry Liu, is a Bruce D Greenshields Collegiate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Mcity at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. He is also a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Director for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT). From July 2017 to August 2019, he took a leave of absence from the University and served as Chief Scientist on Smart Transportation for DiDi, one of the leading mobility service providers in the world. Liu received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000 and his Bachelor degree in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) in 1993. Prof. Liu conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of transportation engineering, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, his scholarly interests concern traffic flow monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles. #Autonomousvehiclesafety Fridays 12:00-13:00 ET, Aug 30 - Dec 13, 2024 The MIT Mobility Forum is open to the public. Please register here - https://lnkd.in/gGtR3gG7

CCAT and Mcity Director Dr. Henry Liu joined the Executive Panel at the 2024 ITS Michigan Annual Meeting this morning to highlight the traffic management solutions that have been implemented in partnership with the Road Commission For Oakland County. Dr. Liu was joined by Oladayo (Dayo) Akinyemi, P.E. (Wayne County Michigan), Jason Bodell, P.E., PTOE (Michigan Department of Transportation), Tony G. Geara, P.E., PTOE (طوني جعارة) (Office of Mobility Innovation at The City of Detroit), Judd Herzer (Michigan State University), and Barb Land (Square One Education Network)!

CCAT is honored to serve as a Platinum sponsor for the 2024 ITS Michigan Annual Meeting! CCAT Managing Director Debby Bezzina, MBA,PMP will serve on a panel Thursday, October 3rd on Innovative Mobility and Accelerating V2X with Elise Feldpausch (Michigan Department of Transportation), Gary Piotrowicz (Road Commission For Oakland County), Michele Mueller (MDOT), and Jean Ruestman (MDOT). Learn more: https://myumi.ch/7Pm3b

..and the companion video of the Wright Commercial Mowers with Greenzie autonomous software operating during our Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) demonstration on Friday with Brian McGavic in Discovery Park District at Purdue . More details on Purdue University College of Engineering initiatives in connected and autonomous systems at: https://lnkd.in/gZhQye6n

🎉 I'm excited to share that I've received the Best Student Presentation Award at the 4th Annual Conference on Next-Generation Transport Systems Conference (NGTS-4) at Purdue University for our presentation: "Corner-Case Scenarios of Vulnerable Road Users to Support Evaluation of Automated Driving Systems - A Data Driven Framework"! 🙌✨ A huge thank you to all the co-authors: Huizhong Guo, Brian Lin, Fred Feng, Feng Zhou and my advisor Shan Bao, along with Rini Sherony. Your support and guidance made this possible! Looking forward to continuing our research and exploring new opportunities to make impactful contributions to VRU safety and automated vehicles. Excited for the journey ahead! #PhD #Research #VRUSafety #ADAS #StudentPresentation #NGTS2024 Image credit to: Next-Generation Transport Systems Conference (NGTS-4)

Professor Ziran Wang (Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue) is helping #autonomousVehicles understand their passengers by leveraging #artificialIntelligence models. Professor Wang's research with CCAT aims to help AVs drive in extreme weather conditions by using large vision models. Learn more about Professor Wang: https://myumi.ch/VGkVJ #ccatResearch

The 4th Annual Conference on Next-Generation Transport Systems begins tomorrow! Led by CCAT partner Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue, this two-day event will feature presentations on #autonomousVehicles, connected vehicles, shared transport, #electricVehicles, and more. Secure your space here: https://myumi.ch/kZJ1z