University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

The 2023 Michigan Traffic Crash Facts publications have arrived. These reports, created by the Center for the Management of Information for Safe and Sustainable Transportation (CMISST) group at UMTRI, include five-year trend crash data across police posts, counties, and districts. Learn more: https://myumi.ch/ZD57X Patrick Bowman Mauriat M. Helen Spradlin Carol Flannagan Colleen Peterson

The HFES - Human Factors and Ergonomics Society has awarded UMTRI's Paul Green the prestigious Arnold M. Small and Betty M. Sander President’s Distinguished Service Award. The award was given to Green while attending the @HFES Aspire (Advance Systems and Practices through Innovation, Research and Education) Conference in Phoenix, AZ this week and recognized his outstanding contributions to the field of human factors and ergonomics. Congratulations Paul Green! https://lnkd.in/gWc8Vm6u

Check out this fantastic video on Accessibility for All from the U.S. Department of Transportation! We are honored to be advised by Dr. Anjali Forber-Pratt, Ph.D., PLY and Kelly Buckland (featured in this video) on our research focused on evaluating wheelchair crashworthiness for potential use as aircraft seating. Dr. Kathleen D. Klinich will be presenting interim results from this work at All Wheels Up next week. Watch the video: https://lnkd.in/ezJGhGAr More on our research: https://myumi.ch/ZD16Z

🔊🔊🔊 THREE DAYS to go for the most widely-attended #intelligenttransportationsystems #its conference in California 😀 This session is geared at road infrastructure owners and operators (IOOs) looking to deploy C-V2X in the near term, providing straightforward guidance for using 5.9 GHz Channel 183 to operate Day 1 applications that can have an immediate impact on safety from several perspectives. Moderated by James (Jim) Misener. Come join us! • Register today 👉 https://lnkd.in/gJzap-mm • Become a member and save 👉 https://lnkd.in/gVbHuxz5 • Conference program 👉 https://lnkd.in/g8VBeH8x #itsca2024 Jane White, Katherine Mertz, Kenny Chao, Carlos A. Ortiz, PE, TE, PTOE, James (Jim) Misener, Steven Bradley, Mark Jensen, Dan Lukasik, Alyssa Phaneuf, Aravind Kailas, Melissa Hewitt, Alan Clelland, ITS CA Young Professionals Group, Heather Owens, Gary Carlin, PE, PTP, Monica Castellanos, Kaki Cheung, Kevin Merrill, Robert Rich, Steven Gota, Natasha Walia, Alicia Y., Shrota Sharma, David Kobayashi, Melody Lin, Sophie Jaro, Michael McIntee, @debra bezzina, James Fishelson, Peter Ashley, Applied Information Inc, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute

If you're a regular wheelchair user, please consider supporting our work funded by the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)! Complete the survey here: https://myumi.ch/Q6X3b #NationalAccessibleAirTravelDay

Week two of the Human Factors Short Course led by our very own Dr. Paul Green is underway and included a workshop on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) following a lecture on Usability Testing. Learn more about UMTRI's Short Courses: https://myumi.ch/AZRP7

As week one of the Human Factors Short Course led by Dr. Paul Green comes to a close, attendees conducted their second practicum on Tuesday focused on anthropometry. They used traditional techniques to measure the human body size, strength, and range of motion and analyzed the data for human accommodation. Learn more about UMTRI's Short Courses: https://myumi.ch/AZRP7

This year serves as the 65th anniversary of the Human Factors short course and is currently led by Dr. Paul Green. Over the next two weeks, attendees will solve practical problems by applying the principles, equations, and models within the science of human factors. Learn more about UMTRI Short Courses: https://myumi.ch/AZRP7

UMTRI is celebrating the 34th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) passing! The ADA increased transportation options for people with disabilities, including those who travel while seated in their wheelchairs. We know there is still room for improvement across all transportation modes. If you use a wheelchair and are aged 18 or older, please consider taking our brief survey to share your experience. The results from this survey will help us advance equitable transportation. You could win one of 12 $25 Amazon gift cards! Take the survey: https://myumi.ch/Q6X3b

Yesterday, we had the honor of participating in the Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering Showcase! Eight students, mentored by UMTRI faculty, presented their work focused on #electricVehicle charging stations, parametric ribcage models, drowsiness detection, and more. Thank you to the students (José Javier Gonzalez Salazar, Samantha Hastie, Huaidian Hou, Aditi Kashi, Terry Shi, Zhenqi Wang, Dennis Yang, and Hasan Berk Zengin) and faculty (Jingwen Hu, Matthew P. Reed, Brian Lin, Arpan Kusari, Monica Jones, Wenbo Sun, Kathleen D. Klinich, Shan Bao, and Paul Green) who participated. Learn more about UMTRI's experiential learning: https://myumi.ch/2347m