Author: Francine Romine
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New U-M Poll Shows Many Older Drivers Aren’t Planning for the Road Ahead
While Most Older Adults Drive Frequently and Feel Confident, few have a plan for a time when they can no longer drive.
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Making Air Travel Friendlier for People Living with Dementia
Research highlights how airports can improve accessibility, comfort, and dignity for travelers with cognitive challenges.
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Gerontological Society Annual Meeting Features UMTRI Research
UMTRI researchers lead transportation innovation at 2025 Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting in Boston.
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New traffic signal reduces unnecessary stops
Optimizing signals to keep up with changes in traffic flows isn’t a simple task. The time and cost of traffic counts and recalculation, taking roughly two to six months and up to $4,500 per intersection, mean most municipalities won’t reassess for two to five years and sometimes even decades. U-M project reduces time and cost.
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YouthShape.US: A new study of the body size and shape of U.S. children and youth
“Most product designers today are looking up data on body size in the same way their predecessors did in the 1960s,” says Matt Reed, Don B. Chaffin Collegiate Research Professor and head of UMTRI’s Biosciences Group. “Our goal is to provide a new, dynamic way of interacting with the data through online apps.”
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Technology evolves but human behavior drives outcomes
UMTRI experts attend the 2025 Human Factors and Ergonomic Society Annual Meeting – ASPIRE – and share UMTRI’s ongoing commitment to advancing human factors research.