Category: Connected and Automated Research
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Traffic Safety Study Grant Awarded
Groundbreaking project aims to explore the link between traffic enforcement levels, types of enforcement activities, and traffic safety.
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UMTRI Director Retires after 32-Year Distinguised Career
“It’s challenging,” Sayer says. “It’s like owning a small business. You’re always chasing after the next job. You constantly have to bring in new research contracts. … I just wanted to make a difference.”
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UMTRI Experts to Evaluate Employer Based Driving Safety Programs
UMTRI awarded NHTSA project to look at work-related driver safety.
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UMTRI hosts “round-up” of 40 road profile measurement systems from across the U.S.
The UMTRI Engineering Systems Group (ESG) and the Illinois Certification and Research Track (ICART) hosted a certification “round-up” of more than 40 road profile measurement systems from all around the U.S.
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Catalysts for the future of mobility innovation
For decades UMTRI has led the research and deployment of CAV’s around the country. From our early work with “driverless vehicles” to deployments across southeast Michigan, UMTRI has pioneered technology, and implemented large scale deployments. Our work has impacted millions around the world, and we will continue to lead into the future.
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Societal Cost of Crash and Crime
Road safety remains one of the most challenging issues facing Michigan as evidenced by the billions of dollars in monetary and nonmonetary costs resulting from traffic crashes.
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Groundbreaking new approach to generating human-driver benchmarks
Paper: Establishing a Crash Rate Benchmark Using Large-Scale naturalistic human ridehail data
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Featured story: Paul Fancher
Please enjoy this featured legacy piece on Paul Fancher, senior research scientist emeritus, UMTRI Vehicle Systems and Control Group. Journalist Lou Fancher, Paul’s daughter, shares with us a unique perspective into one of the most prominent individuals in transportation research history.