Safer and Scalable Autonomous Bus Yard Parking and Recall Demo at Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority

USF’s College of Engineering and the Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR) recently received $579K from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA), through the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA), to support the development, testing, and verification of autonomous transit buses specifically for bus yard operations as part of the “Safer and Scalable Autonomous Bus Yard Parking…

S1E4: Forward to the future: connected vehicles

[ultimate_spacer height=”25″] S1E4: Forward to the future: connected vehicles Guests: Xiaopeng “Shaw” Li, Ph.D., Susan A. Bracken Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor Sisinnio Concas, Ph.D Producers: Christina Loizou   Available on Transcript [00:00:00] Announcer: The following research is part of the National Institute for Congestion Reduction funded by the United States Department of Transportation through the University…

FTSS: Possibilities of User Exchanges of Transportation Supply in a Shared-Connected-Autonomous Future

  Possibilities of User Exchanges of Transportation Supply in a Shared-Connected-Autonomous Future R. Jayakrishnan, Ph.D.   Newer technologies and high market penetration of personal communication systems along with the advent of autonomous and shared-connected vehicle systems bring up many new possibilities for different paradigms of operation in transportation systems.  Facilitated by peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, users…

August 2019 – Dr. Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li’s research group receives NSF grant

Dr. Xiaopeng (Shaw) Li’s research group has received USF’s first major NSF grant for conducting research on vehicle automation technologies. This grant is to investigate traffic patterns in the near future where diverse vehicle automation technologies (e.g., modular vehicles, autonomous vehicles) are mixed with traditional human-driven vehicles. Read more about Dr. Li’s project entitled “CPS:…

“Connected and Autonomous Vehicles 101” – Lakeland, FL

“Connected and Autonomous Vehicles 101” – Lakeland, FL CUTR was well represented at the 2019 “Connected and Autonomous Vehicle 101” seminar at Florida Polytechnic University.   CUTR Director Dr. Robert L. Bertini was a speaker for the event, and he presented “Understanding the AV at the Municipal Level: the Orlando-Tampa Corridor.” Dr. Bertini also acted…