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UA Researchers turn Tuscaloosa into traffic laboratory to improve transportation

Green. Yellow. Red. Go. Slow. Stop. Simple instructions commanded by a seemingly simple machine – the traffic light. The technology is as old as the Industrial Revolution, with the first light, two gas-powered flames, controlling traffic in London in 1868. They have improved since, of course. The current three-light system and electricity came in the…


UA Joins UN Network for Sustainable Solutions

A University of Alabama College of Engineering research center has been invited to join a global initiative for the United Nations with a focus on sustainable development. UA’s Center for Sustainable Infrastructure will join the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, or SDSN, the national and international initiative to promote practical solutions for sustainable development. Dr.…


University of Alabama Receives $8M DOT Grant to Fund Traffic Control Technologies

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently awarded more than $8 million to the University of Alabama’s (UA) Alabama Transportation Institute (ATI) to fund the use of modernized technology to improve traffic control systems in west-central Alabama through the Advanced Connected Transportation Infrastructure and Operations Network (ACTION) project, Yellowhammer News reports.