We had several major events over the last month that we will recap in the newsletter this month. ATI was proud to participate in the inaugural USDOT Future of Transportation Summit in Washington D.C. on August 13 -15. As a member of the TraCR UTC focused on Cybersecurity, ATI conducted an outdoor live demo and…
ATI is proud to have participated in the inaugural 2024 Future of Transportation Summit in Washington, DC on August 13 – 15, 2024.
The University is a natural fit for the TRIP Lab and human-centered driving research in part because of the opportunities for collaboration offered by the Alabama Transportation Institute and other transportation-centered research on campus.
As we embark on a new semester, there is already a lot of activity. The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Research Summit is August 28-29 right here on campus at the BCC. Just a week later on September 5, the TRIP Lab is having a grand opening of their driving simulator facility. This state of the…
MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, Ala. – The Air University K-12 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Outreach Program has made another investment in Alabama with a second Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality Lab at Greensboro Middle School, August 27, 2024. The AR/VR Lab, featuring ten advanced workstations, will immerse over 200 students in grades six through eight, in virtual…
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Dr. Robert Bertini was recently named head of the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering in The University of Alabama College of Engineering. Bertini joins the College following his tenure at Oregon State University, where he was a professor and head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering.
ATI wishes to congratulate and celebrate with our friends in several parts of the state for their recent grant awards. The Alabama RAISE recipients of York and Fairfield received a generous award to fund safer railroad crossings and bicycle facilities. A large award was allocated to Alabama for the I-10 Mobile River Bridge Replacement and…
ATI is delighted to share news about a federal grant that has been awarded to study large transit buses and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The researchers involved with the ADAS bus project span multiple University of Alabama departments and ATI is excited to be a part of this groundbreaking research! See our lead story…
With a grant from the Federal Transit Administration and the United States Department of Transportation, The University of Alabama is gearing up for a $3 million project to develop advanced driver assistance systems for large transit buses. Led by Dr. Bharat Balasubramanian, executive director for the Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies and chief mobility research…
ATI has been busy presenting itself and its work as we wrapped up the spring semester. ATI was well represented at the first annual meeting of the National Center for Transportation Cybersecurity and Resiliency in Greenville, South Carolina. Later in the month, I traveled to Berlin, Germany with other ATI colleagues to give the keynote…
