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As part of a 2021 research project granted by the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), Dr. Henry Liu and his team have implemented the Safe AI Framework for Trustworthy Edge Scenario Tests, or SAFE TEST, at the American Center for Mobility (ACM). This state-of-the-art toolbox is able to increase the efficiency of AV performance testing, reduce operational costs, and accelerate product validation.
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[safe test] is helping us bring an advanced capability and toolset to the american center for mobility that wouldn't otherwise be available in the market. really, it's a force multiplier.
-Reuben Sarkar, President & CEO of ACM
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This toolbox combines two other pieces of research developed by Dr. Liu: the augmented reality test environment and the naturalistic and adversarial driving environment (NADE). This work reinforces CCAT's mission of technology transfer efforts. To learn more about the SAFE TEST and its implementation at ACM, you can watch our research highlight video below and read the news story on the CCAT website.
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CCAT Research Highlight Video on the SAFE TEST
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Upcoming Events
Simplifying road designs and connecting vehicles to the infrastructure will be an important element in bringing autonomous technology to scale and making safer roads for everyone. The CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns Wednesday, September 15th with Jaime Waydo, CTO at Cavnue. How will fully driverless cars change mobility forever? What makes the technology so hard? How will connected vehicles and smart infrastructure play a part in bringing this technology to the world? This talk will create a conversation around these questions. Free registration can be completed on the CCAT Eventbrite page.
Past Events
 Dr. Evangelos Simoudis joined the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series on Thursday, July 15th. They highlighted the decisions automakers, mobility service companies, and cities must make, and the transformations they will undergo with regards to urban mobility, technology, and business models. Dr. Simoudis also discussed the risks arising from the use of data and artificial intelligence in new, urban mobility. You can watch their entire presentation on the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series playlist.
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Advanced Transportation Center adds Ford Mach E
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Washtenaw Community College has recently acquired the new Ford Mustang Mach E to its fleet to train students under the Advanced Transportation Center (ATC). The new vehicle will provide learning opportunities focused on performance evaluation, diagnostics, batteries and sensors, cybersecurity, and more. WCC and the ATC serve as members of the CCAT consortium and assist in the program's goals of education, training, and workforce development.
Read the full story
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Research led by Dr. Konstantina "Nadia" Gkritza and Lisa Lorena Losada-Rojas has been published in the Journal of Transportation & Health. 'Ridesharing, Active Travel Behavior, and Personal Health: Implications for Shared Autonomous Vehicles' assesses the relationship between ridesharing and active travel behavior while identifying personal health-related outcomes.
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- “Tradeoffs between safe/comfortable headways versus mobility-enhancing headways in an automated driving environment: Preliminary insights using a driving simulator experiment,” by Li, Y., Chen, T., Chen, S., Labi, S. (2021), in Frontiers in Engineering and Built Environment. (Accepted, in press)
- “A nonparametric efficiency methodology for comparative assessment of infrastructure agency performance,” by Ghahari, S., Chen, S., Labi, S. (2021), in Transportation Engineering. (Accepted, in press)
- “Graph neural network and reinforcement learning for multiagent cooperative control of connected autonomous vehicles,” Chen, S., Dong, J., Ha, P., Li, Y., Labi, S. (2021), in Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering 36(7), 838-857.
- “Space-weighted information fusion using deep reinforcement learning: The context of tactical control of lane-changing autonomous vehicles and connectivity range assessment,” by Dong, J., Chen, S., Li, Y., Du, R., Steinfeld, A., Labi, S. (2021), in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 128, 103192.
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In Other News
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- Lisa Losada Rojas wins Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship (Purdue Story)
- Kumares Sinha selected as Editor's Choice by ASCE Journal (CCAT Story)
- The Drive Forward Podcast features Secretary of Illinois DOT (YouTube Video)
- WardsAuto highlights Advanced Transportation Center vehicle acquisition (WardsAuto Story)
- CCAT Research from Illinois moves freight into the future (ICT Story)
- CCAT Research presented at IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (Event Program)
- CCAT Research to present at IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation (Event Program)
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