Transportation Engineering Seminar — Intelligent Transportation Systems – A Frontier for Multidisciplinary Discovery

About the event

Presented by: Kakan Dey, Ph.D., P.E. Assistant Professor, Wadsworth Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director, Connected and Automated Transportation Systems (CATS) Lab West Virginia University

A safe, reliable, resilient, and adaptive transportation system is the driving force of a nation’s social and economic activities. The rapid growth of demand for transportation services, increasing and emerging safety risks associated with surface transportation systems, ingress of emerging mobility technologies and services, and the accompanying challenges offer infinite opportunities to multidisciplinary researchers in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Emerging connected and automated vehicle technologies and services are essentially “the solutions” to today’s and tomorrow’s many traffic safety and mobility problems. To realize the full potential of these emerging technologies and services, researchers from multidisciplinary backgrounds are needed to devote in collaborative discoveries that will capitalize on the ever-growing sensing and computing capabilities of the transportation digital infrastructure and advances in artificial intelligence. This presentation will focus on the vision and urgency of multidisciplinary research in the broader ITS discipline to create a truly connected and automated transportation system capable of providing sustainable, equitable, and accessible mobility services to all. This presentation will discuss challenges and opportunities in advancing the critical aspects of ITS, such as safety and mobility of people and goods, connected and multimodal mobility services, technology-driven equity and accessibility, emerging traffic safety risks, resilient and climate adaptive transportation systems, inter-dependency between critical infrastructures, role of diverse communication technologies, and applications of artificial intelligence.