Metro Detroit Regional Transportation Operations – April 2015
April 17, 2015 Meeting Minutes TIM Coord Comm
Author: dbeaubien
Mobility Transformation Facility in Ann Arbor
The Engineering Society of Detroit sponsored a tour of the University of Michigan Transportation Center facility last week. The facility provides a complex urban environment for the testing of connected and automated vehicles. The testing environment includes a traffic circle …
Traffic Incident Management Workshop in Oakland County
The Intelligent Transportation Society of Michigan (ITS-MI) sponsored the 10th Annual Workshop on Traffic Incident Management for Metro Detroit to promote partnerships among the various responders to traffic incidents. The workshop was held at the Oakland County Executive Office Building …
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SE Michigan Regional Transportation Operations Planning – February 2015
February 12, 2015 Planning Committee Minutes
Road Safety and Self-Driving Vehicles
Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute recently released a white paper entitled, “Road Safety with Self-Driving Vehicles: General Limitations and Road Sharing with Conventional Vehicles”. Highlights of the paper are shown below. …
Metro Detroit Regional Transportation Operations – January 2015
January 16, 2015 Meeting Minutes TIM Coord Comm2
Google and the Self-Driving Delusion
In his January 7 column in the Wall Street Journal, Hollman W. Jenkins, Jr. raises the question about how a driver can remain alert enough to respond within a few seconds if the computer controlled car decides to hand back …
SE Michigan Plans Traffic Incident Management Workshop for March 6, 2015
December 1, 2014 Planning Committee Minutes
Incident Management in Large Metropolitan Areas
The Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress in Detroit featured a technical session on incident management in large metropolitan areas. Presenters included Xianding Tao from the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (USA), Richard Beaubien from Beaubien Engineering (USA), Scott Carlson …
Detroit Autonomous Driving Event – November 2014
The renowned German we.Connect staff from Berlin hosted a conference on automated and connected driving in Troy, Michigan, November 17-18, 2014. This was a business to business networking event, featuring a combination of presentations and roundtable discussions on automated and …
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