The Susan Kuchinskas white paper on the iterative approach to autonomous driving has been released in anticipation of the June 2015 Telematics Update Conference in Detroit. It suggests that although driver assists will be added to cars in the near future, a …
April 17, 2015 Meeting Minutes TIM Coord Comm
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 …
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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February 12, 2015 Planning Committee Minutes
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. …
January 16, 2015 Meeting Minutes TIM Coord Comm2
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 …
December 1, 2014 Planning Committee Minutes
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 …