Alabama Transportation Institute

Thanks for the great opportunity to chair a panel session titled “DER-enhanced Sustainable Transportation Electrification and Power Grid Modernization” at the IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting 2024. We are honored to have John Skeath and Alex Shattuck from North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), Professor Hao Zhu from The University of Texas at Austin, Professor Mohammad Shahidehpour from Illinois Institute of Technology and John Kisacikoglu from National Renewable Energy Laboratory to share valuable experience and insights from industry, academia and National Lab. Feel free to reach out to our speakers for further discussion on the topic and potential collaboration opportunities.

Join us for our next webinar on Aug 2, 2024 from 2 pm to 3 pm. Dr. Mizanur Rahman, from the University of Alabama, will talk about cyber resilient GNSS-based navigation for autonomous ground vehicles under threat uncertainties and contested urban environments. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eWNGrv_d

"The work that is being done here at North Carolina A&T is going to help make it possible for America to advance in transportation technologies like autonomous driving and flight, but also is being done with a great deal of attention and data on the equity implications of things like how we serve rural areas, how we improve access to healthcare and education resources, how we can support communities like the disability community, all of which have a lot on the line in how we do this work, " said U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg during the visit to North Carolina A&T on July 3, 2024 https://lnkd.in/ew_FR_e7 #CR2C2 #USDOT #RuralTransportation #TransportationResearch #TransportationTechnology #Equity #Innovation

We are proud to announce that Zhongyang Wang, Ph.D, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, was selected as an awardee of the Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy (IGNIITE) 2024 program. The IGNIITE program is part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy within the U.S. Department of Energy. Wang will recieve nearly $500,000 in funding to advance his research project, which focuses on reducing pollution of greenhouse emissions in marine transportation. ♻️🔋 Read more about this exciting award here: https://bit.ly/3zPW9Ao

Today we announce a $5 billion investment in bridges across the country. Congratulations to the Oregon Department of Transportation, Washington State Department of Transportation, MassDOT, Alabama Department of Transportation, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), Tennessee Department of Transportation, Rhode Island Department of Transportation, NCDOT, South Carolina Department of Transportation, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, West Virginia Department of Transportation, New Mexico Department of Transportation, Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) and Miami-Dade County for your successful applications. It takes years to get these projects to a point where they can be funded and I want to thank all the hard working men and women who made these awards possible. I also want to thank the team at Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Department of Transportation for their hard work in making this program possible. Now let's go build some #bridges!! :) https://lnkd.in/ehmJgUsx

As a researcher, publishing your first journal paper is a special moment to be cherished, and it gives me great joy to share this moment with my network. My first research article titled "Toward Transportation Digital Twin Systems for Traffic Safety and Mobility: A Review," has been published in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. In this publication, we explore the concept of Transportation Digital Twin (TDT) system and its applications to traffic safety and mobility. To this end, we have reviewed the existing research in this domain and developed an architecture for TDT systems that can be implemented at any scale and considers the hierarchies within transportation networks. Additionally, we have reviewed the current research related to applications of TDT systems in improving traffic safety and mobility. Finally, the paper also highlights major research challenges and future research perspectives in TDT research. This paper was part of my MS thesis and I am especially proud to have it published in a prestigious journal. I am grateful to my co-author Dr. Sagar Dasgupta, and my advisor Dr. Mizanur Rahman for all their efforts and guidance along the long journey from the conception of the idea to the final publication of the paper. The full paper is available through the attached link. Please feel free to read and share! #TransportationDigitalTwin #IEEEIOT

Congratulations to Sunday Okafor for being named as a 2024 Young Leader to Follow. Alabama Transportation Institute, Southern District ITE, Alabama Section ITE, Colleen Agan, Jada Johnson