Coming Soon…India’s first hydrogen cell bus

Tata Motors launched the future of mass public transportation at its Pune facility and took another step in the direction of green technology and mobility solutions. The company launched the Starbus Electric 9m, Starbus Electric 12m and the Starbus Hybrid 12m range of buses which are designed, developed, powered by alternate fuels and made in India. The company says will be a good for smart cities. The company also showcased the country’s first Fuel Cell bus (12m), LNG Powered bus (12m), and an 18m Articulated bus.

For more information:

http://auto.ndtv.com/news/tata-motors-reveals-indias-first-hydrogen-fuel-cell-bus-1652559

Starbus Articulated Bus

 

 

D-STOP symposium at North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG)

Dr. Bhat, who directs the “Data-Supported Transportation Operations and Planning” (D-STOP) Tier 1 USDOT Center at the University of Texas at Austin, will be providing, with his colleagues, a symposium on connected and automated vehicles on February 13th. The Symposium will be held in coordination with the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG). Dr. Bhat and colleagues have been studying many facets on the future connected and automated transportation world, including communications considerations, data architecture, processing, and fusion, cybersecurity issues, and how these future paradigms of transportation will transform our society. Information on D-STOP is available at https://ctr.utexas.edu/research/d-stop/, and information on research publications in this space is available at http://www.caee.utexas.edu/prof/bhat/fULL_PAPERS.htm.

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Dr. Chandra Bhat Received CUTC’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Chandra Bhat recently received the Lifetime Achievement in Transportation Research and Education Award (Academic) from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). This award is given to “individuals who have had a long history of significant and outstanding contribution to university transportation education and research resulting in a lasting contribution to transportation.” He received the award at the CUTC Banquet in Washington DC on January 7, 2017. CUTC is a national umbrella organization of university transportation centers in the U.S.  For more information:

http://www.caee.utexas.edu/news/783-bhatcutc

 

3-day TEQIP Short Term Course on Concrete Roads at IIT Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur is organizing the following TEQIP Sponsored Short Term Course.

Title of the Course: “Concrete Roads: Analysis, Design and Evaluation”
Date: February 27 to March 01, 2017 (3 days)
Venue: IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal

IIT Kharagpur invites everyone to participate in the course and/or nominate members. Please note, though the last date for application is mentioned in the Brochure as February 10, 2017, it has now been extended upto February 15, 2015. The web link for the short term course is:

Dr. Ram Pendyala Set to Lead New USDOT University Transportation Center

ATPIO member and former president, Ram Pendyala, is leading a new USDOT-sponsored University Transportation Center (UTC) that aims to improve the mobility of people and goods through innovation in the planning and modeling of future enhancements to the nation’s transportation systems. Pendyala is a professor of transportation systems in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University (ASU), which has been named the lead institution for the new UTC that will focus on improving regional travel demand forecasting models and methods. The center’s work will be part of a larger DOT program to develop new systems and technologies that provide better surface transportation mobility and accessibility across the country.

The new center, called the Center for Teaching Old Models New Tricks — or TOMNET for short — puts Ram Pendyala in charge of a consortium that includes researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Washington, and the University of South Florida. It’s one of 20 Tier 1 centers recently awarded to universities around the country — selected from more than 200 proposals — and the first and only one to be led by an Arizona university since the inception of the University Transportation Centers program two decades ago. The new awards provide each of the Tier 1 centers $7 million over five years.

TOMNET’s mission is to significantly improve data models and analytical tools that are used to plan transportation infrastructure, operate multimodal systems and optimize travelers’ movements in complex networks. The inspiration for the TOMNET center is drawn from the decades of complementary research and experience of Pendyala and Georgia Tech Professor Patricia Mokhtarian, the center’s research director. While Pendyala brings deep expertise in the refinement of regional travel demand forecasting models, Mokhtarian has similar proficiency in the design and analysis of attitudinal surveys. They have long felt the need to combine the strengths of their individual expertise for the improvement of regional planning, forecasting and policymaking.