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.
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
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: