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.