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Local high school students explore driving safety at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute , articleVirginia Tech Transportation Institute experts spoke with local high school students about teen driving risks and demonstrated ways to become safe drivers during its School Day program on April 19.
Date: Apr 20, 2018 -
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Career event for students celebrates women in transportation; empowers future engineers , articleIn honor of Women's History Month, VTTI and the Virginia Tech Women’s Transportation Seminar chapter are co-hosting a free career development event with the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Date: Feb 27, 2018 -
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Transportation institute awarded $2.7 million in federal contracts on lighting, fuel-efficient automation , articleThe Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has received two U.S. Department of Energy contracts totaling $2.7 million to study eco-conscious solutions for roadway lighting and automated-vehicle design.
Date: Jan 09, 2018 -
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Study contradicts common practice of tailgating at traffic lights , articleThe practice of packing tightly at traffic lights is widely accepted. Traditional thinking says the closer a car is to a traffic light, the more likely that car will be to pass through the intersection before the light turns red again, but thanks to new research by Virginia Tech engineering professors and students, drivers now have a good reason to dismiss this line of roadway intuition.
Date: Nov 29, 2017 -
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Smart Road expansions cement Virginia Tech Transportation Institute as a leader in advanced-vehicle testing , articleThe expansions, all engineered to accelerate advanced-vehicle testing, offer an unprecedented opportunity to explore how automated and autonomous vehicles will function on all roadways found in the U.S., including edge-and-corner environments.
Date: Nov 14, 2017 -
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Transportation institute awarded federal contract to study alternative vehicle designs and how they affect current safety standards , articleThe project will aim to develop alternative approaches to manufacturers to certify the vehicles and for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to verify these designs.
Date: Nov 09, 2017 -
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Daylight saving can create driver fatigue and hazards on the road, says expert , articleAs clocks “fall back” this weekend and daylight saving time ends, many Americans will be driving longer at night which could translate to more driver fatigue and hazards on the road, says Virginia Tech Transportation Institute expert Jeff Hickman.
Date: Nov 01, 2017 -
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Autonomous systems innovators converge on Blacksburg , articleUnmanned systems, such as driverless cars and drones, become more visible every day. But does the public trust the technology? That question and others will challenge leaders in the field of autonomous systems as they gather in Blacksburg for a conference Oct. 15 to 17.
Date: Oct 11, 2017 -
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Transportation institute director to speak at TEDxWilmington Salon , articleTom Dingus, director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, will speak about the future of transportation, particularly automated-vehicle systems and the reality of deploying such technology on the roadways at the Oct. 17 event.
Date: Oct 05, 2017 -
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Project Wing’s James Ryan Burgess to keynote autonomy conference , articleBurgess co-leads the group whose drones delivered burritos on campus last fall. His keynote speech will explore how autonomous systems can earn the public's trust.
Date: Sep 29, 2017 -
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Self-driving car completes cross-country trip , articleThe Torc Robotics’ Lexus RX hybrid, developed by Torc Robotics in Blacksburg, finished the 4,300-mile cross-country trip with a stop at the Governor's Mansion in Richmond.
Date: Aug 28, 2017 -
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Transportation institute receives NSF award to study effects of autonomous truck deployment , articleThe Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has received an inaugural Convergence award from the National Science Foundation to support research on autonomous trucks and their future workforce implications.
Date: Aug 25, 2017 -
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Transportation researcher appointed to federal advisory council on motorcycle safety , articleShane McLaughlin will serve on a new federal advisory council tasked with helping to make motorcycle riders and their bikes safer.
Date: Aug 22, 2017 -
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Transportation institute researcher receives national award for safety engineering excellence , articleMyra Blanco, director of the Center for Public Policy, Partnerships, and Outreach and an advanced-vehicle researcher at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, has been named the recipient of the 2017 U.S. Government Award for Safety Engineering Excellence.
Date: Jun 02, 2017 -
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Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and partners named a national safety center by U.S. Department of Transportation , articleThe designation includes an award of nearly $28 million across five years to study how best to maximize the safety benefits of automated- and connected-vehicle technologies.
Date: Dec 11, 2016 -
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Class of 2016: Traffic research green lights career opportunities for Fawaz Almutairi , articleFrom Kuwait, Almutairi came to the United States in 2009 to study English at Old Dominion University and, later, civil engineering at Northern Arizona University. He was soon determined to attend Virginia Tech.
Date: Dec 09, 2016 -
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Virginia Tech reveals $75 million plan to emphasize intelligent infrastructure , articleMore than 80 faculty members from multiple colleges and institutes are involved in the initiative, as the university ties new assets into existing programs and research facilities.
Date: Sep 01, 2016 -
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Major process improvements at Virginia Tech advance speed and success of research proposals , articleSummit is the university's customized solution for research administration processes. It is expected that the new system will enable faculty to improve the quality of submitted proposals and shorten the time required to prepare them.
Date: Aug 08, 2016 -
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Antoine G. Hobeika honored with emeritus status , articleA member of the university community since 1973, Hobeika's research contributed greatly to improvements in transportation emergency management, modeling of intelligent transportation systems, transportation planning and economics, and airport planning.
Date: Jun 30, 2016 -
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Virginia Tech Transportation Institute part of new state legislation enacted for the testing and use of automated-vehicle technologies , articleWhile the current law allows a visual display in a motor vehicle, the new bill allows the display of moving images to be viewed while an automated driving system is performing the driving task.
Date: Jun 11, 2016
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