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- - Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to host Women in Transportation Seminar
    The seminar by the Virginia Tech student chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar will feature a poster dash workshop and presentations, speakers, and a speed mentoring session.
- - Truckers with sleep apnea who do not follow treatment have greater crash risk
    The study represents the first large-scale database available to determine how screening, diagnosing, and monitoring obstructive sleep apnea among truck drivers can affect their crash risk.
- - Researchers determine driver risks using large-scale, crash-only naturalistic database
    Drivers increase their crash risk nearly tenfold when they get behind the wheel while observably angry, sad, crying, or emotionally agitated, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute researchers say.
- - National crash rate for conventional vehicles higher than crash rate of self-driving cars, report shows
- - Graduate student develops and tests in-vehicle safety application on Interstate 66
    The in-vehicle application has the potential to improve safety and save time.
- - Virginia Tech Transportation Institute wins $2.5 million contract for trucker safety study
- - Theresa Mayer named Virginia Tech’s vice president for research and innovation
    Her appointment is expected to enhance the university's entrepreneurial and innovative culture, grow commercialization opportunities, build relationships with corporate and foundation partners, and continue support of the academic research enterprise, officials said.
- - Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, partners test automated, connected vehicles on interstate
    Officials experience Virginia Tech's next-generation vehicle technology on interstate express lanes
- - Researchers advance unmanned aircraft industry with test flights to detect mock pipeline hazards
    Virginia Tech works to advance unmanned aerial vehicles.
- - Researchers test avoidance technology in unmanned aircraft at Cape May Airport with Rutgers partners
    Virginia Tech works to advance unmanned aerial vehicles.
- - Virginia Tech teams with Federal Highway Administration to bring new road safety technology to United States
    Virginia Tech Transportation Institute is team with Federal Highway Administration on a project involving the first U.S. use of a Sideway-force Coefficient Routine Investigation Machine, or SCRIM for short.
- - Unmanned aircraft test site expects new Federal Aviation Administration policy to speed research
- - Engineering capstone course partners industry sponsors with student teams
    Industry-sponsored capstone course completes its inaugural course, balances technical skills with communication and project management skills.
- - Transportation Institute launches effort to make navigating traffic lights safer, smarter and cheaper
    Virginia Tech Transportation Institute researchers are working on a new project involving connected-vehicle technology that could change the way motorists navigate through traffic lights.
- - Thomas Dingus joins board of Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International
    Virginia Tech Transportation Institute Director Thomas A. Dingus elected to Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s board of directors.
- - Transportation institute will share massive trove of driver research data
    Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has won $16.4 million contract to share more than 4,300 years' worth of naturalistic driving data with researchers.
- - Elizabeth Tranter named associate vice president for research planning
- - Researchers use unmanned aircraft to inspect energy pipeline route
    Virginia Tech works to advance unmanned aerial vehicles.
- - Virginia Tech Transportation Institute to head new study focused on trucker safety and fatigue
    The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute is heading a new $4 million study on commercial trucking for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
- - Researchers to begin work with news organizations in an effort to advance aerial journalism
    Virginia Tech to educate news media in use of unmanned aerial vehicles.

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