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T&DI Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Presents: Artificial Intelligence Enabled Next Generation Transportation Systems 

Emerging technologies supported by automation, smart computing, and communication sensors with real-time community interactions define the next generation transportation systems. This virtual event aims to bring together leading researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students to exchange knowledge to enable next-generation transportation systems using artificial intelligence (AI). The speakers will share their experiences and latest findings on different aspects of AI in Transportation. The event series includes a keynote talk session, three technical sessions, and a student research competition. This event series intends to discuss the most recent innovations and applications of AI as well as the practical challenges

and their solutions from both academia and industry.   

Register now for upcoming AI in Transportation events: 

Artificial Intelligence for Connected Community 

Thursday, Nov. 4 | 1:00 - 3:00 PM ET 

Registration Link

Register for November 4

Artificial Intelligence in Transportation Cyber-physical Systems  

Wednesday, Nov. 10 | 1:00 - 2:40 PM ET 

Registration Link

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Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Pavement Design, Construction, and Management  

Thursday, Nov. 18 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET 

Reisgration Link

AI-Enabled Next Generation Transportation Systems Student Competition  

Deadline to Submit an Abstract is November 2nd 

As part of the AI-Enabled Next Generation Transportation Systems Virtual Event series, T&DIs Artificial Intelligence Committee is hosting a virtual student competition. The competition is designed to showcase graduate-undergraduate students' research in Transportation Engineering with the use of Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning. Students will have the opportunity to engage with industry and academy professionals and share their research with them.

 Learn More 

The registration needs a ASCE Collaborate Account. Please see the instructions on how to set up an account below.  Once complete you will be redirected back to the registration page.

1. After clicking on the registration link provided you will land on the Collaborate Sign In page. Click on the SIGN IN button at the top right of the webpage.

2. On the login page, select the Create a New Account option below the credential inputs.

3. On the Welcome page, enter your preferred email and fill in the subsequent prompts to create your account.

4. Once your create an account you will be redirected back to the registration page for the AI Enabled Next Generation Transportation Systems Virtual Event.  

New Initiative by T&DI's Sustainable Transportation Committee (STC)

The first part of the Virtual Panel Series on Sustainable Transportation will take place, Tuesday, March 16th from 9:00 to 11:30 am. This event is organized by T&DI's Sustainable Transportation Committee. The registration is done thru the event webpage: https://stcpanelseries.splashthat.com/.

Please see the flyer as follows. 

Please register it for your interests. There is no registration fee. 

The event will include two panels: 

Panel 1: Land Use Planning and Management: Key to Sustainable Transportation 

Panel 2: Careers in Sustainability

New Initiative by T&DI's Sustainable Transportation Committee (STC)

The first part of the Virtual Panel Series on Sustainable Transportation will take place, Tuesday, March 16th from 9:00 to 11:30 am. This event is organized by T&DI's Sustainable Transportation Committee. The registration is done thru the event webpage: https://stcpanelseries.splashthat.com/.

Please see the flyer as follows. 

Please register it for your interests. There is no registration fee. 

The event will include two panels: 

Panel 1: Land Use Planning and Management: Key to Sustainable Transportation 

Panel 2: Careers in Sustainability

Submit Abstracts for ASCE’s 2021 Transportation Conferences

In light of the ongoing public health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Board of Governors of the Transportation & Development Institute (T&DI) has announced that the Institute’s 2021 conferences will be delivered as virtual events. These include ASCE International Conference on Transportation & Development (ICTD 2021) and International Airfield & Highway Pavements Conference (Pavements 2021). These conferences were originally scheduled to be delivered as co-located events in Austin, Texas from June 6 to 9 2021. They will now be delivered as virtual events from June 8 to 10, 2021.

We are currently accepting submissions for PowerPoint presentations and online posters. The deadline to submit an abstract for consideration is January 25, 2021.

Link: https://www.asce-ictd.org/?utm_campaign=20201203_Hybrid_email_ictd_pavements_2021%20%3A%20VIRTUAL_EVENT&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua

ASCE ICTD conference 2021

ASCE ICTD conference 2021 is scheduled on June 8-10, 2021 (see more information through https://www.asce-ictd.org/ ). Our AI committee can contribute two activities below. 

1)  Emerging technology panel. Emerging technical council is going to host a panel section. Our committee can recommend one distinguished speaker to this panel. 

2)   Break-out technical session. Our committee will host one breakout session focusing on AI. We can have 4 -5 speakers in this session.

From Dr. Lili Du, Associate Professor, University of Florida:

TRB Subcommittee meeting for Emerging Technologies in Network Modeling AEP40(5)

Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30PM, 01/12/2021 Eastern Time

This subcommittee, also chaired by Dr. Lili Du, will have the committee meeting on 01/12/2021. Some discussions will be offered on how to facilitate the collaboration between this TRB committee and our ASCE AI committee. Zoom link will be available two days before the meeting time and it can be found on the Virtual TRB meeting website.

The meeting agenda is available here.

From Dr. Jia Hu, Professor, Tongji University:

Virtual Special Issue in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Pathway into Full Autonomy by Leveraging Infrastructure Enabled Automation

Infrastructure Enabled Autonomy (IEA) is an evolving field of transportation. Unlike conventional autonomy, where the individual vehicles process perception and make decisions, IEA distributes some of the work to roadside infrastructure. IEA potentially addresses two obstacles hindering a full roll-out of vehicle automation: i) accuracy and robustness of perception, and ii) high costs of equipment on vehicles. With fixed-location sensors, the accuracy of perception is improved to within a centimeter under all weather conditions. Additionally, vehicles do not require as much on-board computing capability as currently required for a fully autonomous driving mode. IEA offers the potential to make autonomy feasible at a lower cost to consumers. The role of transportation agencies or other stakeholders in managing and maintaining the needed roadside infrastructure is unknown.

Topics:

This special issue will be a collection of high-quality papers on IEA-related policies and governance and the impact of leveraging IEA on travel behavior, the built environment, transport equity, and vehicle emissions. It welcomes original research and reviews on (but not limited to) the following topics: Innovative policies addressing the deployment of IEA; Governance issues associated with deploying and maintaining IEA; Consumer acceptance of IEA; Impacts of IEA on land use; Impacts of IEA on travel behavior; Impacts of IEA on energy and environment; Equity issues associated with IEA. 

Timeline: 

• Submission portal opens: Dec 1st, 2020.

• Submission deadline: Nov 1st, 2021.

Call for paper link: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-d-transport-and-environment/call-for-papers/transport-and-environment-pathway  

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