Transportation Workshop: Streets of the Future
With connected and autonomous vehicles (C/AVs), drones, and delivery robots moving from research labs to urban streets, it will not be long before these technologies wind up on city streets. Unfortunately, public and private transportation stakeholders are generally not suited to keep up with technological change, especially when multiplier effects from various strands of innovation can disrupt urban life. Therefore, there is an urgent need to train a future-focused workforce that can adapt from today's best practices and standards, be creative and critical, and come up with innovative options for road safety in the future. Likewise, there is an urgent need to demonstrate to public/private sector stakeholders the most likely transportation changes and challenges over the next two decades. This project has two aims: (i) offer a new graduate-level course focused on using urban corridors as test beds to imagine reasonably accurate future scenarios that are based on state-of-the-art knowledge from the current times, and (ii) to assemble an exhibition where the lessons learned will be shared more broadly with the transportation community through a virtual environment (VR) and posters.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $120,000.00
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Contract Numbers:
69A3552348308
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
Center for Transformative Infrastructure Preservation and Sustainability
North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota United States 58108-6050 -
Project Managers:
Tolliver, Denver
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Performing Organizations:
Civil Engineering Department
Denver, CO United States 80204 -
Principal Investigators:
Shirgaokar, Manish
Misra, Aditi
Marshall, Wesley E
- Start Date: 20260110
- Expected Completion Date: 20280109
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
- Source Data: CTIPS-069
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Connected vehicles; Drones; Education and training; Forecasting; Robots; Technological innovations; Urban areas
- Subject Areas: Education and Training; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01981715
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Center for Transformative Infrastructure Preservation and Sustainability
- Contract Numbers: 69A3552348308
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Mar 4 2026 4:43PM