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Posts tagged with 'University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI)'

23 Aug, 2012

John Day   This week the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) launched Safety Pilot Model Development, which they said is the largest real-life test to date of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication. The year-long study, in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area, involves 2,880 cars, trucks and buses. … Read More

Savari Networks, Safety Pilot Model Development, U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Cohda Wireless, connected vehicle, Arada Systems, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), SAE 2735, Dedicated Short Range Communications, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), IEEE 1609, Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments

15 Sep, 2011

A fundamental change for Toyota

Posted by John Day

John Day Chuck Gulash, the engineer who heads Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), was asked this week about the connection between the Center, which was formed in January, and the furor over unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles. The CSRC, he said, is a direct result of the promise Toyota Motor Corporation President Akio Toyoda made to Congress and the American people. The CSRC initiative … Read More

Collaborative Safety Research Center (CSRC), Akio Toyoda, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis, Wayne State University School of Medicine, MIT AgeLab, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI), Toyota, University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), Wake Forest School of Medicine, Transportation Active Safety Institute (TASI), Virginia Tech, Washtenaw Area Trasnsportation Study