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I enjoyed the opportunity to participate in EV Roadmap 7, sponsored by Drive Oregon and held in Portland, Oregon from July 24-25, 2014. I moderated an excellent panel on "Electric Vehicles as The Testbed For Connected Cars and ITS," that included Prof. Matt Barth and Scott Belcher (pictured), and I also spoke in a panel on "Vehicle Automation," with my talk entitled, "Perspectives on Degrees of Vehicle Connectivity, Automation and Autonomous Vehicles." Overall a fascinating experience.
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We are very happy to be hosting Stefan Groer as a visiting scholar from TU Darmstadt, in Germany. This is a continuation of our longstanding partnership with the team led by Prof. Dr. Manfred Boltze, who is the Head of the Section for Traffic Planning and Transport Technology of Technische Universität Darmstadt. Stefan presented a seminar entitled, "The Role of Local Climate Action Plans in Transportation" which describes his ongoing PhD research. We are excited to have Stefan in Portland for two months (during the best Portland weather!) and we hope that our partnership with TU Darmstadt will continue into the future!
This is slightly belated but I was very happy back in April to serve as a member of Dr. Wei Feng's dissertation committee. His dissertation is entitled "Analyses of Bus Travel Time Reliability and Transit Signal Priority at the Stop-to-Stop Segment Level," and is an innovative piece of work using high resolution data from TriMet buses as well as the City of Portland's adaptive traffic signal system. I first met Wei in China in 2006, and ultimately recruited him to come to the U.S., so I was very happy and proud of his work here at PSU and I wish him will in his new position with the Chicago Transit Authority starting in September!