A special thank you to the Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) for the invitation to participate in their 17th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals (CICTP2017) from July 7-9, 2017, in Shanghai, China, hosted by Tongji University. I had the opportunity to speak in the opening session about the Future of Transportation and in another session about the developments in Connected and Automated Vehicle deployment. I also enjoyed participating in a great student session containing presentations in Traffic Flow Theory. I'm grateful to COTA and Tongji for their hospitality! I also had the chance to ride high speed rail from Beijing to Shanghai and take the Maglev (max speed 270 mph) to the Shanghai airport. Very inspiring!