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The mission statement of the Connected Vehicle/Infrastructure University Transportation Center (CVI-UTC) is to conduct research that will advance surface transportation through the application of innovative research and using connected-vehicle and infrastructure technologies to improve safety, state of good repair, economic competitiveness, livable communities, and environmental sustainability.

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Hao Chen
Hao Chen is currently a PhD. Candidate in Transportation Systems Engineering Program with the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech. He is also working as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Sustainable Mobility at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). His primary areas of interest are traffic flow modeling and simulation, traffic state/travel time estimation and prediction, artificial intelligence applications on Intelligent Transportation Systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, traffic surveillance... Read More

White House to honor VTTI's Tom Dingus as 'Champion of Change'

Thomas Dingus, director of the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, will be honored May 8 by the White House as a Champion of Change, a group of Americans seen as making positive change. This year's theme is Transportation Technology Solutions for the 21st century... Read More

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Emergency Vehicle to Vehicle Communication
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication can be used to improve the safety and efficiency of emergency response. Such communication, with driver compliance to guidance, can ease driver stress associated with trying to accommodate an approaching emergency vehicle but encountering roadside obstacles or limited space to maneuver to the right. The communication can also aid emergency vehicle turning movements, particularly right turns, by clearing the right lane rather than the left. Based on instrumented vehicle data, this project will develop and test algorithms for guiding personal vehicles out of the path of the emergency vehicles and develop a message communication prototype.

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