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March 2, 2018

U.S. Department of Transportation
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Upcoming T3e Webinar! 


Energy-Efficient Adaptive Cruise Control for Electric Connected and Autonomous Vehicles 

March 8th, 1:00-2:00 PM ET– In this webinar Professor Jing Dong and doctoral student Liang Hu of Iowa State University, and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chaoru Lu of Norwegian University of Science and Technology, present their research and propose the “Energy-Efficient Electric Driving Model” for electric, connected, and autonomous vehicles. They will explain how this adaptive cruise control strategy performs in a traffic stream with mixed autonomous and human-driven vehicles.

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More FREE ITS Training Opportunities

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USDOT Webinar Series: Updating the ITS Knowledge Resource Databases


March 27th, 1:00-2:00 PM ET This is the third webinar in the USDOT's What's New in ITS Deployment webinar series. Speakers will demonstrate how to update the ITS Knowledge Resource Database to better analyze, plan, and evaluate ITS projects.

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From the Archive: 

Connected Autonomous Vehicles on a Mixed Traffic Highway (2/8/17)


This presentation of research by Professor Xiaopeng Li and doctoral student Amir Ghiasi of the University of South Florida included two proposals for adapting transportation systems to operate in a mixed traffic environment where a portion of vehicles are connected and autonomous and the remaining are human-driven. 

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ITS ePrimer Module 1: Introduction to ITS


ITS in the 21st century provides unprecedented opportunities to monitor, evaluate, and manage multimodal transportation systems to maximize safety, efficiency, and user convenience. This module introduces the ten-module ITS ePrimer series and provides an overview of the basics of ITS.

    

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From Our Partners:

Resource to Support Strategic Workforce Development for Transit Agencies 


March 27th, 2:00-3:00 PM– This webinar, hosted by the National Transit Institute, will explore the importance of knowledge management (KM) and provide guidance on implementing KM strategies in transit agencies. The presenters will discuss action plans for developing particular aspects of KM, analysis of KM strategies at several transit agencies, and a catalog of KM technology tools and resources.