The 2023 Annual Symposium
The Center for Transportation Research’s Annual Symposium was held on Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 at The Commons Conference Center on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus.
| Time |
Agenda Item |
| ~11:00 – 12:15 |
Posters – Transportation Research at CTR (download PDF) |
| 12:15 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:00 – 2:15 |
Podium Session |
- Welcome UT (John Ekerdt / Amit Bhasin) (5 mins)
- Welcome TxDOT (Marc Williams / Darran Anderson) (5 mins)
- Mac Shelby Award Presentation (10 mins)
- RTI Outstanding Project Leader Awards (Kevin Pete) (10 mins)
Keynote 1:
- Perspectives on the Future of Transportation
- Rohan Patel, Tesla, Sr. Global Director Public Policy (20 mins)
Keynote 2:
- Traffic Lights 2.0: Unlocking Transportation Safety
- Amit Bhasin, CTR; Mike Arellano, TxDOT, Ashby Johnson, CAMPO (20 mins)
|
| 2:15 – 2:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 2:15 – 5:15 |
Demos (Atrium and Outside) |
Including…
- CTR / UT Austin (Texas SMARTTrack, Automated skid measurement, Drone, ME Autonomous Vehicle)
- Volkswagen (VW Autonomous Driving)
- Tesla (Latest version of FSD)
- Intel (Fleet management and pedestrian detection)
- Mobileye (Collision Avoidance Computer Vision AI)
- Rekor (Real time crash detection)
- Beep (Autonomous Driving)
- Yunex (Vulnerable road user detection)
- The Ray (Proving ground for evolving ideas)
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| 2:45 – 3:45 |
Panel Discussion – First Annual Technology Outlook on Safety, Operations, and Management |
Panelists:
- Erika Kemp (TxDOT STR), Eduardo Perales (TxDOT ELP), Brenda Bustillos (TxDOT HOU), Kristie Chin (CTR), Dan Rozycki (Transtec Group)
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Symposium Archive
Please visit the Symposium Archive for information and materials from other years.
