Accomplishments

On August 25, 2026, Karen Lightman attended the ITS America webinar: V2X Accelerator Phase 1 Progress, Insights, and Lessons Learned Series Webinar #2: Utah DOT. The webinar featured the project...

On August 13, the PennSTART Training Committee met to discuss progress in workforce development related activities of PennSTART including recent developments in Traffic Incident Management (TIM) including the newly opened...

On August 6, 2026, Safety21 welcomed representatives from PennDOT and the City of Pittsburgh’s Mayors Office and Department of Mobility and Infrastructure (DOMI) to CMU’s Robotics Innovation Center for a...

On July 28, 2026 at the SAE Automated Transportation Symposium (ATS), Lightman participated in a 1/2 day workshop “Ready for AVs? A Collaborative Workshop on AV Deployment Maturity.” Lightman joined...

On July 27, 2026 at the SAE Automated Transportation Symposium (ATS), Karen Lightman joined DC Department of Transportation’s (DDOT) Stephanie Dock for a fireside chat during the workshop “Shoot for...

On July 28, 2026, Karen Lightman moderated a panel “AI is Changing the Way We Manage Traffic” hosted by ITS America. The webinar (with over 200 live attendees!) discussed where...

Safety21 researcher Katherine Flanigan (Carnegie Mellon University) helped run the 4th International Workshop on Social Infrastructure Systems (SocialSys’26) at ACM BuildSys 2026.

Safety21 researcher Steve Smith (Carnegie Mellon University) spoke on multiple panels related to AI and the research enterprise at the 2026 CRA Summit.

Safety21 released a Research Recap for the Morgan State University project “Improve Highway Safety by Reducing the Risks of Landslides (Phase 2).” Safety21 researchers included Zhuping Sheng, Yi Liu, and...

On July 20, 2026, Karen Lightman, as well as Safety21 faculty researcher Nicolas Martelaro, attended the CMU Human Computer Interaction Institute final student capstone presentation – “A Better Language for...

Safety21 released a Research Recap for the University of Pennsylvania project “F1Tenth Autonomous Training Platform, Courseware and Community Activities.” The research included Safety21 researcher Rahul Mangharam. Research Recaps are one-page...