Karen Lightman joined the Digital Corridors Initiative (DCI) Coalition, Joint Workshop between AASHTO Anchor States and the Data Collection, Quality and Validation Working Group on October 9, 2026. The DCI...
Karen Lightman, Executive Director of Safety21, has been appointed as adjunct courtesy faculty in Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The appointment will create additional opportunities for...
On October 7, 2026, Karen Lightman participated in the monthly PennSTART Construction Committee meeting. The PennSTART track is expected to be fully constructed this year and paved next spring. The...
On October 1, 2026, Karen Lightman attended the “Co-creating tomorrow: Community Driven Engineering for a Resilient Future” webinar series that explored the critical intersection of community wisdom and engineering expertise....
On October 2, 2026 Karen Lightman attended the MIT Mobility Forum – AI Frontiers in Transportation Research. The session featured presentations from Lijun Sun, Associate Professor, McGill University, Sharon Xuan...
The 2026 Transportation Innovation Summer Camp hosted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley included three transportation-focused activities for high school students: (1) Experiencing Autonomous Mobility in a Driving...
On September 30, 2026 Karen Lightman attended the inaugural ITS America Innovation Forum held in Washington, DC. The event explored the technologies and policies that will shape the next decade...
Safety21 Ph.D. student researcher Rezoan Sultan (Morgan State University) recently presented at the Morgan State University (MSU) STEM Expo 2026. They had an interactive display that allowed visitors to increase...
Today’s Smart Safety Connection Seminar featured Safety21 researcher Carlee Joe-Wong (Carnegie Mellon University). Her talk was entitled, “Safety-Congestion Tradeoffs in Autonomous Vehicle Deployments.” View the seminar recording here.
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On September 24, Karen Lightman participated in the ITS America Automated Vehicles Committee Meeting which was hosted in collaboration with the ITS America AI Committee, which Lightman co-chairs. Lightman helped...
On September 24, 2026, Karen Lightman participated in the monthly meeting of the PennSTART Training Committee. The group discussed the recent visit by the USDOT National Highway Safety Transportation Administration...
On September 24, 2026, Karen Lightman joined a session held at Waynesburg University in Greene County, PA for a report out from the Carnegie Mellon University team led by Valerie...