TxDOT launches AI Strategic Plan

AUSTIN – Amid a rapidly evolving digital landscape, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help make Texas roads safer and enhance mobility across the state.

TxDOT has released its Artificial Intelligence Strategic Plan, marking a significant step toward enhancing processes, policies and the responsible management of Texas' transportation investments through AI. The plan identifies key use cases and provides strategic recommendations to prepare TxDOT for the technological innovations that will reshape its operations.

State transportation funding system unsustainable, former secretary says

Wisconsin’s current transportation funding system is unsustainable, according to a former state transportation secretary.

Speaking during a recent Wisconsin Policy Forum panel, former Department of Transportation Secretary Mark Gottlieb argued any state transportation funding structure should be adequate, sustainable and equitable “across different user types” and socioeconomic groups.

“The system that we have right now probably is failing in all three of those areas,” he said.

Connected and Automated Transportation Certificate aims to include more engineers

Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies are among the most critical and exciting areas of research in all of engineering today, but they’re often locked behind doors not everyone can enter.

The rate of development has many educational institutions struggling to keep pace. Whether it’s a lack of curriculum offerings, facilities or expert access, many students don’t get the training necessary to gain a foothold in the field. And it’s a growing field in need of more engineers to make the promise of these technologies a reality.

Led by the University of Michigan, the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT) is launching a free online certificate program to crack that door open for graduate and undergraduate engineering students at schools at the eight CCAT member schools.