December , 2016
Dr. Srinivas Peeta is the Associate Director of the USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), a multi-university consortium selected by the USDOT as the new Federal Region 5 University Transportation Center in December 2016. CCAT will receive about $2.75 million from the USDOT per year and $2.75 million cost-share from non-federal partners. Dr. Peeta is the Purdue Principal Investigator for CCAT which has the University of Michigan (lead institution) and Purdue as the major partners, along with 4 other Midwest institutions. CCAT seeks to provide national and regional leadership for connected and automated transportation research, science, education, training, and deployment. Dr. Peeta’s connected and autonomous transportation research focuses on modeling and implementation, human factors and simulation environments, enabling technologies, policy and planning, infrastructure design and management, and control and operations. Further information on CCAT can be found at: http://ccat.umtri.umich.edu/