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Mobility Community Meeting

Mobility Community Meeting

September 7, 2018
2 – 5 p.m.
Kellogg Center, Centennial Room

Join us for a kick-off meeting as MSU begins to build an on-campus community of researchers investigating all different aspects of mobility and autonomous transportation. The meeting is co-sponsored by Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies Hsu and by the Center for Interdisciplinarity.

The overarching goals of this meeting are:

  1. Coordination of campus mobility research, development, testing, and implementation efforts
  2. External visibility of efforts, including comprehensive mobility web portal

Please note that we have established the website https://mobility.msu.edu. Populating it with a comprehensive overview of our infrastructure, ongoing research projects, partnership opportunities, and future plans will be part of this meeting.

Agenda

  1. Status updates and plans
    1. Campus mobility initiative (Bauer)
    2. Technology (Radha or Verboncoeur)
    3. Social sciences and other mobility efforts (Cotton, Pentland)
    4. Research on legal and business applications (?) 
  2. SAIC autonomous shuttle project
  3. Plans for Spartan Village (Verboncoeur)
  4. Mobility Czar (Kempel)
  5. NSF, DoT, ERC, or other multidisciplinary external funding opportunities (discussion)
  6. Outreach: website, media collection, and curation, branding (Bertram)