Transportation Technology

  1. Aerial view of an Ann Arbor intersection. Image courtesy: Michigan Engineering

    $9.8M to boost connected vehicle research at U-M, expand Ann Arbor deployment

  2. Roundabout at State Street and Ellsworth Road in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Image courtesy: UMTRI

    World’s first realistic simulated driving environment based on ‘crash-prone’ Michigan intersection

  3. Engineering student Chloe Acosta plugs in an EV on the University of Michigan's North Campus. Acosta is also powertrain director on the MRacing team, which recently switched to an electric powertrain. Image credit: Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering

    $130M Electric Vehicle Center launches at U-Michigan

  4. Concept illustration showing children on upgraded vs. not upgraded bus. Image credit: Emma Bumstead, Michigan Creative

    Upgraded school buses linked to increased student attendance

  5. From left, Sean Shen, a research engineer at UMTRI, Xintao Yan and Haowei Sun, both civil engineering PhD students, prepare to take out one of the autonomous vehicles for a test run at Mcity on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

    Simulated terrible drivers cut the time and cost of AV testing by a factor of one thousand

  6. Construction underway at the Ford Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn, Michigan on Friday, January 21, 2022. The new Michigander EV Scholars Program will help expand the workforce to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles. Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering

    U-M joins state of Michigan in drive to recruit talent for EV and mobility jobs

  7. A specially equipped Lincoln MKZ, based at Mcity, is an open-source connected and automated research vehicle available to U-M faculty and students, startups and others to help accelerate innovation. Image credit: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering

    $15 million for connected and automated transportation, renewing U-M-led Midwest hub

  8. Map of percentage change in transportation energy burden from current on-road vehicle stock to a new battery-electric vehicle. Negative percentages indicate energy cost savings for EVs compared to gasoline powered vehicles. Areas with the greatest savings, shown in green, include the West Coast states and parts of the East and South. Transportation energy burden is the percentage of household income spent on fueling with gasoline or charging with electricity. Adapted from Vega-Perkins et al. in Environmental Research Letters, January 2023.

    EV transition will benefit most US vehicle owners, but lowest-income Americans could get left behind

  9. Professor Pingsha Dong, the Robert F. Beck Collegiate Professor of Engineering, surrounded by Abdul Khan, left, and Yuning Zhang, both PhD students in naval architecture and marine engineering, at the Herbert H. Dow Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, on Friday, November 18, 2022.   Their research involves welding plastic to metal in a newly discovered technique where a thin strip of a nylon-6 (PA6) film provides the oxygen needed to force the formation of a nice, connected interface between the metal and plastic.   Image credit: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing

    Plastic to metal, steel to aluminum—the future of welding and lightweight vehicles

  10. Conceptual illustration of an H2@Scale (Hydrogen at Scale) energy system.

    ‘Hydrogen road map’: The lightest element can play a heavy-duty role in Michigan’s clean-energy transition

  11. Icon illustration of a person chasing a bus. Image adapted from U-M Poverty Solutions infographic

    U-M study finds 1 in 4 four adults experience transportation insecurity

  12. An open-source connected and automated research vehicle parked on the roundabout at the Mcity Test Facility, the world’s first purpose-built proving ground for testing the performance and safety of connected and automated vehicles and technologies under controlled and realistic conditions. Image credit: Joseph Xu/Michigan Engineering

    $5M to enable remote, next-generation autonomous vehicle testing at Mcity

  13. $11M DOE center for next-gen battery technology

  14. Aerial view of a cargo ship. Image credit: Venti Views, Unsplash

    U-M study explores flow of goods amid disruptions, offers advice: Think globally, supply locally

  15. Conceptual art of a U.S. Postal Service Next Generation Delivery Vehicle. Image credit: United States Postal Service

    U-M analysis challenges USPS electric vehicle environmental study

  16. Teenage boy is delivering some groceries to an elderly woman. Image credit: iStock

    Carbon emissions and grocery shopping: EVs and home delivery better, ‘trip chaining’ and robots best

  17. A diagram of the semiconductor nanowires made of indium, gallium and nitrogen—decorated with gold and chromium oxide nanoparticles. When the light hits the nanowire, it frees up electrons and the positively charged "holes" that electrons leave behind. On the nanowire itself, the holes oxidize water into protons (hydrogen) and oxygen. Meanwhile, some electrons are drawn into the metal nanoparticles, where they break apart carbon dioxide. The molecules recombine into the carbon monoxide, hydrogen and methane molecules that make up syngas. Credit: Roksana Rashid, McGill University.

    Solar-powered chemistry uses carbon dioxide and water to make feedstock for fuels, chemicals

  18. Promising MOFs were identified computationally and experimentally demonstrate remarkable methane uptake that outperforms known benchmarks both volumetrically and gravimetrically. Advanced set of interatomic potentials that explicitly accounts for the presence of coordinatively unsaturated sites (CUS) in MOFs were used to identify the high-capacity MOFs that were previously overlooked due to the limitation of the general interatomic potentials. Image credit: Angewandte Chemie

    Natural gas could bridge gap from gasoline to electric vehicles, thanks to metal-organic frameworks

  19. U-M Block M Logo

    Climate change and Michigan: Challenges and opportunities

  20. Autonomous hybrid trucks driving on wireless charging lane. Image credit: iStock

    New U-M study assesses the impact of automation on long-haul trucking