Universities

Cal Poly - Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group
Based at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group is a non-partisan organization focused on the risk, ethical, and social impact of emerging sciences and technologies.

Carnegie Mellon - General Motors- Collaborative Research Labs 
General Motors and Carnegie Mellon are working hard to make the car of the future the care of today. Since 2000, the world’s largest automaker has contributed over $16 million to establish two Collaborative Research Labs (CRLs) at the university, the Information Technologies CRL and the Autonomous Driving CRL.

MIT Intelligent Transportation Research Center
MIT’s Microsystems Technology Laboratories established the Intelligent Transportation Research Center (ITRC) in September 1998 as a contact point of industry, government, and academia for ITS research and development. ITRC focuses on the key Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies, including an integrated network of transportation information, automatic crash & incident detection, notification and response, advanced crash avoidance technology, advanced transportation monitoring and management, etc., in order to improve the safety, security, efficiency, mobile access, and environment.

Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering
Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering (PAVE) is an undergraduate student-led research group at Princeton University dedicated to advancing and promoting the field of robotics through competitive challenges, self-guided research and community outreach while providing extracurricular learning and leadership opportunities to student members.

Stanford Automated Driving: Legislative and Regulatory Action
This page, maintained by Stanford, tracks legislative and regulatory developments related to automated driving, automatic driving, autonomous driving, self-driving vehicles, and driverless cars.

Stanford Center for Automotive Research
CARS is the interdisciplinary automotive affiliates program at Stanford University. The vision of CARS is to create a community of faculty and students from a range of disciplines at Stanford with leading industry researchers to radically re-envision the automobile for unprecedented levels of safety, performance, sustainability, and enjoyment.

Stanford Revs Program
The Revs Program at Stanford established a new trans-disciplinary field connecting the past, present and future of the automobile. The program aims to put the automobile at the center of the university and raise the quality of academic discourse at Stanford and beyond.

Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation
Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pennsylvania

About 35,000 lives are lost every year due to road accidents in the US. In intersections alone, there are about 8,500 fatalities. More than a million accidents and injuries per year take a major toll on productivity. Most accidents occur due to human errors such as distractions, tiredness or other forms of impairment. Traffic delays cause driving commuters to spend an aggregate week stuck in traffic every year, leading to huge losses in productivity. TSET is a University Transportation Center that focuses on technologies that will make transportation safer and more efficient.

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI) develops solutions to the problems and challenges facing all modes of transportation. The Institute conducts over 600 research projects annually with about 200 sponsors at all levels of government and the private sector. In the laboratory and the classroom, TTI researchers help prepare students for transportation careers.

UC Berkeley’s California PATH Program
Established in 1986, Partners for Advanced Transportation TecHnology (PATH) is administered by the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with Caltrans. PATH is a multi-disciplinary program with staff, faculty, and students from universities statewide, and cooperative projects with private industry, state and local agencies, and non-profit institutions.

University of Florida Transportation Institute
The UF Transportation Institute (UFTI) aims to advance the transportation state-of-the-art, disseminate research results, and provide educational opportunities related to transportation across the lifespan. UFTI brings together faculty, staff, and students from many diverse backgrounds to provide solutions to a variety of transportation problems. The Institute was created in 2013 as an umbrella organization housing several other transportation-related centers within the University of Florida.

University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute
Since 1965, UMTRI has played a key role in the reduction of the negative societal impacts associated with transportation around the world. We remain committed to research that leads to safer vehicles, safer occupants, and safer roads. Our technological and behavioral solutions lead to transportation systems that are safe and sustainable for all.

University of South Florida - The Automated Vehicle Institute @ CUTR 
The mission of The Automated Vehicle Institute @ CUTR is to help communities, business and government navigate complex policy and planning issues that are soon to make traditional transportation planning assumptions flawed or obsolete.

University of Texas - Center for Transportation Research 
The Center for Transportation Research is a nationally recognized research institution focusing on transportation research, education, and public service. Established in 1963 as the Center for Highway Research, its current and ongoing projects address virtually all aspects of transportation, including economics, multimodal systems, traffic congestion relief, transportation policy, materials, structures, transit, environmental impacts, driver behavior, land use, geometric design, accessibility, and pavements.

University of Virginia’s Center for Transportation Studies
The Center for Transportation Studies is the focal point for education, research, and service in transportation engineering at the University of Virginia.  We encourage you to explore our site to learn more about our people, programs, and opportunities for you to grow with us.

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) conducts research to save lives, save time, save money and protect the environment. Researchers and students from multiple fields are continuously developing the techniques and technologies to solve transportation challenges from vehicular, driver, infrastructure and environmental perspectives.