Centre of Excellence Connected Intelligent Urban Transport (CIUT) at IIT Madras

We are happy to announce that proposal for a Centre of Excellence Connected Intelligent Urban Transport (CIUT) by our colleagues Dr. Karthik K. Srinivasan and Dr. Bhargava Rama Chilukuri from Dept. of Civil Engineering (IIT Madras, India, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIT_Madras) was selected under the Govt. of India's Institute of Eminence scheme. The goal of the center is to engage in cutting edge research on Connected and Intelligent Transport integrating the impacts of its various components such as driver, vehicle, pavement, surrounding traffic, etc. to evaluate and develop models to optimize the user-level and system-level performance in the areas of mobility, health and safety, asset management, and sustainability. 

Towards this goal, the CIUT faculty will focus on advancing existing relationships with TUD to the next level through student and faculty visits, collaborative workshops, conducting short-term courses, proposal writing, etc. The faculty at IITM will work closely with the research team from TU Dresden consisting of Prof. Dr. Ostap Okhrin, Dr. Martin Treiber, and our students to pursue collaborative research in the areas of data science, statistics, transportation science, and physics to better understand the complexities of heterogeneous traffic in the era of emerging technologies.