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12/2020 - Dr. Shubham Agrawal has graduated from Purdue University with Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering in Fall 2020. He will be joining Clemson Univesity as a post-doc in Spring 2021.

12/2020 - Dr. Shubham Agrawal has graduated from Purdue University with Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering in Fall 2020. He will be joining Clemson Univesity as a post-doc in Spring 2021.

11/2020 Yangjiao Chen, a Ph.D. student with Dr. Peeta received the Helene M. Overly Scholarship of the Women's Transportation Seminar Atlanta Chapter, Fall 2020.

10/2020 - Dr. Jian Wang joined Southeast University as a Professor in Fall 2020.

Dr. Dustin Souders joined the college of Behavioral Social and Health Sciences department at Clemson University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2020.

8/2019 - Dr. Irina Benedyk joined the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering at SUNY Buffalo as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2019.

11/2019 Dr. Jian Wang received theCOTA Best Dissertation Award, 2019 awarded by the Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA), for the dissertation titled, System Modeling for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Announced and awarded at the COTA Winter Symposium in conjunction with the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting.

3/2019 - Drs. Irina Benedyk and Srinivas Peeta won the 2018 Editor’s Choice Award(2019), Palgrave Macmillan and Springer; for the paper “A Binary Probit Model to Analyze Freight Transportation Decision-Maker Perspectives for Container Shipping on the Northern Sea Route," in the journalMaritime Economics & Logistics.

10/2018 Dr. Peeta was recognized as the Special Guest and Distinguished Participant (2018); Government of India, at the ‘Move’: A Global Mobility Summit organized by the Government of India. Keynote Speaker and panelist for the session on “Reinventing Public Transport.” Attendance at the summit by invitation only, and included CEOs from many global firms in the mobility and transportation-related technology space, policymakers and ministers from governments, academia, thinktanks and media.

2018 - State University of New York Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly) presented Dr. Peeta with the Invited Visiting Scholar (2018). This award provides SUNY Poly faculty members opportunities to interact and to collaborate with scholars from other institutions.

2018 - Dr. Jian Wang received the 2018 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from Purdue University. This award recognizes students who have demonstrated excellence in research through peer-reviewed publications, awards for research, leadership, academic achievement, and participation in professional societies.

2018 - Dong Yoon Song received 2018 ITS Michigan Scholar Award from the Intelligent Transportation Society of Michigan for the best student poster presentation at the 2018 Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Transportation and Infrastructure, Ann Arbor, MI. It was awarded in recognition of the work titled “Effects of Cognitive Load on Driver Satisfaction Under Real-Time Travel Information Provision,” by Dong Yoon Song and Srinivas Peeta. The CCAT Student Poster Competition was held at the 2018 Global Symposium on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Infrastructure, sponsored by the USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, in Ann Arbor, MI, on March 7-8, 2018. Dong received an award check and certificate plaque for this award.

2017 - Dr. Peeta has been elected the Member, Technical Advisory Board(2017); Center for Transportation, Environment and Community Health (CTECH), USDOT Tier 1 University Transportation Center, Cornell University. 2017 - Dr. Peeta was Nominated for the 2nd Annual CE Outstanding Mentor of Engineering Graduate Students Award, Purdue University(2017).This award was created by Purdue’s College of Engineering to recognize one faculty member in each of the schools for his/her exemplary mentoring. It is the only student-run award in Civil Engineering. Nominations were submitted by current graduate students and recent alumni and were voted on anonymously by a committee of five current students.

2024

Atlanta News First Interviews Dr. Peeta (April, 2024)

Dr. Peeta was interviewed by Atlanta News First on April 30 in the ACT lab. During the interview, students demonstrated the driving simulator and Dr. Peeta commented on Waymo’s testing of driverless vehicles in Atlanta.

Fox News 5 Atlanta Interviews Dr. Peeta on (April, 2024)

Dr. Peeta was interviewed by Fox News 5 Atlanta (WAGA) on April 23 in the ACT lab. In the interview, Dr. Peeta provided insightful comments on Waymo’s testing of driverless vehicles in Atlanta and showcased students working on Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) experiments. Read more

2023

WSB-TV Interviews Dr. Peeta on Autonomous Vehicle Deployment in Atlanta (November, 2023)

In an interview with WSB-TV, Dr. Peeta shared his expert perspective on the deployment of autonomous vehicles in Atlanta. Dr. Peeta communicated cautious skepticism regarding the current state of driverless cars and their readiness for the complexities of Atlanta’s traffic. He emphasized the importance of extensive testing in real traffic conditions to ensure the smooth integration of such vehicles into the existing transportation framework. Read more

2022

New NIH Grant awarded (June, 2022)

A grant from the National Institutes of Health is awarded to support a joint Emory Eye Center-Georgia Tech investigation to improve driving safety of older drivers with peripheral vision loss due to glaucoma. These drivers demonstrate 3-5 times higher probability of being involved in vehicle collisions. Read more

2021

NSF Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) grant awarded (August, 2021)

The ACT Lab was awarded a $2.5 million grant to develop systematic deployment tools for improving travel mobility, safety, equity, and access in the City of Peachtree Corners, GA. Multi-objective and multi-agent optimization methods, machine learning, behavioral economics, and data and policy analytics, will be applied to generate multidimensional solutions for the community. Read more

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May, 2021

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras featured their alumnus Dr. Peeta on their Twitter page and recognized 25 years of his work with global universities and excellent mentorship.

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2020 Matthew G. Karlaftis Best Paper Award

(April, 2021)

Dr. Peeta and his former doctoral student Dr. Mohammand Miralinaghi Srinivas Peeta received the 2020 Matthew G. Karlaftis Best Paper Award from the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems for the paper “Design of Multiperiod Tradable Credit Scheme under Vehicular Emissions Caps and Traveler Heterogeneity in Future Credit Price Perception”. It was selected from the 66 articles published in the journal in 2020.

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ITS Seminar talk at UC Davis

(April, 2021)

Dr. Peeta has delivered a seminar talk at the University of California, Davis’s ITS weekly seminar series on the work “Deployable Decentralized Routing Strategies using Envy-Free Incentive Mechanisms for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Environments”.

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(January, 2021)

Dr. Srinivas Peeta was invited by the TRB Standing Committee on Transportation Network Modeling (AEP40) as a plenary speaker for the Lectern Session 1054, Invited Discussions of Transportation Network Modeling on January 25, 2021. Meeting Info

2020

Paper accepted for podium presentation

(July, 2020)

“Incentive-based Decentralized Routing for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles using Information Propagation”, a paper co-authored by Dr. Srinivas Peeta, Chaojie Wang, and Jian Wang was accepted for podium presentation at the 24th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT24), scheduled for July 24 to 26, 2021 at Beihang University, Beijing, China.

New Tier 1 University Transportation Center awarded

(August, 2020)

Dr. Srinivas Peeta is a member of the Georgia Tech-led $1 million Tier 1 University Transportation Center, T-SCORE: Transit – Serving Communities Optimally, Responsively, and Efficiently. The UTC aims to define a set of strategic visions that will guide transit into a sustainable and resilient future.

Autonomous transportation and connected roads (ATCR) seed grant awarded

(January, 2020)

Dr. Srinivas Peeta was awarded a grant from City of Peach Corners, GA for investigating the role of urban infrastructure modifications on the performance of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in mixed traffic environments. ACT lab’s high-fidelity driving simulator would be used to evaluate the infrastructure designs that can enhance transportation safety. read more

2019

Autonomous and Connected Transportation Lab’s Driving Simulator Facility

(May, 2019)

Dr. Srinivas Peeta is leading the A new driving simulator facility at Georgia Tech has been up and running since May 2019. Follow the link to check out the video.

Dr. Srinivas Peeta is recognized as IIT Madras distinguished alumnus

(April, 2019)

Dr. Srinivas Peeta was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. The honor was bestowed on only 159 alumni in the awards 25-year existence.

2017

Purdue’s Leadership on Connected and Autonomous Transportation

Dr. Srinivas Peeta is helping lead efforts to develop a Connected and Autonomous Transportation ecosystem at Purdue University, through a partnership with industry and the state of Indiana. As part of this, Dr. Peeta led a multidisciplinary team of faculty on a Discovery Park Big Idea Challenge competition proposal titled “Connected and Autonomous Transportation,” which was selected as one of the finalists in the competition. Further, he is working collaboratively with the Discovery Park Leadership to foster industry partnerships.

ARPA-E NEXTCAR

Dr. Srinivas Peeta is a member of a multidisciplinary team of Purdue faculty and industry partners on a U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) NEXTCAR project that seeks to reduce vehicle fuel consumption by 20 percent through automated systems that interconnect cars and trucks and the transportation infrastructure using sensors and online cloud technology. The project begins in May 2017, and will receive $5 million over a 3-year period. It focuses on Class 8 trucks, namely tractor trailers, and team members include Cummins Inc., Peloton Technology, Peterbilt Motors Co., the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and ZF TRW. Dr. Peeta will lead the team on Simulation. More information can be found at:

NetZero Integrated Housing and Transportation Solutions

Dr. Srinivas Peeta is one of the four principal investigators on research that seeks to develop affordable housing solutions for low-income families that ideally have a net zero energy footprint through an integrated approach to transportation and housing. These solutions leverage advances in connectivity, sensors, feedback mechanisms and information delivery, in addition to an integrated smart energy grid to transform the affordable housing sector so that onsite renewable energy and smart home and transportation technologies are the rule rather than the exception. As part of the effort, the multidisciplinary research team is working with developers of testbed efforts at some locations in Indiana to develop innovative transportation strategies that are integrated with innovative housing solutions through sustainable business models. This project is one of the winners of the inaugural Discovery Park Big Idea Challenge competition, announced in March 2017.

2016

USDOT Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

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:

Smart City Solutions, India

On behalf of the U.S. Department of State and the Institute for Sustainable Communities, Dr. Srinivas Peeta visited India in October 2016 as an American Transportation expert to support smart city solutions in India. As part of the visit, he interacted with stakeholders from the government, industry and academia to identify sustainable solutions in the Indian context.

2015

On October 29, 2015, National Center for Transportation Systems Productivity and Management (NCTSPM) at Georgia Tech will welcome Dr. Srinivas Peeta to the Transporation Speaker Series.

Podium presentation and poster presentation at 21st International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory at Kobe, Japan.

University in Chongqing, China welcomes Dr. Srinivas Peeta as Honorary Guest Professor.

Celebration of Faculty Careers Colloquium, College of Engineering, Purdue University

On April 15, 2015, Dr. Srinivas Peeta presented a talk titled “Networks All Around!” as part of the Celebration of Faculty Careers Colloquium, College of Engineering, Purdue University. It illustrates some of the network-related research that he was involved with over a two-decade period. The talk and details are at:

2014

TRB AT045 Intermodal Freight Award (2015); awarded for the paper “Rail-Truck Multimodal Freight Collaboration: A Statistical Analysis of Freight Shipper Perspectives,” by Guo, Y. Peeta, S. and Mannering, F. Read more.