The Tickle College of Engineering continues to rank among the top third of colleges across the nation, according to the US News & World Report’s Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs released… Read more: TCE Ranks 37th Among Public Colleges in U.S. News and World Report Undergraduate Rankings

Robotic vehicles can optimize the flow of traffic in cities even when mixed in with vehicles driven by humans, thereby improving traffic efficiency, safety and energy consumption, my colleagues and I found.… Read more: Robocars promise to improve traffic even when most of the cars around them are driven by people, study finds

The Institute for Future Mobility (FMI) has hired researchers to fill four of six cluster positions. The four researchers will form a collaborative community cluster led by Professor Kevin Heaslip,… Read more: Four Future Mobility Institute Cluster Faculty Hired

Engineering groups from the University of Tennessee received two of the seven grants awarded by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD) through the Transportation Network Growth Opportunity… Read more: UT Projects Receive State Transportation Funding

At our second Cocke County High School event of the year, WBIR filmed our program in action, and aired the story on August 22nd. During the event, the WBIR reporter… Read more: WBIR Channel 10 Covered the #GetConvinced Program

Summertime is when drivers hit the roads in droves. Families and friends are ticking off destinations from their bucket lists. The National Highway Safety Administration offers summer driving safety tips… Read more: Operation Hands-Free Bus Tour

In May of 2024, Carol Hatmaker officially retired from CTR. Carol has graciously agreed to work part-time during the next several months to aid new Business Manager Tammy Johnson with… Read more: Carol Hatmaker Retires after 23 Years of Being a Vital Part of CTR

Six CTR staff members completed their undergraduate and Ph.D. programs in the second quarter of 2024. Sarah La Fetra, Joseph Dunbar, Sophia Jodoin, and Elizabeth Duty graduated this spring! All… Read more: Congratulations CTR Graduates!

Three Mid-Roof 15-passenger Transits and a Chevy Equinox were delivered through the TN Vans Program. The Chevy Equinox went to the TN Children’s Home location in Knoxville and will allow… Read more: TN Vans Had a Busy Spring 2024

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, remains a top school for graduate engineering programs, according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools 2024 rankings, released June 18. U.S. News published… Read more: Graduate Engineering Programs Ranked Among Top in the Nation

TTAP is excited to announce that it will offer the Road Safety Champion Program (RSCP). Starting in July 2024, maintenance, construction, planning, and engineering professionals can embark on this journey… Read more: TTAP Presents the Road Safety Champion Program

The Tennessee Transportation Assistance Program (TTAP) offers training courses and workshops to engineers, planners, designers, technicians, and other transportationpersonnel. While all the courses and workshops offered by TTAP are valuable… Read more: Congratulating Nine Newly Certified TATE Recipients

Transportation electrification is Tennessee’s future. Major automotive manufacturers are pivoting toward electric vehicles (EVs), battery suppliers are opening or ramping up operations in the Southeast — now seen as the… Read more: Motlow State Community college is developing future electric vehicle technology workers

As you drive to the beach this summer, you may find yourself playing road trip games based on the license plates around you. How many states’ plates do you see?… Read more: Han’s Ongoing Research Uses Innovations from Generations of Vols

Sazzadul Saykat and Caleb Napper each grab a side of the large mixing bowl filled with concrete and carry it across the lab floor to pour into a funnel. As… Read more: UT Research Team Creating Innovative, Eco-Friendly Concrete Mixtures

CGTN’s Asieh Namdar speaks to Kevin Heaslip, Director of the Center for Transportation Research, about the ship losing power and issuing a mayday before crash. Watch the video here

The 2024 TRB Annual Meeting took place from January 7–11. Transportation administrators, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers all came to DC to participate in more than 600 workshops, lectern sessions,… Read more: CEE Faculty and Students Present at TRB Annual Meeting Conference

Following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Kevin Heaslip, director for the Center for Transportation Research, spoke with NBC News’ Joe Fryer about why the bridge collapsed and… Read more: Transportation expert Kevin Heaslip: Bridges are not built to withstand cargo ship collisions

In February of 2022, as the country was still recovering from the supply chain shocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Toks Omishakin as the state’s fourth… Read more: From Bike Lanes to Freight Trains, CA Secretary of Transportation Toks Omishakin (’22) Thinks in Connections

Kevin Bai, associate professor in the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), shares a principle-investigator role in a collaboration with the ABB Group’s US Research Center to… Read more: Bai leads $5M Grant from DOE-VTO to Produce Smaller, More Efficient Motor Drive Systems for Electric Vehicles

Alberta wants EV owners to pull their own weight when it comes to paying for road maintenance – but battery-electric passenger vehicles, while considerably heavier than their gas-powered counterparts, are… Read more: EVs are heavier than gas cars, but are they harder on roads?

E-bikes have captured widespread attention across the U.S., and for good reason. They are the most energy-efficient way to move from place to place, providing exercise in the process, and… Read more: E-bike incentives are a costly way to cut carbon emissions, but they also promote health, equity and cleaner air

A new study has highlighted a concerning safety issue. As the vehicles on the roadways in the United States have gotten heavier, the guardrails are not functioning as well when… Read more: Heavier vehicles on U.S. roadways putting strain on guardrails during crashes, study finds

Day one of the event is in the books after presentations and “asks” from several speakers. Now, the hard work begins. Deb Crawford clearly outlined the opportunities and challenges that… Read more: Deb Crawford discusses foundation for success at TEAM TN Summit

UT graduate students Ashley Hightower and Grace Whitehouse both received prestigious Eisenhower fellowship grants to help fund their research in the transportation field. Hightower received the maximum amount awarded. Read… Read more: Hightower, Whitehouse Awarded Prestigious Eisenhower Fellowships

Tennessee currently supports 40 percent of the EV manufacturing jobs and investments in the southeast, but ranks 41st in the country for industrial R&D. As transportation evolves, and the focus… Read more: How Tennessee can become a hub for transportation innovation

Tennessee is poised to become the next great hub of American innovation. Home to one of the most prominent national labs, multiple top-tier research universities, a growing workforce and enviable… Read more: People, partnerships and place: UT’s committed to drive the innovation economy | Opinion

Traffic is a nightmare no matter where you go and now Tennessee lawmakers want to help alleviate some of the stress that comes with commuting. A bill called the Transportation… Read more: Paid ‘choice lanes’ could be built on Tennessee interstates. Here’s what that means

Electric vehicles, now the choice for the environmentally minded, could be become the standard for everyone if Tennessee succeeds in an ambitious goal to engineer fast-charging alternatives to fossil fuel-burning… Read more: 600 miles on a single charge? How Tennessee could shape the future of electric vehicles

Can you give us an overview of what you and the RIA are doing here at Railtex?At the practical level, the Railway Industry Association (RIA) is at Railtex for the… Read more: Q&A with RIA’s David Clarke: Decarbonisation in rail

Batteries make EVs heavier than gas-powered vehiclesCivil and environmental engineering professor Kevin Heaslip, director of the University of Tennessee’s Center for Transportation Research, said EVs often weigh 30% more than… Read more: Carry that weight? Electric vehicles outweigh gas cars but aren’t main culprit of road wear

For Nashvillians who don’t have a car or don’t want to drive to an event, rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft are popular options. But just a decade ago, these… Read more: Nashville’s Ride Ecosystem

Federal investigators renewed their recommendation that major freight railroads equip every locomotive with the kind of autonomous sensors that could have caught the track flaws that caused a fatal 2021… Read more: Montana Train Derailment Report Renews Calls for Automated Systems to Detect Track Problems

Twelve days after a portion of Interstate 95 collapsed in north Philadelphia during a truck fire, officials opened a temporary six-lane roadway to serve motorists while a permanent overpass is… Read more: Bridge collapses, road repairs, evacuations: How transportation agencies plan for large-scale traffic disruptions

Knox County, home to some of the most congested roads in Tennessee, has traffic and infrastructure issues that will take a generation to solve. “You can choose any high schooler,… Read more: Will Knox County get choice lanes to fix traffic congestion on busy Interstate 40?

“I think the state of Tennessee has been really proactive in the promotion of electric vehicles and one of the reasons for that is, first of all, I think our… Read more: ‘A lot of misconceptions’ | Organizer of electric vehicle summit at UT hopes to address concerns about the tech

Longer-lasting batteries and lighter-weight vehicles. Wireless charging stations and sustainable materials. More efficient supply chains and more effective public policy. UT researchers are at the forefront of the technology and… Read more: Powering the Future for Mobility

Stanford University’s annual list of the top 2% of scientists cited by other researchers around the world was recently released, and this year’s version includes 183 faculty members from the… Read more: More than 180 UT Faculty Members Among World’s Top 2% of Cited Scientists

The U.S. Department of Transportation (US DOT) has announced that the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will lead a multi-institutional University Transportation Center (UTC) designed to improve the mobility of people and goods across the country.

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is committing $50 million over the next five years to recruit 44 top-tier research faculty members across multiple disciplines to address some of the most pressing and complex challenges of our time. It is the largest faculty hiring initiative in recent UT history.