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University of Michigan Team Wins NOCoE Transportation Technology Tournament
A student team from the University of Michigan was the winner of the second annual
Transportation Technology Tournament at
the 2019 ITE Joint International and Texas
District Annual Meeting in Austin, TX, USA on
July 23, 2019.
The tournament is a joint effort of the ITS JPO
Professional Capacity Building  program and
the National Operations Center of Excellence
(NOCoE) to help push the future workforce to understand the communications,
teamwork, planning, and interdisciplinary
skills required to work in the transportation
industry. Nine participant teams were asked
to work with a local or state department of
transportation (DOT) to identify a real-world
challenge that a DOT is facing and to use ITS
technologies and transportation systems
management and operations (TSMO) strat-

Winners of the Transportation Technology Tournament with Patrick Son, managing director of
NOCoE, and Jeffrey Paniati, ITE Executive Director.

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egies to develop a solution or set of solutions
to address that challenge.
The University of Michigan team presented
their solution, Corridor Management in the
I-75/I-696 Influence Area, to a panel of prestigious private and public sector judges during
the competition. They were among five finalist teams to make presentations. The other
finalist teams were:
*
Florida International University on
Wrong-way Driving
*
University of Tennessee, Knoxville on
Developing an Algorithm for Assessment of Level of Service (LOS) of
Intersections Using Waze Data
*
University of South Florida (Team
#1) on Improving Pedestrian Safety
through ITS Solutions
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University of South Florida (Team #2)
on Autonomous shuttles/modular
Vehicles in Urban Public Transportation
Systems
For more information on the tournament, visit
https://transportationops.org/transportation
-technology-tournament.

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