U-M Transportation Research Institute

  1. February 27, 2025

    Roadway safety research, automated vehicle testing join forces

    The U-M Transportation Research Institute will expand, beginning March 1, to include the Mcity public-private partnership and test facility. Henry Liu, Mcity’s director since 2022, will lead the expanded UMTRI.

  2. February 20, 2025

    Board approves project to expand EV battery research

    U-M will move forward with plans to construct a new electric vehicle battery laboratory, broadening research and hands-on education in next-generation battery technologies on the Ann Arbor campus.

  3. November 11, 2024

    Accolades — November 2024

    Awards and honors for faculty and staff from around U-M.

  4. November 20, 2023

    U-M researcher took to the streets — all of them

    Kathy Klinich enjoys crossing off a goal. Recently, that’s meant walking every Ann Arbor street — more than 1,200 avenues, boulevards, roads, one-ways and cul de sacs.

  5. May 25, 2023

    $9.8M to boost connected vehicle research at U-M

    A new $9.8 million federal grant will assist efforts at U-M to deploy cellular vehicle-to-everything technology, allowing a new generation of cars to exchange safety-enhancing data with the world around them.

  6. May 2, 2023

    Crash-prone Ann Arbor intersection is basis for driving simulation

    U-M researchers have developed the first statistically realistic roadway simulation, based on data collected at a particularly perilous intersection on the south side of Ann Arbor.

  7. January 21, 2021

    Robert Hampshire joins Biden administration to work in transportation

    Robert Hampshire, a faculty member in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, College of Engineering and U-M Transportation Research Institute, has joined the Biden administration’s Department of Transportation.

  8. January 11, 2021

    $9.95M for ‘smart intersections’ across Ann Arbor

    The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration has awarded U-M $9.95 million for a project installing more than 20 “smart intersections” in Ann Arbor.

  9. September 26, 2018

    UMTRI, Engineering join to innovate the future of transportation

    The U-M Transportation Research Institute will merge with the College of Engineering to more effectively move transportation and mobility research into the 21st century in ways that are safe and sustainable.