AUTO21 Partners With CCSIP
2010-03-22 09:06:34Wireless technologies are becoming more and more pervasive in today’s vehicles and in North American transportation systems. As these systems become more intelligent, the challenge will be to ensure they add value to consumers and other users in a simple, manageable way without compromising safety.
This issue is at the forefront of a new Canada/U.S. research initiative – the Canada-California Strategic Innovation Partnership (CCSIP). The initiative brings together a total of 23 Canadian universities, eight campuses of the University of California, and more than 49 companies, government labs and agencies in both countries to develop new models of research and development collaboration on topics including energy, the environment and transportation, information and communications technologies and life sciences.In February 2010, CCSIP announced funding for a collaborative team focusing on how to accelerate R&D and the commercialization of wireless technologies for transportation systems. Led by researchers at the University of Sherbrooke and UC Berkeley’s Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH), Transforming Vehicle and Roadside Communications through Wireless Technologies brings together a multidisciplinary team from the University of Toronto, Stanford University and the AUTO21 Network of Centres of Excellence, Canada’s national automotive research and development program.
The team’s objective is to develop a research and deployment action plan on wireless-enabled vehicle and roadside communication. The plan will focus on technology-based solutions that minimize energy requirements and negative effects on the environment. To meet the objective, the team is planning two workshops to bring together government representatives from both countries’ transportation ministries.
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