Sustainable Mobility Series: Mobility, Energy and Smart Cities | March 25

Posted: March 20, 2015

The Office of Energy and Environment and the Center for Automotive Research have partnered to present the Sustainable Mobility Lecture Series. The March lecture will feature Umit Ozguner, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presenting "Mobility, Energy and Smart Cities" on Wednesday, March 25 at 12:00 noon, in Scott Laboratory, room E100. Bring your lunch and enjoy this presentation and discussion. Beverages and dessert will be provided.

Mobility, Energy and Smart Cities

Smart cities (present and future)‎ provide full real time information to all citizens and options on mobility, while minimizing energy usage. In this talk we shall review some of our research for a speed advisory for fuel usage in cars. We shall also introduce a program we are initiating with the City of Columbus on providing self driving vehicles that will help the mobility impaired in their "first-mile last-mile" issues. Finally, we shall discuss the possibilities of developing a software architecture to cover all needs for full integration.

Umit Ozguner
Ohio State Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Umit Ozguner received his PhD degree from the University of Illinois and has worked at IBM Research (Yorktown Heights), Istanbul Technical University and The Ohio State University. He has spent sabbaticals at Ohio Aerospace Institute and Ford Motor Company. He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ohio State and holds the title of TRC Inc. Chair on ITS, as well as director of the Ohio State Crash Imminent Safety University Transportation Center. Professor Ozguner’s research interests are in large scale systems, decentralized control, intelligent transportation systems and autonomous vehicles.

Categories: Faculty Outreach Research