CEE Faculty partner with DiDi Chuxing for transportation research
CEE Professor Henry Liu will partner with DiDi Chuxing to help develop scholarships and innovations related to transportation research.
On January 19, 2017, S. Jack Hu, University of Michigan (U-M) Vice President for Research, signed an agreement with DiDi Chuxing, China’s largest rider-hailing company, to develop scholarships and innovations related to the ride-share economy.
CEE Professor Henry Liu is the PI of the three-year program; professors Yafeng Yin and Neda Masoud will also participate, as will other researchers from U-M’s College of Engineering and School of Information.
The nearly $1 million, three-year joint research program focuses on transportation optimization, big data, artificial language learning and artificial intelligence. Among the goals are better understanding transportation-behavior norms, reducing congestion on the global transportation infrastructure, and providing solutions to mobility.
Following the signing ceremony, Liu gave a seminar titledIntelligent Traffic Control with Big Data.
U-M has a press release about this and other partnerships with China available on their website.
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