Michigan Traffic Lab

               

University of Michigan


The Director of Michigan Traffic Lab, Prof. Henry Liu, is a Bruce D Greenshields Collegiate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Director of Mcity at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also a Research Professor at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute and the Director for the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (USDOT Region 5 University Transportation Center). From July 2017 to August 2019, he took a leave of absence from the University of Michigan and served as Chief Scientist on Smart Transportation for DiDi, one of the leading mobility service providers in the world. While he was with DiDi, he led and managed the Smart Transportation Business Unit. Prof. Liu received his Ph.D. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2000 and his Bachelor degree in Automotive Engineering from Tsinghua University (China) in 1993. Prof. Liu conducts interdisciplinary research at the interface of transportation engineering, automotive engineering, and artificial intelligence. Specifically, his scholarly interests concern traffic flow monitoring, modeling, and control, as well as testing and evaluation of connected and automated vehicles. Professor Liu has nurtured a new generation of scholars, and some of his PhD students and postdocs have joined first class universities such as Columbia University, Purdue University, RPI, etc. Prof. Liu is the managing editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.  

12/4/2024

The U-M Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) will expand through the integration of Mcity.  Prof. Liu will take on the role of UMTRI’s director on March 1, 2025 

08/14/2024

Prof. Liu presented the Mcity Autonomous Vehicle Safety Testing Demo at the USDOT Future of Transportation Summit at the USDOT headquarters in D.C. 

05/21/2024

The seventh Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Global Symposium on Mobility Innovation Presented by Mcity and UMTRI is hosted at the Morris Lawrence Building at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI.

02/05/2024

Prof. Henry Liu has been named the Bruce D. Greenshields Collegiate Professor of Engineering. 

01/08/2024

The University of Michigan has won the U.S. DOT Intersection Safety Challenge Stage 1A: Concept Assessment. 

12/18/2023

Tinghan, Linxuan, and Xintao are on the U-M Home page.

Quotes from Prof. Henry Liu

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