Wisconsin TOPS Lab

01/06/2024

Check out Associate Director and Director of Transportation Information Center, Andi Bill, on WPR discussing about pedestrian safety.

Fewer pedestrian crashes and deaths were reported in Wisconsin in 2023 than the previous year. Fifty-nine pedestrians died last year, according to preliminary data released by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

02/08/2023

The Traffic Operations and Safety (TOPS) Laboratory research team will work with licensed truckers to participate in simulator experiments.

03/14/2022

SICOP Talks WInter Ops with Andrea Bill from the Wisconsin Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin, Madison as she discusses the latest research into use of salt brine.
Wisconsin DOT has been working hard to promote the use of liquids in winter maintenance operations. In 2021, the results of a 2-year research project into the use of salt brine was published. Andrea Bill presented this work at the 2022 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting and in this episode describes the work and results of this study showing very positive results for the use of salt brine.

02/25/2022

Thanks UW-Madison College of Engineering!! We are fortunate to work with amazing partners.

Kudos to the Traffic Operations and Safety (TOPS) Laboratory at UW-Madison for its work on the Park Street connected corridor in the city of Madison, named Project of the Year for 2021 by the Intelligent Transportation Society of Wisconsin (ITS Wisconsin).

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Intelligent Transportation Society of America

02/10/2017

Look who is featured on the cover of Madison's newsweekly - NAVYA - http://host.madison.com/ct/business/technology/google-take-the-wheel-madison-gets-ready-for-a-future/article_6887e0cd-da21-5a06-8021-f78297974ebd.html

Self-driving cars are already here. Sort of.

01/24/2017

University of Wisconsin-Madison selected to be part of a USDOT network of Autonomous Vehicle Proving Grounds. http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/feds-open-door-for-university-of-wisconsin-researchers-to-test/article_4901fb36-e65f-5fde-b1e2-b6988a0f8dd4.html

UW-Madison's Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory was one of 10 groups nationwide designated last week as proving grounds for autonomous vehicles.

11/22/2016

Feature Creep or Transit Leap? An insightful report on the future of autonomous mobility, from Toronto, Ontario, RCCAO, Bern Grush, and John Niles.http://rccao.com/research/files/RCCAO_Vehicle-Automation_OCT2016_WEB.pdf

10/31/2016

A very welcome visit from our campus RSP office to our full-scale driving simulator!

09/16/2016

The changing face of mobility as a service (MaaS). Kudos to Pittsburgh! https://youtu.be/NodzOaLJENo

During a launch event and demo in the streets of Pittsburgh, Signe Brewster was accompanied by 2 Uber Engineers in a high-level demo of their autonomous Ford...

03/10/2016

03/09/2016

University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/news/archive/2016/Mar8a.html

This driverless minibus being tested in Spain is similar to the type of connected, autonomous vehicles and transit that researchers and city leaders are seeking to lay the groundwork for in Madison through the Smart City Challenge. Photo: © Sigur1|Dreamstime.com

10/23/2015