University of Michigan wins the 2020 Transportation Technology Tournament for their curb space management project for multi-modal transportation in downtown areas.
Commencing in February of 2020, the 3rd annual Transportation Technology Tournament was a joint effort of the ITS JPO Professional Capacity Building program and the National Operations Center of Excellence to help push the future workforce to understand the communications, teamwork, planning, and interdisciplinary skills required to work in the transportation industry. Nine participant teams were asked to work with a local or state DOT to identify a real-world challenge that DOT is facing and to use ITS technologies and transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) strategies to develop a solution or set of solutions to address that challenge.
Teams participating were:
| School | Problem Statement | Submissions | Student Information |
| Auburn University | A new method to detect and estimate the potential risk for wrong-way driving incident based on Yolo V3 | Student Information | |
| Florida International University | Automation of traffic signal plan modification decision in response to non-recurrent congestion | Student Information | |
| Iowa State University | Improving the communication of work zone data | Student Information | |
| University of Michigan | Curb space management for multi-modal transportation in downtown areas | Student Information | |
| University of South Florida | Mitigating work zone incidents and improving work zone safety through ITS technologies | Student Information | |
| University of Tennessee - Knoxville |
Rural ITS solutions for I-40 at Rockwood Mountain and i-75 at Jelilico Mountain in Tennessee |
Student Information |
The finalist teams presented at the ITE Virtual Annual Meeting in front of industry leaders and judges. The judges chose University of Michigan as the winner!