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Celebrating 30 years of Penn State’s transportation engineering conference

1/6/2025

On Dec. 11-13, transportation professionals from around the country gathered at the Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center for the 30th anniversary of the Thomas D. Larson Pennsylvania Transportation Institute’s biggest event, the Transportation Engineering and Safety Conference (TESC).

Q&A: How do roads and bridges contribute to pollution, and what can be done?

11/22/2024

Since 2001, the Penn State Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies, housed in the Larson Transportation Institute in the College of Engineering, has worked to reduce the environmental impact of dirt and gravel roads and undersized bridges and culverts. Most recently, the research center worked with the U.S. Forest Service to develop a standard to replace stream crossings in Pennsylvania. The first few stream crossings designed with this new standard were recently completed.

Vroom vroom! Penn State earns multiple wins in autonomous driving competition

8/15/2024

The Penn State Advanced Vehicle Team (AVT) took home multiple wins, including third place overall, in its third year of the AutoDrive Challenge II, which empowers student teams to develop and test a fully autonomous passenger vehicle on a controlled urban driving course over a weeklong competition.

A Note from Neeli: Penn State steering the future of autonomous vehicles

8/2/2024

At the Larson Transportation Institute Test Track, ride along with President Bendapudi and the faculty and students who are helping develop tech for self-driving cars.

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