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ITS America 2012 Student Essay Competition
ITS America and Southwest Research Institute are once again proudly sponsoring the Annual Student Essay Competition for the 2012 ITS America Annual Meeting. The Student Essay Competition is designed each year to encourage student interest and future participation in the development of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) and solutions. The objective of the essay competition is to provide an opportunity for today’s transportation and engineering students to apply their knowledge in a thought-provoking and enjoyable competition and to build awareness of ITS as a career path with unlimited potential.
Check out this year's finalists below. Winners were announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.
- James Wong, EIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Paper title: Facing the Barriers to Real-time Integrated Multimodal Traveler Information in American Metropolitan Areas
- Kshitij Jerath, Penn State University, Department of Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering – Larson Transportation Institute
- Paper title: Cooperative Intelligent Vehicles: Are we there yet?
- Laura Black, University of Delaware, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering – Center for Transportation
- Paper title: Towards Social Media & Web 2.0