Designing a Better — and Safer — Future for Transportation

What can a 20-by-20-foot “smart” scaled city and a fleet of small, motorized cars, drones, cameras, and virtual reality technology tell us about the future of transportation? A lot! Watch this video from Cornell to learn more.

“If you don’t have an experimental testbed, you use simulation. And simulations are doomed to succeed. They’re always perfect,” said the lab’s director, Andreas Malikopoulos , professor of civil and environmental engineering in Cornell Engineering. “But in the real environment, you have miscommunication, errors, delays, unexpected events. This testbed can give us the opportunity to collect data and extrapolate information, something that we couldn’t do in the real world with real cars, because of safety concerns and the need for resources and space.”