According to USDOT-Intelligent Transportation System Joint Program Office, “there is a growing demand for university degree and certificate programs to meet the emerging needs of Connected Vehicle and related technologies for transportation.” Intelligent Mobility uses emerging technology and data to connect people, places and goods across all transport modes to make movement of people and goods smarter, greener and more efficient.
At Florida Polytechnic University, we are launching a new undergraduate concentration in Intelligent Mobility at the Department of Data Science and Business Analytics. This is an interdisciplinary concentration bringing learning units together from transportation systems management, network science, big data analytics, Internet of Things, sustainability and economic development.
The Intelligent Mobility concentration consists of four courses:
1. National Transportation Management
2. Introduction to Transportation Networks
3. Intelligent Mobility
4. Data Analytics for Smart City and Transportation
The theory learned in these courses are coupled with practice. Florida Polytechnic University is actively involved in applied research in areas of autonomous and connected vehicles, crowdsourcing in transportation systems, and verification of vehicular technologies. SunTrax, a partnership between the Florida Department of Transportation, Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise and Florida Polytechnic University is currently under construction and offers potential collaboration opportunities in applied research for the Intelligent Mobility.