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Friday, May 17, 2019

Revolution on the Road: Carleton Helps Launch Unique Test Track

Carleton is a key part of Ottawa’s connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) community, and on May 17, 2019 a large contingent of faculty and graduate students from the university helped launch the Ottawa L5 CAV testing facilities — the first integrated CAV test environment of its kind in North... More

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Carleton Looks to Accelerate Canada’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Revolution via Ottawa’s All-new L5 Private Test Track

When it comes to developing the future of connected and autonomous vehicles in Canada, there appears to be nothing but green lights on the horizon for the national capital. Having already played host to Canada’s first on-road test of an autonomous vehicle connected to live city infrastructure in 2017, Ottawa now looks poised to... More

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Autonomous Vehicles Test Combines Two Smart Systems

There are more than 7.5 million kilometres of roads in North America and their conditions are constantly changing. Construction, potholes, accident scenes, new road signs and altered road geometry each present a challenge for today’s autonomous vehicle technologies, which use a combination of on-board sensors and cameras to interpret their... More

Monday, April 8, 2019

Carleton to Perform Demonstration of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technology

Carleton University’s Richard Yu, professor in the School of Information Technology in the Faculty of Engineering and Design, will host a demonstration of connected autonomous vehicle technology and simulated cyberattacks on the automobile’s collective artificial intelligence (AI)... More

Friday, February 15, 2019

Carleton Welcomes $40 Million Investment in BlackBerry QNX

An announcement by the Government of Canada to invest $40 million in BlackBerry QNX will support Carleton University’s research leadership in autonomous systems and provide great opportunities for Carleton students. The announcement was made today in Kanata by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and focused on the next generation of connected and... More

Monday, February 4, 2019

Carleton Workshop on Connected and Autonomous Aerial Networks

When: Thursday, 07 February 2019, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm Where: The Maker Lab, 4463 ME (Mackenzie Building), Carleton University Map Cost: Free. Lunch will be provided; courtesy of IEEE Young... More

Monday, February 4, 2019

OBJ: Start Your Engines: Ottawa’s private AV test track opening soon

Ottawa’s private autonomous vehicle test track, the first of its kind in North America, is almost open for business. The Ottawa L5 test facilities, housed on the 1,866-acre National Capital Commission Greenbelt Research Farm in Nepean, boast a 16-kilometre stretch of private roadway that’s almost done being fitted with the latest... More

Friday, January 25, 2019

Ottawa Citizen: City of Ottawa readies test track in Nepean for autonomous vehicle technologies

Ottawa is preparing to open a 16-kilometre test track for cutting-edge autonomous vehicle technologies, the only such facility of its kind in North America, according to Invest... More

Friday, January 25, 2019

Techvibes: Ottawa Prepares One-of-a-Kind Test Track for Automated Driving

Move over, Uber—testing driverless cars on real streets is so 2018. The City of Ottawa has announced a new plan to test driverless car technology by setting up a test track dubbed Ottawa L5 with roughly 16 paved kilometres. The track is located in a 1,866-acre property in Nepean and will be the first... More

Friday, August 31, 2018

Carleton Engineering Researchers Receive Transport Canada Funds

If you’ve ever sat idling impatiently as an apparently endless stream of boxcars rolling past a level crossing, you won’t be surprised to learn that freight trains can reach nearly four kilometres in length and carry thousands of tonnes of cargo. But there’s economy in that scale: rail is an ultra-efficient way to ship... More

Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Transport Canada announces support for connected and automated vehicles and for research and development to reduce air emissions from rail transportation

OTTAWA, Aug. 29, 2018 /CNW/ - The Government of Canada is protecting air quality so that Canadians have healthy communities in which to live, work and raise their families, while investing in innovation that will create Canada's transportation system of... More

Sunday, August 19, 2018

The State of Autonomous Cars

PocketNow.com - While we won’t be having any flying cars soon, autonomous cars are no longer a topic for the future. With big names working relentlessly at developing a working design, we hope to see the first self-driving cars on the road (and not in testing), in two or three... More

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