Autonomous vehicle expert Craig Shankwitz joins MSU’s Western Transportation Institute research staff

Craig Shankwitz, a nationally recognized leader in the field of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies, recently joined the research staff of Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute http://www.wti.montana.edu/ .

Autonomous vehicles, sometimes called self-driving vehicles, have technologies that allow certain functions of a vehicle to operate without driver input. Connected vehicles include technologies that allow vehicles to communicate with the driver, with other vehicles on the road or with roadside infrastructure.

Shankwitz will lead the development of a WTI research team that will explore and develop applications of autonomous and connected vehicle technologies to roads and transportation systems in rural areas and small cities, in both the public and private sector.

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