Moving Research to Realization for Surface Transportation

Welcome to the Center for the Commercialization of Innovative Transportation Technology. CCITT's mission is to foster the commercialization or implementation of innovative technologies for multiple modes of surface transportation including, but not limited to, railways, mass transit, highways and waterways.

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The McCormick School of Engineering’s NUvention Energy curriculum has selected CCITT faculty affiliate Pablo Durango-Cohen’s project, “A Framework for Estimating Emissions of Freight Transport Operations” for its winter quarter class. A cross-disciplinary group of students will develop a business model and commercialization strategy for Professor Durango-Cohen’s emissions estimation tool. NUvention Energy gives students interested in innovation, entrepreneurship, and the sustainable energy field the opportunity to investigate emerging technology that will increasingly be required to deal with climate change.  more...

Luis de la Torre, Fourth-Year PhD Student in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Selected as CCITT 2011 Student of the Year more...

CCITT Director Bret Johnson Co-Chaired the Workshop "Improving the Customer Experience in Travel and Transportation Using Information Technology" more...

CCITT hosted the German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest for one of its Energy Efficiency Innovation Seminars on Logistics & Transportation. The event featured recent NU graduate, Thomas Gonzales, who is now a Fellow at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. more...

US DOT Features CCITT-funded Research by Faculty Affiliate Diego Klabjan on Modeling Best Locations for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations more...