Smart Columbus
The City of Columbus won the U.S. Department of Transportation $40 million Smart City Challenge in June, 2016 after competing against 77 cities nationwide to implement a holistic vision for how technology can help all residents to move more easily and to access opportunity. Columbus was also awarded a $10 million grant from Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. Foundation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the de-carbonization of the electric supply and transportation sectors. Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther announced February 22nd that between those grants and the growing list of local match projects, including several OSU research projects, the Smart Columbus project has about $417 million in resources to turn Columbus into the testing ground for intelligent-transportation systems. The City’s total goal for Smart City and related projects by 2020 is $1 billion. Aparna Dial last spoke at an EPN breakfast April 12, 2016, the day she flew to Washington, DC to help present the City’s grant proposal as one of the seven finalist cities.
City of Columbus Smart City webpage https://www.columbus.gov/smartcity/
Columbus Dispatch 2/22/27 article http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170222/money-resources-pouring-in-to-smart-columbus-transportation-program
Moderator and Presenter
Presenters
Automotive Research Underpins Smart Transportation Systems
Maryn Weimer, Senior Assoc. Director, OSU Center for Automotive Research
Introduction to Smart Columbus USDOT Program
Ryan Bollo, PE, Project Manager, Senior ITS / Technology Program
Andrew Wolpert, PE, Project Manager, ITS / Technology Program
Columbus Dept. of Public Service
Introduction to Smart Columbus Electrification Plan
Bud Braughton, PE, Engineer IV, Downtown & Special Projects
Columbus Dept. of Public Service
Columbus -- Doing Great Things Locally, Looking Bright Nationally
Jordan Davis, Director of Smart Cities, Columbus Partnership
Also featuring 14 OSU senior capstone teams and their projects in foyer
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ENR/AEDE 4567 Assessing Sustainability (working with Smart City staff)
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ENR 4900.01 Environment and Natural Resources Management (working on water resources)
Location
Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center
2201 Fred Taylor Drive
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Map and Directions
Parking
Parking is free but you must have a pass which you can download here and place on your dashboard, whether parking across the street or behind the 4-H Center.
Agenda
7:15am Doors open, coffee, tea, networking
14 capstone student teams ready to interact with attendees
8:15 Warm buffet breakfast
8:40 Program begins
9:30 Q&A/discussion
9:45 Program ends
Sponsor
OSU Office of Student Life, Energy Management and Sustainability
For further information about these 2nd Tuesdays Breakfasts or the EPN, please contact David Hanselmann at hanselmann.3@osu.edu or 614-247-1908.
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