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Smart Columbus

Apr 18, 2017, 7:15am - 9:45am

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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

Aparna Dial, Deputy Director, Dept. of Public Service, City of Columbus, and Smart City staff

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

capstone student presentation (April 2016)


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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EPN Breakfast Series

The Environmental Professionals Network hosts a monthly breakfast series with compelling speakers on important innovative topics at the Nationwide and Ohio Farm Bureau 4-H Center on Ohio State’s campus - open to all!