A Pennsylvania university student and an 11th-grader in Georgia are winners of the 12th annual American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s “Student Transportation Video Contest.”
Sponsored by the Research & Education Division of ARTBA, the competition challenges students to develop a brief video exploring a topic related to the nation’s transportation network. Students from across the US submitted videos. Winners were selected by a panel of ARTBA members. Each winner receives $500.
The winning videos were shown at ARTBA’s national convention in La Jolla, California, earlier this month.
In the Elementary, Middle or High School Students category, the winning video was “Public Transportation Effects on Society”. In the video, Cindy Le, an 11th -grader at Dekalb Early College Academy in Stone Mountain, Georgia, explores the global benefits to economies, the environment and societies by widely deploying mass transit systems.
In the Post-Secondary/College/Graduate Level category, the winning video was “Drive Right; Simulator for Safe Autonomous Driving”. Xiatao Sun, a robotics major at the University of Pennsylvania, explores how virtual reality technology can help simulate both manual and autonomous driving at the driver’s discretion. The video simulates the experience of driving on rural and city roads as well as highways.
ARTBA, established in 1902, is the voice of the US transportation design and construction industry and represents the sector’s interests before Congress, federal agencies, the White House, news media and the general public.
